CONTEMPORARY DANCE  | INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE

Friday, November 6 at 7:30 pm—Followed by a Private Gathering for Artists and Members
Saturday, November 7 at 7:30 pm—Followed by an Artist Q&A

A sudden force in the Asian dance scene, the sharp choreographic provocateur Reisa Shimojima and her Tokyo-based company KEDAGORO arrive in New York with The Age is Yours, My Liege! A Tale of Proto-Japan, a frenzied international premiere hurling you headfirst into an ancient Japanese festival eating itself alive. Known for exhilarating physicality that slices through contemporary events with glee, Shimojima turns the scalpel inward, dissecting Japanese national identity and imperial myth as her dancers cycle through a slowly revolving human-sized hamster wheel. Frankenstein-ing together sacred rite, wartime fervor and primeval festival culture into a lurching carnival of national symbolism, she takes direct aim at the throne and the nations built to serve it.

Tickets: $51 Nonmembers, $38 Members