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SUMMARY:Performance Art: Likenesses: Speaking with the Selves featuring Li-Ming Hu and Charmaine Poh.
DESCRIPTION:An evening of performances featuring Li-Ming Hu and Charmaine Poh.\n\n\nThe Goethe-Institut New York is pleased to present an evening of performances featuring Li-Ming Hu (b. 1987 in New Zealand\, lives in New York City) and Charmaine Poh (b. 1990 in Singapore\, lives in Berlin). These performances are held in conjunction with the exhibition\, Likenesses: Speaking with the Selves\, at the Goethe-Institut New York on view from September 24 to December 4\, 2025. \nPROGRAM \nLi-Ming HuCan It Be I’m Not Meant To Play This Part? (2024)\, performance\, video\, 30 min.Combining narration\, reenactment\, found footage\, karaoke\, animation and a sprinkling of augmented reality\, Li-Ming Hu’s Can It Be I’m Not Meant To Play This Part? explores representation\, identity and cultural production through the artist’s experiences as a professional actor and emerging artist\, in conversation with key moments in the history of Asian American theater.Works cited (in order of appearance): \n\nTrailer for the 2020 film Mulan\, directed by Niki Caro\n“Reflection\,” performed by Lea Salonga\, from Disney’s 1998 animated film Mulan (Wilder and Zippel).\nInterview with Lea Salonga\, Jonathan Pryce and Terry Wogan\, BBC\, 1989.\nPhotos of 1990 Miss Saigon protests by Corky Lee\nFinal scene of M Butterfly by David Henry Hwang\, directed by David Cronenberg\, starring Jeremy Irons. Music “Everything is Destroyed” by Howard Shore and a Casiotone cover of “Un Bel Di Vedremo” by Puccini (from his opera Madame Butterfly)\n\nCharmaine Pohin the shadow of the cosmic (2023)\, performance-lecture\, video\, 30 min.in the shadow of the cosmic is a performance-lecture exploring the multiplicity of the avatar. Expanding Poh’s YOUNG BODY series\, the character E-Ching is placed in conversation with vocal clones\, anime characters\, 3D influencers\, and other entities in a vast digital constellation. The performance-lecture traces a technological lineage from the East Asian economic miracle of the 1980s and ’90s and the emergence of techno-orientalism\, positing that the digital image of the East Asian femme body was borne at a confluence of these historical flows. Pertinent to the work is the recursive logic of Daoism\, in which image\, self and cosmology reverberate in endless loops. Combining video\, live performance and sound\, in the shadow of the cosmic is a call to re-open questions of being and becoming. \n\nMotion graphics: Jawn Chan\nAudio generation: Jawn Chan\, Ashley Hi\n3D animation: Brandon Tay\nMovement artists: Robyn Wong Min Xuan and Kay Yoon\nMusic (the track\, Mutualism): Anise\n\nLi-Ming Hu & Charmaine PohSomewhere In Between Asian and British (2025)\, performance\, 15 min.This collaborative performance takes the Singaporean accent as a point of departure. Poh\, Singapore-born\, and Hu\, whose mother is Singaporean\, explore topics ranging from typecasting and codeswitching to post-colonial politics and diasporic experiences.Somewhere In Between Asian and British is commissioned by the Goethe-Institut New York for the exhibition Likenesses: Speaking with the Selves.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/cpr-likenesses-speaking-with-the-selves-presented-by-goethe-institut-ny/
LOCATION:CPR – Center for Performance Research\, 361 Manhattan Avenue\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11211\, United States
CATEGORIES:In Person,Theater
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SUMMARY:@CPR | Rovaco Dance Party 2025
DESCRIPTION:Rovaco Dance Company presents their seventh annual Rovaco Dance Party: an evening of live music\, dance\, theater\, and cultural exchange.\n\n\nPROGRAM \n5:00 PM | Doors Open + Social Hour with Refreshments \n6:00 PM | Performances + Dance Party \nRovaco Dance Company presents their seventh annual Rovaco Dance Party. This evening of live music\, dance\, theater\, and cultural exchange begins with an informal social hour inspired by Indian hospitality traditions. Guests are served complementary Indian snacks prepared by Chef Ashmita Biswas alongside alcoholic beverages and Sanzo sparkling waters\, a brand that celebrates bold Asian flavors. After the social mixer\, transition into the theater for live music and dance performances\, curated and MC’ed by Rovaco’s Artistic Director Rohan Bhargava. The evening ends with a DJ dance party for all! \nCREDITS \nRovaco Dance Artists \nChoreography: Rohan Bhargava in collaboration with dancers \nPerformers: Nico Gonzales\, Devika Chandnani\, Siddharth Dutta\, Karma Chuki\, and Isabele Rosso \nResident Dramaturg & Script Consultant: Mahima Saigal \nResident Composer: Saúl Guanipa \nGuest Artists \nSitar & Live Looping Soloist: Neel Murgai \nKanklės & Sitar Duo: Simona Smirnova & Galen Passen \nDJ: Cameron McKinney / DJ KAZVMA \nChef: Ashmita Biswas \nABOUT THE ARTISTS \nRovaco Dance Company was founded in New York City in 2015 by Artistic Director Rohan Bhargava. Over the years\, the company has produced a unique form of narrative dance-theater\, which blends floorwork\, release\, ballet\, bollywood\, street jazz\, bhangra\, and contemporary partnering into one fluid whole\, in multimedia collaboration with designers and composers. Repertory has been presented by Provincetown Dance Festival\, Dance NYC\, Battery Dance Festival\, Rhythmically Speaking\, Little Island NYC\, and Create:Art. The company has been a Resident Artist at Dancewave\, the James Jay Dudley Luce Foundation\, and the CUNY Dance Initiative at LaGuardia Performing Arts Center. Commissions have come from Mannes School of Music\, Mare Nostrum Elements\, Making Moves Dance Festival\, and The Dance Gallery Festival. \nSUPPORT \nRovaco Dance Party is sponsored\, in part\, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs\, administered by Brooklyn Arts Council. In-kind donations have been provided by Sanzo\, a sparkling water brand that celebrates bold Asian flavors\, made with real fruit and no artificial flavors. Marketing and logistical support is provided by Mare Nostrum Elements as part of the company’s 25th anniversary celebration and their signature Emerging Choreographer Series program. \nDonations to Rovaco Dance Company can be made through Fractured Atlas\, and are fully tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law. If you are unable to attend the event but would like to support\, you can make an online donation HERE. \nPhoto Credit: Steven Pisano Photography \nImage Description: A group of five dancers create a montage in a warmly lit white-box theater\, all wearing red Kurtas and yellow dupattas that are draped and tied in various ways around their bodies. At the base\, one dancer crouches on hands and knees while three other dancers sit or lean against their back in different poses. To the left\, a dancer kneels with arms extended and fingers splayed\, narrating or presenting the montage with a sassy and sarcastic expression.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/cpr-rovaco-dance-party-2025/
LOCATION:CPR – Center for Performance Research\, 361 Manhattan Avenue\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11211\, United States
CATEGORIES:Dance,Food,In Person
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SUMMARY:Dance and Film: Planting Seeds of Peace in America
DESCRIPTION:A dance and film event marking the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.\n\n\nABOUT THE ARTISTS \nChizuko Kotani \nChizuko Kotani is a Japanese choreographer\, dancer\, and founder of P Company. As the daughter of atomic bomb survivors\, she has long carried the emotional legacy of war. Her activism with the “Chernobyl Hibakusha Support Kansai” group helped transform her trauma into purpose. Now\, she shares stories of survival and hope through contemporary dance works that call for peace and remembrance. \nChizuko Kotani began her dance training in the 1970s under Miyoko Fujiwara\, whose powerful final performances while hospitalized left a lasting impression on her. At just 21\, Chizuko took over the studio following Fujiwara’s passing and went on to found her own company\, Dance Core Possible\, in 1981. She also studied Martha Graham technique with the late Akiko Kanda\, a trailblazer who brought Graham’s radical physical language back to Japan after dancing as one of Graham’s principal performers in New York. Chizuko’s work carries forward this lineage\, grounded in the Graham technique but transformed through her own cultural and political experiences. \nA native of Hiroshima\, Chizuko weaves personal and historical memory into her choreography\, often tackling themes such as war\, nuclear energy\, and the fragility of life. Like her mentor Kanda\, who incorporated Japanese forms such as Noh and questioned gender roles through dance\, Chizuko uses the stage as a space for social reflection. Her works fuse bodily precision with emotional depth and existential inquiry\, reflecting her belief that dance is not just performance but a way of knowing\, resisting\, and ultimately remembering. \n  \nNobuo Harada \nNobuo Harada is a Fukuoka-based butoh master and founder of Seiryusha (1980). A successor in the lineage of Kazuo Ohno and Akira Kasai\, Harada’s performances blend profound physicality with philosophical playfulness\, navigating the border between art and anti-art. He has toured widely in Japan and abroad\, bringing butoh’s quiet power to audiences across cultures. Born in Fukuoka in 1949\, he studied martial arts until seeing Akira Kasai and Kazuo Ohno perform “The Bottom of the Hill” in 1972\, which led him to study under Kasaki for seven years. \n  \nP Company \nFounded in 2004 by Chizuko Kotani\, Kansai region based P Company features a diverse group of dancers drawn from Dance Core Possible and trained in styles ranging from ballet to improvisation. The company plays a key role in the WiSP Project\, using performance as a vehicle for peace education and intercultural exchange. Last year\, P Company and WiSP presented Chizuko’s “The Dropping of the Atomic Bomb” at Art Complex Hiroshima. \n  \nAzumi Oe \nAzumi Oe is a New York-based butoh dancer and choreographer known for her mesmerizing\, provocative\, and meticulous performances. A former member of Vangeline Theater and principal dancer under butoh master Katsura Kan\, she now develops experimental solo and collaborative projects worldwide. She was a 2023 artist-in-residence at Johns Hopkins PEABODY Institute and a 2024 NYFA/NYSCA Fellow in Choreography. www.azumioe.com \n  \nChris Fiore \nChris Fiore is a filmmaker and artist whose documentary work has earned awards\, including the 2024 Culver City Film Festival Audience Award and the 2025 Berlin Indie Film Festival Award for Best Artist Film. His short A Few Laughed honors the 23 Japanese fishermen exposed to fallout from the 1954 Castle Bravo hydrogen bomb test near the Bikini Islands. www.chrisfiore.com \n  \nCRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) is a healing and cultural arts organization dedicated to exploring the intersection of spirituality\, creativity\, and community. CRS has presented peace-focused performances\, exhibitions\, and workshops for over 20 years in New York City and internationally.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/cpr-p-company-friends-planting-seeds-of-peace-in-america/
LOCATION:CPR – Center for Performance Research\, 361 Manhattan Avenue\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11211\, United States
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