New play reading by choreographer Yoshiko Chuma
Company:
Yoshiko Chuma & The School of Hard Knocks
WHAT:
π=3.14…First Reading with Three Actresses
by Yoshiko Chuma & The School of Hard Knocks
WHEN:
Friday & Saturday, November 20 & 21, 2015 at 7:30 pm and 9:30 pm.
WHERE:
CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing)
123 4th Ave, 2nd FL
New York, NY 10003
TICKETS:
$20 ($15 at the door for students and seniors with valid ID)
DIRECTIONS:
CRS is located between 12th & 13th streets, above Think Coffee. The nearest subway station is the 14th St/Union Square station (4/5/6, N/R/Q, L trains).
CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) presents a reading of a new play with video by Yoshiko Chuma & the School of Hard Knocks in the White Room at CRS. The text is taken from Yoshiko’s collection of works from 2000 – 2015 from Sarajevo, Macedonia, Manipur, Romania, Fukushima, Ramallah, Amman, Kabul, Berlin, Bogota, Maracibo and New York.
Designed by Clouds AO, winners of the recent NASA competition to design the first inhabitable structure to be built on Mars, and opened in June of this year, the White Room at CRS was named by Homes to Love as one of nine studios around the world to “achieve design nirvana.” This performance will be the first theatrical event to be held in the space.
Performances will take place on Friday & Saturday, November 20 & 21, 2015 at 7:30 pm and 9:30 pm. The performance is about one hour in duration. Tickets are $20 ($15 at the door for students and seniors with valid ID), and there are only 10 seats available for each performance.
Cast: Miriam Parker, Saori Tsukada and Heather Litteer
Live video painting: Kit Fitzgerald
Unfinished series film and documentation: Megumi Eda
Yoshiko Chuma (artistic director & choreographer of The School of Hard Knocks, USA and of Daghdha Dance Company, Ireland) was born in Osaka, Japan and has lived in the United States since 1978. Chuma has created more than 45 full-length company works, commissions and site-specific events for venues across the world, constantly challenging the notion of performing for both audience and participant. Her work has been presented in New York in venues ranging from the Joyce Theater to the legendary annual Halloween Parade; and abroad in such locations as the former National Theater of Sarajevo, the perimeter of the Hong Kong harbor and at an ancient ruin in Macedonia. Yoshiko Chuma is the recipient of several fellowships and awards, including those from the Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, Japan Foundation, Meet the Composer Choreographer/Composer Commission and Philip Morris New Works. She received a New York Dance & Performance Award (“Bessie”) in 1984 and has led workshops and master classes throughout Eastern and Western Europe, Asia, Russia and the U.S.
THE SCHOOL OF HARD KNOCKS [SOHK] (Founded in 1984) is an award-winning collaborative effort of choreographers, dancers, actors, singers, musicians, designers, and visual artists working under the artistic direction of Yoshiko Chuma. The School of Hard Knocks, which takes its name from the American idiom meaning to learn things the hard way, was the title of the company’s first production, a collaboration between Yoshiko Chuma, Jacob Burckhardt (filmmaker) and Alvin Curran (musician) presented at the 1980 Venice Biennale. Over the course of the company’s history, more than 1,000 people have performed under Chuma’s direction in situations ranging from theatrical dance concerts to street performances, parades, large-scale spectacles and intimate Living Room Projects, Chuma’s signature program which brings post modern music and dance performance to homes, businesses and community centers. Living Room Projects have been performed in homes in Budapest, a car show room in Nagoya, and gardens in the East Village of New York City. Since its foundation in 1984, the company has created and performed original works in the U.S., Europe and in Asia and has welcomed over 1,000 performers to participate in theatrical dance concerts, street performances, parades, and large-scale spectacles.
The School of Hard Knocks has created and performed original works in their annual New York season, and on tour in the United States, Asia, and Europe, with a particular focus on Eastern European countries, including Slovakia, Bulgaria, Romania, Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, the Baltic Republics, and Bosnia. In the last five years, The School of Hard Knocks has made a commitment to offering young dancers from Japan international exposure and opportunity.
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