City/Dans:
- Dance Magazine
"Using trained and pedestrian movers, virtuoso instrumentalists, film, video, and sculptural forms by collaborating
artists," writes dance critic Elizabeth Zimmer, "[Chuma] develops unusual time-based art works that blend the live
and the recorded, the flat and the three-dimensional, people and things." Not About Romanian Cinema is inspired by
films from the ‘golden age of Romanian cinema’ viewed by Chuma at a New York festival and her company's subsequent
visits to Romania to better understand the context for contemporary Romanian film and art making. As a dialogue
between artists from three countries -- Japan, the United States, and Romania -- the piece is a part of The School
of Hard Knocks' multi-year research and performance project entitled A PAGE OUT OF ORDER. This ongoing
dance/installation project creates platforms for in-depth cultural exchange between artists and has taken the
company to Albania, Macedonia, and the Manipur region of India.Not About Romanian Cinema: POONARC is nearly at the
final phase of Chuma's 10 year project PAGE OUT OF ORDER, which will culminate in 2011.
The extraordinary cast of dancers, actors and musicians include Yoshiko Chuma, Sorin Calota, Andreea Duta, Ursula
Eagly, Theo Herghelegiu, Kristine Lee, Jake Margolin, István Téglás, Sizzle Ohtaka, and Koichi Makigami.
Direction/Choreograpy/Multiple Screen Concept: Yoshiko Chuma. Music and songs created and performed by
Koichi Makigami and Sizzle Ohtaka. Sound design by Soichiro Migita and Jacob Burckhardt. Costumes by Nick Vaughan. Lighting by Rie Ono. Text by project collaborators including Jake Margolin, Romanian playwright, Theo Herghelegiu,
and the international cast.
ROOT CULTURE Creative Team (Kamakura, Japan): Nobuko Higuchi, Kohtaroh Inoue, Yoshitaka Ito, Junpei Katsumi,
Gen Nagashima, Yuuki Sawada, Kohji Setoh, Hiroaki Sumiya, Seinoshin Yamagishi.
Featuring excerpts from films by Cristi Puiu and Corneliu Porumboiu: Stuff and Dough & 12:08 East of Bucharest.
Co-producers: Casa de Cultura a Mun. Arad (Romania), ROOT CULTURE (Japan) and GOH Productions (USA).
www.yoshikochuma.org
Post performance discussions: Fridays June 5th & 12th
June 5: Moderator: Judy Hussie-Taylor, Director Danspace Project
June 12: Moderator: Corina Suteu Director, Romanian Cultural Institute of New York
Not About Romanian Cinema: POONARC was made possible in part by the Danspace Project 2008-2009 Commissioning Initiative, with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. POONARC was created, in part, while in residence at Kaatsbaan International Dance Center in partnership with Danspace Project's Danspace@Kaatsbaan Creative Residency Program and is supported by the New York State DanceForce with funding from the New York State Council on the Arts Dance Program. Touring in Romania is supported by Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation through USArtists International with support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Trust for Mutual Understanding. Participation of Romanian artists to the USA is supported by Romanian Cultural Institute. Music for POONARC was commissioned by the American Music Center Live Music for Dance Program. The School of Hard Knocks is supported in part by National Endowment for the Arts (USA).
Supported by Japan Foundation.
Illustration by Hidetomo Mita
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