A Split-Bill Evening Curated by Yasuko Yokoshi
Nami Yamamoto
Headless Wolf
Nami Yamamoto is a dance artist originally from Japan and currently based in New York City. She has been making the dance Headless Wolf since 2010, in which she lays bare her experience of becoming a mother while losing her father. Yamamato untangles her emotional burdens onstage—confronting grief, confusion, and mortality—but ultimately discovers beauty in life’s two boundaries: birth and death.

Manami Fukuoka
Dance of a Trio
Japanese dance artist Manami Fukuoka makes work that is influenced by her studies of Butoh, traditional Noh theater, Tai Chi, and Chigong. In Fukuoka’s new work Dance of a Trio, the eponymous three are the subconscious, the conscious, and the superconscious minds. As she discovers these three selves onstage in what she terms “the state of the praying body,” Fukuoka allows the audience a look inside her pursuit of higher consciousness through physical embodiment.

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