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Location
New York, NY
Project Title
OQ
Fiscal Year Awarded
2015
Grant or Program
National Dance Project Presentation Grant
Grant Amount
$4,500
Japan Society (JS) is pleased to commission Brooklyn-based Japanese choreographer Kota Yamazaki for the creation of his newest work OQ (ookyu is the phonetic reading of the Japanese word for palace). Yamazaki’s OQ draws inspiration from the highly ritualistic structure of Japanese utakai poetry reading ceremonies held at the Imperial Palace and includes an ethnically diverse cast of six dancers as well as creative collaborators SO-IL architecture collective (set design), Kathy Kaufmann (lighting design) and Masahiro Sugaya (music). OQ makes it New York premiere at JS in June 2015.