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Location
Brooklyn, NY
Fiscal Year Awarded
2012
Grant or Program
National Dance Project Production Grant
Grant Amount
$40,000
Japanese choreographer Kota Yamazaki (Bessie Award winner) will create a new work, (glowing), inspired by the great novelist Jun'ichiro Tanizaki’s famous essay In Praise of Shadows, which explores Japanese aesthetics found in shadow/darkness. Creative team includes: choreographer/project leader Kota Yamazaki; African and butoh dancers Mina Nishimura, Mariko Kurihara, Shiferaw Tarik, and Agnes Mary Gomis (others TBD); architect Robert Kocik; lighting designer Kathy Kaufmann; and composer Koji Setoh.