I will collaborate with Balinese dancer Cok Pring in Bali, Indonesia, to create and present our new performance (March 25-March 31). We will explore masks, story, body, and voice, respecting traditions and creating a new artistic idea.
I will premiere a new solo work Okaiko (Silkworm) at Center for Japanese Studies at UC Berkeley on April 10 2024. A talk and Q&A will follow the performance, moderated by Professors Marié Abe (Music, UC Berkeley) and Andrew Leong (English, UC Berkeley).
I will premiere my new work Floating Tree for Del Sol Quartet, performing with the members, on April 27 2024 at the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies.
Shades of Edge is a new work and continuing collaboration of poetic exploration by performer-composer Aine Nakamura and visual artist Olivia Ting. They have each shared their stories about their respective physical experiences apart from the able-bodied, through assistive hearing devices, surgeries/treatments and recovery. The present state becomes a constant negotiation between the before and after conditions of the body. The use of mask, paper, and fabrics have allowed the artists to retreat from surface boundaries and connect with depth of undefined selves to open a space.
Sound and sight and touch become facets of the reality of our bodies and experience. There are many explanations and understanding of a truth. Senses together reveal a rich and thoughtful embodiment of our existence. Seeing becomes hearing becomes voicing becomes touching becomes listening... becoming feeling.
The show will premiere on March 9 2024 at The LAB in SF, sharing the night with Viola Yip.
I will perform Under a Cherry Tree at Beauty Supply Arts, sharing the night with Cheryl E. Leonard and Phipps PT on March 15 2024.
I will collaborate with Douglas R. Ewart and Mat Muntz to present our new project of costume, instrument, and sounding Sonic Reservoir at Pillsbury House Theatre in Minneapolis on January 27 2024.
This is a phone capturing of my performance at collaborative seminar Life of Sound at Townsend Center for the Humanities on October 26 2023. I aimed to perform for the depth of the private space at the public/academic site.
I will present my new vocal investigation through my unique theatricality and through my embodiment at the Mosswood Sound Series presented by sfSound on November 19.
I will perform as a member of Opera: Site-Lucie Vítková at Roulette in Brooklyn on November 16.
Bent Duo and I will present our work boundtogether at Brick Aux in Brooklyn on November 15.