THIS DEMO CONTAINS 2 WORK SAMPLES
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Sample 1
“Birth and Death,” from Archipelago ('09)
In collaboration with video artist Adam Cooper-Terán. Rhythm Industry and Dinnerware Artspace, Tucson ('09); live audiences.
Plays with my confusion of the proper way to fold the kimono for the living (left-over-right) versus the dead (right-over-left). Footage of my hands folding and refolding my kimono is superimposed on my chest while I perform this same action live. Explores my dying great aunt's confusion between the past and present, the real and dream worlds. Her career as a professional dancer was derailed by WWII internment camps. I want to continue using this type of video projection over the body and other uneven surfaces for the proposed project.

Sample 2
The Senkotsu (Mis)Translation Project ('09 and '06)
Highways Performance Space and Barnsdall Art Gallery, Los Angeles; live audiences.
This performance installation examines the U.S. Occupation in Okinawa. Audience participates in a cycle of bone, egg and mistranslation games, entangling them in the process of war and peace. Inspired by the senkotsu, the Okinawan burial tradition. Conceived, directed and performed in collaboration with ensemble who have training in butoh, classical Thai, thai chi and post-modern dance. Objects and set designed by Uyehara. Soundscape by David Karagianis. Demonstrates my interest in evoking mythic tales from objects, light projection and dance.
Conceived, directed and performed in collaboration with ensemble who have training in butoh, classical Thai, thai chi and post-modern dance. Ensemble: Joyce Lu, Pete Lee, Joe Talkington, Waedao Sirisook.

Objects and set designed by Uyehara. Soundscape by David Karagianis. Demonstrates my interest in evoking mythic tales from simple objects, movement and light projection, as well as my ability to work with ensemble.