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(re)Imagining Homelands
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Saturday, April 20, 7:30 pm and
Sunday, April 21, 2:00 pm
Leeward Theatre, Leeward Community College (map)
Yukie Shiroma, director/choreographer
Hawai‘i-based artists come together in another creative recalling of ancestral memories through original music and choreography.
Since their first collaboration, Imaginary Homelands in January 2022, artists and cultural practitioners Kenny Endo, Norman Kaneshiro, Derek Fujio, and Yukie Shiroma have infused fresh elements into this new show. Their captivating journey into the intersections of Japanese taiko, Okinawan sanshin, Okinawan and modern dance awakens the soul. Musicians Brandon Ufugusuku Ing, Jesse Shiroma, and a cast of eight contemporary dancers join to create a moving experience.
Two dances from their 2022 debut, Uchinā nu Chimugukuru and Steel Rain, will be reprised and three new ones will be featured: Broken Mirrors, fragments of memory that remain after leaving home; Kame Kame Luahine, inspired by the rhythms of grandma washing rice; and Bones: A Life Once Lived, inspired by the need to return to the homeland with text from author/playwright, Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl.
Presented by the University of Hawai'i Outreach College, Leeward Theatre, Monkey Waterfall, and East-West Center Arts Program, with funding from the Hawai‘i State Foundation on Culture and the Arts.
(re)Imagining Homelands
Tickets and info
Saturday, April 20, 7:30 pm and
Sunday, April 21, 2:00 pm
Leeward Theatre, Leeward Community College (map)
Yukie Shiroma, director/choreographer
Hawai‘i-based artists come together in another creative recalling of ancestral memories through original music and choreography.
Since their first collaboration, Imaginary Homelands in January 2022, artists and cultural practitioners Kenny Endo, Norman Kaneshiro, Derek Fujio, and Yukie Shiroma have infused fresh elements into this new show. Their captivating journey into the intersections of Japanese taiko, Okinawan sanshin, Okinawan and modern dance awakens the soul. Musicians Brandon Ufugusuku Ing, Jesse Shiroma, and a cast of eight contemporary dancers join to create a moving experience.
Two dances from their 2022 debut, Uchinā nu Chimugukuru and Steel Rain, will be reprised and three new ones will be featured: Broken Mirrors, fragments of memory that remain after leaving home; Kame Kame Luahine, inspired by the rhythms of grandma washing rice; and Bones: A Life Once Lived, inspired by the need to return to the homeland with text from author/playwright, Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl.
Presented by the University of Hawai'i Outreach College, Leeward Theatre, Monkey Waterfall, and East-West Center Arts Program, with funding from the Hawai‘i State Foundation on Culture and the Arts.
