Yasuko Yokoshi
Tyler Tyler
Pre-Show Coffee and Conversation: Mar 17 at 6:30pm moderated by Beth Gill
Post-Show Talk: Mar 19 moderated by Deborah Jowitt
Special Cocktail Reception
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Drinks and hors d'oeuvres 6:00-7:30 pm
Followed by the Performance at 7:30 pm
$50 Ticket includes reception and performance
To RSVP contact Editha Rosario at (212) 691-6500 x 217 or editha@dtw.org
“Every small act seems burned onto the space and onto your retina. A violent emotion is reduced to a single controlled look or gesture…restraint creates an almost painful drama of its own – like an exquisite glass vase that might shatter from the force of its contents.” – Village Voice
“Dance is a medium that I use to enhance presence. I explore from minimum to extreme and all the shades and degrees in-between to locate the exact presence I want to be and I want to see on stage.” – Yasuko Yokoshi
Tyler Tyler resumes Yasuko Yokoshi's artistic partnership with Masumi Seyama, revered master teacher of Kabuki Su-Odori dance and the heir to the legacy of Kanjyuro Fujima VI, one of the renowned Kabuki choreographers of the 20th Century in Japan. Together they deconstruct new choreographic material from Fujima's classical dance repertories. Yokoshi and Seyama dare to face boundaries of different training, cultural code and social hierarchy yet simultaneously desire to cherish the forms and beauty of universal language of dance.
Tyler Tyler features the oldest disciple and member of Seyama Dance Family, Kayo Seyama; a young Kabuki actor, Kuniya Sawamura; and an actor from the Bungakuza Theater Company, Naoki Asaji. In the United States, Yokoshi collaborates with American contemporary dancers Julie Alexander and Kayvon Pourazar, and musician Steven Reker who toured the world as a guitarist, singer and dancer with Everything that Happens will Happen Today, a musical performance composed by David Byrne and Brian Eno. Tyler Tyler is produced by MAPP International Productions.
- Tyler Tyler is commissioned by Dance Theater Workshop’s Commissioning and Creative Residency Program with support from the Ford Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency, the New York State Council on the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and the Jerome Robbins Foundation. Tyler Tyler is a National Performance Network (NPN) Creation Fund project co-commissioned by DiverseWorks in partnership with Dance Theater Workshop and NPN. Tyler Tyler is also commissioned by Theatre de la Ville, Paris. Tyler Tyler was developed, in part, during a creative residency provided through a partnership between Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography at The Florida State University and Dance Theater Workshop with support from the National Endowment for the Arts. It was also developed, in part, at a residency hosted by the Banff Center for the Arts, Alberta Canada. The creation of Tyler Tyler is made possible with the generous support of The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, The MAP Fund, a program of Creative Capital supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation; The New England Foundation for the Arts' National Dance Project (NDP) with generous support from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the MetLife Community Connections Fund of the MetLife Foundation; The Japan Foundation, through the Performing Arts JAPAN Program; and the Asian Cultural Council. Tyler Tyler is funded in part through Meet The Composer's MetLife Creative Connections Program. This presentation is made possible, in part, by the generous support of Vriginia and Timothy Millhiser through the David R. White Producers’ Circle.