Part Song/Immortal Life at Danspace Project

I’m making a new performance called Part Song/Immortal Life, which will run from November 21–23 at Danspace Project at the historic St. Mark's Church in New York City. The evening is shared with Wendell Gray II, an artist I’ve admired for a long time. Tickets are available here. I have some comps available, so please reach out if you need one! If you’re able to support our emergency fundraiser to complete the show, please consider donating here

Tickets:
Thursday, November 21 | 7:30PM
Friday, November 22 | 7:30PM
Saturday, November 23 | 7:30PM

NYT PREVIEW: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/06/arts/dance/performances-festivals-nyc.html


My Fundraiser

Like many others, I’m raising funds for a show. I'm hoping to raise $3000. If you’re able to support, please consider donating here.

For this performance, I am joined by collaborators old and new: dancers Amelia Heintzelman, Jade Manns, and evan ray suzuki; composer Matt Evans; musicians Leo Chang, Tristan Kasten-Krause, and Zosha Warpeha; and costume designer Kate Williams. Counting me, this production involves nine artists!! :) 

If you are able to provide it, your financial support will help pay for the time and space necessary to practice our ideas in the rehearsal studio. It will help to fund the administrative labor required to choreograph and transform our dreams, availability calendars, screenshots, text messages, and phone calls into a theatrical work. Supporting this project, as well as the artists and spaces dedicated to experimental dance, is an investment in the present and the future of a culture that is deeply woven into the history of New York. My collaborators and I are committed to the field of live performance, and we are honored and heartened by those of you willing to commit something to us. 

Any amount is impactful and helps move this multi-brained collaboration into a dance that can be shared. If you’re unable to donate, connecting a friend or family member to this fundraiser is extremely helpful and powerful! Fundraiser info is here.


About Part Song/Immortal Life
To make Part Song/Immortal Life, I’ve drowned (metaphorically) in the historical archive of Danspace Project. Danspace has been around for 50 (!!) years. Images and clips of past shows have slipped into this staging process, especially as I spend more and more time in the church. The piece addresses devotion and surveillance, disappearing and tracking a dance within the architecture of the sanctuary. Throughout this process, I’m questioning the origins and departures of different sources of inspiration on my work and my practice, and what drives me to dedicate myself to American modern dance. This re-evaluation has raised questions about the legacy of this form, what I’ve inherited from its past, the origins of its ideas, and its legibility.


I am an Okinawan-American dancer and choreographer based in NYC. I make process-oriented, time-intensive experimental dances. To continue making performances and contributing to the dance field in New York, I need your support. A donation funds the creation of new dance work, my collaborators and the research, rehearsals, and dialogue that comes with it.