Dance Monks: Rodrigo Esteva Photo: Mike Slack

BodiGram: Julia Graham

NOHspace Presents

ORIGINS (World Premiere)
by Dance Monks & Samavesha

&

Related to a Distinct Entity
by BodiGram Dance Company

November 17th & 18th, 2008
Monday & Tuesday at 8PM

ORIGINS is an interdisciplinary project silently inspired by traditional legends from several ancient cultures. A live original music score by renowned Samavesha artists: Laura Inserra (Italy), Pauchi Sasaki (Peru/Japan) and Claudia Cuentas (Peru) is composed to immerse the audience in a work that ignites the senses. Created in partnership with DANCE MONKS Olivia Eng (China/US), Rodrigo Esteva (Mexico), Mirah Moriarty (Roma/US) and Rodney Bell (Maori/Aotearoa), the work addresses and embodies the concept of origin. Origin as a legendary place, a cultural landscape, an ancestral identity, an inescapable longing, a source of life, a spring, a seed of creation, an essential beginning. DANCE MONKS were last seen at their sold-out performances at CounterPULSE SF in 2007. ORIGINS is their latest interdisciplinary collaboration with these powerful and breathtaking artists from around the globe.

Related to a Distinct Entity explores interests in Asian themes through the Western eye. Integrating movement inspired by Japanese techniques including Nihon Buyo, Kabuki Buyo, the Suzuki movement system, and Bunraku puppetry. By adapting a contemporary vocabulary to these forms the dancers explore ideas of self reflection in regards to culture, history and the present state. BodiGram Dance Company is an emerging dance company formed by choreographers Blair Bodie and Julia Graham. Brought together by their interests in Asian philosophy and movement traditions as well as improvisation and somatic awareness, they blend Western and Eastern thought and form. This is BodiGram's first performance as a company however the work of Julia and Blair has been seen in NYC, Colorado, Philadelphia, Virginia, San Frarnacisco, and Kuala Lampur.

NOHspace Presents is a series produced by Theatre of Yugen that showcases emerging and established experimental, ensemble, and Asian-based performers, as well as visiting artists from Japan.

Moshe Cohen and NOHspace CoPresents

Mr. Yoowho's Holiday

Mr. YooWho discovers his dream of traveling the world in the most unlikely of places, a field of sunflowers. He travels through a potpourri of wonder generating laughter that reaches far across generational lines. Enter a world where humor and poetry intermingle with precision mini-board high diving, a world where European clown and mime mix with Japanese Kyogen and Yiddish Absurdism.

Following rave reviews this summer in Europe (“Charlie Chaplin of a modern time”,) Moshe Cohen brings his new show back home to San Francisco. This fall, Moshe traveled to Krakow to work intensely with director Marek Pasieczny, bringing together work that Moshe has developed over the last twenty years. After serious dramaturgy work, Moshe unveiled his new work at the basement cabaret theater Loch Camelot. Now Moshe returns home to San Francisco, and builds upon this foundation in collaboration with the Theatre of Yugen, injecting a Noh and Kyogen influence to his insightful ritual of travel, and holiday celebration.

December 12-28, 2008
Friday and Saturdays at 7pm, Sundays at 2pm

NOHspace Presents

Oleg Liptsin’s International Theater Ensemble
in a workshop production of an original adaptation of Gogol’s The Overcoat

January 12th & 13th, 2009
Monday & Tuesday at 8PM

Experimental modern approach to the classic short story by Nicolay Gogol, with a goal to transform the 19th century humanistic myth into an interactive theatrical performance that will appeal to an audience of IT-era.

The project is a joint effort of the following internationally acclaimed and local Bay Area artists and companies:
shadow puppets director and performer Larry Reed and his ShadowLight Productions;
surrealistic robots’ creator Frank Garvey and his OMNI Circus;
video artist and software developer Kevin Quennesson;
movement and modern dance performer Ai-Cheng Ho (member of ITE);
and local costume designer Margarita Soyfertis.

David Ryther(l) and Julie Kane(r)
DROP (2007) © Morgan Stetler, 2007

NOHspace Presents

an installation of Dandelion Dancetheater’s latest project
Love-Child Gets Sliced

April 6th and 7th, 2009
Monday and Tuesday at 8pm

foolsFury and NOHspace CoPresents

FURY FESTIVAL
a festival of theater work by ensemble theater companies.

June 8 - 21, 2009

Kathy Foley

NOHspace Presents

Foxhunts, Founders, and Freedom Fighters:
100 Years of Korean and Western Women

September 14 & 15th, 2009
Monday & Tuesday at 8pm

Created and performed by Kathy Foley (Indonesian wayang, Japanese bunraku, and Korean drumming and dance) and Chan Park (an internationally acclaimed pansori narrative singer)

Theatre of Yugen's 30th Anniversary Season is generously funded in part by our supportive individual donors, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Johnson & Johnson, Rockefeller MAP, and the San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund/Grants for the Arts.