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This event is 19+ and there will be bar service.

Salome Nieto is developing an innovative Butoh opera titled "Methuselah," in collaboration with Sound Artist Jami Reimer. An experimental Butoh opera with a unique blend of Butoh dance, sound design, music composition, vocal performance, and immersive video. The Monarch Butterfly and the insect world inspire it. The Monarch Butterfly, in this context, is not just a metaphor for the Mexican diaspora. It is the flagship species that illustrates the precarity posed by climate change and current global politics. This project deeply engages with pressing issues related to climate change and social injustices that fuel natural and forced migration.

Credits:

Choreography and performance, Salome Nieto

Musical composition and performance, Jami Reimer

Video Design, Candelario Andrade and Jami Reimer

Lighting Design, Gerald King

Assistant to Lighting Design, Erin Sue

Costume Design, Elika Mojtabaei

Photography, Carl Craig

Liens

• kokoro.ca kokoro.ca
• Jami Reimer jamireimer.com
• salome nieto salomenieto.com

Organisateur

Kokoro Dance Theatre Society

Kokoro Dance Theatre Society. Taking its name from the Japanese word kokoro - meaning heart, soul, and spirit — Kokoro Dance creates deeply evocative and provocative performances. Inspired by the Japanese art form known as butoh, Kokoro Dance fuses Eastern and Western aesthetics. Since 1986, Kokoro Dance has created and performed works for the proscenium theatre, for site-specific environmental locations, for young audiences in schools, and for impromptu improvisations in jazz nightclubs. The company has performed across Canada, in the United States, Europe, and South America.

Kokoro Dance Theatre Society recognizes that its work takes place on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the Coast Salish Peoples: the xʷməθkʷəỷəm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and Səílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) nations, in what is now Vancouver, BC, Canada. The society promotes Canadian culture through teaching, producing, and performing new dance theatre with a focus on multidisciplinary collaboration and cross-cultural exploration.