{"id":24820,"date":"2012-04-27T08:17:02","date_gmt":"2012-04-27T12:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=24820"},"modified":"2012-04-27T08:17:02","modified_gmt":"2012-04-27T12:17:02","slug":"justins-japan-kota-yamazaki-and-sakura-matsuri-return-to-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2012\/04\/27\/justins-japan-kota-yamazaki-and-sakura-matsuri-return-to-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin’s Japan: Kota Yamazaki and Sakura Matsuri Return to New York"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dance performance Kota Yamazaki\/\u2019Fluid hug-hug (glowing)\u2019 will be held at New York's Japan Society April 27-28. (Ryutaro Mishima)<\/p><\/div>\n

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By<\/strong><\/em> <\/strong>JQ magazine<\/em><\/strong><\/a> editor <\/strong><\/em>Justin Tedaldi<\/em><\/a> <\/strong>(CIR Kobe-shi<\/a>, 2001-02). Visit his Examiner.com page here<\/a> for related stories.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Following a month of concerts<\/a> from all types of Japanese musicians, New York City bids sayonara to April this weekend with an exciting pair of performances from a Bessie Award-winning performance artist, followed by the 31st edition of one of Brooklyn\u2019s finest annual events.<\/p>\n

Kicking things off tonight (April 27) and tomorrow at Japan Society<\/a> is the performance of Kota Yamazaki\/Fluid hug-hug (glowing)<\/em><\/a>, the Society\u2019s newest commissioned work by the butoh<\/a>-trained choreographer. In this new work that will appeal to fans of dance, Yamazaki re-examines the fundamentals of butoh, the form in which he received his training, as six dancers hailing from Senegal, Ethiopia, Japan, and the U.S., perform within a set constructed to evoke the soft lighting and dim interior of a traditional Japanese house, where shadows contribute to a visual atmosphere.<\/p>\n

The performance, which made successful stops earlier this month at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh and the Painted Bride Arts Center in Philadelphia, draws its inspiration from the world-renowned essay In\u2019ei Raisan<\/em> (In Praise of Shadows<\/em>) by the great modern Japanese novelist Jun\u2019ichiro Tanizaki. First published in 1933 and in English in 1977, it has itself been praised the world over, with the Guardian<\/em> calling it a \u201chymn to nuance.\u201d<\/p>\n

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