MIZU DESIERTO
PERFORMING AT SOMEDAY
Saturday, Sept 16 — 10pm-midnight — $13
GEKIKAI: A performative cultural space at the interstices of the radical and traditional arts of Asia and the West. Post-Asiatic: butoh, gamelan, throat singing, Egyptian and Morrocan music, raga, jazz – filtered through a post-modernist and distinctly Western perspective.
Featuring Soriah with Venerable Showers of Beauty Gamelan, Douglas Ridings, Alenka Loesch with Mizu Desierto (with set design by Fredrick Zahl), Nequaquam Vacuum, and Children of Paradise with Auracle Dance Collective.
About the artist
Mizu is a ritual performance-artist whose work is an excavation of liminal states, an exploration of physical limitations, and a navigation of both the personal and universal psyche. Utilizing heightened states of provocation, contemplation, and supreme sensitivity, she seeks to expose the hidden aspects of human and nature in order to process and deconstruct our cultural experiences and go beyond them. Following the lineage of butoh (a post-Hiroshima Japanese art form) in both rebellion and transformation, her dance vocabulary is also influenced by modern dance, physical theatre, yoga, contact improvisation, circus, and capoiera. Thematic threads within her dances include duality, destruction, death, the raw feminine, sexuality, androgyny, the archaic and the apocalyptic, the carnal and the sublime. Her intention is to utilize the medium of the psychic dance body to open and heal the wounds of the mother, bringing water to the desert.
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