Izu House Project

Roko Kawai

2008

$20,000

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Leah Stein and Roko Kawai, October 2007. Photo by Takayuki Moriki.

Pew Fellow and dancer Roko Kawai traveled to Japan to work on her project Izu House. A team of collaborators, including Philadelphia choreographer Leah Stein, Tokyo-based dancer Hideo Arai, vocalist Mika Kimula, and Pew Fellow and musician Toshi Makihara, joined Kawai on her trip. In Japan, the collaborators lived and worked in a house in Chihan-An, Ohito on the Izu Peninsula, drawing from the history of the house and the surrounding area to develop a site-specific dance/sound piece. Kawai's research contributed to the online publication Belonging and Solo: Roko Kawai, the second in the Center's danceworkbook series.

Recipients

Roko Kawai

Performance

Dance

Collaborators & Colleagues

jumatatu m. poe

A young choreographer who has already produced provocative, experimental dance works, Poe (Pew Fellow, 2011) is the founder of dance/theater company idiosynCrazy productions.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Daniel Bernard Roumain

Daniel Bernard Roumain is a composer, violinist, and bandleader who combines his classical training with hip-hop and Haitian influences.

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Event

Philadelphia Freedom Festival: Freedom Rap Session Youth Panel Discussion

Hip-hop artists and scholars will explore and unpack the experience of racism through music and lyrics.

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Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Curator Ruth Estévez on Why Some Performances Should Remain in the Past

Curator Ruth Estévez on why the practice of restaging may be both “interesting” and “dangerous.”

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Event

Color Theory Concert: PRISM Quartet and Partch

A series of performances, lectures, and workshops that investigate the concept of "musical color," including a performance with Grammy-award winning ensemble Partch.

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Event

(Dis)placed: Music & Tales of Home

Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture presents a concert of Syrian music and stories of displacement in Philadelphia.

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In Plain Air: Music Box Workshop with Phyllis Chen

In Plain Air composer Phyllis Chen is working with the community to create a 400-foot music box strip. During this hands-on family workshop, each participant will create a one-foot section of Phyllis’ music box mosaic.

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Gospel Roots of Rock and Soul: Radio Documentary

A year of live performances, interviews, and a multimedia website culminates with the launch of the WXPN’s Gospel Roots of Rock and Soul radio documentary, broadcast to national audiences

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Nunally Kersh

Nunally Kersh is an independent producer and consultant in the contemporary performing arts sector.

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Questions of Practice

*In Terms of Performance*, A Keywords Anthology

In Terms of Performance provokes dialogue, debate, and discovery in an anthology of keywords designed to generate shared literacies.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Chiara Giovando

Chiara Giovando is a Los Angeles-based artist and curator, who currently serves as director and curator of PANEL L.A., an artist residency program focused on newly commissioned works.

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Event

Supper, People on the Move at Drexel University URBN Center Annex

Following a national tour, Silvana Cardell’s large-scale performance Supper, People on the Move returns to Philadelphia with three performances at Drexel University.

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News

Photos: Artists Activate In Terms of Performance Event at BAM

On April 4, we celebrated In Terms of Performance—the exhibition at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) that reimagines our web-based keywords anthology—presented in collaboration with the University of California, Berkeley and BAM.

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Event

A Billion Nights on Earth FringeArts Holiday Performances

Thaddeus Phillips' family-friendly, visual theater work returns to FringeArts for a series of special holiday performances.

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Grants & Grantees

Advancement Grant: Opera Philadelphia (2016)

Opera Philadelphia will implement a new business and program model that will feature an annual season-opening, multi-venue festival, launching in fall 2017, supported by new marketing strategies and a broad range of performance offerings designed to draw audiences from both inside and outside the regional metropolitan area.

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Philadelphia Assembled Performances

As part of its multi-part project Philadelphia Assembled, the Philadelphia Museum of Art presents a number of performances related to the project’s underlying themes.

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Grants & Grantees

Body of Text

Choreographer Nichole Canuso and her ensemble will engage in an interdisciplinary discovery process with an oral historian, a writer, and a vocal teacher to develop new performance techniques that integrate movement, voice, and personal history.

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Facing Front Part Two: Lectures and Performances by Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion (second set)

Anna Drozdowski hosts European duo Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion for a two-week retrospective of their collaborative career. In addition to their performances, the two-week period includes discussions on June 26–27.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Ranee Ramaswamy

Ranee Ramaswamy founded Ragamala Dance in 1993, and currently serves as co-artistic director. She is a master teacher, performer, and choreographer of the South Indian classical form of bharata natyam.

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Event

Person of the Crowd Symposium: Flânerie and the Politics of Public Space

The Barnes Foundation presents a day-long symposium on the history of flânerie and the contemporary race and gender politics enmeshed in the act of walking.

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