Asian American Dance Performances

The Theater of the Yugen held a ”Food for Thought” roundtable discussion held at NOHspace on January 13, 2007 on tradition and innovation, legitimacy and appropriation. Facilitated by Sherwood Chen, the discussion was at the request of Naoko Maeshiba, a visiting dance-theater artist from Baltimore who performed as part of our Yugen Presents series and wanted to meet similar artists of the Bay Area. Thanks so much for turning out… the conversation went many places and we learned about each other’s work and process. 

Thanks are due to Lluis Valls, one of our Joint Artistic Directors and webmaster, who edited the podcast. It is broken down into five chaptered parts for easier downloading…for a total of about 2 hours!

Please check out the podcasts HERE. just scroll down this page a little bit until you get to Naoko Maeshiba’s section. They will be listed as:

 ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION on tradition and innovation, legitimacy and appropriation

Part I     -   Introductions

Part II   -  What is Fusion, where does it come from

Part III -  Butoh, Why we do what we do

Part IV  -  From the outside, Third way

Part V   -  Conclusion

Discussion Attendees: Ue Chua , Takami Craddock, Yuriko Doi, Ana Hortillosa, Shinichi and Dana (and Zoe) Iova-Koga, Jez Lee, Naoko Maeshiba, Claudine Naganuma, Kanoko Nishi, Prumsodun Ok, Shawn Tamarabuchi, Lluis Valls, Kyoko Yoshida, and Libby Zilber.