Performance
Nami Yamamoto: Trooper’s Brother
14 Jun 2022 – 16 Jun 2022
Regular hours
- Tue, 14 Jun
- 20:00 – 22:00
- Wed, 15 Jun
- 20:00 – 22:00
- Thu, 16 Jun
- 20:00 – 22:00
Cost of entry
TICKETS: $20 ONLINE | $25 DOORS
DOORS 7:00PM
Address
- 509 Atlantic Ave
- New York
New York - 11217
- United States
Travel Information
- 2/3/4/5/A/C/G/D/M/N/R/B/Q/LIRR
Trooper’s brother is inspired by choregrapher Nami Yamamoto’s experience going through multiple surgeries with Dr. Deborah Axelrod at NYU Langone Medical Center— who dresses up as a kitty cat on Halloween.
About
In Yamamoto’s words:
“My relationship with her changed from calling Dr. Axelrod to Deborah throughout my diagnosis process. My observations and interactions with Dr. Axelrod, her nurses, and colleagues are my inspiration to create this work. My collaborators/dancers are Takemi Kitamura, Leah Ogawa, and Anna Vomacka.
We started to explore the piece by manipulating and improvising with different objects including paper puppets. The handmade paper puppets are manipulated by one dancer at a time. The puppets’ feet are attached between the dancers’ first and second toes. I am playing with an idea of who is leading. Can the puppet bring the puppeteer into their imaginary world?
I have been exploring this piece since fall 2018. During 2020, I kept exploring movement at East River Park, then after 18 months of pause, we were back in the studio.
I am at the point of developing a second half of the piece. If the first half of the piece is about what happened in our body, the second half is about what happened in our minds. The objects that we were manipulating begin to haunt us. The puppet becomes dissected into a piece of bundled-up paper. We obsessed about pieces of puppet parts that have no shape, no life, or no meaning anymore. The shape of our body changes with time and age. But, we are still living, breathing, surviving, and celebrating our lives.”
