Retrospective
Beauty World (February 1998)
Lao Jiu
The Happiness Event
Theatre Games
María José Arjona Residency — Irregular Hexagon
Mixed Signals (1997)
The Diary Of Alice
Sandakan Threnody (June 2004)
Kantan & Hanjo (Double Bill)
Serunding (August–September 2011)
The Roundest Circle
Mortal Sins
Dance Dance Dance
‘Til The End Of The World, We’ll Meet In No Man’s Land
LIFT: Love Is Flower The
Sandaime Richard (November & December 2016)
Writers’ Lab – Singapore Young Dramatists Award, 24-Hour Playwriting Competition & Hearing Voices (2002)
Vivien & The Shadows
Longing
Serunding (December 2010–January 2011)
Theatre Carnival On The Hill
Therese Raquin
Undercover
Writers’ Lab – Lab Report 5 (1993)
Off Kilter
Writers’ Lab – Community Project: The Good Farmer (2018)
Balance
Ozone
Tan Pin Pin Residency — Invisible City: Screening & Talk
RE/PLAY Dance Edit
Diary Of A Madwoman
Fanshen
Eloquence
Scorpion Orchid
Connection Barents
The Elephant Man
Open Call – I Have Escaped Even Myself
Lear Dreaming (2015)
Play On Earth
Writers’ Lab – 24-Hour Playwriting Competition & Prize Presentation (2013)
Writers’ Lab Month – Playwriting Workshops, Dramatised Readings, 24-Hour Playwriting Competition & Prize Presentation (2018)
Rashomon
The Spirits Play
Dapunta Hyang: Transmission Of Knowledge
Sublime Monsters And Virtual Children
Diaspora
Ancient Technologies, Dramaturgy, And Game
Army Daze (The Film) (1996)
Opening of 72-13
Sandaime Richard
Writers’ Lab – 24-Hour Playwriting Competition (2011)
Le Temps Scellé And Le Trait Solos (Double Bill)
On Mercury’s Wings
Trip To The South
The Screw of Thought
The Continuum Asia Project – Excavating Cultures And Memories (2005)
Pop Friction
The Maids & Diary Of A Madman (Double Bill)
A.I.
Writers’ Lab – Lab Report 6 (1994)
The First Emperor’s Last Days
Mergers and Accusations (SPH Young Playwrights Series 2)
Goh Lay Kuan & Kuo Pao Kun
The Global Soul
The Retrospective: A Festival Of Singapore Plays 1960–1990
Nowhere Man
The Continuum: Beyond The Killing Fields (2006)
Incarnation Of The Beast
Holier Then How
Dreamkeepers: Avenue Of Dream & Second Chance (Double Bill)
The Flying Circus Project (2004)
Writers’ Lab: Singapore Young Dramatists Award & 24-Hour Playwriting Competition (2006)
like the cat sitting on the edge of an ocean of milk, hoping to lap it all up
The Making of A Geisha: Talk by Liza Dalby
Goldfish Is Meant For Dying
Writers’ Lab — Community Project: Serunding (2014)
Deborah Pollard Residency — Shapes of Sleep (Asialink Residency)
Ho Tzu Nyen Residency – Talk on the Making of HERE
Reservoir
Alter Art: A Multimedia Presentation Of Dance, Art Video
Desdemona
TLAB
A Night Out With Michael Chiang — Love & Belachan, Beauty Box And Heaven II (Triple Bill)
Writers’ Lab – 24-Hour Playwriting Competition (2008)
Lim Tzay Chuen
Beauty World (10th Anniversary Production) (April 1998)
The Continuum: Beyond The Killing Fields (2002)
GALA
The Global Soul (2005)
Brian Gothong Tan Residency — Signs, Omens And Relics Of Faith
Writers’ Lab – 24-Hour Playwriting Competition & Prize Presentation (2014)
Machine
Sammy Won’t Go To School (Directors’ Laboratory)
The Continuum Asia Project (2003)
Nachtgesichter: Visions Of The Night
Block 20 – The Continuum: Ancient Technologies, Borders And Transcendence (featuring EXOTICA!)
Drift Net
Fever Room (Curators Academy)
Muna Tseng Residency: Stella’s Room
Geisha
The Flying Circus Project – Platform 01: Expo Zero (Musee de la Danse) (2009)
Paradise Heights
VISTA Lab 1.0 – Impetus
Three Fat Virgins Unassembled (1995)
Wills & Secession
Mad Forest
Meena And Me
Lear
Madame Mao’s Memories (1992)
Writers’ Lab – 24-Hour Playwriting Competition (2012)
Insomnia 48
Connect Connect
Writers’ Lab – Community Project: Marco Polo
Dance For Nothing
Fried Rice Paradise
Open Call — Fly By Night (2006)
Six Of The Best
Long Green Socks
Jonathan Seow Residency — Resuscitation: Call, Submission, Installation & Fashion Presentation
Lao Jiu (1997)
Light In The Village
13.13.13
Writers’ Lab — 24-Hour Playwriting Competition (2000) & Singapore Young Dramatist Awards (2000/2001)
Writers’ Lab – Lab Report 2 (The Free Voice) (1991)
The Reunification Of The Two Koreas
Search: Hamlet
Fourplays: ABCD
24-Hour Playwriting Competition
When Hearts Meet
Ang Tau Mui, A Modern Woman
Love & Belachan: The Creative Director, The Last of the Red-Hot Lovers, Love & Belachan
Descendants Of The Eunuch Admiral (1996)
Writers’ Lab Greenhouse – Dramatised Reading (2006)
Writers’ Lab – 24-Hour Playwriting Competition & Prize Presentation (2015)
FARM Residency — Rojak 04
Friends’ Season
The Continuum: Beyond The Killing Fields (2011)
Writers’ Lab – 24-Hour Playwriting Competition & Prize Presentation (2019)
Grey Matters
Tintin Wulia Residency: The Adventures Of Flo & Kat
Molissa Fenley: Contemporary Dance From New York
Three Children
Got To Go… Play Till Dawn
Urban Fetishes
Chinoiserie
Talk by Rirkrit Tiravanija
Hot Dogs And Eternal Triangles
M. Butterfly
The Caucasian Chalk Circle
Lear (January-February 1999)
Piaf
Writers’ Lab – Community Project: Three Inches Of Alive
Descendants of the Eunuch Admiral (1998)
Seams Of Change: Clothing and the Care of the Self in Late 19th- and 20th-Century Cambodia
Geisha
Diaspora (2009)
The Four Trunks (Directors’ Laboratory)
Da Vinci Project
SPH Young Playwrights Series 3 — Cards, Ordinary Woman, Will You Please Jump?, The Can Opener, and Will You Be There?
Insomnia@ICA, The Singapore Season, London (2005)
Playfreely: The Transparency Of Turbulence
Pan Island Expressway
Young Curators Academy
Writers’ Lab – 24-Hour Playwriting Competition (2007)
A Beautiful Companion
In Transit (2003)
Dust: A Recollection
The Continuum: Beyond The Killing Fields (2008)
Three Fat Virgins Unassembled (SPH Young Playwrights Series 1) (1992)
Madame Mao’s Memories
Spektr!
Writers’ Lab — 24-Hour Playwriting Competition (2009)
In Transit (2002)
Bima Labuh
RPM (Revolution-Per-Minute)
Dirty Laundry (SPH Young Playwrights Series 2)
Flying Circus Project: TRAVELOGUE (2007)
Army Daze
Charles Lim Residency — 72-13 Offsite (An Artistic Playground)
Pulse
Cat Hope Residency: Artist Talk, Showing, Concert & Voyeurages
Awaking
Writers’ Lab – 24-Hour Playwriting Competition & Prize Presentation (2016)
Embarquez-Les
Writers’ Lab – Dramatised Readings (2009 & 2010)
My Lonely Tarts
Writers’ Lab — 24-Hour Playwriting Competition (2003)
Shanty — Follow That Dream
Desdemona (2001)
Occupy the Museum
Conversations on Diaspora
Open Call — Future Of Imagination 4
The Good Person of Szechuan
Safe Sex: As If He Hears & Jackson On A Jaunt (Double Bill)
A Wonderful Weekend (2018)
The Flying Circus Project (1998)
Open Call — Studio Prive
SPH Festival Of New Writing — Ginnie’s Favourite Colour, The Buried & Quiet The Gorilla (1996)
Nay Nai
The Continuum: Beyond The Killing Fields (2001)
The Incredible Adventures of Border Crossers
The Continuum: Beyond The Killing Fields (2003)
The Cutting Edge (No, Not The Arts Festival) — Hand-Made Tales
Descendants Of The Eunuch Admiral (1995)
National Broadway Company
The Flying Circus Project (2000)
She Ain’t Heavy, She’s Reaching Into Space (July 2016)
Beauty World
The Way Of Violence (Directors’ Laboratory)
Absence Makes The Heart Grow Fonder (SPH Young Playwrights Series 1)
Fear Of Writing
The Global Soul (2006)
VISTA Lab 2.0 – Interference
Workhorse Afloat
Rizman Putra Residency — The Elegy Of A Man And His Weapon Of Choice (The Hyperbolic Alpha Male)
A Wonderful Weekend
Lear Dreaming
Writers’ Lab – Community Project: Between Consciousness
Indulgence
The Continuum: Beyond The Killing Fields (2005)
SoftMachine
Writers’ Lab: 24-Hour Playwriting Competition & Singapore Young Dramatists Award (2005)
50/50
Sandaime Richard (September 2016)
Destinies Of Flowers In The Mirror
Us In Singapore
Under The Volcano
Writers’ Lab – Lab Report 7 (1995)
A Wonderful Weekend (2019)
The Cutting Edge (No, Not The Arts Festival) — The Morning Star Project: Lucifer, Whisper, Composition B and The Blue Fish
David Hwang Festival — The Dance And The Railroad & The Sound Of A Voice (Double Bill)
Space Monkeys
Be My Sushi Tonight
Broken Birds: An Epic Longing
Mixed Signals
Not Afraid To Remember
Comrade Mayor
Night Festival — New World 2010
Ma: Moment
Lise Nellemann & Janos Fodor Residency
Marriage Of Inconvenience
The Flying Circus Project (1996)
Cetecea & Breaking Through (Double Bill) (SPH Young Playwrights Series 2)
Three Children (1992)
Sandakan Threnody (September & October 2004)
Haunted
The Flying Circus Project (Special Edition 2005, Yokohama): The School of Politics
Writers’ Lab – 24-Hour Playwriting Competition (1999)
To My Heart With Smiles
N.O.W. — Not Ordinary Work (2019)
Metamorphosis
Is Performance The Future Craft Of The 21st Century?
Of Babies (Not Really) And People
The Gift (Theatre-in-Education Programme)
Miss Julie
The Complete Space Traveller’s Guide To Singapore (Abridged)
The Flying Circus Project (2010)
The Lady Of Soul And Her Ultimate ‘S’ Machine
Pichet Klunchun And Myself
The Silver River (2001)
The Cutting Edge (No, Not The Arts Festival) — The Yang Family
Writers’ Lab – Community Project: Mixed; & Dramatised Reading (2017)
Because, The Night
Half Lives
The Continuum: Beyond The Killing Fields (October 2001)
She Ain’t Heavy, She’s Reaching Into Space (Open Rehearsal) (April 2016)
Private Parts
Writers’ Lab — Charging Up Memory Lane: 30 Plays In 30 Days
Watching The Clouds Go By (Directors’ Laboratory)
The Continuum: Beyond The Killing Fields (2010)
120
What the Body Remembers. Dance Heritage Today
The Flying Circus Project (2013): Burmese Days
Archiving Dance
Lao Jiu (1994)
Writers’ Lab – 24-Hour Playwriting Competition & Singapore Young Dramatists Award (2004)
The Continuum: Beyond The Killing Fields (2007)
Writers’ Lab – Community Project: Saying Grace
The Trojan Women
Green Socks
Writers’ Lab – 5 Under 25 (Book Launch), Singapore Young Dramatists Award & 24-Hour Playwriting Competition (Dramatised Readings) (2003)
Writers’ Lab — 24-Hour Playwriting Competition (2010)
The Flying Circus Project – Platform 02: Journey To The Moon (2009)
Beauty World (1992)
Under The Bed
Love Love Remote Control (Work-In-Progress)
Writers’ Lab – Lab Report 1 (1991)
Diary Of A Madwoman
Writers’ Lab – Lab Report 1 (1991)
The Gift (Theatre-in-Education Programme)
Pichet Klunchun And Myself
Beauty World
Friends’ Season
GALA
A.I.
A Beautiful Companion
Writers’ Lab – 24-Hour Playwriting Competition & Prize Presentation (2014)
Writers’ Lab: 24-Hour Playwriting Competition & Singapore Young Dramatists Award (2005)
Bima Labuh
Writers’ Lab – 24-Hour Playwriting Competition & Prize Presentation (2019)
Lise Nellemann & Janos Fodor Residency
Mergers and Accusations (SPH Young Playwrights Series 2)
Tan Pin Pin Residency — Invisible City: Screening & Talk
Pop Friction
The Caucasian Chalk Circle
Ho Tzu Nyen Residency – Talk on the Making of HERE
The Complete Space Traveller’s Guide To Singapore (Abridged)
Tintin Wulia Residency: The Adventures Of Flo & Kat
Broken Birds: An Epic Longing
Conversations on Diaspora
Fried Rice Paradise
Alter Art: A Multimedia Presentation Of Dance, Art Video
Seams Of Change: Clothing and the Care of the Self in Late 19th- and 20th-Century Cambodia
Dance For Nothing
Block 20 – The Continuum: Ancient Technologies, Borders And Transcendence (featuring EXOTICA!)
Da Vinci Project
120
Madame Mao’s Memories (1992)
Writers’ Lab – Dramatised Readings (2009 & 2010)
Jonathan Seow Residency — Resuscitation: Call, Submission, Installation & Fashion Presentation
Rizman Putra Residency — The Elegy Of A Man And His Weapon Of Choice (The Hyperbolic Alpha Male)
Diaspora
Ma: Moment
Writers’ Lab – 24-Hour Playwriting Competition (2012)
In Transit (2002)
Geisha
A Wonderful Weekend
Sublime Monsters And Virtual Children
The Continuum: Beyond The Killing Fields (2001)
Nay Nai
Open Call — Fly By Night (2006)
Writers’ Lab – Community Project: Mixed; & Dramatised Reading (2017)
Writers’ Lab: Singapore Young Dramatists Award & 24-Hour Playwriting Competition (2006)
Kantan & Hanjo (Double Bill)
She Ain’t Heavy, She’s Reaching Into Space (Open Rehearsal) (April 2016)
Dust: A Recollection
Connect Connect
Vivien & The Shadows
Grey Matters
Light In The Village
Not Afraid To Remember
50/50
The Continuum: Beyond The Killing Fields (2008)
Trip To The South
Writers’ Lab – Community Project: Saying Grace
Balance
Writers’ Lab Month – Playwriting Workshops, Dramatised Readings, 24-Hour Playwriting Competition & Prize Presentation (2018)
A Night Out With Michael Chiang — Love & Belachan, Beauty Box And Heaven II (Triple Bill)
Playfreely: The Transparency Of Turbulence
SoftMachine
Lao Jiu (1994)
Lim Tzay Chuen
Flying Circus Project: TRAVELOGUE (2007)
‘Til The End Of The World, We’ll Meet In No Man’s Land
RPM (Revolution-Per-Minute)
Rashomon
Beauty World (1992)
Miss Julie
Scorpion Orchid
Destinies Of Flowers In The Mirror
The Continuum: Beyond The Killing Fields (2011)
Sandakan Threnody (September & October 2004)
Private Parts
The Making of A Geisha: Talk by Liza Dalby
FARM Residency — Rojak 04
Three Children (1992)
Beauty World (10th Anniversary Production) (April 1998)
Fanshen
The Roundest Circle
Green Socks
Indulgence
Mortal Sins
Haunted
The Continuum Asia Project (2003)
Undercover
The Diary Of Alice
The Maids & Diary Of A Madman (Double Bill)
SPH Festival Of New Writing — Ginnie’s Favourite Colour, The Buried & Quiet The Gorilla (1996)
Open Call — Studio Prive
Lao Jiu (1997)
In Transit (2003)
Sandakan Threnody (June 2004)
The Continuum: Beyond The Killing Fields (2007)
The Cutting Edge (No, Not The Arts Festival) — The Morning Star Project: Lucifer, Whisper, Composition B and The Blue Fish
Writers’ Lab – Community Project: Between Consciousness
N.O.W. — Not Ordinary Work (2019)
Shanty — Follow That Dream
The Continuum: Beyond The Killing Fields (October 2001)
Deborah Pollard Residency — Shapes of Sleep (Asialink Residency)
Of Babies (Not Really) And People
Be My Sushi Tonight
The Happiness Event
Therese Raquin
David Hwang Festival — The Dance And The Railroad & The Sound Of A Voice (Double Bill)
Ancient Technologies, Dramaturgy, And Game
The Continuum: Beyond The Killing Fields (2005)
Writers’ Lab – Lab Report 5 (1993)
Mixed Signals
Long Green Socks
Writers’ Lab – 24-Hour Playwriting Competition (2011)
Talk by Rirkrit Tiravanija
Writers’ Lab — Charging Up Memory Lane: 30 Plays In 30 Days
National Broadway Company
Writers’ Lab – 24-Hour Playwriting Competition & Prize Presentation (2016)
VISTA Lab 2.0 – Interference
The Trojan Women
Three Children
Insomnia@ICA, The Singapore Season, London (2005)
The Spirits Play
Writers’ Lab – Lab Report 6 (1994)
The Continuum Asia Project – Excavating Cultures And Memories (2005)
The Flying Circus Project (1998)
The Flying Circus Project (2013): Burmese Days
Sandaime Richard
The Flying Circus Project – Platform 01: Expo Zero (Musee de la Danse) (2009)
Cat Hope Residency: Artist Talk, Showing, Concert & Voyeurages
Young Curators Academy
like the cat sitting on the edge of an ocean of milk, hoping to lap it all up
Lear Dreaming (2015)
My Lonely Tarts
Nachtgesichter: Visions Of The Night
Diaspora (2009)
Marriage Of Inconvenience
Writers’ Lab – Community Project: Marco Polo
Brian Gothong Tan Residency — Signs, Omens And Relics Of Faith
Under The Bed
María José Arjona Residency — Irregular Hexagon
24-Hour Playwriting Competition
Writers’ Lab — 24-Hour Playwriting Competition (2003)
On Mercury’s Wings
Comrade Mayor
Lear Dreaming
Longing
Descendants of the Eunuch Admiral (1998)
Goldfish Is Meant For Dying
Ang Tau Mui, A Modern Woman
Machine
Nowhere Man
Occupy the Museum
Archiving Dance
Eloquence
The Way Of Violence (Directors’ Laboratory)
Fear Of Writing
To My Heart With Smiles
Charles Lim Residency — 72-13 Offsite (An Artistic Playground)
Because, The Night
Writers’ Lab — Community Project: Serunding (2014)
Space Monkeys
A Wonderful Weekend (2018)
The Flying Circus Project – Platform 02: Journey To The Moon (2009)
The Global Soul
Writers’ Lab – 24-Hour Playwriting Competition & Prize Presentation (2013)
The Lady Of Soul And Her Ultimate ‘S’ Machine
The Silver River (2001)
Half Lives
Hot Dogs And Eternal Triangles
Incarnation Of The Beast
Writers’ Lab Greenhouse – Dramatised Reading (2006)
Sandaime Richard (November & December 2016)
Desdemona (2001)
The Screw of Thought
The Continuum: Beyond The Killing Fields (2006)
Dreamkeepers: Avenue Of Dream & Second Chance (Double Bill)
Muna Tseng Residency: Stella’s Room
The Elephant Man
She Ain’t Heavy, She’s Reaching Into Space (July 2016)
The Continuum: Beyond The Killing Fields (2002)
The Reunification Of The Two Koreas
Writers’ Lab – 24-Hour Playwriting Competition & Singapore Young Dramatists Award (2004)
Three Fat Virgins Unassembled (1995)
Chinoiserie
Writers’ Lab – 24-Hour Playwriting Competition & Prize Presentation (2015)
Descendants Of The Eunuch Admiral (1996)
Night Festival — New World 2010
Molissa Fenley: Contemporary Dance From New York
Meena And Me
RE/PLAY Dance Edit
Army Daze
Writers’ Lab – 24-Hour Playwriting Competition (2008)
The Global Soul (2006)
Writers’ Lab — 24-Hour Playwriting Competition (2009)
Lao Jiu
Writers’ Lab – 24-Hour Playwriting Competition (1999)
Descendants Of The Eunuch Admiral (1995)
The Global Soul (2005)
Workhorse Afloat
Insomnia 48
Writers’ Lab — 24-Hour Playwriting Competition (2000) & Singapore Young Dramatist Awards (2000/2001)
Off Kilter
Embarquez-Les
The Retrospective: A Festival Of Singapore Plays 1960–1990
Watching The Clouds Go By (Directors’ Laboratory)
The Flying Circus Project (2010)
The Flying Circus Project (1996)
Wills & Secession
Piaf
Madame Mao’s Memories
Sandaime Richard (September 2016)
Got To Go… Play Till Dawn
Sammy Won’t Go To School (Directors’ Laboratory)
The Four Trunks (Directors’ Laboratory)
Writers’ Lab – Community Project: The Good Farmer (2018)
VISTA Lab 1.0 – Impetus
The Flying Circus Project (Special Edition 2005, Yokohama): The School of Politics
The Flying Circus Project (2004)
Paradise Heights
Retrospective
Spektr!
Mad Forest
The Cutting Edge (No, Not The Arts Festival) — The Yang Family
Writers’ Lab — 24-Hour Playwriting Competition (2010)
Lear (January-February 1999)
TLAB
Open Call – I Have Escaped Even Myself
Writers’ Lab – 24-Hour Playwriting Competition (2007)
Six Of The Best
SPH Young Playwrights Series 3 — Cards, Ordinary Woman, Will You Please Jump?, The Can Opener, and Will You Be There?
Drift Net
Goh Lay Kuan & Kuo Pao Kun
Awaking
Fever Room (Curators Academy)
What the Body Remembers. Dance Heritage Today
13.13.13
Absence Makes The Heart Grow Fonder (SPH Young Playwrights Series 1)
The First Emperor’s Last Days
Geisha
Us In Singapore
Love Love Remote Control (Work-In-Progress)
Under The Volcano
Dapunta Hyang: Transmission Of Knowledge
Writers’ Lab – 5 Under 25 (Book Launch), Singapore Young Dramatists Award & 24-Hour Playwriting Competition (Dramatised Readings) (2003)
M. Butterfly
The Continuum: Beyond The Killing Fields (2003)
Is Performance The Future Craft Of The 21st Century?
The Good Person of Szechuan
Army Daze (The Film) (1996)
Dance Dance Dance
Writers’ Lab – Lab Report 2 (The Free Voice) (1991)
Open Call — Future Of Imagination 4
Le Temps Scellé And Le Trait Solos (Double Bill)
Fourplays: ABCD
Theatre Carnival On The Hill
Connection Barents
Urban Fetishes
Opening of 72-13
Reservoir
The Cutting Edge (No, Not The Arts Festival) — Hand-Made Tales
Theatre Games
Ozone
LIFT: Love Is Flower The
Metamorphosis
Search: Hamlet
When Hearts Meet
Love & Belachan: The Creative Director, The Last of the Red-Hot Lovers, Love & Belachan
Pan Island Expressway
Play On Earth
Holier Then How
Cetecea & Breaking Through (Double Bill) (SPH Young Playwrights Series 2)
Beauty World (February 1998)
Writers’ Lab – Singapore Young Dramatists Award, 24-Hour Playwriting Competition & Hearing Voices (2002)
Lear
Desdemona
Safe Sex: As If He Hears & Jackson On A Jaunt (Double Bill)
The Incredible Adventures of Border Crossers
Three Fat Virgins Unassembled (SPH Young Playwrights Series 1) (1992)
The Continuum: Beyond The Killing Fields (2010)
Serunding (December 2010–January 2011)
Mixed Signals (1997)
Serunding (August–September 2011)
Writers’ Lab – Community Project: Three Inches Of Alive
Writers’ Lab – Lab Report 7 (1995)
Dirty Laundry (SPH Young Playwrights Series 2)
Pulse
The Flying Circus Project (2000)
A Wonderful Weekend (2019)
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Geisha


Key Words

Asian Theatre, Collaboration, Contemporary Music, Contemporary Performance, Dance Studies, Deconstructing the Exotic, Documentary Theatre, East Asia Studies, Electronic Music, Fashion, Female Impersonator, Gender Studies, Gerald W Lynch Theater, Hybridity, Japan, Japanoiserie, Kabuki, Nihon Buyoh, Onnagata, Politics of Transcultural Performance, Queer Studies, Shamisen, Traditional Culture, Traditional Performing Arts, Transcultural Performance, Transdisciplinary Performance,


About

Geisha is perhaps one of the biggest symbols of Japanoiserie. It is an empty screen on which all our fantasies of Japan can be projected, even for many contemporary Japanese individuals today who do not come into contact easily with this old world. However it is not just exotic, but it is a powerful arena to discuss the water world or a dream world, a floating world. It seems to encapsulate many notions of Japanese identity, gender relationships but more universally it is a space to discuss life, dream and reality for the world.

New York-based performer Karen Kandel, winner of several Obies, weaves together stories from geishas, maikos (apprentice geishas), clients, their wives, okamisans (mama-sans), offspring of geishas, anthropologists. Kandel animates this voice tapestry, giving life to the secret world of the geisha.

Joining her onstage is female impersonator, kabuki dancer Gojo Masanosuke. He dances the female onnagata role, drawing from the age-old repertory of kabuki and nihon buyoh (classical Japanese dance). For the geisha is the tragic heroine of many a kabuki play. Kandel and Masanosuke complement each other, and these two unexpected conspirators jointly evoke the dream of the absent geisha. They are the dream sellers, like the geishas.

Presented as part of the Lincoln Center Festival 2006.



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Queer Performance
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Theatre
,
Traditional Performing Arts
,
Transcultural Performance
,
Transdisciplinary Performance
,
Location:>
Gerald W Lynch Theater, New York City, New York, United States of America
/
Date:>
27–30 July 2006
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People:>
Concept & Director:
Ong Keng Sen
,
.
Collaborators & Performers:
Gojo Masanosuke
,
Karen Kandel
,
Kineya Katsumatsu
,
Toru Yamanaka
,
.
Writer:
Robin Loon
,
.
Composer:
Toru Yamanaka
,
.
Light Design:
Scott Zielinski
,
.
Costume Design:
Mitsushi Yanaihara
,
.
Hair Design:
Tomoya Nakamura
,
.
Kabuki Costume Consultant:
Taiji Yashiro.
Producer:
Tay Tong.
Technical Manager:
Jim Larkin.
Stage Manager:
Kathryn Hindley.
Wig Technician & Specialist:
Yuji Hosono.
Associates to Toru Yamanaka:
Akira Ishihara, Rie Yamanaka, Hidekazu Maeda.
Dresser (Gojo Masanosuke):
Teruo Miyazaki.
Translator:
Sumida Michiyo.
Commissioned By:>
Lincoln Center Festival
,
Singapore Arts Festival
,
Spoleto Festival USA
,
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,
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Produced, Managed or Presented By:>
T:>Works
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