Yoshiko Chuma's PI = 3.14… : Ramallah-Fukushima-Bogota / LaMama Galleria

π = 3.14…Ramallah-Fukushima-Bogota
Endless Peripheral Border
Concept, Design, & Choreography by Yoshiko Chuma

Performance Installation
July 11, 12, 13, & 14, 2013
Thu-Sat, 7:30pm; Sun 5pm (Seating starts at 6pm/Thu-Sat; 4pm/Sun)
Admission: $15
July 11 Opening Night with Salsa Dance Party: $20

Exhibition
July 11, 12, 13, & 14, 2013
Gallery Hours: Thu-Sat, 1-7pm; Sun, 1-5pm (free admission)

Featuring Rebecca Medina, Coque Salcedo, Mina Nishimura, Tatyana Tenenbaum, Felipe Gomez Ossa, Yoshiko Chuma with special guest Aska Kaneko (violin)

Cutting-edge choreographer/ director/ performer Yoshiko Chuma continues a lifetime obsession with the mythology of danger. In π =3.14…Ramallah-Fukushima-Bogota, she intentionally confuses documentation with history, recreating steep segments from her own documented events in Ramallah, Fukushima, and Bogota. Chuma assembles a mosaic of dancers, images, filmed interviews and musical selections whose content has the effect of framing theater with barbed wire.

Daguerreotype - Takashi Arai
Video Installation - Kit Fitzgerald
Sound Composition - Christopher McIntyre
Costumes - Gabriel Berry

π =3.14 was originally presented at La MaMa Club in 2002 based on a mountain of correspondence and miscommunications between Hiroshima, Belgrade, Sarajevo, Kabul, and The School of Hard Knocks.

Exhibition
Takashi Arai, Robert Flynt, Dona Ann McAdams, Hugh Burckhardt, Gabriel Berry

Production Director Kaya Nakamura
Production International Liaison, GOH Productions: Bonnie Stein