Multi-disciplinary performance artist Kyoko Takenaka makes their Lincoln Center debut this winter, collaborating with artistic director Prisca Choe. The evening will be composed of original installation work and wardrobe pieces surrounding an oceanic dreamscape incorporating themes of water, grief, rebirth, and grounding with mother nature. A butoh dancer, actor, musician, filmmaker, and movement facilitator, Kyoko Takenaka’s name means “vibrations of sound child” in Japanese. Kyoko believes in artistic expression as a conduit for personal and collective liberation and constantly explores nonbinary ways of thinking, moving, and creating. As a nonbinary Japanese-American artist, Kyoko practices butoh dance to explore the unnamable space between the many binaries given to them around gender and racial identity. She explores butoh as a healing transformational art form, particularly for the diaspora.
The event takes place on Saturday, January 6 at 8:00 pm. For further information, please visit the Lincoln Centre website.
Images, courtesy of Lincoln Center
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