Gobbledygook (an excerpt from Twaddle Tales)
June 6, 2010
Inspired by the curiously anthropophagous ramanga or "blue bloods" of Madagascar, the gaki or “hungry ghosts" of Buddhist mythology, and the Japanese folktale Jugemu (made famous by the Rakugo performance tradition and later echoed in the popular 1968 children’s book Tikki tikki Tembo by Arlene Mosel), Gobbledygook is a dance for Japanese dancer Eikazu Nakamura (with appearances of dancer Adam H. Weinert) incarnating an imaginary version of the Buddhist segaki ritual concerned with personal atonement and easing the suffering of the wandering dead. The work is set to a sound-score by David Griffin and the costume design is by Carol Binion with additional elements by Andy Jordan and Christopher Williams.
June 3rd-5th, 2010 at 8pm and June 6th, 2010 at 3pm
Dance New Amsterdam
280 Broadway, 2nd floor (entrance at Chambers Street)
Tickets $12
www.dnadance.org