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Local choreographer Shinichi Iova-Koga, who founded the internationally collaborative troupe inkBoat, has earned a devoted following for his hybrid performance style—a synthesis of traditional and experimental dance, Japanese Butoh and physical theater. His environments are fractured and filmic, delicate and decayed, lighthearted and rough, expressing poignantly the extremes of human emotion and desire. For c(H)ord, Iova-Koga has collaborated with Seattle music director Joshua Kohl of the big band Degenerate Art Ensemble to create a singularly stunning exploration of alienation and community. Performers hang from the rafters or slip out from billowing cocoon-like dwellings. They connect through light, sound and movement in a work that reflects on tradition, family and the past. Visual, evocative, provocative, c(H)ord featuring a cast of nine performers hailing from Japan, Finland, Germany, Korea and the US, boils dance theater down to its most elemental and eloquent.
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