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SUMMARY:An Evening with Aretha Aoki and Ryan MacDonald
DESCRIPTION:Join Aretha Aoki and Ryan MacDonald for an evening of experimental performance and behind-the-scenes conversation about their lives as professional artists who blend dance\, music\, and theater. Together with their daughter\, Frankie Mayfield\, they will share segments of their new show\, IzumonookunI. \nIzumonookunI is a multidisciplinary and multigenerational dance inspired by Izumo no Okuni\, 17th century founder of the Japanese dance-drama form\, kabuki—a form that currently contains little trace of its female-centric\, grassroots\, counter-cultural origins. Choreographer Aretha Aoki and sound and visual designer Ryan MacDonald are re-imagining Okuni in conversation with post-punk/glam-goth/dark-wave within a hybrid\, contemporary landscape of live synthesizer\, digital design\, dance\, and taiko drumming. IzumonookunI premiered at the Bates Dance Festival in July 2024. \nARTIST BIOS\nAretha Aoki is a choreographer\, performer\, and educator. Her work in collaboration with Ryan MacDonald has been performed nationally and internationally\, with funding from the NPN Creation and Development funds\, the Kindling Fund\, Maine Arts Commission\, New England Foundation for the Arts\, and the Northampton Council for the Arts. She has performed and toured in the work of many award-winning choreographers\, most recently Heather Kravas. \nRyan Alexander MacDonald is a multimedia artist and author. He was a 2017 Bessie Award Nominee in “Outstanding Composition and Sound Design” for his work in Vanessa Anspaugh’s The End of Men. He is the author of the story collection The Observable Characteristics of Organisms (FC2) and the winner of the 2012 American Short(er) Fiction Award. He works in multiple forms with long-time collaborator and choreographer Aretha Aoki and has designed sound for choreographers such as Vanessa Anspaugh\, Devynn Emory\, Tristan Koepke and Rebecca Steinberg. He lives in Maine where he teaches sound design and digital art. www.ryanamacdonald.com
URL:https://firstworks.org/event/an-evening-with-aretha-aoki-and-ryan-macdonald/
LOCATION:Jacqueline M. Walsh School for the Arts\, 350 Division Street\, Pawtucket\, RI\, 02860\, United States
CATEGORIES:For Teachers,Season 2024-2025
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