NOHspace Presents: Dandelion Dancetheater with Special Guest MUTT 49 April 7, 2009

As the third installment of this season’s presentation series, NOHspace is proud to present Love Child Gets Sliced, a dance-play of Dandelion Dancetheater with Special Guest MUTT 49.

About The Work
"Love Child Gets Sliced" examines mixed identity by following the fractured story of Miyomi, a mixed-race girl who was born in an Internment Camp in Rower Arkansas during WWII to a Japanese American internee and a Caucasian prison guard from Texas. The dance-play will begin just after Miyomi's death, when she wanders into a strange, after-life honky-tonk inhabited by a motley crew of
characters, all ghosts who have been players in her life story in one way or another. Miyomi, herself an aspiring country singer who has always been an outsider due to her mixed Japanese and Caucasian ancestry, feels at home for the first time in this odd place in-between life and death. The featured music of the night is special guest band "MUTT 49," an undead country-punk band whose members and music embody the off-kilter state of split-identity. "Love Child Gets Sliced" will follow the days-forty-nine-that Miyomi spends in this honky-tonk, during which time she wrestles with issues and ghosts from her last identity as she simultaneously faces terrifying questions about future ones. This surreal dance-play will take Miyomi into many surprising, absurd, often humorous and liquid realms inspired by states of in-between. Mutt is supported by the Japan Foundation, the SF Arts Commission and the Wattis Foundation.

There will be a performance installation in lobby and house before show. There will be a 10-minute intermission during the performance.

About the Artists
Dandelion Dancetheater, formed by Kimiko Guthrie and Eric Kupers in 1996, creates performance work interdependent with a passionate commitment to teaching and community involvement. We teach and create work with dancers, actors, musicians, political organizers, academics, therapists, children, adults with developmental and/or physical disabilities, gender theorists, fat acceptance activists, spiritual seekers and more. We have performed throughout California, across the U.S., and abroad in India and Scotland and have, in a relatively short time, grown into a powerful and provocative presence in the SF arts community.

With its recent work, Dandelion has developed a unique performing ensemble at the heart of the extended company. This ensemble; made up of dancers, musicians and actors; cross-train in each other’s specialties, creating a radical ensemble that is truly interdisciplinary in creation and performance.

Dandelion has received numerous awards and grants, including a Dancemaker grant from Dance USA/Irvine Foundation, a Gerbode Foundation Choreography Commission, a Rockefeller MAP Fund grant, an award from the Grants for the Arts non-recurring events fund, and repeated funding from the Zellerbach Family Fund, the Theatre Bay Area CA$H Program, San Francisco Arts Commission, an anonymous foundation and many individual supporters.

About Theatre of Yugen
Theatre of Yugen, founded in 1978, is an experimental ensemble dedicated to the exploration of dramatic classics and the crafting of new works of world theater, stemming from a discipline of classical Japanese Noh drama and Kyogen comedy. Their venue, NOHspace, is also home to many Bay Area artists and performing groups through the NOHspace Presents series (formerly known as Yugen Presents). For more information on Theatre of Yugen's current season and history, please visit www.theatreofyugen.org

Official Website: http://www.nohspace.org