Company Derashinera stages North American premiere of multimedia SPECTATOR at Japan Society on Friday and Saturday
Japan Society
333 East 47th St. at First Ave.
Friday, November 13, and Saturday, November 14, $30, 7:30
212-715-1258
www.japansociety.org
Spectators can check out the North American premiere of Shuji Onodera’s Spectator at Japan Society on November 13 & 14. The multimedia dance-theater work was developed out of Tokyo workshops with deaf students, two of whom (Maki Yamada and Mai Nagumo) are part of the cast, along with Naoya Oda from Butoh company Dairakudakan. Spectator, choreographed by Company Derashinera director Onodera, consists of lighthearted vignettes that include a woman manipulating tiny chairs that are echoed by performers in regular-size chairs, Japanese text projected in word bubbles on a screen, and a man and a woman playing with a small ball. The November 13 performance will be followed by a reception with the artists.