2020/2021 - Creative phase for "Yume-Iro (Dream Colour), Co-choreographed and performed with Takako Segawa, dramaturge Tedd Robbinson, music by Heidi Chan with support from a Toronto Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts grants. The first phase of this project was presented by Denise Fujiwara's CanAsian KickStart in 2018.

Upcoming production planned for Spring 2022 - more news coming soon!

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Somatic practices and Japanese art forms contextualize this dance duet imagined/dreamed by the audible, visual, historical and emotional components of Taiko (Japanese drumming).

"Yume-Iro" (Dream Colour) speaks to the complexity of Taiko and dance as historically rooted and inevitably transforming in our global world. We will expose an embodied journey around the contradictions and celebrations of what it means to create, drawing on Japanese art forms. In our work, we will investigate how our distinct movement qualities and cultural roots
intersect to re-frame the art form of Taiko.