7PM : Film Screening + Dance Performance
“Kool : Dancing in my mind”
by Robert Wilson and Richard Rutkowski.
Performing by Sengiku Bando (Dancer/Choregrapher )
Music by Kaoru Watanabe (Bamboo flutes,Taiko drums)
Fumio Tashiro(E lectric upright bass)
8PM : Discussion
Sengiku Bando (Dancer/Choregrapher )
Sally Gross (Dancer/Choregrapher )
Hisami Kuroiwa (Moderator)
* RSVP till April 27th:a??Hisami Kuroiwa(hkuroiwa1900@gmail.com)

We are going to screen the short dance performance documentary(2 7 minutes; co-production with Arte/France),
“Kool : Dancing in my mind” By Robert Wilson and Richard Rutkowski. The film is about Suzushi Hanayagi,
a traditional Japanese dancer, who over the years has become very influential as a dancer and choreographer.
Suzushi Hanayagi in the film has also collaborated with avant garde director Robert Wilson (“Einstein on the Beach”,
“The Life and Death of Marina Abramovic'”), who refers to her as “My Teacher”.
A new generation of a dancer, choregrapher from Japan, Sengiku Bando has performed at theater festivals such as
Avignon, and the Sciviu Festival in Romania, and is well knownfo r her piece, “Above the Hollyhock”, inspired by the
Japanese epic novel,“Tale of Genji”.
The film begins with images of the New York scene. Sengiku Bando, starts to perform her own original piece inspired
by these images, seen behind her, which dissolve into own space and live performance.
Sengiku Bando carries with her the legacy of traditional Japanese dance in her use of time and space - Ma and Furi -
making them a distinctive basis for her expression of movement.
Afterwards, we will continue with a panel discussion with Sengiku Bando, and a New York dance choregrapher, about
Japanese traditional dance as presented and interpreted in ovesreas cultures.