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TITLE: Liminal
(def: a door between this world and the spirit world)

Time and Place:
Ong King Arts Center, 184 N. King St.,
Shows: November 28th and 29th
Time: 8pm
Duration: 1 hrs (no intermission)
Some nudity

Cost: 10$
***********DANCE/THEATRE PRODUCTION*************
Who Can Attend: All Ages!

More Info: www.ongking.com see@ongking.com,
ong king: 306-7823, see's #: 428-3233

Risk taking, original, challenging, intimate, dance and theatre come to ong king. Liminal features two works, Cold Hands directed by Abel Coelho and CYcles by misa. The 8 performers in Cold Hands appear covered from head to foot in a chalky white substance (a look based on the intense Butoh movement form), they move unpredictably with startling shifts from stoic to screaming. Cold Hands challenges the borders between individuals. Cycles is an psychologically complex solo performance about an expected child. Both pieces take advantage of ong king's intimate space where performers can physically reach you. Challenge borders & relationships, witness new reaLms of time & space, enter LIMINAL.

COLD HANDS
Cast: Alyssa Oliver, Katherine Aumer, Jason Ellinwood, Marcus Lee
Kuroda Marie, Gwen Arbaugh, Mizumochi Jyunko
Stage Manager: Daniel Sakimura
Directed & Designed by Abel Coelho
Music by Ryan Orsinger

SYNOPSIS:
COLD HANDS: is a movement piece that describes and circumnavigates the spaces around sterile stoicism and sentimentality. The physicality is informed by intense limitations. In half the show the men are blind, in the other half the women have only one eye. The performers, often represent archetypes, they exist in various states of emotionless logic or in the grip of powerful feelings. Relationships are distilled in the borders between ritual, nihilism, and logic.

STYLE:
COLD HANDS: An immediate, intense movement form is brought to the stage by director Abel C. This form is deeply influenced by the Japanese Butoh art form, but its is his own unique style, outside of the language of Butoh and into a new technique created by Coelho. At the center of this technique is the concept of the body in an 'emergency state.'

Every person has an emotional core of body experience, so there-in the body becomes an emergency state, that is very interesting to watch, but without technique its not very interesting. A. Coelho

Coelho spent months training his University of Hawaii cast. Two of his performers had some experience in similar movement forms, the rest are had to be trained from zero.

I want to draw the energy of life, need, atrocity, sensuality, hunger, desire, out of the performer. Like a bunch of dominos, its the life force, the momentum, we fill ourselves with it, show it..then it makes it compelling to watch. A. Coelho
DIRECTOR:
COLD HANDS: Abel Coelho is currently a graduate student at the University of Hawai'i, he just returned from studying dance in Japan with renowned Butoh companies Dairakudakan and Torifune Butoh-sha. As a part of this work, Abel performed in two professional level Butoh productions in Japan.

Although Noguchi remains a strong influence in Abel's work, through his studies of Asian Performance at University of Hawai'i he is learning many new ways to use the body, and is crafting his own language of the body, believing it quite important to never copy other forms, but to peruse his own idiosyncratic work.

Abel was born in Brasilia, Brazil and lived in Rio de Janeiro to the age of fourteen, then moving to America and eventually graduating with a BA in Dance/Theatre from Antioch College in 2004. Abel started organizing performances at Antioch College of his, first utilizing many techniques from Noguchi Gymnastics, then synthesizing his own approaches to movement. His solo work for we became was selected as Best of Season for Jumpstart Theatre's 2005/06 experimental work series.


We should be making works that are challenging, not literal, work that challenges the basic borders between individuals. A. Coelho


MUSIC:
COLD HANDS: Ryan Orsinger composed original music for this piece. He is an ethnomusicologist from Texas. Abel has a long standing relationship with Orsinger and cites him as creating music of ritual.

SYNOPSIS:
CYCLES is self-devised-theatre. A physical, solo theatrical performance piece created with the energies surrounding the blissful expectation of a child and the trauma of miscarriage.

Miscarriage. When miscarriage happens it leaves a gaping hole and a void that time can never heal. misa
PROCESS:
CYCLES evolved organically through an introspective process and developed in the creative style of self-devised-theatre.

The double edged sword of joyful expectation and sudden loss guided the development of this production. Cycles traverses the terrain of theatre to illuminate a human experience on the stage that will surely touch the soul.

PERFORMER/DIRECTOR:
CYCLES: Misa Tupou is a Honolulu based performance artist who recently appeared in the 2008 production of we take with Ruinedmap. In 2007, he performed in Shrines to Paradise, with Monkey Waterfall and in Ola Na Iwi by Kumu Kahua Theatre. His 2001 self-devised-theatre production based on a poem of the same name Ola's Son was staged at Marks Garage.

In New Zealand, Misa performed Ola's Son at the New Zealand Fringe Festival in 2002. Presently he is developing his 10minute play, Intrusion, with the Oryza Foundation as part of the Asian Tales : Native Alienz 2009 season to be staged at the Herald Theatre, New Zealand.
Contact Misa: 721-6942 projexart@yahoo.com

ONG KING ARTS CENTER continues to invite experimental works of all genres to grace its space with creative divinity.



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