Friday Dinner
Tomoyo Yamada's MFA Project
November 27 鈥� December 4, 2020 | Vimeo
Please join us for Tomoyo Yamada's MFA project, Friday Dinner, streaming FREE on SCA's Vimeo account from November 27 (starting at 7:00 PM PST) to December 4, 2020.
Friday Dinner is a choreographic compilation of everyday gestural movement and those found in codified dance forms. Using videotaped footage of dancers enjoying dinner, exchanging casual conversations and sharing childhood memories, we extracted natural gestural movement from the dancer鈥檚 bodies. These idiosyncratic gestures were then layered with dynamic, refined, and established dance movement often found in dance institutions and academia. Heavily relying on recorded dinner settings and interviews, the work unravels a complexity of movement and virtuosity of presence, highlighting the aesthetics of both trained and natural human movement and offering potential hybrids between these forms for contemporary performance.
Created by Tomoyo Yamada
Performers: Shion Skye Carter, Anja Graham, Kevin Locsin, Charlotte Telfer-Wan, and Brian Postalian
Sound: Kimia Koochakzadeh-Yazdi
Lighting: Hans Hsieh and Claudia Chan
Videography: Sam Mason and Bianca Cheung
Costumes: Meagan Woods
Special Thanks: Brian Palaschuk, Judith Garay, and Rob Kitsos
Presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the Degree of Master of Fine Arts at 丁香园AV.
This work will be presented and has been developed on the unceded traditional territories of the Coast Salish peoples of the x史m蓹胃kw蓹y虛蓹m (Musqueam), Skwxw煤7mesh (Squamish), and S蓹l虛铆lw蓹ta涩 (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.