Reading

Performed by Yoshiko Chuma, Ursula Eagly,
Jun Kim & Mina Nishimura
Images by Rie Ono, Sound by Kohji Setoh
in Japanese with English subtitles

CRS invites you to join us for a first public reading (with projected subtitles and sound design) of Yoshiko Chuma's HOLD THE CLOCK. Inspired by the writing of Japanese student radical Genichiro Takahashi, HOLD THE CLOCK continues Ms. Chuma's multi-year investigation of the aesthetic and philosophical questions and responses that arose during the revolutionary movements across the globe during the 60's and 70's. Takahashi was arrested as a student radical and spent half a year in prison, a harrowing experience that rendered him incapable of reading or writing for several years. His subsequent first book, Sayonara, Gangsters, captured the era's punk lyricism and irreverent upheaval of social convention and took the Japanese literary establishment by storm.

This work-in-progress showing of HOLD THE CLOCK is the culmination of a residency at CRS made possible in part through a grant of public funds from the Manhattan Community Arts Fund, supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and administered by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. With additional support from NYSCA and from the Performing Arts Japan Program of Japan Foundation, this work will have its official premiere as part of the 92nd St Y Harkness Dance Festival Anniversary Season: Past-Future-Now March 19−21, 2010. This production is part of the Performing Revolution in Central and Eastern Europe, a performing arts festival marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of communism in Central and Eastern Europe, presented by the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts in partnership with key New York City cultural organizations and academic institutions, November 2009—March 2010. www.performingrevolution.org

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