ARTPROP
Butoh What
July 10, 2022
Williamsbridge Oval — The Bronx, NY
Amanda+James Summer Happenings Festival ’22
June 16, 2022
Fort Greene Park — Brooklyn, NY
Direction and design by evan ray suzuki
Choreography and performance by evan ray suzuki with Sabrina Leira and Jace Weyant
ARTPROP 2.0 was created with support from the Bronx Council on the Arts, funded through support from the Mertz Gilmore Foundation with additional funding from Amazon.
ARTPROP is a butoh-ish dance work that reflects on current cultural observations around the performance of detachment in the face of entropic surroundings. The piece draws inspiration from ig photo dumps, the "vibe shift," and that video of Lady Gaga outside Langham Hotel, while navigating concepts of viscosity, pixelation, and evacuation of meaning.
photos by Elyse Mertz and Shintaro Ueyama
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