Triskelion Arts, in collaboration with Vangeline Theater/ New York Butoh Institute presents:

Yumiko Yoshioka in 100 Light Years of Solitude

Tuesday May 1st, 2018 at 8pm

Triskelion Arts  

Muriel Schulman Theater

106 Calyer Street, Brooklyn NY- Enter on Banker Street

G train to Greenpoint

Tickets:

$18 in advance / $22 at the door

Butoh Master Yumiko Yoshioka performs 100 Light Years of Solitude, the second part of her trilogy 100 Flowers. The work is inspired by Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude and explores a state of solitude through Butoh. Yumiko Yoshioka is a Japanese Butoh dancer and choreographer from Japan/ Germany. She is a former member of Ariadone, the first female Butoh company, which was founded by Ko Murobushi and Carlotta Ikeda in 1974. 

In 100 Light Years of Solitude, Yumiko dances the life of a unique creature, born on a planet 100 light years away from ours. Imagining that this creature is the only one of its species on that planet, it enjoys unfolding its life until it realizes its destiny: to exist in solitude.

Yumiko says, "In my childhood, I was always fascinated by the imaginary creatures and monsters of fairy tales. Butoh, a dance of metamorphosis, helps me to explore this imaginary world, and make something invisible visible."

Photo by Francisco Amaral . Publicity by Michelle Tabnick.

This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council as well as the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature