INTAR Presents Rico Noguchi In Butoh Rocks 6/29

INTAR (Eduardo Machado, Artistic Director/John McCormack, Executive Director/Alina Troyano, Associate Artistic Director) will present Rico Noguchi in Butoh Rocks as its final offering of NewWorks Lab 2009 on Monday June 29th at 8 PM, at INTAR 52nd Street Space (500 West 52nd Street, between 10th and 11th Avenues).

Rico Noguchi was born in Cusco, the historical capital of the Inca Empire. At age 17 he left Peru to join his parents and sister working in rural Japan. After a year working in a auto-parts factory, he moved to Tokyo where he became an English instructor, eventually joining the ranks of one of Japan's most influential companies in the music industry: Oricon Inc. In 2006 he left Tokyo for New York and after two years at Kingsborough Community College, was admitted to the School of General Studies at Columbia University. He has a degree in music business by Berklee College of Music and graduated as Salutatorian from Kingsborough where he received the 2008 Performing Arts Award. Additionally, Rico was chosen among hundreds of applicants across the country for the 2007 Exploring Transfer Summer Scholarship at Vassar College and took a digital filmmaking class at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, which launched his career in video. His last short film "Mirror of Stone" was shown in Germany at the Globians Film Festival 2008 and received an honorary award by the Asian American Research Institute in New York the same year. During his time at Kingsborough, Rico began exploring his own physical expression using butoh as inspiration. Such discovery lead him to create pieces for the stage that blend drama, dance, music and video. His most recent creation titled "love, love, love, love, love" is a ten-minute piece about love but also about madness, jealousy and death, and the freedom and liberation that comes with it. "love, love, love, love, love" was part of New York's La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival 2009 in May was Rico's first butoh performance while training with one of Japan's most acclaimed butoh dancers, Ko Murobushi. Rico is also member of the Daisy Spurs, a group of sexy New York dancers and performers who have opened for Lady Gaga and were last seen bringing down the house at the Webster Hall for the OBIE Village Voice Awards.

INTAR, one of the United States' longest running Latino theatres producing in English, works to:

-Nurture the professional development of Latino theater artists.

-Produce bold, innovative, artistically significant plays that reflect diverse perspectives.

-Make accessible the diversity inherent in America's cultural heritage.

Through an integrated program of workshops, productions of works in progress, and mainstage productions, INTAR continues to raise standards of the theater arts. INTAR brings to the public vital and energetic voices of both promising and accomplished Latino theater professionals, replacing stereotypes while giving expression to the diversity and depth of today's Latino-American community

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