Maho Ogawa: Japanese Tea and Ritual Room—卯月Uzuki (April) at JACK
Dates: 4/19/2024 - 4/20/2024
20 Putnam Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11238
Tickets: $10-$50
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Japanese Tea and Ritual Room—Uzuki (April) is a research-based interdisciplinary work expanding perspectives on Japanese Tea Culture, seeking new meanings in ritual, and finding common ground between Japanese traditional culture and contemporary New York life.
Japanese Tea and Ritual Room consists of interactive installations inspired by personal rituals, as described by survey participants. Live performance activations of the installations realize the cultural intersections of the concept of "nothingness" that Japanese Tea Ritual invokes. During each performance activation performers will evoke a zen garden as human statues, stretching our sense of time so that we may find presence and stillness.
Performances are being presented in tandem with the release of Maho's upcoming article in Push/Pull (published by Culture Push in March 2024).
Interrogating her roots as a Japanese choreographer, Maho Ogawa started researching Japanese Tea Ritual for its formality, concept, and the social function as a community gathering. In 2023, she conducted a survey about personal rituals in the local community in New York.
Results and reflections from the survey, along with an overview of Japanese Tea Culture, and an interview with a Japanese Tea Master, Yoshitsugu Nagano, will be presented in the article.
Maho Ogawa: Japanese Tea and Ritual Room—卯月Uzuki (April) at JACK Schedule
Installation open: 3pm - 8pm
Activations at 4pm, 6:30pm, and 8pm
Saturday, April 20th*
Installation Open: 3pm - 7pm
Activations 4pm and 6pm
*Purchase a ticket to any activation and come experience the interactive installation before or after the performance.
Cast and Creative Team for Maho Ogawa: Japanese Tea and Ritual Room—卯月Uzuki (April) at JACK
Cast
Carolyn Hall
Performer
Carolyn Hall is a Bessie award winning freelance dancer/performer, historical marine ecologist, and scientific communication coach. She can often be found along shorelines hatching plans for creative public engagement projects around fish, water, and climate change. Some current engagements: the speculative future climate change project 'Sunk Shore' with Clarinda Mac Low, Maho Ogawa’s Japanese Tea Ceremony series of performance investigations, and Carrie Ahern’s intimate performances examining female sexuality and society. Other hats: co-directs science communication programs for the American Fisheries Society, co-founder of Exact Communication, and Creative Programs Coordinator for Genspace. carolynjhall.com
Annie MingHao Wang
Performer
Annie MingHao Wang is a freelancer based in New York. She is a 2024 LMCC Manhattan Arts Grantee, a 2022-2024 Movement Research Artist-in-Residence, and a 2024 Marble House Project Artist-in-Residence. She has also been in residence at Leimay Foundation, BRIC, and the Atlantic Center for the Arts. Her work has been presented by Pioneers Go East at Out-FRONT!, Movement Research @Judson, Leimay OUTSIGHT, Five Myles, the Center for Performance Research, the Exponential Festival, and BRIC. Annie is an active company member of Reggie Wilson/Fist and Heel Performance Group and also dances with Sugar Vendil, 水素co. (suisoco.), and Same As Sister.
Creative Team
Maho Ogawa
Creator
Maho Ogawa (水素co.) is a Japanese born multidisciplinary movement artist working in NY. She uses body, video, text, installation, and audience-participatory methods to discover how relationships and the environment affect individual bodies consciously and subconsciously. Her works have been presented in NY/NJ at Princeton University, Invisible Dog Art Center, Emily Harvey Foundation, Movement Research at the Judson Church as well as in Korea and Japan at Za Koenji and Whenever Wherever Festival to name a few. She's currently working on public events inspired by Japanese tea rituals to build new methods of thinking about “silence,” providing a quiet but active mindset to heal and unite the community. She is a 2023 Associated Artist at the Culture Push. www.suisoco.com
Tomoko Hojo
Sound Designer
Tomoko Hojo is an artist working within the fluidity between sound, music and performance. Recently Hojo works on the theme that makes (women’s) silenced voices audible in the history, with a special focus on Japanese women who have relations to western countries, such as Yoko Ono. Her works has been exhibited and performed at Tate Modern (London), Issue Project Room (NYC), ZKM (Karlstuhe), Emily Harvey Foundation (NYC), Contemporary Art Center Aomori (Japan), SA))_gallery (Moscow), Scandinavia House (NYC), Kunstquartier Bethanien (Berlin), TOKAS Hongo (Tokyo). She has published ‘Unfinished Descriptions’, a documentation of a show based on the research about Yoko Ono through yoin press.
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