Princess Cabbage
(2014)
Photos by Mathew Pokoik
Commissioned by Mount Tremper Arts Center
Performed by Mina Nishimura
Music Composed by Stephen Cooper
In Princess Cabbage, a multitude of fantastical and grotesque images from Hijikata’s biographical novel, Sickened Primadonna, are playfully transformed into movements, vocals, and facial expressions crystallizing in a single body like a kaleidoscope.
*Supported by: WIP showings at Roulett, CAVE and the whenever wherever festival (Tokyo, Japan)
“Haunting atmosphere of whispers and enigma”
–Siobhan Burke, The New York Times