The Otherself (1st sketch)
(2019)
Photos by: Jon Burklund
Commissioned by Mount Tremper Arts Center
Co-presented with New York Live Arts
Co-Choreographed and Performed by Mina Nishimura and Kota Yamazaki
Their first duet in 20 years together,The Otherself is a choreographic and relational study of Yamazaki and Nishimura as butoh master and student, husband and wife, and dance artists sharing same yet different lives. How many of their thoughts and actions are formed by and for the other?