A PAGE OUT OF ORDER OVERLAND is co-production between Yoshiko Chuma and The School of Hard Knocks (USA), GOH Productions (New York/USA), Lokomotiva- Centre for new Initiatives in Arts and Culture (Skopje/Macedonia), and Beagle Inc.
After the premiere at the Skopje Summer Festival in Skopje on 7th of July, the performance will be performed in Kumanovo City of Culture of Macedonia 2006, and will appear with various artists in different format in Ohrid in Macedonia on 15th of July.
In August, there will be further developments and performances in Osaka, Tokyo and Gimiyo, Japan. In January, 2007, the US premiere will be presented by Dance Theatre Workshop in New York City, and will include performers from Macedonia, New York, Japan and Manipur, live and on film.
A PAGE OUT OF ORDER OVERLAND is an international collaboration conceived and directed by Yoshiko Chuma, Artistic Director of the New York based company, School of Hard Knocks, and created in collaboration with the artists. The work was developed during residencies and rehearsals in New York and in Macedonia where artists collaborated face to face in an exchange of ideas, experiences and personal histories.
Performance is based on the history of several lands and landscapes, from the Balkan region to Asia, where war has torn apart families and divided lives. The work emerges from a variety of shared and unfamiliar stories and artist-to-artist dialogues among dancers, musicians, stage designers, and producers from the USA, Macedonia and Japan. The style of the performance is conceived in the form of a 1920 silent film, and features a variety of new and archival film created and edited for the production. The 7-foot cubes are metaphors for enclosed spaces and frame urban and rural landscapes
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PAGE OUT OF ORDER OVERLAND
Conceived and directed by Yoshiko Chuma
Choreographed and performed in collaboration with the artists
Multiple Screen Projection concept by Yoshiko Chuma
Dancers: Yoshiko Chuma (USA) and School of the Hard Knocks dancers(USA)
First assistant director: Christopher Williams USA
Second assistant director: Iskra Sukarova MK
Music Director: Djijan Emin (MK)
Dramaturgy: Kyoko Hirano (USA/Japan)
Sound design: Jacob Burckhardt (USA)
Costume designer: Gabriel Berry, (USA)
Cube Design: Ralph Lee (USA)
Producer: Bonnie Sue Stein (USA)
Executive producer: Biljana Tanurovska (MK)
Consultant producer: Jovica Mihajlovski (MK)
Production manager: Viktor Ruben (MK)
Project coordinator: Violeta Kacakova (MK)
Archival and new media footage are used with permission from the filmmakers:
Milcho Manchevski, Jacob Burckhardt, Rudy Burckhardt, Yoshiko Chuma, plus archival films from Macedonia Cinématique.
After the premiere at the Skopje Summer Festival in Skopje, the performance will be performed in Kumanovo City of Culture of Macedonia 2006, will appear with various artists in different format in Ohrid in Macedonia in July. In August, there will be further developments and performances in Osaka, Tokyo and Gimiyo, Japan.
In January, 2007, the US premiere will be presented by Dance Theatre Workshop in New York City, and will include performers from Macedonia, New York, Japan and Manipur, live and on film.
A PAGE OUT OF ORDER OVERLAND is a co-production between Yoshiko Chuma and The School of Hard Knocks (USA), GOH Productions (New York/USA), Beagle Inc. (Japan), and Lokomotiva- Centre for new Initiatives in Arts and Culture (Skopje/Macedonia), in partnership with Skopje Summer Festival, and in collaboration with Macedonian Opera and Ballet, Macedonian National Gallery -Cifte Amam, House of Culture in Kumanovo, Site for Visual Culture, Skopje, Centre for Balkan Cooperation LOJA, Tetovo and Macedonian Cinémathèque. Additional support is from The Trust for Mutual Understanding (USA), the USA Embassy in Macedonia, the Department of Education and Cultural Affairs of the USA, Japan Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts, and the Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College. (USA) |
