Archipelago (2012)
February 8, 2015
ARCHIPELAGO is a new multidisciplinary work by critically-acclaimed performance artist Denise Uyehara and award-winning visualist Adam Cooper-Terán. Through video, image and movement they remix ancient myths of Okinawa with the story of Batuc, a village in the Yaqui River Valley which was flooded by the Mexican government. They weave together loss, cultural survival, wrath of the deities, spirits of past, present and the future. Premiered at Highways Performance Space, with support from the National Performance Network Creation Fund. Click here for video and details.
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- Transitions w/James Luna, LACE (2012)
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- Big Head (2001 – 2003)
January 1, 2015 | 9:36 am
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- Bus Stop Dreaming, MOCA-Tucson (2012)
January 12, 2012 | 1:20 pm
Bus Stop Dreaming is part of Dreams & Silhouettes, a multi-disciplinary performance that appears at various community and art events in response to the ongoing deportations of thousands of undocumented immigrants in the city of Tucson. Bus Stop is a collaboration between two award-winning artists – documentary filmmaker Jason Aragon, and performance artist Denise Uyehara – and […]
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- Pageantry (2008-2009)
December 3, 2009 | 3:33 pm
A collaboration by Denise Uyehara and Sri Susilowati PAGEANTRY follows the trail of young Asian women who danced for renowned Hollywood choreographer Michio Ito in the late 1930s. Under Ito’s training they learned dances from Indonesia, Thailand, China and Japan. Their plans to tour the U.S. were disrupted when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and […]
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