Featured Performances

• Transitions (2012)
  January 20, 2012 | 2:18 pm

  

        Transitions by Denise Uyehara and James Luna Everybody has a past.  For James Luna and myself, that past began in Orange County — land of malls, surfers and the 405 Freeway.  How did we evolve from being ethnic minorities in suburbia to the artists we are today? And in the sea of consumerism [...]

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• Bus Stop Dreaming (2012)
  January 12, 2012 | 1:20 pm

  

  Bus Stop Dreaming is a series of short, multi-disciplinary performances that appear 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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• Denise in 1 minute
  January 1, 2010 | 9:46 am

  

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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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• The Senkotsu (Mis)Translation Project (2006-2009)
  April 26, 2009 | 9:29 am

  

  The Senkotsu (Mis)translation Project (Highways Performance Space 2009, Barnsdall Municipal Art Gallery/COLA Awards 2006) is an interactive interdisciplinary performance installation that explores the entangled history of Okinawa and the U.S. military which has had a presence on these southern-most islands of Japan since World War II. It evokes the battle of Okinawa in which one-third [...]

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• Big Head (2001 – 2003)
  January 1, 2003 | 9:36 am

  

  Big Head revisits the treatment of Japanese Americans during World War II and considers current-day treatment of those perceived as “the enemy now”, including Muslim Americans, Arab Americans, and South Asian Americans. A work that has been in the making since early 2001, this poetic, interdisciplinary performance offers up letters from Rohwer Internment Camp in [...]

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