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... on Denise Uyehara

Ito, Robert. "Crossing Over." Book Review. Los Angeles Magazine. July 2004.

Cheng, Meiling.  "BIG HEAD. By Denise Uyehara. With additional words by Masamori Kojima, Edina Lekovic, Shady Hakim, Lulu Emery, Tamadhur Al-Aqeel, Lillian Nakano. Highways Performance Space, Santa Monica. 21 February 2003." Theatre Journal Vol. 55, No. 3 (October 2003): 518-519.

Hart, Hugh.   "Art of urgency; A new performance work focuses on the plight of Arab Americans.: Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles, Calif.: Feb 18, 2003.   pg. E.1

Nichols, David C., "Imperiled democracy under the microscope: Performance artist Denise Uyehara takes on freedom under fire in a prewar landscape." Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles. Feb. 28, 2003.

-----.  "Headless Turtleneck Relatives by Denise Uyehara." In Other Los Angeleses: Multicentric Performance Art. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002: 221-226.

Hughes, Holly and David Román.  "O Solo Homo: An Introductory Conversation." O Solo Homo:New Queer Performance. eds. Holly Hughes and David Román. New York: Grove Press, 1998.  1-15. 

Kim, Ester S., "Mapping Borderless Identitiy: A Study of Denise Uyehara's Solo Performances."  Department of Theatre, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.  Unpublished paper.  2001.

Kearns, Michael. Getting Your Solo Act Together. Heinemann: Portsmouth, NH, 1997.

Kurahashi, Yuko. "Denise Uyehara". Asian American Playwrights: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook.  Ed. Miles Xian Liu.  Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002. 334-39. 

Chan, Lelani. "Profile - Denise Uyehara." Yolk 1994.

Curtis, Cathy. "Familial Material: UCI Grad's Piece Mines Roots Poetically with Subtle Body Language." Review.  Los Angeles Times March, 8, 1997, Orange County ed., sec. F: 1-3.

Ikeuchi Yasuko.  “Theater/Performance and Gender: the Third Conference for Asian Women and Theatre”.  Article in Japanese.  Gendaishiso, May, 2001.

Irwin, Cathy. "One's Personal Truth Spoken: Denise Uyehara Performs 'Maps of City and Body' at Highways Starting Friday." Review. Rafu Shimpo. November 1999.

Isenberg, Barbara. "Denise Uyehara: Testing Her Survival Skills - on the Job." Feature. Los Angeles Times February 14, 1993, sec. Calendar.

Yokota, Karianna. "Speaking the Unspeakable." Feature. Rafu Shimpo June 30, 1994, sec. Personalities.

Breslauer, Jan. "Uyehara Paints an Arresting Dreamscape with 'Relatives'." Review. Los Angeles Times December 11, 1993, sec. F.

Bond, Jen.  "Hello (Sex) Kitty - Denise Uyehara."  Review. Labyrinth.  November / December 1995.  13.6.

Inoue, Todd.  "Take These Tea Leaves and Shove' em - Denise Uyehara Gets in Touch with Her Inner Kitty in Hello (Sex) Kitty." Review.  Metro Silicon Valley.  March 7-13, 2002, sec. Arts

Monaghan, Connie. "Performance Pick of the Week - Hello (Sex) Kitty." LA Weekly March 24-30, 1995.  17.17, sec. Arts.

-----. "Performance Pick of the Week - Headless Turtleneck Relatives." LA Weekly December 10-16, 1993, 16.2, sec. Arts.

Monji, Jana J. "'Maps of City & Body': Memories & Identity." Review. Los Angeles Times November 12, 1999, sec. Calendar.

"National Review of Live Art - Headless Turtleneck Relatives." Variant (London) October 1993: 26.

Otus, Timur. "Hiro." Review. Planet Homo July 27, 1994.

Ontiveros, Mario.  "Working-in-Common and Cross-Cultural Art Practices." Narrative/Performance: Cross-Cultural Encounters at APPEX.  The Regents of the University of California, 2004.  www.wac.ucla.edu/cip

Trabitz, Randee. "Theater Pick of the Week -  Hiro." Review. LA Weekly July 15-21 1994, 16.33 ed., sec. Calendar.

Yamamoto, J.K. "One-Woman Show Looks at Race, Gender, Sexuality." Review. Hokubei Mainichi.  May 1996.

Yokota, Karianna. "Uyehara's 'Hiro' Scheduled to Open at East West Players." Review. Rafu Shimpo June 30, 1994.

Heikkinen, Mikko-Pekka.  "Kiasman vierailevat tähdet tekevät tavarasta taidetta."  Review.  Helsingin Sanomat.  Review in Finnish.  October 1998.


... on Sacred Naked Nature Girls performances

Articles

Cheng, Meiling.  "Renaming Untitled Flesh: Marking the Politics of Marginality." Performing the Body / Performing the Text. ed. Amelia Jones and Andrew Stephenson. New York: Routledge, 1999), 199-222.

-----. "What's in a Name?: Marking Sacred Naked Nature Girls." In Other Los Angeleses: Multicentric Performance Art. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002: 235-272.

-----. "Les Demoiselles d/L.A.: Sacred Naked Nature Girls' Untitled Flesh." TDR (The Drama Review) 42.2 (1998):70-97.

-----. "SNNG: Sacred Naked Nature Girls." Theater Forum. (1997): 5-13.

Fusco, Coco. "Interview - Sacred Naked Nature Girls." Bomb (1995): 20-22.

Kantonen, Lea.  "Kehon, Kehon, Myytit Ja Tottus" [The Body Myths and the Body Truths].  Article in Finnish.  Taide.  January 1995.  6.6: 38-39.

Performance Reviews

Dresser, Marianne.  "Working Girls - The Sacred Naked Nature Girls at Luna Sea." Review. Bay Area Reporter.  April 20, 1995. Theater. 34.

Obejas, Achy.  "Randolph Street takes 'In the Flesh' literally."  Review. Chicago Tribune.  May 24, 1996. Sec. 7, 2.

Miller, Francesca.  "The Sacred Naked Nature Girls."  Female FYI.  Review. April 1995. Theater.

Mor, Tzill.  "'Sacred Naked Girls' Revere Womanhood."  Review.  Daily Bruin.  May 18, 1994.  Sec. A&E, 16.

"Nature Girls Banned by Naropa."  Lesbians in Colorado.  April 1994.

"Performance - Sacred Naked Nature Girls."  Slack (Colorado). July 1994.  Issue 9.

 

Featured Article

Feb 18, 2003 - Los Angeles Times
Art of urgency; A new performance work focuses on the plight of Arab Americans
By Hugh Hart:
"Big Head" began with the letters. In 1942, 20-year-old Masamori Kojima meticulously typed a series of missives from behind barbed wire, describing his experience in an Arkansas internment camp. ... Five decades later, his great-niece, performance artist Denise Uyehara, discovered carbon copies of those letters."

Featured Reviews

October 2003 - Theater Journal
Review of Big Head
By MEILING CHENG, University of Southern California:

"...The principle of coalition, an activist strategy fueled by empathy, serves to turn Big Head from a performance of recollected self into one of a collective self, which might be described as the collage of a responsive U.S. citizen during times of crisis. "I've come to believe there is no more important time for me to be an American, an accountable one," as Uyehara notes..."

Feb 28, 2003 - Los Angeles Times
Imperiled democracy under the microscope; Performance artist Denise Uyehara takes on freedom under fire in a prewar landscape
By David C. Nichols: "World-class performance artistry graces "Big Head," playing through Sunday at Highways Performance Space in Santa Monica..."

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