The Japanese Gesture Archive - Tea Ceremony

Premiered at the Invisible Dog Art Center on October 7th, 2022,

 The Japanese Gesture Archive - Tea Ceremony explores the relationships between individuality and formality through the Japanese Tea Ceremony. The gestures and elements in the Japanese Tea Ceremony will be remixed as choreographic material to recreate our current Tea Ceremony, assessing the meanings of each gesture and the act of offering and receiving.

It invites us to rediscover Japanese social aesthetics as social choreography through current multicultural lenses in New York.

Choreography by Maho Ogawa

Performed by Ursula Eagly, Carolyn Hall, Annie Wang, and Maho Ogawa

Sound by Tomoko Hojo

Visual Design by Sayoko Kojima

Supported by Emily Harvey Foundation and Toshiaki Ogasawara Memorial Foundation

Cross Promotion by the Japan Society

The Japanese Gesture Archive - Tea Ceremony is featured in A Dash of Awkward magazine!