TV Buddha except on the internet
A new dance by Glenn Potter-Takata
September 18th–20th at 8pm
Kestrels (188 6th St, Brooklyn, NY 11215)
Inhabiting a contemporary butoh landscape, TV Buddha except on the internet is a dance trio that critiques a mediated subjective experience and reshapes a sense of self through the dancing body and moving image. Named after Nam June Paik’s 1974 sculpture, delayed video loops fold the work back on itself and flattens the distance between niche histories of civil disobedience in Japanese internment, Shingon Buddhist metaphysics, and the detached gaze of the consumer machine.
Choreography by Glenn Potter-Takata with evan ray suzuki and Kimiko Tanabe
Performance by Kimiko Tanabe, evan ray suzuki, and Glenn Potter-Takata
Lighting Design by WhimZee Hanna
Sound and Projection Design by Glenn Potter-Takata
Carpentry by Alec Welhouse
Dramaturgical Support by Lu Yim
Stage Management by Mia Harada