Clouds from a Crumbling Giant: our wild shining days

Clouds from a Crumbling Giant: our wild shining days, breathes in the spaces of time between human incarnations. Broken yet boundless bodies enter the waiting room of the afterlife. As they re-enact their corporeal memories, consciousness folds in upon itself. 496 moons rise and fall. The band plays “Hazy Shade of Winter.”

inkBoat

inkBoat, founded in 1998, continually invites in the collaborative voices of artists who meet in uncertain territories. The company brings together varied backgrounds in Noh Theater, Coporeal Mime, Butoh Dance, Physical Theater, and unconventional orchestrations involving acoustic instruments, sound design and nostalgic wonderment.

Shinichi Iova-Koga directs this rumination on being and non-being in collaboration with Dana Iova-Koga, Jubilith Moore, Dan Cantrell, Elke Luyten, Cass Tunick, Adria Otte, Mari Osanai, Allen Willner and Ellen Sebastian Chang. 

Artist Biographies

Shinichi Iova-Koga

Shinichi’s 35-year history with Butoh lurks within his presence, while his commitment to the art of improvisation unearth actions not beholden to a particular tradition. A lifetime in the martial arts and his deep investigation into the Daoist internal arts deeply inform his concepts of body, energy and motion.

Elke Luyten

Elke emerges from Corporeal Mime, a French codified theatre technique based upon placing geometry and resistance in the body; following a kind of unified field theory, physical forces in the body then translate into the metaphysical.

Mari Osanai

Mari has been teaching, choreographing and performing as a soloist for over four decades, growing from her time with Michizo Noguchi, the founder of Noguchi Taiso. “Human beings are living water bags.”

Dana Iova-Koga

Dana has been deeply investigating the intersection of dance and biological life, starting with her time on Min Tanaka’s farm several decades ago. Her movement research centers around the cultivation of an evolving, responsive, and animate practice.

Jubilith Moore

For over three decades Jubilith has been on a quest to embody the essences of beauty and grace. Nohgaku has been her greatest teacher. With its inherent, time-tested and unique principles she is learning how to be, both on stage and in life.

Cass Tunick

Cass Tunick is a lineage-holder, senior teacher and organizational director for Action Theater. She directs, creates and performs theater works that invite collaborations across media – film, music, modern dance, Butoh and Aikido.

Dan Cantrell

Dan Cantrell is an Emmy award winning composer and multi-instrumentalist known for his innovative film scoring approach, and his virtuosic abilities on the accordion, piano and musical saw.

Adria Otte

Adria Otte is a musician, composer, sound engineer, and educator that has a passion for using music technology to expand the possibilities of live performance. Her eclectic musical background includes classical violin studies, electric guitar and bass in rock bands, traditional Korean drumming, free improvisation, and experimental electronic music.

Ellen Sebastian Chang

Ellen Sebastian Chang is a storied figure in the performing arts, as a director and arts educator whose career spans 45 years. Her current projects include an ongoing collaboration with AfroFuturist Conjure artist Amara Tabor Smith and the Deep Waters Dance company’s House/Full of BlackWomen, a multi-year site-specific dance theater work that addresses the displacement, sex trafficking, and the creative well-being of Black women and girls in Oakland, California.

Allen Willner

Allen Willner is an award winning lighting designer for theater, dance, opera & musical productions.