“Ayako Kato creates a radical dance experiment in silence and stillness,” Sava, Oliver, Chicago Reader, 8 February, 2018.
Premiered as Links Hall Co-MISSION Fellowship & Ayako Kato/Art Union Humanscape 20th Anniversary Project
Seeking to break out from expectations and recapture the possibilities in existing and new relationships between dance and music, Ayako set four hours of experimental dance, using a dynamic piece of music: 30-pages from a 4,000 page score called stück 1998 written by Swiss Wandelweiser composer Manfred Werder.
Opening Ceremony: 0’00” - ; Day 1: Music/Sound First: 8’42” - ; Day 2: Dance/Movement First: 19’54” - ; Day 3: Dance & Music as Equals: 28’36” - ; Day 4: Independent of Dance as anchor 2018: 40’51” -
Actualization by Corinne Imberski, dance & piano; Chrissy Martin, dance, voice & piano; Wilson Tanner Smith, cello & movement; Jeff Kimmel, clarinet & movement; Ayako Kato, dance & piano
Composed by Manfred Werder
Choreographic Direction by Ayako Kato with movement invention with dancers/movers
Costume by Amanda Frank
Lighting by Ken Urbina
Group, 4 hours, Grand Piano, Live Music