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Thank you so much for coming to watch TEN NIGTS DREAM !
Thank you so much for coming to TND. It is like a Dream now, yet it happened and in my body, something is changed. Hope to share upcoming events in Autumn!
Schedule: 10/2&3 The Other Dance Festival,10/25 Asian American Jazz Festival
TEN NIGTS DREAM Event Archive is Up!
Please visit new TND event archive. You will get to watch and listen to related materials.
| Art Union Humanscape presents Ayako Kato's Ten Nights Dream: Sound and Movement Mandala Friday - Sunday, June 6-8, 2008 details Epiphany Episcopal Church, 201 S. Ashland Ave. Chicago, IL 60607 It's been a hundred years since Japanese novelist Soseki Natsume wrote the story, Ten Nights of Drams. Ayako Kato and collaborators will invite viewers to experience furyu (literally, wind flow) - the beauty of being. |
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Crosscut Sound and Movement: JAJ project vol. 6 Sunday, April 20th, 7pm Heaven Gallery, 1550 N. Milwaukee Ave. 2nd fl. |
| About Dance |
| Thu, April 10, 2008 6:30-7:30pm @ Chicgo Cultural Center Dance Studio |
| Artistic Process of Sound and Movement Mandala – Ten Nights Dream |
| Hosted by Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, Critic Lucia Mauro leads the discussion of Kato’s creating process to introduce her new work. |
Ayako Kato profiled in All Nippon Airlines Wingspan Magazine. January 2008
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Crosscut Sound and Movement: JAJ project Sundays, February 10th vol. 4 March 23rd vol. 5 & April 20th vol. 6 7pm Heaven Gallery, 1550 N. Milwaukee Ave. 2nd fl. |
Happy New Year! Wishing you all a very wonderful musical and dancy year in 2008!
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Ayako will offer new class series, Ideokinetic Tao, at Silverspace from Jan 24th! Every Thursday starting from Jan 24th through March 27th, Ayako will offer new class series, Ideokinetic Tao, at Silverspace. This class will be a wonderful opportunity for daners who want to work on physical sensitivity to move through the space. (1/14/08) Photos from EVE - Sound and Movement Ten Nights Dream are Up! Enjoy production photos of EVE - Sound and Movement Ten Nights Dream by Nadia Oussenko. (1/14/08) Ayako's Article on ANA's "Wing Span" January Issue When you have a chance to use All Nippon Airline in January, please flip "Wing Span" magazine! There is an intervew article of Ayako Kato. (1/8/08) Jason Roebke is now touring in Europe! Bassist Jason Roebke is now traveling as a member of Jorrit Dijkstra's Band, Flatlands Collective. The group goes around Netherlands, Belgium and Germany from Jan 7th through 14th. (1/8/08) |
| Crosscut Music & Dance Project vol.3!
Josh Berman (cornet) and Art Union Humanscape are going to present their 3rd live at Heaven Gallery on Sat, December 8th. Guest music group is Aram Shelton's Flockterkit. Don't miss! (12/2/07) |
| Ayako has been to Japan for two months during summer time to research about Mandala and Renku, Japanese Chained Poetry, and experience Zen meditation sitting practice. She also performed "Land the land - 9, a peace of idea" at die pratze dance festival in Azabu, Tokyo. Visit her blog @Chicago Dancemakers Forum website. (10/5/07) |
| Music & Dance / New Project by Josh Berman, Ayako Kato and Jason Roebke (10/5/07) |
| You are invited to join a series of music and dance performances starting from Sat, October 13th by the trio of dancer Ayako Kato and musicians Josh Berman and Jason Roebke. We are presenting a series of three concerts to start with as part of an ongoing collaboration project made possible by the 2007 Crosscut Program, a partnership of Experimental Sound Studio and Links Hall. The three of us are focusing on new models for music and dance collaboration. We will also be joined each night by complimenting ensembles that we're sure you will enjoy. |
| Awarded the Crosscut grant from Experimental Sound Studio and Links Hall to work on a new project with Josh Berman (cornet) and Jason Roebke |
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Music & Dance / Art Union Humanscape - Ayako Kato Sound and Movement Ten Nights Dream III - Eve Friday & Saturday June 1 & 2, 8pm Sunday June 3, 7pm
Links Hall 3435 N. Sheffield Ave. Chicago, IL 60657 www.linkshall.org visit
Tickets: $15 ($10 students, seniors) Call: (773) 281-0824 |
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Free! Sound and Movement Improvisation Workshop in June 2007 Ayako Kato will offer a free improvisation workshop. The workshop will focus on how to prepare yourself to listen to your body better as a dance/movement improviser and how to coexist with music and musicians. This will culminate with an informal showing. Main Topics: Week 1 Preparing Body, Week 2 Study of Ma, Space, Stillness, & Silence Week 3 Creating Space (individual and w/ others) Week 4 Being with Sound Guest musicians: Keefe Jackson (saxophone), Brian Labycz (electronics) Guest musicians will join in the week 4 and the showing. When & Where: Wednesdays, 6/6, 6/13, 6/20, 6/27 7-9 pm @ Silverspace 1474 N. Milwaukee Ave. & 6/30 Showing 2-5 pm (Actual Showing starts from 4 pm) @ Links Hall 3435 N. Sheffield Contact, Reservation & More Info: Email [Posted: 4/12/2007] |
| Ayako has been selected as a 2007 Chicago Dancemakers Forum Lab Artist. She is currently working toward Sound and Movement Ten Nights Dream III for June 1-3 at Links Hall and will present Sound and Movement Mandala: Ten Nights Dream as a centennial anniversary of the story in 2008.
Chicago Dancemakers Forum is led by a consortium of two independent artists, The Dance Center of Columbia College Chiacgo, Links Hall, and the Museum of Contemporary Art. [2/18/2007] Thank you for coming to see Land the land 9 - a peace of idea at the Chicago Cultural Center! Now photo gallery is up. [2/18/2007] Land the land -9, a peace of idea @ Chicago Cultural Center AUH with Jim Baker! Music & Dance QUINTET |
| Ayako performed Land the land -9, a peace of idea in Japan Tuesday, October 31, 2006 JK Dance Atelier, Meguro, Tokyo Friday, November 3, 2006 Forest of Dance, Machida, Tokyo |
| Thank you for coming to see DanceBridge Showing
Ten Nights Dream III (work in progress) was shown on Saturday, August 9th from 12:15 pm with another summer resident Sinead Kimbrell's work in progress. The showing was held at the Chicago Cultural Center Dance Studio as a part of DanceBridge program presented by the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs. details |
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Workshop in June -- finished Art Union Humanscape, dancer Ayako Kato and double bassist Jason Roebke, will offer sound and movement workshop at Links Hall on every Saturdays In June. For details visit workshop / www.linkshall.org |
| Coming up performance in Chicago-finished
Art Union Humanscape will perform a small piece on Friday, June 9, at 3030 Elastic Arts Center for Spareroom Benefit. They will be seen from 9:20 pm. Other Performances-finished Art Union Humanscape will perform on Wednesday, June 28 (performance with percussionist Tim Barnes) in NYC, and on Satuday, August 5 in Milwaukee. details |
| Ayako presented "Land the land-9 a peace of idea" at: |
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Links Hall LinkUp Performers in Residence Showcase: |
| Fri. -Sun. March 31st, April 1st & 2nd 8 p.m. |
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