Toshiki Okada / chelfitsch / Teppei Kaneuji: Eraser Mountain

THEATER
FRIDAY & SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28 & 29, 2020
7:30 PM

Skirball Center, NYU
566 LaGuardia Place, Greenwich Village, Manhattan

$35-$50
https://nyuskirball.org/events/toshiki-okada-eraser-mountain/

As anyone who saw his The Sonic Life of a Giant Tortoise at JACK in Brooklyn a few years will attest, Toshiki Okada is a major major force in contemporary Japanese (and, for that matter, world, theater.  His pieces take reality beyond reality; they're not fantasist, but they're also not linear.  This piece, performed by Okada's own company and created with the assistance of Japanese visual artist/mass culture explorer Teppei Kaneuji, treats with the reconstruction of the city of Rikuzentakata after the 2011 tsunami, done in a "human-centric" manner that has endangered the surrounding mountains.

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