DANCE

Mina Nishimura: Mapping a Forest while Searching for an Opposite Term of Exorcist

THURSDAY – SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3 – 5, 2022
7:30 PM

Danspace Project
St. Mark’s Church-in-the-Bowery
131 East 10th Street, East Village, Manhattan

$20
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As dance historian Juliette Crump taught us (I’d link her great essay but it isn’t available for free anywhere), Butoh, for all its seeming nihilism and negativity, is rooted in Buddhist doctrines of compassion. And choregrapher (as well as being a remarkable dancer) Mina Nishimura has, as this piece will show, moved from post-Butoh to specifically addressing Buddhist concepts. One thing’s almost certain: it won’t make her work any less peculiar (and understand, I mean that in the most positive way possible).

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Continue to show the flag at Veselka: maybe if enough people go they’ll revert to being open all night.