Love Story, Palestine
Concept, Design, and Choreography by Yoshiko Chuma
Weds - Sat; May 9-12, 2012
Image left: Qattan Foundation; Image right: Robert Flynt
Ellen Stewart Theatre at La MaMa
66 East 4th Street (between 2nd Ave and Bowery)
Part of La MaMa Moves! Festival/ 50th Anniversary Season
Featuring members of Palestinian Dance Troupe El-Funoun from Ramallah
In association with ROOT CULTURE in Kamakura, Japan.
Dance by Miriam Parker, Saori Tsukada, Tatyana Tenenbaum,
Ryuji Yamaguchi, Sari Husseini, Anas Abu Oun and Yoshiko Chuma
with Francisca Benitez, Sara Galassini, Catherine Galasso, Hazuki Homma and Mina Nishimura
Music by Sizzle Ohtaka, Aska Kaneko with Robert Black
Photography by Robert Flynt
Sound Design excerpts from "6 Seconds in Ramallah" by Koji Setoh
'Dabke' Choreography by El-Funoun Dance Troupe
5 monitors perform video documentation
5 moveable panels and 30'x30' tarps fill the space