Selected Repertory

Collaboration

 

From a very personal place we began to explore in dance and story the power of human remains to call forth very different reactions from people all over the world--human bones as artistic icons, bones as something mystical, bones as political weapons, bones as the essence of the ancestors, bones as metaphor, bones as building material, bones as rubbish, bones as battle relics. . .


Death invades Life. It drives our ambitions, it fuels our fears, it impels us to action or to paralysis even while we attempt to defy and deny its certainty.  Bones remind us of Death in the midst of Life. Bones remind us that Life does not necessarily end at Death.

Created & Performed by

Yukie Shiroma & Nyla Fujii-Babb

Masks & Textile Design by

Michael Harada

Costumes by

Gary Fujimoto

A darkly humorous exploration in dance, music, and story inspired by the mystique of ancient human bones

Sponsored by

Statewide Cultural Extension Program

Outreach College,

University of Hawai’i, Manoa

Bones

(2008)