Chantael Takeuchi & Sharon Chohi Kim
Friday June 6th
doors at 7:30pm | performance at 8:00pm
$20 tickets at the door / $10 student tickets with ID / sliding scale
*This performance is supported by BROILER, an Oracle Egg Residency series providing 3 to 7 day residencies to incubate ambitious new work in sound and performance. Learn more here.
Nothing Here is Entirely Foreign is a performance of ceremony, movement and sound centered on the persimmon. Drawing from matrilineal stories and inherited gestures, the piece traces the quiet transmissions of culture through food, language, and care. Rooted in Korean and Japanese familial histories, it explores how ancestral memory lives in the body, what ripens across generations, and the sensual, corporeal rituals of everyday life. The performance weaves personal and collective memory, offering a tender meditation on diaspora, intimacy, and the sensory imprint of love passed down.
Chantael Takeuchi
Chantael Takeuchi is a multidisciplinary artist playing across mediums of movement, food, and other raw materials. Generating movement guided by deep improvisation practices, with the belief that our bodies are walking testimonies and the tension in our flesh alone has the ability to communicate memories and evocative passages. The drama of everyday life and pedestrian gestures are also woven into her choreography, inspired by the slowness and subtleties of research in Butoh. Chantael has performed and presented work through Velocity Dance Center (Seattle, WA), On The Boards (Seattle, WA), Cornish College of the Arts (Seattle, WA), The Moore Theatre (Seattle, WA), Zebulon (Los Angeles, CA), and MOCA Geffen (Los Angeles, CA)
photo credit: Ruth Kim
Sharon Chohi Kim
Sharon Chohi Kim’s work as a performing artist and composer includes immersive experimental opera, performance art, improvisation, electronic sound art and site-specific space activation through movement and voice. In her practice of improvisation, she explores human and non-human states of being, enthusiastically discovering new ways in which her voice can sound. Chohi has performed with the LA Philharmonic, Industry Opera, Long Beach Opera, MOCA, the Broad Museum, LA Master Chorale, the Getty Center, in tunnels, mountains, gardens, and in water.
@sharonchohikim / sharonchohikim.com
photo credit: Ruth Kim