DANCE ON FILM: YASUKO YOKOSHI – HANGMAN TAKUZO

• Venue: Screen Cinema
• Dates: Sunday 22
• Time: 3pm
• Duration: 45 mins
• Tickets: €7.50 / €6 Conc

*NEW VENUE* Due to the recent closure of Light House Cinema, this event will take place at the Screen Cinema. Tickets already purchased will be honoured at the Screen. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

Japanese choreographer, Yasuko Yokoshi who resides in New York, is making a new film collaborating with her friends in Tokyo. Performance artist “Hangman Takuzo” hangs himself from a tree for a small audience (or usually no audience) in his own garden at home in the outskirts of Tokyo. He calls it a Garden Theatre and has presented it every day for the past eight years. The movie features him, the legendary dance artist Mika Kurosawa (Hangman Takuzo’s girlfriend) and the unforgettable 72-year old Namiko Kawamura, who is known for her Zenshin-Hoko (Naked-Walking-Forward) performance.

Together they attempt an impossible mission, without any experience or knowledge of film making, creating a fake dance-drama documentary featuring legendary Japanese performance artists. A question and answer session will take place after the screening.