Takahiro Yamamoto: NOTHINGBEING
Portland-based choreographer Takahiro Yamamoto's investigative new dance performance, created in collaboration with composer Samita Sinha and artists Anna Martine Whitehead and David Thomson, ponders possibilities for embodied "presence of nothingness" through improvisational movements and meditations on surrender. The phenomenological inquiry relates to Yamamoto's experience as an immigrant in the United States, where he has found a "tendency for the collective consciousness not to pay attention to events or situations unless a bigger and dire incident has taken place." (If you need examples of what Takahiro's talking about, just check your Twitter feed.) NOTHINGBEING holds contemplative space for questions of unity, connection, and the social self, so head to a performance if you're feeling unmoored.