This hypnotic, cross-cultural performance artwork is inspired by the experimental place-based writings of Nobel Prize winner William Faulkner (The Sound and the Fury). Choreographer/dancer Oguri combines live music, shadowplay and slow movement drawn from the modern Japanese performance art of Butoh to create a darkly evocative, dream-like experience. The stage is strung with barbed wire, marking out forbidden places. The four-member troupe, dressed in southern gothic garb, faces painted chalky white, move as if to mimic inner worlds. Ultimately, the performance is about the juncture between the body and the spirit: a non-geographic space, where the imagination heightens and the senses sharpen. David Goodman, a professor of Japanese culture at University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, will provide an introduction. This program is a signature event for the 2009 Spirit & Place Festival.

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Photograph: M.A.Katcher