Child's Play
Co. Un Yamada, a dance company and creative collective established in Tokyo in 2002, returned to the New National Theatre Tokyo last week to reprise their popular family-friendly production from 2021, “Obachetta.”
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Last week as certain ageist opinions were being aired in Washington, D.C., five performers in a tiny NYC East Village theater quietly made a case for the power of creative longevity. “Unstill Life,” created and performed by Rinde Eckert, Risa Jaroslow, Margaret Jenkins, Jon Kinzel, and Vicky Shick, presented by David Parker and the Bang Group, opened for the first of four sold-out shows. The bicoastal project will continue March 21–24 in Oakland, CA. Clocking in at barely more than 30 minutes, the show is intimate and fleeting. Like life, it seems to say, look away and you’ll miss it.
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Co. Un Yamada, a dance company and creative collective established in Tokyo in 2002, returned to the New National Theatre Tokyo last week to reprise their popular family-friendly production from 2021, “Obachetta.”
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What a beautiful review! I saw the show in Oakland. You captured it eloquently. Thank you.