A Dance of Death - A performance in honour of Obon
On the central day of Obon (3 day Japanese ceremony honoring ancestral spirits and the dead), Masumi Saito and Nissa Nishikawa will activate the Nature Reserve with dance, listening to the environmental, spiritual and poetic body.
‘Primordial way of exchange
Walking between soil and sky
Rebellion of flesh.’
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Tea from the medicinal garden and dialogue with the artists will be offered around a fire post performance.
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£7.00 Donation
Gate opens at 6:45pm
Dance opens at 7pm.
Fire to be extinguished at 9pm.
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Masumi Saito is a movement artist, mother, and choreographer. She creates film works and live performances influenced by nature, spirits, and the Japanese way of being.
Nissa Nishikawa is multidisciplinary artist born in the unceded land of Medicine Hat, Alberta with formative years lived in Yamanashi, Japan. Currently based in London, Nishikawa works with multiple disciplines - from dance and sculpture, installation and film - exploring processes of transformation informed by a close observation of the intelligence of Nature and the non-human as systems of navigation. This process extends to the embodied principles of ecological movement, illuminating animistic and alchemical philosophies with a somatic and structural approach. Nishikawa often works in the open-air and studios equipped to house fire; interconnecting the layers of the arcane with the supra-sensual, various conscious inhabitants and the living earth.