Benjamin Kimitch: Ko-bu Presented by the Danspace Project

February 23-25, 8pm

Tickets: $22 General/$15 Members/$25 at the door

Ko-bu is a new evening-length dance by Japanese-American/NYC-based Benjamin Kimitch. A solo for dancer/collaborator Julie McMillan, Ko-bu seeks to create a sensory landscape in which to contemplate grief and loss through a series of articulated pauses and sustained images.

The choreography is developed through Kimitch’s research of final compositions or sketches written by western composers in the classical music canon, such as Charles Ives, Richard Strauss, and Gustav Mahler, whose music serves as poetic guides. The choreography emerges from years of assembling religious images, in particular those of flying apsaras and Boddhisatvas featured in the historic Buddhist Dunhuang cave murals of northern China.

Please arrive on time. There is no late seating for this performance.

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