PEACOCK movement/sound performance at “A Call for Peace”

Thursday October 8, 2015 6PM

Stone Gallery 855 Commonwealth Avenue

Performance artist Sara June and sound artist Max Lord channel the memory performance of Iri and Toshi Maruki’s Hiroshima panels in their original score, Peacock. June and Lord developed the work using Butoh-fu, a method unique to the postmodern dance form Butoh developed in post-World War II Japan. The originator of Butoh, Tatsumi Hijikata, used Butoh-fu as a way to stimulate his dancers’ movements and their relationship to space through the use of evocative text and imagery. As in the Hiroshima panels, Hijikata used grotesque form to translate states of unconsciousness into consciousness. June and Lord present Peacock as an homage to both the Marukis’ lifelong efforts at waging peace and their visual legacy through the Hiroshima panels.

The event is free and open to the public.