Through butoh and re-contextualized Buddhist rituals, Yonsei f*ck f*ck imagines a future where the cultural erasure stemming from Japanese internment camps has been overcorrected and distorted into a value system where anime and Japanese junk food have been assimilated into the pantheon of buddhas and bodhisattvas. This new pantheon is used as the source of objects of worship, remixing Buddhist practice and folk traditions with the consumer culture runoff from the Japanese archipelago.

Yonsei f*ck f*ck was presented as part of Mabou Mines’ SUITE/Space Program (NYC, NY) on December 4th–6th, 2022.
Choreography by Glenn Potter-Takata with evan ray suzuki and Kimiko Tanabe.
Text by Matt Seiiji Ketai.
Performed by Kimiko Tanabe, evan ray suzuki, Glenn Potter-Takata, and Matt Seiiji Ketai*.

Lighting Design by Wyatt Moniz.
Sound Design by Glenn Potter-Takata.
Stage Managed by Sami Binder.

Photography by Elyse Mertz.


*Actors appearing courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association.


Yonsei f*ck f*ck was developed, in part, through a CUNY Dance Initiative residency at Lehman College, and was made possible, in part, through The Movement Research Artist-in-Residence Program, funded, in part, by the Jerome Foundation; Dance/NYC’s New York City Dance Rehearsal Space Subsidy Program, made possible by The Andrew M. Mellon Foundation; the Harkness Foundation for Dance; the Davis/Dauray Family Fund; and by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. Additional support was provided by Amanda + James, New Dance Alliance, WestFest, Pioneers Go East, Not Your Mother’s Pan-Asian Festival, Williamsburg Art Nexus, Gibney Dance Center, 7MPR, and the Bronx Council on the Arts, funded through support from the Mertz Gilmore Foundation with additional funding from Amazon.