Yonsei f*ck f*ck is an ongoing series of butoh-ish performances and videos.

Through butoh and made-up rituals, Yonsei f*ck f*ck imagines a future where the cultural erasure associated with Japanese internment camps has been misguidedly overcorrected and distorted into a value system where anime and Japanese junk food have been assimilated into the pantheon of buddhas and bodhisattvas.

Yonsei f*ck f*ck pt. 2 was presented as part of Movement Research’s Fall 2021 Season at Judson Church (New York, NY) on November 15, 2021.
Performed by Glenn Potter-Takata, evan ray suzuki, and Kimiko Tanabe.

Photography by iki nakagawa.
Videography by Alex Romania.

Yonsei f*ck f*ck pt. 2 was developed, in part, through a CUNY Dance Initiative residency at Lehman College.

This project 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.