Yonsei yeah yeah is a continuation of the Yonsei f*ck f*ck series.

Through butoh and made-up rituals, Yonsei yeah yeah 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 yeah yeah was presented as part of New Dance Alliance's Performance Mix 36 at Abrons Art Center (New York, NY) on June 12, 2022.
Performed by Glenn Potter-Takata, evan ray suzuki, and Kimiko Tanabe.

Photography by Kathryn Butler.
Videography by Jacob Hiss courtesy of New Dance Alliance.

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.