Memento Forest — katami (形見)

A new multimedia dance performance by Marina Fukushima

Memento Forest — Katami serves to nurture the connections with loved ones after they have passed away through the objects, memories, people, and places that were left behind. As grieving processes in Japan are often both personal and communal through various rituals and practices, the intergenerational collaboration and performance serves as a grieving process, enriching communal acts of sharing, and collective healing. Reflecting on a continuity and ephemerality of life and family, the multimedia dance creation cultivates a sense of lightness through the journey, opening layers of release and renewed communal relations.

Direction, choreography, performance: MARINA FUKUSHIMA

Scenography, video, archive process: ISAK IMMANUEL

Performance for video, drawing: MICHIKO FUKUSHIMA

Collaborations for video: Community participants from the Memento Archive Workshop - First Rainbows, hosted at the Japanese Cultural and Cummunity Center of Northern California and Kokoro Assisted Living.

Memento Forest - Katami is produced and presented by the U.S./Japan Cultural Trade Network, Inc. (CTN), in association with Theatre of Yugen, Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center, and Asian Improv aRts.