Tiger Balm
PROCESS DANCE PROCESS
January 17, 2024
Red Eye Theater
SKYE REDDY | YUKINA SATO | D. JINZA THAYER
From dance, to dance, by dance, for dance: for the skeptics, the ambivalent, and the believers
A salve for those who are jaded by talkbacks
An irritant if you insist on a singular lens
An ongoingness, a continuous labor, an unarrival
A viewing practice of holding complexity, difference, context, impact
The pleasure of the sting, the slow burn, and, if you're lucky: an opening.
Three short dance works in process. One running experiment in discussion, together. Because relational, because dance, because dance wants to be in conversations of dance, because dance is what wants.
WHEN & WHERE
Wednesday, January 17, 2024
7 pm
Red Eye Theater
2213 Snelling Ave
Minneapolis, MN 55404
TICKETS
$5 - $15 sliding scale
ACCESSIBILITY
Red Eye's performance space is fully wheelchair-accessible. To request ASL interpretation, audio description, large-print programs, or other accessibility-related accommodations for any event, please contact us with as much advance notice as possible. staff@redeyetheater.org | 612.870.7531
About the artists
Skye Reddy
Skye Reddy is a South Asian dancer, choreographer, and filmmaker. Their 2022 screendance film, Quadripartite, won Best Experimental Film at the Huntington Beach Cultural Film Festival and was featured in the LA Times. Skye’s latest work, filmed during a residency at Tofte Lake Center, is now in post-production. They are currently stage managing The Ife Lab (Red Eye Theater’s Curated Rentals Program, March 2024) and co-devising Reasons for Moving (The Southern Theater’s Performance Partnership Program, June 2024). Previous collaborations as a performance and digital media artist include LimeArts, Asian Media Access, and Theater Mu. Skye was also the 2022-23 Production Management Fellow at Children's Theatre Company and holds a degree in Theater and Dance from Macalester College.
Photo: Yu Chieh Huang
Yukina Sato
Yukina Sato is a dancer, choreographer, and filmmaker. She holds an MFA in Dance from The Ohio State University and a BFA in Dance Performance from the University of Central Oklahoma. Her research focuses on locating cultural identity through embodied memories and geographical space. She had formal training in Russian-style ballet, modern dance, jazz dance, aerial arts, and hip-hop (Krump/House). She was a former member of the Kaleidoscope Dance Company and worked with various performing artists such as 10 Hairy Legs, Larry Keigwin, Lea Cox, Diavolo | Architecture in Motion, and many more. She served as embodied archivist and digital documentator for Archiving Black Performance at OSU and worked closely with Ursula Payne, Bebe Miller, Carolyn Adams, and Dianne Mclntyre. She is a co-founder of YY Dance+Media and creates/performs a multimedia live performance that intersects dance and technology. Their new work, Motion of Seeing, premiered in the Detroit Dance City Festival 2023 and won the National Exchange Award. They are invited to perform at the Regional Alternative Dance Festival in 2024. She is currently serving as an Assistant Professor in Dance at the Department of Performing Arts at Minnesota State University Mankato.
Disciplined Body (working title) is a solo performance that examines how one's culture shapes the body to regulate one's behavior in public space. I was inspired by the Japanese educational system that teaches students how to behave appropriately. Also, I am a woman in Japanese society, there are many unspoken rules about how to sit, stand, and speak as a woman. I am experimenting to unfold the embodiment of this education system.
D. Jinza Thayer
Performer/Choreographer: D. Jinza Thayer
Assisted by Laurie Van Wieren
After spending the first six years in Japan, D. Jinza Thayer grew up in Brooklyn, New York. She graduated from Johns Hopkins University and received an MFA in Dance at George Mason University. Based in the Twin Cities, she presents her work as Movement Architecture (MA). As MA, Jinza has created over sixty original works and has been a two-time semi-finalist for France’s Rencontres choregraphiques internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis (Bagnolet) in 1999 and 2001. Jinza has received two McKnight Artist Fellowship for Choreographers (2004, 2019), the SAGE Award for Choreographic Concept and Design (2010), and numerous grants from Minnesota State Arts Board, Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, and American Composer’s Forum, among others.
Jinza has taught generations of emerging choreographers and dancers during twenty-five years at Zenon Dance Company and School in Minneapolis and as a guest instructor for various universities.
Tiger Balm is supported by a grant from the Jerome Foundation.