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\"Journey,

Journey, 2009, still from video by Mana Hashimoto<\/p><\/div>\n

I’ve collaborated with many dancers and performers over the past fifteen years or so, creating projected imagery and other visual elements to integrate with live performances.\u00a0 Among all of them, my collaboration with dancer Mana Hashimoto<\/a> has been unique.<\/p>\n

Mana, who trained as a musician at the famous Berklee College of Music in Boston, lost her sight completely as a young adult.\u00a0 Since that time she has pursued an international career as a solo dance artist, while raising a daughter as a single mother.\u00a0 Despite all her challenges, Mana has a beatific smile and a funny laugh.\u00a0 Her performances are personal journeys, often involving interactions with hard and awkward objects.\u00a0 She also leads workshops on “Dance without Sight”, guiding her students to explore their own environment and to observe the movement of others through touch and the other non-visual senses.<\/p>\n

I’ve collaborated with Mana on several performances.\u00a0 Mana has a strong visual imagination and always has visual ideas for her pieces.\u00a0 With other collaborators, I show them things and see what they think, working towards realizing their ideas.\u00a0 With Mana I have to describe everything to her, trying to convey to her the total visual effect of the images I am providing in combination with her movement and presence on stage.<\/p>\n

Mana’s newest piece, called Journey<\/em>, is being presented at CRS<\/a> in Manhattan tonight through Sunday (May 1-3).\u00a0 It incorporates video that Mana shot during her travels last winter in Finland and Poland on a performance tour.\u00a0 I edited the video and worked on integrating it with the performance.\u00a0 (Marijke Eliasberg<\/a> is presenting a separate piece in this program, a complex choreography that rearranges thirteen dancers into ever-changing combinations.)<\/p>\n

\"Journey,

Journey, 2009, still from video by Mana Hashimoto<\/p><\/div>\n

Of course, Mana could not see what she was filming.\u00a0 She had to show the video to others and have them describe the content.\u00a0 But the images she provided are lovely, and it was amazing how easily they fell into place in the performance, and how well they go with the music and the movement.\u00a0 A sighted person tends to frame the video around focal points of attention, but Mana’s video becomes an environment and lets her performance be the focal point.<\/p>\n

I am, even more than usual, a visually oriented person, and my consciousness tends to rest right behind the eyes.\u00a0 But there is much to be learned from closing the eyes.\u00a0 Working with an artist who cannot see makes me see, and feel, in new ways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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