five days in march
la mama etc, NYC, 5/10

• study abroad sort of
• ocean spray
• soundtracks
• mars
• we totally had sex like a bunch of times
• pretty much headed right back to the hotel (dance 1)
• protest
• flash before your eyes before death (dance 2)
• oh really
• koto funk
• koto funk 2
• you understand right
• this whole thing's gonna end in about 10 minutes but
• desire for a dramatic event
• that wasn't even important anymore

with Witness Relocation

Written by Toshiki Okada
Translated by Aya Ogawa
Directed/Choreographed by Dan Safer

Co-Created and Performed by
Heather Christian, Sean Donovan, Chris Giarmo, Mike Mikos, Wil Petre, Laura Berlin Stinger and Kourtney Rutherford

"Buoyed by Dave Malloy’s puckish electronic score, Okada seems sweeter, funnier and less ritualistic than he did in Enjoy, despite a turn to overtly political and sexual elements here. Again the writer bombards us with the stop-and-go rhythms of actual speech, but cast members such as Wil Petre and Kourtney Rutherford interpret his false starts as adorable flakiness (adding to the sense of lightness), rather than slacker bummertude...Okada’s needling naturalism has its clarifying pleasures, but it took a final-act dance break to make me curl my toes with glee."
-Helen Shaw, Time Out New York