| | Where does the evicted, escaped or transient body stay? Can “elsewhere,” the transformative place located “on” the border, become their “home”? In the process of traveling elsewhere without a language that would work in the boundary of normative normality, how does the body speak?
PuPaa is a multimedia performance, inspired by Butoh: a dance-scape of transformative states of body, mind and perception. In PuPaa, the dancers are entities living in obligatory symbiosis reminiscent of a Mixotricha Paradoxa, a microorganism referenced by Donna Haraway. While each entity expresses unique species characteristics, they create a collective body with incorporeal connections using video and sound projection technology embedded in their costume, an outer layer of their body. The body later embraces the world of others as well, i.e., the audience, once a dancer who was a part of an installation in the lobby brings the audience’s intermission sound into the theater. PuPaa was a successful synergetic integration of talents and perspectives brought by artists and dancer collaborators. PuPaa was commissioned by DXARTS and the Dance Program in the University of Washington and premiered at the Meany Hall of University of Washington in May 2008. The collaboration process and work has been presented at the American Society for Theatre Research conference (ASTR 2008). Eunsu Kang: Director, Media Artist
Diana Garcia Snyder: Director, Choreographer and Visual Artist
Bo Young Choi: Visual and Textile Artist
Donald Craig: Sound Designer
Sheri Brown: Dancer Collaborator
Allan Sutherland: Dancer Collaborator
Kathryn Hightower: Dancer Collaborator
Chelsea A Weaver: Dancer Collaborator
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