Sky associated with no immediate change
by YaMa/gohappen
Akitsu Yamagishi, Jacob Woods and Nathaniel Mason form YaMa/gohappen. A collaboration with an intention to make performances which are process driven and which seek to re-form and destabilise established traditions of structure and narrative.
As a company graduating from Falmouth University's BA Theatre course they have found a shared interest in non-hierarchical collaboration and the cross-over between site-specific and black box studio work. In using performance writing, improvisation and choreographic practices they assemble moments of multiplicity in which an array of threads collide and resonate with one another.
An ecological literacy is central to their practice and is a basis for much of their performance work in research topics, process and patterns that inform their devising. This generates an endeavour to be context sensitive and allow time for the complexity of each new place and project to inform their performance work.
Sky associated with no immediate change is a performance that examines the subtleties and consequences of prediction. Through cloud forecasting, palm reading and predictions of imminent deterioration, a meshwork of multiple situations and stories are catalogued.
As a group whose previous work is rooted in site-specificity their current project transforms the studio space into a living site. With back curtains drawn to expose what is otherwise kept well hidden and attention constantly plied to the far corners and beyond, this work has a constant pressure induced by something just out of reach.
It is the space itself that holds the potential for imminent deterioration. Structures, systems and patterns of meaning are built, shifted and renamed; what was thought of as an understood space is simultaneously destabilized and rebuilt. Objects are reused as their meanings entangle, curtains that should remain closed fracture the space allowing the outside to disturb the internal workings of the piece.
The actions of the performance increasingly attempt to control the surrounding environment, such as raising all material onto layers of bricks or manipulating artificial cloud formation with fans. Flooded with texts of risk, palmistry, and instruction manuals and grounded by highly choreographed dances derived from the laws of flock movement, YaMa/gohappen explore the hope and futility of predicting the future.
This is a performance by a trio of performers in which each member is implicated in the others fate while also being ultimately separate. The shape of clouds and complex weather systems mark the form of this piece that ends somewhere between a disaster and a hopeful cloud.
by YaMa/gohappen
Akitsu Yamagishi, Jacob Woods and Nathaniel Mason form YaMa/gohappen. A collaboration with an intention to make performances which are process driven and which seek to re-form and destabilise established traditions of structure and narrative.
As a company graduating from Falmouth University's BA Theatre course they have found a shared interest in non-hierarchical collaboration and the cross-over between site-specific and black box studio work. In using performance writing, improvisation and choreographic practices they assemble moments of multiplicity in which an array of threads collide and resonate with one another.
An ecological literacy is central to their practice and is a basis for much of their performance work in research topics, process and patterns that inform their devising. This generates an endeavour to be context sensitive and allow time for the complexity of each new place and project to inform their performance work.
Sky associated with no immediate change is a performance that examines the subtleties and consequences of prediction. Through cloud forecasting, palm reading and predictions of imminent deterioration, a meshwork of multiple situations and stories are catalogued.
As a group whose previous work is rooted in site-specificity their current project transforms the studio space into a living site. With back curtains drawn to expose what is otherwise kept well hidden and attention constantly plied to the far corners and beyond, this work has a constant pressure induced by something just out of reach.
It is the space itself that holds the potential for imminent deterioration. Structures, systems and patterns of meaning are built, shifted and renamed; what was thought of as an understood space is simultaneously destabilized and rebuilt. Objects are reused as their meanings entangle, curtains that should remain closed fracture the space allowing the outside to disturb the internal workings of the piece.
The actions of the performance increasingly attempt to control the surrounding environment, such as raising all material onto layers of bricks or manipulating artificial cloud formation with fans. Flooded with texts of risk, palmistry, and instruction manuals and grounded by highly choreographed dances derived from the laws of flock movement, YaMa/gohappen explore the hope and futility of predicting the future.
This is a performance by a trio of performers in which each member is implicated in the others fate while also being ultimately separate. The shape of clouds and complex weather systems mark the form of this piece that ends somewhere between a disaster and a hopeful cloud.