Ken Ueno and Michael Sakamoto

Ken Ueno and Michael Sakamoto perform an improvisational sound and movement duet, blending extended vocal techniques, electro-acoustic instrumentation, butoh and street dance movement, and other interdisciplinary performance elements. Sakamoto also performs “asymm (abridged)”, featuring remixed scenes from his evening-length, semi-autobiographical dance theater work, “asymm”. Inspired by butoh and hip-hop’s roots in social resistance, Japanese American history, and the intercultural and activist legacy of composer-musician Ryuichi Sakamoto, “asymm” blends dance, text, media visuals, and an electronic music score in the search for meaning in the gestures and sounds of everyday life.