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December 26, 2020
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11:00am ET
SML:
Zooma-Dead End
SEQUEL #11
Part1/2/3
Featuring: Mizuho Kappa
Presented by
The School of Hard Knocks
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Part3.
February 6, 2021
11:00am (ET)
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Run Time: 60 minutes
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SML: Zooma – Dead End
Secret Journey: 40th Anniversary of
Yoshiko Chuma and The School of Hard Knocks 2020-2023
Nobody knows the true story yet…
Photo by Robert Flynt
SML: Zooma - Dead End is the latest chapter of Dead End, The School of Hard Knocks (2020-2023)
an ongoing multi-disciplinary performance series conceived, created and performed by The School of Hard Knocks.
Assembling a mosaic of films, dance, music, visual art, and narratives,
SML investigates ideas of national security, perceived dangers within borders, immigration, and war.
Now, in the face of the ongoing pandemic, SML turns to the ephemeral spaces online to forge connections between locations.
Using the ubiquitous tools of social conferencing,
Zooma: Dead End will enable artists to explore their ideas and communicate to diverse artists and members of the community.
SML: Zooma - Dead End has featured 10 “sequels” with a regular cast of performers
along with hosts, special guests, and artists who are scattered across the world.
Musicians, dancers and designers interact, albeit indirectly,
as nineteen chapters cross over each other within the time-frame of one hour.
Parallel incidents of sound, text, and action connecting the cities of New York, Ankara, Madaba, Tokyo,
Caracas, Tehran, Hong Kong, Berlin, Los Angeles, Brussels, Kabul, Palestine, and Dakar.
Mizuho Kappa
Dancer / Choreographer / Creative Planner / Researcher / Traveler
Osaka, Japan
She started her dance training at the age of 3 with Ballet.
Around the same time she fell in love with the mysterious world of small creatures on the ground.
This enthusiasm for insects has led her to be immersed in Biology and Entomology for all her life.
For the purpose of local ecological observation, she has traveled many countries
including Malaysia, Brunei, Vietnam, Cambodia, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Namibia, Tanzania and Oman.
Besides that, she worked as a Creative Planner
of Space Branding and Experience Design Division at the Marketing Company in Japan.
In 2018, she moved to NY in hopes of finding a way to integrate and express her random and chaotic life experiences.
In summer of 2019, she bumped into Yoshiko Chuma and her production
"My Diary: Secret Journey to Tipping Utopia” at Invisible Dog.
After watching this show, Mizuho interviewed Yoshiko and asked
"Did you use the footage of Atomic Bombings as a Japanese Artist? ".
Since then, the conversations between Yoshiko and Mizuho have been always interesting.
In SML Sequel #11, Mizuho is revealing their relationship
based on her recent conversations with Yoshiko.
Part2.
January 2, 2021
11:00am (ET)
Part1.
December 26, 2021
11:00am (ET)
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