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September
2008--Santa Cruz, California, USA.
At the base of Mount Fuji lies an ominous stretch of forest
known locally as "The Sea of Trees." Centuries of
secrets lie hidden under the
mossy earth, where rivers of lava have hardened over to form the
cavernous forest floor. Thousands of people who
have entered these woods have never been seen again.
Some simply got lost. Others went
in intending to disappear...
Jukai takes us through the stories two women, whose lives are linked over centuries through their shared quest for answers deep in the sea of treas. Miyu is a farmer's daughter sold into a life of servitude, who flees her master's house in hopes of finding Tohgenkyo-a mythical utopia rumored to be hidden deep in the surrounding woods. Beatrice is an anthropologist, obsessed with the many manifestations of the Black Madonna, who comes to Japan to find the remains of a city referred to in an ancient text as Kuro Kannon no Mura, the city of the Black Bosatsu of Mercy.
Témoin collaborates with Ikuyo Conant, Artistic Director of Watsonville
Taiko Group, along with drummers Jordan Zimmerman and Taeko D'Andreo, to create a movement-drumming piece which incorporates
Japanese traditional drumming with physical
theatre.
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