Halidom at 2019 FACT/SF Summer Dance Festival. Choreography and Performance: Joy Davis and Eric Mullis. Sounds Design: Eric Mullis. Lighting Design: Del Medoff. Special thanks to Katsura Kan, Yoshito Ohno, Kazuo Ohnoe Dance Studio, and the Tatsumi Hijikata Archive at Keio University. This piece is supported in part by a a faculty development grant from Berklee College of Music.
“Synchronous one-armed figure eights gave way to two-arm motions and then to full-bodied propulsion with transfixing specificity – Butoh on fast-forward. Split into momentous trajectories, they were drawn back together by the fearsome energy of Davis’ gaze – one suspects there is rarely a moment, in dance or in life, when she is unsure of her destination.” - Claudia Bauer for DanceTabs