Miki Orihara Workshop & Open Rehearsal

This residency project develops an ongoing choreographic work that began with Orihara’s 2014 solo
Prologue (performed at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club), originally centered on her relationship with
her mother and now expanding to explore the broader influence of mothers—women she has encountered
who have profoundly shaped her life and artistic voice. Tentatively titled Resonance, the project will evolve
through a series of workshops, an open rehearsal, and a final performance. A key inspiration for Orihara
is her late teacher Nanako Yamada, who transmitted Dalcroze’s 20 gestures, an early modern dance
practice that influenced both Japanese and American pioneers. During the residency, Orihara will share a
selection of these gestures with participants, guiding them to develop their own movement vocabularies
and collaboratively build new material. An open rehearsal will provide space to experiment and deepen the
work, while the culminating performance will present this evolving choreography, incorporating projection
and video in collaboration with a videographer, as she continues to investigate the intersection of memory,
lineage, and embodied resonance.