Explore Culture through Dance
Our Mission
KAMBARA+ is more than Artistic Director Yayoi Kambara. Through multi-hyphenate collaboration (dance, tech/digital interactive media, and music), KAMBARA + produces works with dancers, performers, and creatives to cultivate a sense of belonging through research and play.
Creating movement languages for the gap words can’t fill.
LATEST PROJECTS
二度と(NI DO TO): an XR pilgrimage is a transformative mixed-reality experience. It implores audiences to explore ancestral trauma, shared connection, and resilience through the narrative of Japanese American incarceration. Originally commissioned by Georgia Tech Arts, this exhibit has also been presented at the Japanese American Museum of San Jose.
Out of the Dust is told through ghosts of Manzanar Detention Camp who come to life through the poetry of Janice Mirikitani. After the closing of the camps, who and what memories were left behind in the windy dust-laden desert of Manzanar?
IKKAI means once: a transplanted pilgrimage is an evening-length dance project guiding audiences through a Japanese American narrative exploring unjust incarceration, struggles for reparations and healing, while forming current/future solidarities with communities facing the violence of xenophobic policies.
