PRESS Archives - inkBoat
Breath was programmed by Shinichi Iova-Koga, artistic director of San Francisco-based physical theater and dance company, inkBoat, and included shakuhachi master Masayuki Koga, dancer Dana Iova-Koga, vocal duo Ghost Lore…
Shinichi and Dana Iova-Koga…. came together through a mutual love for connecting the dancing body with nature. Dana graduated from NYU’s Experimental Theater Wing, and Shinichi was the son of…
Review by Claudia Bauer What’s in a name? AXIS, the name of Oakland’s renowned physically integrated contemporary dance company, plays on the turning axes of wheels and on accessibility; before…
Deep in the middle of the performance of “95 Rituals,” as you find yourself on the back of a dancer who is clambering over benches on the upper deck of…
Dance Review by Rachel Howard, Chronicle Dance Correspondent Published Tuesday, May 5, 2009 Photo: Kegan Marling Performers (front to back) Shinichi Iova-Koga, Dohee Lee, Terre Unite Parker, Joy Cosculluela perform…
“ODD,” inspired by the Norwegian figurative painter, Odd Nerdrum, united Shinichi Iova-Koga‘s inkBoat collaborative with Oakland’s Axis Dance Company, which integrates able and disabled performers. In the past, the troupe…
“Yuko Kaseki and Shinichi Iova-Koga, the Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire of Butoh, come together in inkBoat’s Ame to Ame (Candy and Rain) at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts….
“Call them postmodern, postminimalist Butoh artists and you might come close to capturing the style of inkBoat. Or call them nothing at all and allow yourself to be seduced by…