IzumonookunI by Aretha Aoki & Ryan MacDonald

Name: Bilingualism & Heritage Language Maintenance A Community Class with Dr. Jeanne Heil
Start: 2026-06-08T13:30:00-04:00
End: 2026-06-08T14:00:00-04:00
Location: University of Southern Maine Lewiston-Auburn College

Bates Dance Festival presents IzumonookunI by Aretha Aoki & Ryan MacDonald

July 12* & 14 at 7:30pm at Schaeffer Theatre (305 College Street)

Tickets $5 (while supplies last), $15 (Seniors/Students/Educators), or $35

*Join us after the performance on Friday, July 12 for a post-show Beer Garden!

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About IzumonookunI:

IzumookunI is a multidisciplinary and multigenerational dance inspired by Izumo no Okuni, 17th century founder of the Japanese dance-drama form, kabuki– a form that currently contains little trace of its female-centric, grassroots, counter-cultural origins. Choreographer Aretha Aoki and sound and visual designer Ryan MacDonald are re-imagining Okuni in conversation with post-punk/glam-goth/dark-wave within a hybrid, contemporary landscape of live synthesizer, digital design, dance, and taiko drumming by members of the first all-women identified takio group in Canada, Sawagi Taiko.