LIVE PERFORMANCE RE-UNITED NOW-HERE JULY 21at @ 9.55 p.m. NDSM during HENK Festival

LIVE PERFORMANCE 

RE-UNITED NOW-HERE

JULY 21at @ 9.55 p.m. NDSM during HENK Festival

                             Bastiaan Stoop on the location, photography by Inga Cholmogorova

Sakurako, Bastiaan Stoop and Isabelle Ullman for Re-United Now-Here on site. Performance sponsored by Fred de la Bretoniere, photo by Berber Rinders

Concept and choreography: Inga Cholmogorova

Sound: Jason Lanox (NL)

Text: Gina Hillberg (UK)

Special effects: PRG/EML Productions (NL)

Dancers:

Toshiro Abbley (USA)

Thibaut Cora (FR) 

Federica Dauri (IT/NL) 

Melvin Fraenk (NL) 

Laura te Hennepe (NL) 

Takashi Iwaoka (JP/NL) 

Kazuma Glen Motomura (JP)

Yui Nakagami (JP/NL) 

Judith van Rheenen (NL)

Sakurako (JP/NL) 

Bastiaan Stoop (NL) 

Stefano Taiuti (IT/NL) 

Isabelle Ullman (SE/DK) 

Mission “Re-United Now-Here” 2012

On the way to Pai I looked Death straight in the eye… But it was not my time to die and suddenly  I woke up from the oblivion of deep dream and in this moment in between a memory flashed passing by to reveal the ancient mission appearing very real.

“It’s time, my dear”,  - I’ve heard the distant but familiar voice, but nobody to speak the words. “We had to part just to re-unite again one day. The time has come. It’s now! You have a mission to complete… find me and others to reunite the ancient team.”

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I woke up…. The brutal neon light of the hospital was hurting my eyes. I had to keep them closed feeling the stiffness of the collar around my neck. I could not move but I could feel the pain everywhere. The nurse talking the language I could not understand moisturised my lips and gave me a sip of bittersweet substance. I felt temporary relief and heard the same reassuring voice just before drifting back into the dream.

 “Don’t be afraid, my love, it might take countless lives, but we’ll meet again, when time is right. We won’t remember, but we will have a chance to get a glance into each other’s soul. And then we’ll know… We did it once! We loved each other. We took a risk to dive deep into each other’s eyes to ask the soul the pleasure of the dance. I was you and you were me. Try to remember this when the guide will bow to you under the sakura tree. He will remind you of me. This is when the journey will begin.  The cold of winter in the solitude will melt away, you will spread the wings to greet eternal spring again … You'll have to travel to distance lands before I can hold you in my arms. You'll dance intoxicated by the subtle scent of lipmoona to the cricket orchestra under the moonlight and swim in the river with the elephants…You'll  have to make journey to the homeland you've never been before, dance under sakura tree, sit with the monks on wholly mountain, walk narrow streets with geisha, make tea in the ancient temple try to remember our history. Sweet taste tofu, bitter macha and warm sake will wiser you that I am near. You'll have to voyage to ancient place and dance on graves within necropolis, and where once ships were built...  and then will meet again, somewhere some day… beyond the pleasure-pain game, not chasing fame, no shame, without any external aim, without a name… just you and me, free lost and found within eternity.” 
Photography "Sakura Dream" with Kazuma Glen Motomura and Syaka Akitsu. A

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I felt the warmth of the touch on my belly and I opened my eyes, she stood smiling gently in what once used to be white clothes with the turban on her head. “I know, my dear, I know”, - she said smiling with her eyes without a word. I closed my eyes filled with tears of happiness while the sweet scent of burning opium calmed the pain.

An Invitation

You don’t have to believe reincarnation and karma or anything at all for this matter, to read my story and decide for yourself. It has happened and it is happening as we speak and you are a part of it, regardless if you are aware or totally oblivious. Unfortunately there is no time for lengthy introduction, so let me tell you this. I am just a visitor on this planet, just like you are, and neither of us know how long have we got. But I do know there is not enough time to dream a life and live a dream. We have to choose and the time is now! End of the world in 2012 was predicted centuries before you and I were born. But I don’t believe in those kind of things, but I do believe that 2012 is the end of the world, as we know it. What happened in Japan is just a warning sign of much bigger disaster approaching and affecting all of us whever we are on this planet if we won’t act now. Billions of people unconsciously are emitting zillions of polluted thoughts into universe every second and at some point those thoughts cluster together and manifest themselves in form of some disaster o the other. We all have the mission to complete and even if you unaware of it yet or don’t remember it. We are part of the whole and we all take part in making it happen unless we switch and contribute to prevent it from happening instead. The time is running out…

My name is Sakurako, which means cherry blossom child. I was adopted by a Japanese family, when I was found under the sakura tree in one of the temples in Tokyo.  I was sitting there without a single memory of who I was or where I come from and where I was going to. I was blissfully happy enjoying the peace and the moment of fleeing beauty of the blossoms.

I have crash-landed in here and now in the middle of nowhere during the mini van accident crashing off the mountain road to Pai. This is where I have inherited the injured body-mind of the European female artist as well as her passport and ticket indicating two destinations – Tokyo and Amsterdam. I was nursed back to life by a medicine woman in the remote location in Northern Thailand, recovering from the heavy injuries while learning to eat and walk, how to relate to another human being and most importantly to trust and love.  But I had to go and followed the inherited ticket to voyage to the land of rising sun to find out why I am now here. When I arrived to Tokyo sakura was in full blossom and this is where this mission has begun. I intuitively revisited the places from my distant past to regain some glimpses of memories form this life as well as of the countless lives before to find out what am I to do. I was taught to treat everybody with respect and dignity, loving kindness and compassion, and not to hurt any living creature. I was studying the way of tea and other ancient traditional and martial arts; taming the wild mind and training the weak body I have inherited. I became maiko (dancing child) as an 

apprentice to become a geisha. However I haven’t completed the training as the time has run out and  I had to go again - this time on my first mission – destination Amsterdam.

I am glad you are reading this and we might have a chance to meet! Yes, you and I am so excited to find our what is it you can do! I hope we get a chance to dance to have glance beyond the surface into the soul to know… I am not sure what is the destination, but the journey I am inviting you to has no map, no roads with traffic lights or signs, no rules and destination is not the goal. You will have to learn to trust and listen to your heart to take one step at let go of fear and disbelieve. So join the team  and never miss a chance to love and dance.

Thought is a form

Dance is a language of the soul

Body never lies

Please join me to initiate the change through dance to transform yourself and the world around you and help my motherland. Thank you! I love you! Sakurako