The Place (London) — Tides of the Moon: Performance + Choreography Process Lab

• 7:30–7:40 Welcome + context (moon / tides / season shift)

• 7:40–8:15 Choreography Process Lab (faculty/instructor-led participatory workshop demonstrating their process) 

 The Tides of the Moon

1.  The Emotion of Water

2.  Moon Bath

3.  Climate Change

4.  Braid/Braiding

5.  Hina’s Rainbow Journey          

Flow

Reflection

Climate Change

Thirst   

Displacement

Empty

Full

Containment

Coolness - Cool bath

Corrosion

Drift

Dissipate 

Changing Tides

Moon affect

Hina 

Almanac

Mist

• 8:15–8:35 Tides of the Moon Performance (20 min)

Created by: Sami L.A. Akuna and Kara Jhalak Miller

Performed by: Bayardo Rodriguez, Jr., Santiago Rivera Rodas, Zhenhao Wen, 

Kun Zhou

• 8:35–8:45 Short break

• 8:45–9:20 UHM Creative Session Solo, Duet, and Trio Performances and Screendance by Graduate Students and Faculty/Instructors (c. 35 mins total)

Santiago Rivera Rodas: “la luna grita.” Live Dance Solo 

Kun Zhou: “Dai” Live Dance Solo and “Black and White” Screendance

Zhenhao Wen: “To Leave a Trace” Screendance 

Bayardo Rodriguez, Jr.: “Hold You This Way” Live Dance Duet with Rodriguez and Rivera Rodas

Sami L.A. Akuna: “Cocoa”

Kara Jhalak Miller: “The Solo Dancer” Live Trio with Wen, Zhou, and Rivera Rodas

• 9:20–9:35 Introduction to Intercultural Roots and DAO CreaTech (Alex Boyd, Maryam Safe, Lois Liao) and discussion re collaboration with University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (UHM) faculty Kara Jhalak Miller and Sami L.A. Akuna.

• 9:35–9:55 London co-organiser lightning shares (2–3 mins each)

• 9:55–10:00 Closing reflection