Innerstice

Innerstice is a live music & dance theatre performance.

A cross-disciplinary collaboration featuring composer/pianist Takumi Kakimoto, movement artists Mia Snape, Jalen Scriven, Kyson Kai, Ellery Donlon, and cellist Danny O’Connell. This work is Inspired by the idea of “kintsugi” — the appreciation of the spaces between fractured pieces.

“We are constantly, and inevitably changed in the daily life-and-deaths,

We continue to fall back into the circle of repetition and liminal spaces in life, or break again — Then, where do we go from there?

It is the sad and beautiful struggle of being. And it will always exist throughout the time of our existence. However, we always remember and carry our history; restart from the bottom of the well; and continuing to experience and remold our own identities and inspire those come after us.

Engaging in this process is to live a life experience of tuning with one another as humans; staying true to our own artistic research, and going back-and-forth with the other art form that resonates in expressions and feelings, generated from the origin of pure love, the urge to express, and the very raw authenticity…

We are exploring the possibilities between live music and movement, what it means for musicians and dancers to be in the flow of continuous dialogue and exchange, honoring, interweaving, and transcending our art forms, histories, social and cultural experiences, and means of composition and improvisation around the concept that embraces each stage from breaking, accepting fractures, to working towards a new integration, the continuation of the same but adapted self. It is also a freeing from extraneity in and out of our genuine selves. Everyone is just being, acknowledging, and accepting – And I hope you are too, as you are watching.”

– Emily L.

Featuring artists / emotive beings / thinkers:

Takumi Kakimoto – composer and pianist (@takumi_kakimoto)

Mia Snape – dancer (@miasnape_)

Jalen Scriven – dancer (@jalenscriven)

Kyson Kai – dancer (@kyson.kai)

Ellery Donlon – dancer (@ellery.dancer)

Danny O’Connell – cellist (@roco_doco)

Graphics by Tingjie Feng (@jessesheeeep)