HOLD THE CLOCK Reading Held 12/5 At CRS

Yoshiko Chuma and The School of Hard Knocks have been working in a residency at Center for Remembering and Sharing. This workshop presentation will be a first public reading (with projected subtitles and sound design) of one component of Yoshiko Chuma's "Hold the Clock," which will premiere March 19 to 21, 2010 at 92nd Street "Y" Dance Center (see below).

Book cover of "Sayonara Gangsters"
Inspired by the writing of Japanese student radical Genichiro Takahashi, the piece continues Ms. Chuma's multi-year investigation of the aesthetic and philosophical questions and responses that arose during the revolutionary movements across the globe during the 60's and 70's.

Takahashi was arrested as a student radical and spent half a year in prison, a harrowing experience that rendered him incapable of reading or writing for several years. His subsequent first book, "Sayonara, Gangsters," captured the era's punk lyricism and irreverent upheaval of social convention and took the Japanese literary establishment by storm.

The workshop will be performed in Japanese with English subtitles by Yoshiko Chuma, Ursula Eagly, Jun Kim and Mina Nishimura. Images are by Rie Ono; sound is by Kohji Setoh.