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...lead dancers for this work, Michihiko Oka and Sharrell Mesh, were a beautiful pair and also managed to dance technically correctly without exerting any pressure. Between strong, high leaps, rhythmic body waves and complicated attitude turns they created an ecstatic tension between themselves...

Author: By Andreu Fastenberg, | Title: Sheer Energy | 4/17/1984 | See Source »

...Several people have approached us in the past, and every year contracts for filming Pudding productions almost work out, but they never have until now," Oka said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cable TV To Film And Distribute Pudding's Show | 3/18/1981 | See Source »

Hasty Pudding Theatricals signed a contract yesterday with Star Case Productions, allowing the cable television company to film and distribute the musical "Serfs Up," Megumi Oka '81, producer of the show, said yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cable TV To Film And Distribute Pudding's Show | 3/18/1981 | See Source »

...Mimi Oka '81, the Pudding's publicity manager, confirmed the selection yesterday and will officially announce the awards today. The show's producers are "very pleased" and believe that Streep and Alda are a "timely choice," she said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Streep and Alda Will Get Hasty Pudding's Awards | 1/30/1980 | See Source »

...principle behind this kind of work, as Oka points out, is twofold. First, there is a traditional regard for the symbolism of the materials themselves. Thus, because paper was considered to embody a deity in ancient Japan, you could not cut it (a murder of the god). You could fold it without violation, however, and thus origami and its related art of paper packaging came into being. Second, the package is an act of obeisance to its recipient, rather than a flat invitation to consume. In the material on show at Japan House this idea is beautifully eloquent: the studied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Throwaway Bamboo | 2/24/1975 | See Source »

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