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What the audience will get, however, is the vibrant experimentation that Yamaguchi embraces. He finds inspiration everywhere: “I just space out. Usually I’m walking or I’m lying down about to go to sleep. [For one show] the inspiration was I got pinkeye so I did a dance about blind people...
...Quantitative Reasoning requirement is about dance. “If that’s boring to me, that’s important,” he says, explaining that weeding out the tedium of QR lends itself to finding the wonder in choreography. In addition to boring math class, Yamaguchi draws on his athletic background in his choreography. “You can tell that his choreography has come out of his wrestling training. It’s like a no fear sort of attitude about dance. It’s cool and refreshing,” says Adrienne...
This weekend Yamaguchi is presenting something he calls a “eulogy of myself,” but as of Monday, he says he has “yet to come up with a single movement. Movement is not a big part of the piece. It’s about how things frame movement, about how eulogies frame people’s lives.” This from the same man who chin-balances chairs. Well, he acknowledges his theory-heavy concept may be too abstract. “It’s not that the audience is going...
Next year, Yamaguchi hopes to be dancing or choreographing either in New York or Tokyo, with graduate school in the near future. His style will be constantly evolving. “Whenever I go to a new environment I tend to pick up new things,” he says. He promises, though, that he’ll never stray too far from his street performer roots and will still pick up an apple, or three, to juggle along...
...reading aloud from Martha Stewart’s personal monthly calendar, as printed in Martha Stewart Living. Martha won’t be available for holiday parties on Sunday, Dec. 22, as she intends to cross-country ski, “if there is snow.” Ryuji Yamaguchi, dancer extraordinaire, treated the crowd to an exposition of physical strength and agility. Yamaguchi balanced a chair on his face and then juggled apples, eating them as an encore...