A dance performance co-created and co-directed with Linda Austin, built from a strategic "forgetting" of Seijun Suzuki's 1967 cult yakuza film Branded to Kill. Themes, images, and language emerged through writing through, thinking through, dancing through the film's freewheeling surrealism.

Projected fragments of video narrative and noir imagery flashed against the back wall amid the dancers. Long non-sequitur movement sequences interspersed with moments of dialogue, abstracted violence, and shards of action. Along both sides of the stage, dancers silently mimicked and responded to movements behind semi-transparent black curtains. Mounted on the ceiling, a television monitor played a continuous hour-long action by Kaj-Anne Pepper — coming slowly unraveled inside an all-white weatherbox. Swung lightbulbs. Chanted syllables. Slow-motion mock battles.

Dancers: Anne Furfey, Kaj-Anne Pepper, Linda Austin, Lucy Yim, Bonnie Green, Rebecca Harrison.

Performance Works NW, Portland OR — November 2009