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October 11-13 , 2004
Akira Kasai
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Akira Kasai, one of Japanese's most highly acclaimed Butoh performers, will be in Ann Arbor for a series of events from October 11-13. A Q&A session will be held on Monday, October 11 from 7-8:30pm in Room 1636 in the School of Social Work Building. On Tuesday, October 12, a dance workshop which is open to the public will meet from 2-4pm at the Dance Gallery Studio, 815 Wildt Street, Ann Arbor. For more
information, contact umsed@umich.edu or call 734.647.6712. The three days of events will culminate with his performance of "Pollen Revolution" at the Power Center (8pm) and a public post-production reception will follow at the Vandenberg Room in the Michigan League (2nd floor, 911 North University).
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October 18-23, 2004
The Elephant Vanishes
Directed by Simon McBurney and inspired by Haruki Murakami's short stories, the London-based theater company Complicité presents this multimedia theater piece. CJS, in conjunction with the UMS, is organizing a book discussion on October 18 which will be led by Matthew Carl Strecher (Associate Professor of Japanese Literature,Toyo University; and author of Dances with Sheep: The Quest for Identity in the Fiction of Murakami Haruki, CJS Pubs). This event will take place from 7-8:30pm at the Ann Arbor District Library's Main Branch. The production will run for 4 consecutive nights at 8pm starting on October 20.
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