Gaijin is a full evening interdisciplinary performance work exploring the concept of foreignness. The work includes live electroacoustic music, text, multiple channels of large scale projected video, and butoh dance. The piece premiered at Theater Artaud in May of 2001 with Pamela Z on voice, processors, samples and BodySynth™, Butoh performers Kinji Hayashi, Leigh Evans, and Shinichi Iova Koga, an architectural set by Lauren Elder, video by Jeanne Finley + John Muse, and lighting by Elaine Buckholtz. Pamela Z’s layered, dynamically varied score includes voice, processing, fragments of recorded interviews, and sampled sounds.
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Pamela Z as Herself
Kinji Hayashi as Butoh Dancer
Leigh Evans as Butoh Dancer
Shinichi Iova Koga as Butoh Dancer
Top Crew
Pamela Z · Director
Pamela Z · Writer
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