da da da Pas de Deux

by Naoko Maeshiba & Rohaizad Suaidi
March 8 – 11

Twenty-three years ago, Naoko Maeshiba and Rohaizad Suaidi met in Honolulu via Japan and Singapore. They reunited in the nation’s capital, at the beginning of the millennium. In 2017, they find each other in Baltimore revisiting their experiences living in and outside of the US.

da da da Pas de Deux is a whimsical performance dialogue about what Naoko and Rohaizad left behind/carried forward from their home countries of Japan and Singapore. They drive through a series of verbal and physical explorations, examining their relationships to cultural topography, language, body, and aesthetics. Humorous and meditative da da da Pas de Deux sees Naoko and Rohaizad dancing gleefully up and down the continuum of everyday life/performance and celebrating their East/West make-up.