Dance: Yokko
Music & composer: César Dávila-Irizarry
This is a collaboration between Yokko and César Dávila-Irizarry (American Horror Story).
This is an exploration of longing and power relations in the realm of remembrance and dreams. The story is inspired by Japanese Dragon Legend and a dream Yokko had. The white dragon is associated with water. Honored and revered for both its destructive and life-giving force. It is believed that unmarried older women are possessed by the dragon deities and its struggles with memories and desires. Women who are cursed because of sins from previous lives.
Yokko is a New York-based interdisciplinary artist and Actor from Japan, specializing in Butoh, Acting, and anything they can play with.
As the founder and Artistic Director of RenGyoSoh and Producing Artistic Director of Unfix NYC Festival, Yokko passionately collaborates with other artists to synthesize diverse disciplines to create new works for global communities. The solo work, Butoh Medea, won “Best One-Woman Show,” “Best Choreography,” and “Best Physical Theatre” at United Solo NYC (Theatre Row, 2014-2015). It toured internationally across the USA and Europe (2016 to 2025). Other original works include Butoh Lady Macbeth (United Solo 2017, Hollywood Fringe 2019) and ShiraHimeRyu (Amsterdam Butoh Festival 2024). Yokko’s choreographed ensemble work, SHINKA earned “Outstanding Premier Production” and “Outstanding Choreography and Movement” at the 2019 New York Innovative Theatre Awards.
Other Butoh credits include: A fiber artist Erik Bergrin’s The 8 Dissolutions (Morris Museum/Time Sq. Billboard, 2022) & Spirits Body (House of Yes, 2023), Lone Wolf Tribe’s Body Concert ( St. Ann's Warehouse, 2018), Dance Medium (Seisaku & Yuri Nagaoka)’s ManjuShage, and Hijikata Tatsumi's Last Words (Noguchi Room,Tokyo, 2017-2018), FACET with Jordan Rosin (2012-2013). Music videos include Cage The Elephant’s Ready to Let Go (2019). Yokko is co-author of an article,Why Butoh Theatre (Routledge, 2020) and a recipient of the G. William Hume Fellowship in Performing Arts (2023).
César Dávila-Irizarry(composer) is an award-winning composer and sound artist best known for composing the theme song for the TV show American Horror Story. Originally from Puerto Rico and based in Los Angeles, César also composed the theme song for Netflix’s docu-series Crime Scene, and many other projects, including solo music releases and the enhancement of storytelling in films, dance, and art projects. César’s creativity blurs the line between music and sound design. After studying sociology and music at the University of Puerto Rico, César obtained an associate degree in Recording Arts from Full Sail University and a BFA in Sound from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago. César is the proud recipient of 9 BMI Film & TV Music Awards.