Commissioned by Danspace Project (NY)

Performance Direction by Mina Nishimura
Video Design and Edit by Amanda Hameline in collaboration with Mina Nishimura

Cinematography Emma Rose Brown, Jaziel Lampkin

Music Composed by Kenta Nagai

Performed by Emma Rose Brown, David Guzman, Sabrina Leira, Stuart B Meyers, Mina Nishimura, Evan Ray Suzuki, Glenn Potter-Takata and Jace Weyant

Production Management by Amanda Hameline

Mapping a Forest while Searching for an Opposite Term of Exorcist [Public Space version] is an edited documentation/film experiment by Amanda Hameline in collaboration with Nishimura, the choreographer of the work. As an extension of the Danspace Project performances (Fall 2022), the video features footage of unannounced pop-up performances that took place in various NYC locations as well as Kenta Nagai’s original music scores. In an effort to blur boundaries between private/public spaces, daily/esoteric acts, personal/collective experiences, practice/performance modalities, the pop-up performances expanded the web of searching bodies into public spaces. The idea of announced pop-up performances also emerged as Nishimura’s unsettled response to ongoing discourses around accessibility, diversity and inclusion.

–Danspace Project Online Journal | Issue 15 / Summer 2023