Commissioned by Mount Tremper Arts Center

Performed by Jon, Burklund, Li Cata, Lydia Chrisman, Nana Tsuda Misko

Music Composed by Stephen Cooper

Costume Design by Kota Yamazakia

Quiet House, Ash Daughter is a quartet that explores a nuanced, personal, and collective internal landscape using recomposed texts and images from Hijikata’s butoh score. As the audience sits in the center of the floor, performers surround them with an elusive, moving painting-looking to each other for a sense of sympathy and co-conspiration.

“I let my sister dwell in my body. When she stands up in my body, I involuntarily sit down. When she falls down, I fall down. Yet there is something more to it, than this simple correlation.” 

-Tatsumi Hijikata’s “From Being Jealous of a Dog’s Vein

This work was made possible with supported from creative residencies at Chez Bushwick, Bennington College, and Mount Tremper Arts Center along with 110 individual supporters through a Kickstarter campaign.

“Haunting atmosphere of whispers and enigma”

–Siobhan Burke, The New York Times