Solos
Homecoming
2022
In a world ever more diverse, divided and wasteful, what is home and can we return to it?
This performance was be held in Tokyo on the 21st and 22nd May 2022, and then streamed online for 48 hours from 27th to 29th May 2022.
Soon to be available on Vimeo on Demand!
Performance: Mai Burns
Stage Manager: Roshi
Lighting: Uno Atsuko
Sound: Takamatsu Makiko
Stage Support: Aya
Filming: Takishima Hiroyoshi
Organised by: Mai Burns
With thanks to: NPO Dance Archive Network, Helen Brockelbank
Red Shoes
2015
Performed at Castle Park and St Nicholas’ Market in Bristol as part of IPA Bristol, 2015.
Red Shoes was a site responsive piece influenced by the history of Bristol as a slave trading port, and it’s main hub “The Exchange”, which has today become part of the very popular St Nicholas’ Market. Performed over two days in two spaces, the piece explored the silent exploitations of consumerism, oppression and vulnerability.
Photographs by Jürgen Fritz and Andrea Greenwood.
Fragments
2015
Fragments was an exploration into history and memory. Looking at my own Japanese family heritage as a starting point, Fragments sought to explore what it means to be a part of another culture on the other side of the world, and question the importance of understanding our pasts when it is impossible to reach an objective truth.
Performed at Klub Ciglana in Belgrade, Serbia on 4th September 2015
Photographs by Irina Khakimova & Sunčica Milosavljević
Video edited by Mai Burns