Physical Theater Improvisation.
The performers enter the stage empty and build an evening length work from the first moments and gestures. Terman and Koga play in a highly physical realm that includes sound/music and language to explore an often surreal and dreamlike, yet utterly immediate world together. Comic dilemma, the pathos of human frailty, passionate engagement and associative narratives are woven into a cohesive, wild, delicate, and unpredictable whole. Performances reveal human experiences that are archetypal and modern, intricate while steeped in simplicity.
Shinichi Momo Koga's productions have been experienced since 1988 throughout the North American Continent, Europe and Japan. A photographer, filmmaker and theater actor/director, Koga became primarily known as a Butoh dancer after 1991 when he began dancing under Hiroko and Koichi Tamano. In 1994, he created the group Uro Teatr Koku iwth Alenka Mullin Koga which becasme inkBoat in 1998. Additionally, he collaborates with Yumiko Yoshioka and TEN PEN CHii (Germany: 1996-2001), Do Theatre (Russia; 1997-present). Shadowlight Theatre (USA: 1993-1997) and the group adapt in Berlin with Minako Seki, Sten Rudstom, Yuko Kaseki and Yael Karavan.
Cassie Terman is a performer, dance/theater director, writer, and teacher. She began training in Physical Theater and Improvisation Action Theater with Ruth Zaporah in 1991. Since then she has been performing with the International Action Theater Ensemble (1992-present), founded and performed in the three-woman theater group "etiquette" (1998-2000), performed with inkBoat (2000-2001), and currently works in collaborative duets with Sten Rudstrom, Shinichi Momo Koga, and Keren Rosenbaum/Reflex Ensemble. As well as collaborating, she also regularly performs solo improvisations that incorporate language, sound and physicality. Her one-woman show "Citizen of Trees" opened in 2004 in San Francisco to much acclaim.