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 Born in Hiroshima, Japan, Yasuko Yokoshi arrived in the United States with an extensive background in the martial art kendo and classical ballet. Yokoshi is an award winning Japanese writer and a self-taught super-8 film maker. Yokoshi's interdisciplinary works have been presented at festivals and theaters nationally and internationally including Festival A/D Werf in Holland, Korea-Japan Dance Festival in Seoul and Tokyo, Painted Bride Art Center in Philadelphia, Dance Theater Workshop, Performance Space 122, Taipei Theater and the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Her latest group piece "Travel Theory" is scheduled to be presented at Massachusetts Contemporary Museum of the Arts (MASS MoCA) and Sushi Performing Arts Center in San Diego in the fall of 2001. bakayoko@earthlink.net
 Gonnie Heggen is a resident choreographer at Nes Theaters in Amsterdam, Holland since 1995. Her productions have been presented at numerous theaters and festivals in Europe including the Springdance Festival, the Festival a/d Werf in Utrecht, Rotterdam Festival, Grand Theatre in Groningen, Victoria Festival in Gent, Belgium and the Sommer Szene Salzburg in Austria. In the United States, Heggen appeared at Dance Theater Workshop's Fresh Tracks, the Danspace Project at St. Mark's Church, Movement Research at the Judson Church, Wagon Train Project in Lincoln, Nebraska and Tangente in Montreal, Canada.
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