Dogugaeshi, the award-winning phenomenon by genius puppeteer Basil TWSIT (ACC 2003, 2014), is back! Born as a Japan Society commission, this ever-innovative piece now celebrates its 20th anniversary. Enter a mystical world, where a mysterious white fox shepherds you through past and present Japan. Inspired by a disappearing traditional stage mechanism from Japan’s Awa region called dogugaeshi, Twist has created fusuma screens with stunning painted imagery that dance, slide, flip, conceal and reveal to pull audiences deeper into a brain-bending optical illusion. Dogugaeshi is a cross-cultural collaboration with master shamisen player and experimental musician Yumiko TANAKA (ACC 2006), whose multi-layered music collage embraces everything from traditional tunes to popular songs.

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