Alys Ayumi Ogura Residency: Interactive Art Dance Performance
Date and Time
Saturday Sep 6, 2025
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM CDT
Saturday, September 6th, 2025
11 am - 1 pm
Location
Lanesboro Arts Gallery
103 Parkway Ave North,
Lanesboro, MN, 55949
Fees/Admission
Free
Website
https://lanesboroarts.org/calendar/alys-ayumi-ogura-residency-interactive-art-dance-performance/
Contact Information
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Description
Enjoy an interdisciplinary performance art experience at the Lanesboro Arts Gallery! Beginning at 11:00 am on Saturday, September 6th, Artist-in-Residence, Alys Ayumi Ogura will perform an interactive art dance performance piece that draws from the art around her.
Inspired by Liz Bucheit’s Hand of the Huldra show at the Lanesboro Arts Exhibition Gallery (On view August 16 – October 19th), Alys Ayumi Ogura will conduct a partially-structured live dance improvisation to complement the exhibition. Her movements will be directly inspired by Liz’s artwork. Yumi’s live performance will last for 20 minutes and will be repeated four times, with a 10-minute break in between each cycle. The performances will begin roughly at 11:00, 11:30, Noon, and 12:30. This event represents an interdisciplinary collaboration between visual and performing arts, exploring the boundaries of a non-conventional theater/performance space.
This performance, like all residency events, is free and open to the public.
About Alys Ayumi Ogura
Alys Ayumi Ogura ??? ??? ??? (she/her) is a Twin Cities-based dance artist and performance maker who centers on storytelling through her movements, voice, and quirky humor. She has created a platform called the “YumiVerse,” a.k.a. Yumi’s Universe to focus on the marginalized voices of Asian women like her. She created a work commissioned by the Pillsbury House + Theatre (2021) and one for the Red Eye Theater (2023). An iteration of the YumiVerse work was selected as a solo at the 2022 Walker Art Center’s Choreographers’ Evening. Ogura is thrilled to share the YumiVerse with other towns and cities, including Lanesboro during her residency. She is always searching for communities that are open to embracing the YumiVerse and a different perspective on the world—just as she does.Learn more about Yumi's residency here.
Photograph credit: MajiqUmbrella, Bruce Silcox, Pat Barret, Caroline Yang, and Tommy Sar.
