50th Powell Street Festival
Kokoro Dance and ÓFukami

 

Kokoro Dance, formed in 1986 by Jay and Barbara Hirabayashi, has created over 200 dance works that have been performed across Canada, in the USA, Europe, South America, Mexico, Cuba, and Japan, and over 25 Powell Street Festival performances. ÓFukami is the experimental moniker of Winnipeg-based composer, songwriter, and thereminist, Keri Latimer. As ÓFukami, Keri explores transmissions from imagined futures—shadowy signals, melodic fragments, and sci-fi–tinged soundscapes hovering at the edge of consciousness.This performance combines the butoh of Kokoro Dance with the music of ÓFukami from the album “When the Future Tried to Take Me” – A six-song transmission from a world where memory, emotion, and technology blur. Rooted in theremin, voice, and a handmade koto, the music explores what it feels like to be pulled between identities, timelines, and selves. Each track moves through different emotional frequencies. Dream states, contact attempts, coded signals, and moments of fracture, while still holding a human core that is trying to stay grounded in a rapidly changing world.