Sounding the Resonant Path

Costume Designer

La Mama Theater, October 2021

Sounding the Resonant Path is a performance installation that draws on the spiritual connection between the human world and the natural environment. We witness an artist, seeking the unknowable, encounter the growing bamboo and tree, whose harvested material is crafted into the artistry of the flute and the puppet. Japanese kuruma ningyō style puppetry and multiple, illuminated shadow scrolls play out this wordless tale to the accompaniment of taiko drums, shamisen and shakuhachi flute.

Puppetry and design by Tom Lee

Music by Ralph Samuelson, Perry Yung, Tatsu Aoki, Kioto Aoki

Moving Panorama Scrolls by Blair Thomas