A rushed performance about caring
“In a hectic, laboriously told performance, dancer Tamayo Okano wants to tell the audience something about caring. Care (Past/Present/Future) claims to be about how different generations of women care for others and, if possible, for themselves. What we get to see revolves mostly around an undigested mother-daughter bond, in which mutual forgiveness proves difficult.” – Amber Maes (etcetera, 2025)
“She is bone hard on her mother. For good reason, you think, when the mother sneaks into her daughter’s bedroom and tries to strangle her. Suddenly, the room lights come on and Okano allows us into her creative process. She says, “With this performance, I wanted to understand and forgive my mother. But it didn’t work out, and then I didn’t have time to make another script.’ So back to the strangulation scene. Something interesting happens here, you think as a viewer. Looking at those motivations of the creator might bring some questions into focus. What is forgiveness? What does care consist of? Is strangulation the opposite of care, or just a very far-reaching extension of it?”
Read the critical – but for Tamayo also the hopeful – article here.
