mizu desierto

Mizu is a ritual performance artist whose work is an excavation of liminal states, an exploration of physical limitations, and a navigation of both the personal and universal psyche. Utilizing heightened states of provocation, contemplation, and supreme sensitivity, she seeks to expose the hidden aspects of human and nature in order to process and deconstruct our cultural experiences and go beyond them. Following the lineage of butoh in both rebellion and transformation, her dance vocabulary is also influenced by modern dance, physical theatre, yoga, contact improvisation, circus, and capoiera. Mizu has studied and performed with Yoshito and Kazuo Ohno (Japan), Harupin-Ha (San Francisco), and Diego Pinon (Mexico), amongst others. She has been a core member of Human Nature Dance Theatre (Arizona) for the last 10 years and was an original member of the Carpetbag Brigade (San Francisco). In 2005, she toured France and Spain with the PachaMama Project and over the past 12 years she has traveled, studied and performed in Brazil, Mexico, New Zealand, Japan, Indonesia, and throughout the U.S. Thematic threads within her dances include duality, destruction, death, the raw feminine, sexuality, androgyny, the archaic and the apocalyptic, the carnal and the sublime.Waterline: Clothing Designs are complimented by Mizu's passion for movement arts. Waterline is clothing designed for effortless gliding from desert to disco, yoga class or circus school to rain dances on the beach. Utilizing highly moveable fabrics with accented stitch colors, grommets, and cut-up techniques; she creates functional clothes with an individual, funky flair. Waterline is all-weather gear for the modern superhero.I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4