Tuesday, December 17
2:30pm, 4:30pm, and 6:30pm

Dai Matsuoka, dancer and choreographer
Jeffrey Zeigler, cellist
Featuring Oceano, a musical composition by Paola Prestini

Dai Matsuoka is a butoh dancer and choreographer who has been performing with Sankai Juku since 2005. Matsuoka has appeared in several of their major works including Kinkan Shonen, Tobari, Unetsu, ARC, and TOTEM. He has been the Director of LAND FES since 2011, a festival that invites the audience to experience dance performances as they walk around the city. He has been an instructor for the Scramble Dance Project in Odawara City since 2018, in which both people with and without disabilities create dance together. Matusoka runs BUTOH CHOREO LAB, an online platform with video lessons by high-profile Butoh dancers. He has collaborated globally with artists such as Phantom Limb Company (New York) for Falling Out, and with Paola Prestini (New York) and Jeffrey Zeigler for Houses of Zodiac. In 2021, Matsuoka joined as a curator Tokyo Real Underground, the Tokyo Tokyo FESTIVAL Special13 program.

Jeffrey Zeigler is the cellist of the internationally renowned Kronos Quartet and has commissioned dozens of works. Acclaimed for his independent streak, Zeigler is admired as a potent collaborator and unique improviser. He was the recipient of the Avery Fisher Prize, the Polar Music Prize, the President’s Merit Award from the National Academy of Recorded Arts (Grammy’s), the Chamber Music America National Service Award and The Asia Society's Cultural Achievement Award for his work with the Kronos Quartet. Zeigler’s multifaceted career has led to collaborations with a wide array of artists from Philip Glass, Tanya Tagaq, and Yo-Yo Ma, to Foday Musa Suso, Laurie Anderson, and Pulitzer Prize-winning scientist, Siddhartha Mukherjee.

Zeigler has released recordings for Nonesuch Records, Deutsche Grammophon, Cantaloupe, Smithsonian Folkways, National Sawdust Tracks, and has appeared with Norah Jones on her album Not Too Late on Blue Note Records. Zeigler can be heard on the film soundtrack for Paolo Sorrentino’s Academy Award-winning film, La Grande Bellezza, as well as Clint Mansell’s Golden Globe-nominated soundtrack to the Darren Aronofsky film, The Fountain.