Ten Nights Dream: Sound and Movement Mandala

Choreographer Ayako Kato and collaborators produce Ten Nights Dream: Sound and Movement Mandala, inspired by Ten Nights of Dreams, a novel written 100 years ago by Japanese author Soseki Natsume. This live music and dance performance will take place in the beautiful, historic Epiphany Episcopal Church in Chicago’s West Loop neighborhood.

The production embraces western and eastern cultural perspectives through dance, music and installation art. The performance is arranged as a mandala, a Buddhist geometric figure representing the universe. Mandala also means “circle” or "completion" in Sanskrit. Audience members are invited to contemplate the Japanese traditional aesthetic of furyu—the ephemeral, yet eternal cycles of nature—while experiencing this contemporary performance from different viewpoints.