Hi, I'm Debby Kajiyama.
and I am Jose Navarrete.
and together for the past ten years, we have
co-directed a performance company
called NAKA --
Navarrete x Kajiyama Dance Theater.
NAKA presents interdisciplinary work using poetry, movement, and
media installations
that illuminate social
and environmental issues we face today.
Our latest project is called "BAILOUT!" or
"Can you picture this prophecy? The temperatures are too hot for me." And it deals with 
the March 11th 
earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown disaster in Japan last year.
It also
considers the question:
How does humanity cope in the face of overwhelming environmental disaster.
We traveled to Japan for two weeks
recently
and volunteered in some of the cleanup efforts there, and some of that will make its way into the piece.
We will be presenting the work at Dance Mission Theater in 
San Francisco.
It is a site-specific, 
traveling performance
that will take place at different sites 
along 24th Street.
We have some great collaborators: Adria Otte will be making the music for us
and Emily Leap and Kevin O'Connor
will also be performing with us.
We were very fortunate that we have received
a grant from the East Bay Community
Foundation.
It is a matching grant.
They will give us $5,000 if we can 
raise $5,000 in individual donations.
We are almost at 
our goal.
We just need a little bit
 of your help
to raise $1000 to help us make our
match. All the funds will be used
to pay artist and designer fees, as well as production costs.
We hope you can 
support our project. And we hope to see you at the show. Thank you!
