Kokoro Dance - Ghosts

Eerie and tortured souls drifting in and out of consciousness. This powerful performance by Kokoro Dance is unforgettable. I can still remember the convoluted wrecked silent cries and screams from contorted faces suffering in a vicious cycle of pain as these ghosts performed their dance of memories long ago that probably still haunt them for eternity. Several many ghostly dances were happening around the formation surrounding the bag-pipers with powdered white faces. Those white flowing gowns with long trails of red and black gives the effect of bleeding blood and the blackness of death these wounded souls seem to convey with their painful expressions and contorted bodies. Some bodies lift up in flight as others keel over in suffering. I loved the emotions these tortured souls expressed in their haunting dance of thoughts and emotions trapped in present time. Sometimes, each individual seem in their own world until fleetingly they notice one another, only to drift away again consumed by their emotional state.

Photos by Yvonne Chew
taken on August 3, 2008

Powell Street Festival
Location: Sunrise Market Rooftop, Vancouver
Kokoro Dance - Ghosts
http://www.kokoro.ca