Though it’s not technically billed as a knife project, writer/director Aya Ogawa and designer Jeanette Yew are collaborating with Queens-based Nepali advocacy group Adhikaar to create a new piece commissioned by The Foundry Theatre.

Yatra Samudra Samma: Journey to the Ocean is an invented festival for the future in which past stories of injustice and violence unfold to their imagined resolutions. Ritual, song and dance collide with technology in this bilingual performance that posits hope for equity and equality in the community that is New York.

Here is a rehearsal clip!

Cleaning Dance Rehearsal 4/16/2011 from Jeanette Yew on Vimeo.

April 30 + May 1, 2011 at 4:00pm

Free tickets become available at 2:00 pm at the Rubin Museum of Art admissions desk (Four tickets maximum per person, no advance reservations)