transplanting
We found a theme emerging,a motivation behind all the instructions and questions. Transplanting. We can ask people to do just about anything but why? Or how?
Keeping the theme of transplanting, here are some questions that motivate an instructional form to our performance:
What the hell is bamboo doing in an alley at Stanford?
What are we (humans) doing to our trees?
How long does it take to belong? How hard is the ache of longing and belonging?
What has the bamboo and what have I left behind as we left the Asian subcontinent?
What happens when you go live in Japan for 2 years? What happens when your Japanese spouse returns home with you? And your baby? What is left behind? Where is it left?
What happens when you have a Chinese name but you've grown up in the suburbs? And gone to Stanford?
What happens to a man (me) whose father leaves India for England when he is sixteen and dies when the man (me) is sixteen? Must the man (me) then not leave?
Are we happy where we are? Has anyone asked the bamboo the question? Bamboo, the perfect tree knows many answers to many questions. I hope it can answer mine in ten minutes that I am given. I hope it can answer Brenton's and Edward's as well. And the audience's questions as well.
Keeping the theme of transplanting, here are some questions that motivate an instructional form to our performance:
What the hell is bamboo doing in an alley at Stanford?
What are we (humans) doing to our trees?
How long does it take to belong? How hard is the ache of longing and belonging?
What has the bamboo and what have I left behind as we left the Asian subcontinent?
What happens when you go live in Japan for 2 years? What happens when your Japanese spouse returns home with you? And your baby? What is left behind? Where is it left?
What happens when you have a Chinese name but you've grown up in the suburbs? And gone to Stanford?
What happens to a man (me) whose father leaves India for England when he is sixteen and dies when the man (me) is sixteen? Must the man (me) then not leave?
Are we happy where we are? Has anyone asked the bamboo the question? Bamboo, the perfect tree knows many answers to many questions. I hope it can answer mine in ten minutes that I am given. I hope it can answer Brenton's and Edward's as well. And the audience's questions as well.
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