Optional Music by Bruce Odland
Thousand Years Waiting is a storytelling piece with original music and movement, threading three generations of women’s memories through time and space. A woman today, in New York City, is reading a memoir written one thousand years ago by a woman in Japan; the woman writing her memoir in old Japan is reading The Tale of Genji. The history of storytelling is woven like a spider’s web, and the woman in the present steps in and out of real and fictional worlds in the past.