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Los Angeles Times, July 22, 2006 (Victoria Looseleaf)
Los Angeles Times, April 28, 2006 (David C. Nichols)
Backstage West, April 27, 2006
The Oregonian, March 1, 2006 (Catherine Thomas)
San Francisco Bay Guardian, June 26, 2003 (Rita Felciano)
The Voice of Dance, August 12, 2002 (Allan Ullrich)
KCRW Dance Notes, July 11, 2002 (Sasha Anawalt)
LA Weekly, September 29, 2000 (Luis Reyes)
LA Weekly, August 6, 1999 (Luis Reyes)
Los Angeles Times, August 3, 1999 (Lewis Segal)
KCRW Dance Notes
July 11, 2002
Dance Review - "Doctor Chi!"
by Sasha Anawalt, Dance Writer
A curious dance-ish event is taking place tonight and through the weekend at Highways Performance Space in Santa Monica: Michael Sakamoto's "Doctor Chi!" Trained with Rachel Rosenthal, he brings to the stage and to his work also a strong background in Japanese butoh. So "Doctor Chi!" might be about an evil German megalomaniac who butters his sexual bread on both sides Ð a kind of Austin Powers/Dr. Evil goes Cabaret -- but Sakamoto accents the movements values with twitchy, broken, mesmerizing butoh. And, in the intriguing dance sections, he slips between that which verges on annoying and clichŽ and that which is rare and strange and somehow beautiful.