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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)
LA Weekly
September 29, 2000
Theater Review - "Fugue"
by Luis Reyes, Theater Writer
Michael Sakamoto draws from the Japanese butoh tradition in his Fugue, four vignettes dismantling the iconography surrounding male pop idols through the decades. His last character, a Glenn Gouldesque piano virtuoso, satirizes the commodification of such classical artists in today's sound-bite culture. Sakamoto moves like a marionette with stylized syncopation, continually molding his face into different expressions for each character as if organically donning and shedding masks.