Love Masters is a multimedia performance art play centered around a seventy minute tantric massage session with the Love Masters: the tantric massage master and his tantric massage slave. During the 70 min. session, the audience will have the unique opportunity to presence a spiritual, yet highly sensual and at times erotic connection between master and slave, in a piece that aims to urge the audience to focus on the present moment.
Music, visual images and narrative mixed with free-style poetry will serve as the “brain” of the piece. These elements will bring forth the worries, anxieties, thoughts, fears and memories (good and bad) that invade the minds of the master and slave -as they surrender to each other during the session- revealing the “soul” of each character. These revelations, conceptualized around each one of the seven chakras in our body, are all true events, the real stories behind the master and slave. This way, the master and slave share their own humanity with the audience in a naked, honest and humble way, while they journey together in search of divine light. The movement of the master as he “dances” through the massage, and of the videographer who will be capturing the massage session sending live video feed onto the screen(s) onstage; plus the natural physical interaction between slave and master, will add to the dynamics of movement and intimacy of the play.
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Born in Cusco and raised in Lima, Peru; Erick Paiva-Nouchi has spent
half his life between two continents: the Americas and Asia. As a thirdgeneration
Japanese-Peruvian, Erick at the age of seventeen, joined the
thousands of Japanese-Peruvians (including his parents and sister) that left
Peru in the early 1990’s to work in factories across Japan. In 2006, Erick
decides to move to New York City to pursue a career in the Performing Arts.
At Kingsborough Community College in Brooklyn, Erick discovers his
creative path as an experimental dancer and performance artist and adopts
a new name: Rico Noguchi. At the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) Erick
finds his third eye: video; medium which he naturally extends to his
performances but which also sparks an interest in documentary
filmmaking, interest that would grow after being accepted to the School of
General Studies at Columbia University. Armed with these new talents,
Erick returns to Japan briefly to stay with his parents and document what is
like to live there as an immigrant blue-collar worker. From this footage,
Mirror of Stone, his first short film, was born. Mirror of Stone has been
shown at the Globians Film Festival in Germany and obtained an honorary
award by the Asian American Research Institute in New York. Erick then
went on to create Latinos in Japan, a short film featured on the BBC as part
of the BBC’s My World competition.
Back in New York, Erick as Rico Noguchi, is spotted by Nicky Paraiso,
curator at La MaMa E.T.C., and invites him to perform there in 2008. In
2009, Rico returns to La MaMA as part of La MaMa Moves! Dance
Festival, which in turn leads him to John McCormack of INTAR Theater,
where Erick develops a full length piece titled Butoh Rocks! Erick then is
approached by Bill Coleman, owner of record label and management
agency Peace Bisquit to join the dance group The Daisy Spurs where he
stayed until April, 2011.
Erick’s current piece, Love Masters, is the first production of his own
company ASOBI NY and it’s created to celebrate love, life, the acceptance of
our own history and spiritual journeys. Erick Paiva-Nouchi is proud and
excited to share Love Masters with the public.
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