Venture outdoors to the grounds of the Japan America Theater to celebrate the harvest moon with a purifying performance. Conceived by artist and zen archer Hirokazu Kosaka, Mare Serenitatis, features choreographer and Japanese Butoh dancer Oguri, Japanese classical court music Gagaku and dance Bugaku, and Zen Archers. The experiential performance blends traditional rites of purification from Japan with classical and contemporary Western sensibilities. Reaching back to the primal sounds of man and the hunt, the evening begins when a Zen Archer shoots an arrow over the distance of the stage, instantly purifying the space. Migrating across a desert, the post-war influenced Butoh dancer breathes life into the newly purified space. For one small instant the search stops and the present prevails before moving on in the journey again. The evening ends with a large 12-million candlelight Searchlight stretching its horizontal beam across the sky, illuminating the journey’s path while a lone-archer releases his arrow into the darkness of the night.

Performers include: Hirokazu Kosaka, Oguri, IKKYU Zen Archers, Kinnara Gagaku/Bugaku, Tetsuya Nakamura, Kaoru Watanabe and BodyTraffic Majikina Honryu, and Koyasan Buddhist priests.