“Anatta” is a program of collaborative works that takes its title from a term in Buddhist thought concerning the illusory nature of the self. Amy Knoles is a composer and a fearless explorer of all means and manner of percussive sound, from the homeliest to the most technologically experimental. Bob Bellerue describes himself as “a noise artist involved in a wide range of live creative weirdness, focused primarily on live experimental electronic noise art.” Michael Sakamoto (“shades of Pina Bausch, crossed with Woody Allen”—Los Angeles Times) is a choreographer and performer of uncanny nuance and intensity, laced with a surprising dollop of absurdist humor. Trained in the traditional LANNA dance tradition of northern Thailand, Waewdao Sirisook has also studied dance in Bali and blends her deep knowledge of tradition with an open, yet critical, receptiveness to contemporary global forms.

Combining electronic mixology, lo-tech invention, Butoh, contemporary performance, and traditional Thai dance, “Anatta” delves into contemplative physical practices and imagery based in key Buddhist concepts—permanence and impermanence, joy and suffering, form and emptiness—to express a benevolent core of human experience and the integration of body, mind, and spirit.