Megan Kurashige

Dancer. Choreographer. Writer. Co-director of @SharpandFine, a San Francisco-based dance company that believes in telling stories. (she/her)

[Megan Kurashige @mkazoo]

@JenniferNorris2 So true. Many of the new folks who have been engaging with Sharp & Fine are coming to us through Instagram first and direct experience second.

[Megan Kurashige @mkazoo]

@benloory Seriously! It was slightly embarrassing because it was a press event (I’m not sure why we got those tickets). So it was a bunch of cultural commentators being very serious and engaged and then the two of us doing the sleepy bob and weave.

[Megan Kurashige @mkazoo]

@benloory My favorite terrible movies are the ones about which I can’t articulate anything specifically positive and yet are somehow endearing/fascinating.

[Megan Kurashige @mkazoo]

@benloory Also, this reminds me of this one time when my friend and I went to see a new piece by a rather famous contemporary choreographer in Berlin. It was in a sort of installation space and they literally LOCKED US IN. So instead of leaving when I was frustrated, I fell asleep 😆

[Megan Kurashige @mkazoo]

@benloory 😂 I am sorry to say that I am amused by the mental image of this Ben Loory cinematic suffering.

[Megan Kurashige @mkazoo]

@JenniferNorris2 @BayBookFest I used to work at @Booksmith and have fond memories of working/hanging out at a Bay Area Book Festival booth on a sunny weekend. I think I was reading All the Birds in the Sky by @charliejane at the time and she was doing an event. It was all just a day of extravagant book joy.

[psychotronica @psychotronica_]

The Special Effects of Karel Zeman
1980 / Czechoslovakia / Karel Zeman

[Megan Kurashige @mkazoo]

This thread articulates so many of my feelings about making art in difficult times and making art in general. Trust, connection, joy, beauty, dedication to one another, and love.

[Club Fugazi @clubfugazisf]

A short thread on why Dear San Francisco, in the face of all the harshness and tragedy in the world today. I don’t want to offer a banal “art matters” rationale, but I want to unpack what feels authentically important about the show, the form, art, et al, right now. 1/?

[Megan Kurashige @mkazoo]

@clubfugazisf I’m also in SF and had been planning to see Dear San Francisco in April with some friends/collaborators. Will now look forward to it even more. Thank you!

[Megan Kurashige @mkazoo]

@clubfugazisf This whole thread struck me so hard. I’m a choreographer and this articulates the thoughts that my sister (my co-choreographer) and I have been having lately. Making art matters if it asks you to remember why and how you want to live. ❤️

[Megan Kurashige @mkazoo]

@KatWithSword Thank you! It’s kind of a challenge… super short creation time (we only have 9 rehearsals to make a 15-min piece)… but definitely interesting. Maybe we can have a catch-up chat and we can gossip about making dance and making stories?

[Megan Kurashige @mkazoo]

My sister and I are working on a new piece for Oakland Ballet to premiere later this month. Here, looking for all the feelings with Aidan’s long limbs. 🖤

[Megan Kurashige @mkazoo]

@neilhimself Laughing so hard imagining you saying this. I can’t decide which is less Neil-like, “baby girl” or “outmost pleasure.”

[David A. Marcus, MD @EMIMDoc]

As an ethicist who teaches #medstudents about the ethics of organ allocation I'm thrilled that organ transplantation is in the news. But many are troubled by the latest case. Is it right to refuse a heart to the unvaxxed? Who decides? Read on for, I hope, some clarity... A🧵...

[Megan Kurashige @mkazoo]

@notSunnybrook Congratulations!💗

[Megan Kurashige @mkazoo]

@KatWithSword @SharpandFine So happy that you were able to join! One day we will get to have you at a show in person, but it was so special to share a show with you at last, even on a screen. ❤️

[Megan Kurashige @mkazoo]

@gillyarcht 🙋🏻‍♀️ Recently moved to an apartment in the Richmond with many old windows... there’s so much creaking going on that I feel like I’m in a beleaguered ship! Also a high pitched whistling tone... wondering if this is the GG bridge noise I’ve heard about.

[Megan Kurashige @mkazoo]

@KatWithSword Please do, Dr. Howard!

[Megan Kurashige @mkazoo]

@haszombiesinit So gorgeous. 😍