19 East-Asian Canadian artists were asked, "What does it mean to you to be a model minority?" This video aims to answer that question, also in response to other artists' answers to the same question. 

*WATCH THE FULL VIDEO ON YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9R6rzL5eVQ&t=5s


It was created as part of a larger project called SUPERMODEL commissioned by Cahoots Theatre. Learn more about the project and hear from the artistic director, Tanisha Tate here:   

*SUPERMODEL The Seed by Tanisha Taitt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCMhFiXCApU&t=0s 

Written and performed by Teiya Kasahara 笠原 貞野 
https://www.teiyakasahara.com/
August 2021

Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Fantasia No. 3 in D minor, K. 397/385g

"Le Fantasie de l'Orient"

*a work-in-progress

My latest project is called The Butterfly Project: The Ballad of Chō-Chō San, where I reimagine Puccini’s Madama Butterfly by focusing on the Japanese folk songs he used and illuminating them to their original intention while at the same time bringing them into the 21st century with live and recorded electronics and operatic singing. 

Excerpt acquired from Mechanical Forest Sound: https://mechanicalforestsound.blogspot.com/2020/04/recording-teiya-kasahara.html

Women From Space Festival

The Butterfly Project*: The Ballad of Chō-Chō San

This sound design of "And what's next, eternity?" was created and performed by Teiya Kasahara 笠原 貞野 for an experimental presentation for the LEVEL UP Design Symposium hosted by the ADC (Associated Designers of Canada) January 26, 2021 over Zoom.

This sound design accompanied a live performer (Kasahara) moving in relation to a 3-D environment (created by Jaclyn Turner) with live projections (created/performed by Natjelly Lozada) over a 2-screened Zoom presentation and directed by Amanda Smith.

Original collaboration by artists: Teiya Kasahara 笠原 貞野, Natjelly Lozada, Amanda Smith, and Jaclyn Turner.

And what's next, eternity?

Nikkei Canadian settler Teiya Kasahara 笠原貞野 (they/them) is a queer, trans non-binary opera singer and interdisciplinary theatre creator based in Tkarón:to/Treaty 13, and was recently featured in a CBC short-doc OPERA TRANS*FORMED. Heralded as “an artist with extraordinary things to say” (The Globe and Mail), Teiya comes from a background of over a decade and a half of singing both traditional and contemporary operatic roles across North America and Europe, recently having performed their critically acclaimed operatic-play THE QUEEN IN ME at the National Arts Centre, among others roles at Canadian Opera Company (Pomegranate, Salome cover) and Kingston Symphony Orchestra (soprano soloist in Beethoven’s 9th). 

In their practice they explore the intersections of identity through their original works such as THE BUTTERFLY PROJECT (Confluence Concerts; Toronto Summer Music Festival); RIVER ISLAND (in development with re:Naissance Opera). Teiya is a co-founder of Amplified Opera, an artistic associate with Confluence Concerts and long-time collaborator with re:Naissance Opera. This season they will perform with Jeremy Dutcher, ChamberQueer in New York City, and sing the soprano solo in Verdi’s Requiem with the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir. For more information visit www.teiyakasahara.com.

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