{"id":141867,"date":"2025-08-13T08:05:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T08:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/141867\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T08:05:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T08:05:11","slug":"breaking-the-frame-two-solo-shows-on-art-identity-from-august-21-23-the-south-pasadenan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/141867\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cBreaking the Frame: Two Solo Shows on Art & Identity\u201d from August 21\u201323 | The South Pasadenan"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"PHOTO:<\/a>PHOTO: Japanese American National Museum | The South Pasadenan | The Democracy Center presents \u201cBreaking the Frame: Two Solo Shows on Art and Identity\u201d<\/p>\n

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Media Release | Japanese National Museum (JANM)<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n

The Daniel K. Inouye National Center for the Preservation of Democracy (Democracy Center) at the Japanese National Museum (JANM) presents\u00a0Breaking the Frame: Two Solo Shows on Art and Identity from Thursday, August 21, through Saturday, August 23, 2025, in the Tateuchi Democracy Forum. A post-show Q&A panel with the artists will follow the matinee performance on August 23. Tickets are $20 and are available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"PHOTO:PHOTO Japanese American National Museum | The South Pasadenan | The Democracy Center presents Breaking the Frame Two Solo Shows on Art and Identity<\/p>\n

Breaking the Frame: Two Solo Shows on Art and Identity\u00a0explores what happens when two Asian American solo performers fall deeply in love with Western mediums\u2014movies and opera\u2014only to discover that they both may be in too deep. In the wake of recent \u201cyellowface\u201d accusations on Broadway, Hmong-American actor\u00a0Bee Vang\u00a0of Clint Eastwood\u2019s\u00a0Gran Torino\u00a0and local-born actor and opera singer\u00a0Kurt Kanazawa\u00a0deliver emotionally charged and satirical indictments of two Western art forms that continue to harm Asian Americans and BIPOCs, today. The performance is directed by\u00a0Jeff Liu\u00a0(East West Players) and co-directed by\u00a0Kalina Ko\u00a0(Hedgerow Theatre Company), with lighting design and assistant direction by\u00a0Josh Bennett.<\/p>\n

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Opening the program is Vang\u2019s solo show,\u00a0Your Movie Guide to Life\u00a0(2025), where the actor and lifelong cinephile delves into the shaping power of cinema, Hmong history, his anti-war activism, and his leading role in Gran Torino. \u00a0This forty-five-minute solo performance weaves together existential horror in films with Bee\u2019s inherited histories\u2014both personal and geopolitical.<\/p>\n

Closing the program is Kanazawa\u2019s solo show,\u00a0L\u2019OPERA!\u00a0(2024), about a fun-loving, Japanese and Filipino-American opera singer who gets into The Juilliard School\u2026then loses his voice. A funny, multilingual fifty-two-minute solo performance that travels through the streets of New York City, Southern Italy, Hollywood, and Beijing and features live performances of songs, including originals,\u00a0L\u2019OPERA!\u00a0is anything but Euro-centric classical.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOTO: Japanese American National Museum | The South Pasadenan | The Democracy Center presents \u201cBreaking the Frame: Two…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":141868,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[11321,1582,11323,276,1322,2961,224,5337,11324,11325,84469],"class_list":{"0":"post-141867","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-arts-entertainment","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-calendar-events","11":"tag-california","12":"tag-featured","13":"tag-la","14":"tag-los-angeles","15":"tag-losangeles","16":"tag-music-reviews","17":"tag-south-pasadena-news","18":"tag-theatre-reviews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115020426707967485","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}