Frequent Flyers’ newest show, Enérgeia: bright and unbearable realities, is the creation of Issac Endo (nee Koji Endo). They are a queer, Japanese-American, Boulder-native with an illustrious career in circus, performance art, and film, who began their journey at Frequent Flyers when they were 7 years of age.
Using projection onto alternative surfaces, invented aerial apparatus, pulleys, and small boxes that transform the set and the performers, Enérgeia will be unlike any other Frequent Flyers’ performance.
Issac will perform alongside six of Frequent Flyers’ professional company members: Laurel Johnson, Whitney Moore, Valerie Morris, Michelle Randolph, Anastasia Timina, Midnite Townsend, and Artistic Director, Nancy Smith; along with two of Frequent Flyers’ pre-professional teen students, Emily Clemson & James Tindle.
Issac Endo Artist statement for Enérgeia:
I work to find the energy in the performers, the part of them that is so brilliant that I cannot look away, but to continue looking would blind me. I will elevate this on-stage so that an audience can see them the way I do.