White Stones

A world premiere performance from Japanese-American musician Kaoru Watanabe and Lakota performance and visual artist Kite (Suzanne Kite), weaving two ancestral inheritances into a single soundscape.

On Japanese drums, flute, koto, voice, violin, electronics, and invented instruments, the artists move between meditative stillness and ritual intensity, drawing on the sacred vocabularies of Noh theater and Lakota ceremonial practice — both centered on stone, cast in patterns across the performance space. Kite's sovereign AI, built entirely from Indigenous worldviews and ancestral stories, shapes what unfolds in real time.

A collaboration that asks what it means to seek ancestral guidance in a country built on forgetting.

Followed by a private gathering for artists and members.