By Register Staff

NEW HAVEN — “MESs,” by the Japanese multimedia performance group Baby-Q, will be the final presentation of this season’s No Boundaries: A Series of Global Performances, presented by the World Performance Project at Yale and the Yale Repertory Theatre.

Baby-Q members choreographer Yoko Higashino and Toshio Kajiwara will perform the work at the Iseman Theater, 1156 Chapel St., for three performances, 8 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

The 45-minute show, which Asahi Newspaper called “fascinating” and “a vision of apocalyptic darkness penetrated by a pop sensibility,” explores gender and transformation “in a world of constant loss and confusion” with piercing lasers and flashing LEDs to a techno beat.

Free talkbacks with the Baby-Q artists follow each performance.

Higashino received the 2004 Toyota Choreographer Award, the 2005 Next Generation Choreographer Award and the 2005 Yokohama Solo and Duo Award and Grand Prize.

In addition to the talkback, the following free programs are also being held in conjunction with “MESs”:

Tuesday, 6-8 p.m. Workshop with Yoko Higashino, limited to 30 spots on first-come, first-served basis, Broadway Loft Studios, 294 Elm St., 3rd Floor Dance Studio.

Wednesday, 5:30-7:30 p.m. “Baby-Q and the Bio-Politics of Japanese Choreography in the Wake of Butoh” Lecture by Reginald Jackson, associate professor, University of Chicago, response by Paige McGinley, assistant professor in theater studies, Yale University, Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St., Room 208.

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