Growing Takes Time is a real-life video game disguised as a dance performance: you “pluck” PikMii dancers like game tokens and guide them through high-stakes childhood-anxiety games (slap hands, red light/green light, hot potato). Tensions build as PikMii grapple in real-time duets inspired by jiu-jitsu—only when conflict is resolved can a flower bloom. When your PikMii’s flower “blooms,” you win prizes, and every physical mission you complete shapes the choreography’s next move. By turning relational conflict into participatory dance, Growing Takes Time transforms audience action into collective movement and growth.

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Growing Takes Time Debuts in SoHo with Jiu Jitsu-Inspired Movement

"The piece explored themes of growth and hardship, unraveling through an hour-long rotational performance that combined grappling movements inspired by jiu jitsu with surreal, plantlike costuming influenced by Pikmin."

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Growing Takes Time: An Immersive Arcade Night in SoHo

"Set in an arcade-like world, this immersive experience puts you at the center of the action — whether you choose to watch or play."

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