In “Gherm,” the second performance on the program, Waewdao performs with guest artist (and husband), Michael Sakamoto, a butoh-based dance theater artist and scholar from America. Waewdao and Michael take the audience on a humorous, subversive ride through married life in between cultures, languages, and nations. Chicken feet, sukiyaki, pop music, wartime occupation, and romance combine in this expression of trans-Pacific love. Gherm was commissioned in 2014 by Bangkok University’s Performing Arts Department and toured to Vancouver and Victoria in Canada.