Japan (2011)

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Japan explores the physical and poetic vocabulary of agony. It investigates contraction, release, fainting, waking-up, coma, fight, collapse, fall, resurrection, slow death, fast death, the testament. The piece aims to realise the potential of the dancing body as intense, poetic, violent and absurd. The choreographic structure creates a surrealist universe and a “hyper” dynamic energy.

choreography, dance
Simon Tanguy

lighting design
Pablo Fontdevila

music
Christoph Scherbaum

dramaturgy
Katerina Bakatsaki

co-production
Théâtre de la Ville de Paris
SNDO Amsterdam

ITS choreography Award 2011

premiered at Melkweg Theater (Amsterdam, NL)

Performances:
2017
– Le Samovar (Paris, FR)
2015
– Van Gogh Museum (Amsterdam, NL)
– Festival 360 | La Passerelle (Saint-Brieuc, FR)
– Festival L’art des corps (Lagorce, FR)
2014
– Festival Maison Sens Dessus Dessous, Maison de la Danse (Lyon, FR)
2012
– Centre chorégraphique national (Rillieux-la-Pape, FR)
– Théâtre du fil de l’eau (Pantin, FR)
– La Nef (Paris, FR)
– Huis Van Bourgondie (Maastricht, NL)
2011
– Théâtre des Abbesses (Paris, FR)
– Short Theater Festival (Rome, IT)
– CCN de La Rochelle (La Rochelle, FR)
– Musée de la Danse CCN (Rennes, FR)
– Hetveem Theater, (Amsterdam, NL)
– CNDC, Angers (FR)
– ITS festival, Theater Frascati (Amsterdam, NL)
– Zeitraumexit (Mannheim, DE)
– Ufer Studios (Berlin, DE)
– Melkweg Theater (Amsterdam, NL)