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WHEN IS ENOUGH?
THE DANCE ENTHUSIAST Audience Review
from 7 Midnights Physical Research 1/7/ 2024
DOUBLE BIND
体に絡みついている髪が印象的な始まりでした。衣装の一つとしても効果的で、縛られている印象を持ったままダンサーたちが右往左往、動き続けていて、精一杯生きている人間を見ているようでした。黙々と動き続けることを選んでるのかもしれないし、試行錯誤を繰り返して感情が動いるのかもしれない。どちらにせよ自由ではなさそう。広いと思っているこの世界も、宇宙から見たらこの舞台のように限られた自分の周りだけの世界に過ぎないのかもしれません。その中にいて、しかも縛られている。後半の解かれた髪はまるで犬の首に巻かれた鎖のようだし、遠くまで行けないように誰かに持たれています。体は目一杯動いていても、どこか動きにくさや閉塞感を感じます。Double bindというタイトル通り、どちらを選んでも悪い状況だとしてもその中にも小さいHappyを感じて、自分を信じて生きていきたい。最後の「It is your choice」で責任感みたいなものを感じました。
from DOUBLE BIND premiere on March 24th, 2023 at 9pm as part of the Spark Theater Festival / Emerging Artists Theatre New Works Series at the TADA! Youth Theater.
By Julian Magazine
SARAIKAMOVEMENTCOLLECTIVE によるアートパフォーマンスが、1993年にアーティスティックダイレクター、Paul Adams によって創立された EMERGING ARTISTS THEATREの30周年を記念して行われているフェスティバルで観る事ができた。力強い音楽と共に現れたダンサーは、どこか異次元からあらわれた新しい生物のようにみえた。なびくブロンドのブレードと共に各自が交わっていく。生命の強さを感じる素晴らしいパフォーマンスでした。
from DOUBLE BIND premiere on March 24th, 2023 at 9pm as part of the Spark Theater Festival / Emerging Artists Theatre New Works Series at the TADA! Youth Theater.
I CHOOSE MYSELF
from Creative Performances presents “Our Bodies! A Protest in Dance!” 4/5/2023
from Creative Performances presents “Our Bodies! A Protest in Dance!” 4/5/2023
YOU DON'T HAVE TO LOVE ME, JUST ACCEPT ME
THE DANCE ENTHUSIAST Audience Review
from Mark DeGarmo Dance Salon Performance Series for Social Change 5/4/2023
THE DANCE ENTHUSIAST Audience Review
from Mark DeGarmo Dance Salon Performance Series for Social Change 5/4/2023
BLOCKS
FROM AN ART CRITIC - RYO SAWAYAMA
I got interested in their aim trying to find possibilities of dance in blocks game.
Friedrich Fröbel, a German pedagogue, invented block games and blocks were one of the most important objects of his child-centered approach to education. ( Froebel gifts)
He foud out an intuitive way to grasp the world in blocks.
‘INTUITIVE’ in this case means the physical aspect that we grab ‘objects’ (blocks) directly by our hands.
In other words, block game is related to movements and body, and it has direct connection with grasping the world.
Therefore, I found resonance between dance and their perspective they see in blocks to see direct connection between body and grasping the world.
In this point of view, I was watching Ms. Pizzi’s activities themselves -building and breaking blocks- as “DANCE”.
Ms. Takeshima was dancing behind her, so she looked like she was doing a dance session with blocks in a screen.
Usually block game is considered as a toy to be piled and build something, but it has another important aspect that we can break and rebuild again and again.
In other words, block game can be a symbol of repetition of ‘Building / Destroying’, and ‘Creation / Annihilation’.
Therefore, block game is really similar to nature cycle and slso our body in the point of metabolism.
In this performance, they put emphasis on an interactive elements. So the performance itself was in mobility that everything could go to anywhere no one could guess. And I felt it might be also related to block games, fluidity of nature and metabolism that block games suggest.
In this meaning, we can think that not only Ms. Takeshima’s dance and movements of blocks, but also movements of Ms. Pizzi’s fingers and ‘talking’ can be a kind of dance.
(It reminds me of Yvonne Rainer, who made a dance work using just by her hands while she was in a hospital.)
Their performance gave me an impression that they were trying out those expanded dance experience using Zoom which is expanded medium in various meanings.
– Ryo Sawayama