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Wǔ Fēnzhōng (2018)
Conceived and Choreographed by:
Kensaku Shinohara in collaboration with Seed Dance Company (Taiwan) and ICU Modern Dance Society (Japan)
Video collaborator: John Taiken Atanacio
Supported by Japan ICU Foundation Project Grant
Wǔ Fēnzhōng explores the potential of untrained body, cross cultural language and gesture, and perception and expectation about time.Commissioned by ICU Modern Dance Society, Shinohara worked with 12 dancers (with little traditional training) to create this 30-minute-long piece with repetitive gestures, time control by cell phone, immersive experience with audience facing each other, and some texts read in Japanese and Mandarin.
2019 SCREENING
March 2-3, 2019, Spiral Hall, Tokyo
International Dance Film Festival curated by Naoto Iina
2018 PERFORMANCE
September 18-20, 2018, International Christian University, Tokyo
2016 DEVELOPMENT
October 10-21, 2016, Seed Dance (Pingtung) and Tainan University of Technology (Tainan) [種子舞團(屏東), 台南科技大学(台南)]
January 25, 2016, Seed Dance (Pingtung) [種子舞團(屏東)]