Wǔ Fēnzhōng
Choreographer:
Kensaku Shinohara
In collaboration with
Seed Dance Company (Taiwan)
ICU Modern Dance Society (Japan)
Video collaborator: John Taiken Atanacio
Premiere at International Christian University, Tokyo / September 18-20, 2018
Runtime: 30min
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.
Rehearsing hugging: exploring intimacy in gesture
PROCESS:
March 2-3, 2019 (film showing)
International Dance Film Festival, Spiral Hall, Tokyo
September 18-20, 2018 (premiere)
International Christian University, Tokyo
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)]
This project was funded by
