2017.6.23(fri.)-24(sat.)

Maison de la Culture du Japon à Paris “TOKYO DANCE !”

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Maki Morishita, Mikiko Kawamura, Takao Kawaguchi
Tokyo Dance!
French première

23 & 24.06 / Maison de la culture du Japon à Paris
20:00 / 1h20

Tickets : € 10 / € 5
Online booking

Tokyo / Espace personnel

Choreography and performance
Maki Morishita
First performed in 2005.
Awarded of Grand prix à la Tokyo Competition vol. 2 (2005).
With thanks to The Saison Foundation.

Using adhesive tape, Maki Morishita marks out a square 1.5 by 1.5 metres on the stage. She performs in this space, responding to orders that are delivered off-stage, executing them in a docile, resigned way. Little by little, the orders become increasingly absurd and her movements coalesce into an original, irreverent dance that is full of derision. ‘When I worked at the reception desk of a large insurance company, my body and my mind were imprisoned there because of the pressure of the social conventions. My only moments of freedom were when I was dancing in the lift or in the toilets. These little private spaces of fered me an unlimited expanse where my imagination could take flight. That’s what enabled me to remain calm until the day I left the company. The security guard told me that he was sorry that I had left because he could no longer watch me dance. I didn’t know that the lift was fitted with a camera. ’

Maki Morishita has been creating solo works since 2003. Several of her works have been presented in Korea, Italy, Belgium and Fin-land. She is also an actor and singer in the group Fruity.
maki-m.com

Alphard

Choreography and performance
Mikiko Kawamura
Music
Mikiko Kawamura, Frédéric Chopin
First performed on 2012
Coproduced by Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse Number 1, Dance Triennale Tokyo.
With thanks to The Saison Foundation.

In Alphard, she divides the stage into nine squares that light up one after the other, each revealing a different musical universe. She goes from one to the next, each new space imposing its body grammar. A work of total mastery and insolent inventiveness, Alphard is the work of a complete artist who created the choreography and also composed the music, in addition to performing it herself.

Mikiko Kawamura began street dancing at the age of sixteen. She then trained at the Japan Women’s College of Physical Education. The works of this precocious, highly talented artist won all the major choreography prizes in Japan before being performed internationally. In 2011Mikiko Kawamura, then aged twenty-one, received the prize for best young choreographer at the Yokohama Dance Collection.
kawamuramikiko.com

Good Luck

Conception, choreography and performance
Takao Kawaguchi
Sound
David Vranken
First performed in 2008

In Good Luck, Takao Kawaguchi takes thirty minutes to perform a scene from an imaginary film lasting three minutes. The movements of his body follow the rhythms of sounds recorded in a metro station, a temple, a forest, and so on. They modify our perception of space and time. Just as cinema creates an impression of movement from static images, Kawaguchi gives new meaning to gestures by breaking them down. ‘Our world lives at an unprecedented speed. We do not know where we are going. We have reached a point where we have to slow down, stop even. A new journey is now beginning, one that will not be easy. I wish everyone Good Luck for this journey.’

Takao Kawaguchi was formerly a member of the subversive collective Dumb Type, which explored the fields of performance and new media. For several years, he has been exploring the realms of theatre, the visual arts and dance through inspired, activist performances. After creating About Kazuo Ohno, Kawaguchi worked on Touch of the Other, which was inspired by a sociological study of the sexual relations between men in public toilets in the1960s. Takao Kawaguchi was the director of the Tokyo International Festival of Gay and Lesbian Film in Tokyo from 1996 to 1999.
In this year’s Camping, he is presenting Good Luck.
kawaguchitakao.com

Tokyo Dance! is presented in partnership with and at the Maison de la Culture du Japon in Paris.

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Spectacles – ven. 23 / sam. 24 juin. 2017 à 20h
TOKYO DANCE !
DANSE

Une soirée de trois solos de Maki Morishita, Mikiko Kawamura et Takao Kawaguchi. Trois danseurs chorégraphes de Tokyo, trois facettes de la danse contemporaine made in Japan !

Un carré d’1,5 m de côté, délimité par des bandes adhésives. Dans cette surface exiguë, une femme répète inlassablement les mêmes mouvements au rythme d’une voix off débitant des instructions absurdes. Mais le flot de paroles de plus en plus rapide transforme cette succession de gestes mécaniques en une danse grotesque. Dans Tokyo /Espace personnel, Maki Morishita s’inspire de son quotidien avec un sens aigu de la dérision.

Alphard est une étoile solitaire, la plus brillante de la constellation de l’Hydre. C’est aussi le titre du solo de Mikiko Kawamura. La scène est divisée en neuf carrés de lumière qui, l’un après l’autre, surgissent de l’obscu ­ rité, à chacun de ces carrés correspondant un univers musical différent. Kawamura danse de l’un à l’autre, et nous hypnotise avec son style fluide, précis et dyna ­ mique. Étoile éblouissante, elle a reçu le prix du meilleur jeune chorégraphe au Yokohama Dance Collection EX 2011. Elle avait alors 21 ans.

Takao Kawaguchi se produit dans le monde entier en tant que membre du subversif collectif Dumb Type de 1996 à 2008. Conjuguant théâtre, danse, arts visuels et plastiques, il crée ensuite de nombreux solos, notamment sur l’homosexualité, et deux pièces en hommage à deux fondateurs du buto : Kazuo Ohno et Tatsumi Hijikata. Dans Good Luck, il interprète en 30 minutes une scène de film imaginaire de 3 minutes. Les mouvements de son corps épousent les rythmes des sons enregistrés dans une station de métro, un temple, une forêt… Ce solo modifie notre perception de l’espace et du temps, comme si nous regardions un film au ralenti.

Maki Morishita Tokyo / Espace personnel
Chorégaphe et interprète > Maki Morishita
Durée 10 minutes
Créé en 2005
Lauréat du Grand Prix à la Tokyo Competition Vol.2
Avec le soutien de la Saison Foundation

Mikiko Kawamura Alphard
Chorégaphe et interprète > Mikiko Kawamura
Musique Mikiko Kawamura, Frédéric Chopin
Durée 25 minutes
Créé en 2012 —
Co-production Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse Number1 / Dance Triennale Tokyo
Avec le soutien de la Saison Foundation

Takao Kawaguchi Good Luck
Conception, Chorégraphie et performance Takao Kawaguchi
Son David Vranken
Durée 30 minutes
Créé en 2008

Grande salle (niveau -3)
Tarif 10 € / Adhérent MCJP et CND 5€
Réservation sur cette page
Avec Le CND, Centre National de la Danse
Dans le cadre de Camping, Plateforme chorégraphique Internationale