Renaissance Man of Dance
Saburo Teshigawara is a highly imaginative choreographer who fills his performances with ideas. “Dance is not simple. But dance can be simple. And it can also be complex. What is important is clarity.”
“Minus 273°C … In chemistry when it’s that temperature, everything stops totally.”
No Words or Touch: A duet created from trust and the air shared between them. “Dancing is for people to mutually feel joy with one another.”
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Absolute Zero / Human Warmth
In 1995, Teshigawara established the Saburo Teshigawara Education Project (Step) to teach his techniques and nurture young dancers. Established in London, the award-winning youth project is organized in association with the London International Festival of Theatre (LIFT), The Place and KARAS. These workshops, along with those he holds regularly in Tokyo, involve the participants – most of them non-professionals – in public performances. STEP 2000, with collaborators from Helsinki’s STOA cultural centre, was a year-long project that involved vision-impaired people in a work called Flower Eyes. Teshigawara is interested in what vision-impaired dancers can teach him about sensory perception, space and dance.
“I don’t want to focus on the problems or people overcoming problems but on their potential. How do they feel and create space? How do they get the idea and create qualities in the body and environment?”