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.”
If Butoh speaks of darkness, Saburo Teshigawara whispers of dim light.
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Luminous / Weight of Shadow
This group piece by Saburo Teshigawara/KARAS premiered in Tokyo in March 2001, before being revised and performed at the Aarhus Festival later that year.
This piece is a search for the essence of movement through its relationship to light and sound. It explores how an unchanging entity such as the human body (through its movements) perceives, adapts, and changes. These changes depend on the shifting optic information and the acoustic environment. This is also apparent in the stage picture. Light and its scattered reflections, resonant and reverberating sound, influence one another, providing a multiple atmosphere for the receptor aka the dancer.
Review
“With Luminous, his latest work on the theme of light and darkness, he dazzles us, sometimes in the literal sense, with the beauty and ingenuity of the sets and lights which act and dance with performers… From the evolution of the shadow and light effects Saburo Teshigawara draws humour, beauty and surprise. Great art.”
Rene Sirvin in Le Figaro