MIROKU

Choreography/set design/lighting design/costume design : Saburo Teshigawara
Music selection : Kei Miyata, Neil Griffiths, Saburo Teshigawara
Cast : Saburo Teshigawara
Duration: 60 minutes
Premiere : 8, Dec 2007 at New National Theatre Tokyo
Production: KARAS / New National Theatre Tokyo
Tour Records:
2008 Montpellier
2009 Lyon, Marseille, Paris, Reggio-Emilia
2010 Ibos-Tarbes, Toulouse, Colombus, Minneapolis, Ottawa
　　　Montreal, NewYork
2011 Grenoble

MIROKU is a new solo piece danced by Saburo Teshigawara.
For Teshigawara, dance is the continuity of the future completing each second before us. Sense of time emerges from the body movement, and space from the movement and time.
Time, space, light, fragility, extremity, velocity, ... all that we experience through his dance create an eternity beyond time, where everything seems to harmonize within such delicate yet powerful tension.
The blue box stage set, changes its phase each moment with the magic of his lighting design. Standing alone in this environment, Teshigawara's body starts to speak for itself.

works list

公演情報

1.Athens (Greece)

Cast

Saburo Teshigawara

Date

15th, 16th Athens 2011

Venue

Megaron The Athens Concert Hall - Alexandra Trianti Hall

Presenter

Megaron, The Athens Concert Hall

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REVIEWS

As Mr. Teshigawara has stated, "What is important with dance is whether it is alive or not." While the power of "Miroku" ebbed and flowed, Mr. Teshigawara was not only alive, but also untouchable. You can't catch a sprit.

The New York Times 12/Jul/2010 by Gia Kourlas

Teshigawara floated freely with invisible energies pulsating around him - arms and torso like undulating tendrils. Fascinating, ever-changing lighting and music - an ongoing sound - light - escape - created the sense of a total environment in which the artist was completely engulfed and yet completely at once. Teshigawara's Miroku explores the time-space continuum through light, sound and, of course, movement. But it's still one artist onstage performing alone, which makes it all the more amazing that this one work and one artist so masterfully created the sense of the eternal.

The Columbus Dispatch 17/Apr/2010 by Barbara Zuck