MIROKU

Towards the end, little white confetti like snow start to fall, and suddenly the back wall falls down and opens up a vast darkness like the gate leading to space… And at that moment the dancer sitting against the side wall, slowly lies down… This last moment, was a moment where the dancer became one with the universe in pure stillness… The first half of the piece a life is born from darkness, as if floating in the water, pleasantly melting with the surrounding air.The fluidity in the movement seems so natural, that stillness seems to be an extreme unnaturalness. But this fluid movement turns to an edgy vibrating movement together with exploding or metallic sound coming in. This expression was not just an interior transformation, but the change of the quality of the body itself, and this way of dancing made one feel as if the surrounding substances that the skin touches became something totally different. And beyond this materialized time, came the blissful nothingness. Thus Teshigawara transformed his body quality skillfully, erasing the body and reaching the dance of the soul. He approached the ultimate form of dance, and created a magnificent epic of the human spirit. The lights and its colors created by himself was exceptionally beautiful.