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KAZAHANA
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PRELUDE FOR DAWN
GREEN (RAJ PACKET)
LUMINOUS
ABSOLUTE ZERO
CHOREOGRAPHIC WORKS FOR OTHER COMPANIES

Pieces of glass reflect the fragment of time. Bodies confront, waver in unquantifiable contradictions amplify and explore the unknown aesthetics. Accompanied by prominent KARAS dancers, Saburo Teshigawara performs on a massive square made of countless broken glass pieces.
Premiered in Tokyo, on 15th, 16th, 17th December 2006.

Duration: 70 min. (with intermission)

Production: KARAS (Tokyo)
Co-production: The New National Theatre (Tokyo)

Choreography, Set design, Lighting Design, Costume: Saburo Teshigawara
Artistic collaboration: Kei Miyata
Choreography assistant: Rihoko Sato

GLASS TOOTH REVIEWS

3 dancers clad in black, settled on a black stage. All elements form an enigmatic world of deep darkness. By expanding the black world, invisible become visible.
After the intensive creation period in Italy 2006 summer, it has been premiered in Ferrara in Italy on 28th October 2006.

Duration: 60 min.

Production : KARAS in co-production with Teatro Comunale di Ferrara.
With thanks to the collaboration of Civitanova Danza/Amat.

Choreography, Set design, Lighting Design, Costume: Saburo Teshigawara
Artistic collaboration: Kei Miyata
Choreography assistant: Rihoko Sato

BLACK WATER REVIEWS

This is a mix bill programme.
The first is a group piece with 6 dancers. The transformation of the powerful screams appear through the body.
The second part is a 20 minute duet by Rihoko Sato and Vaclav Kunes, focusing on the physicality and the poesy emerging from whispers.
The third part is the revised version of the first part of "GREEN". Starting with the staggering solo by Kei Miyata to break the fragility of the duet, here the energy of all the dancers burst into various forms, extreme yet beautiful.
Currently available on tour.

Duration:
1st part - 30 min.
2nd part - 20 min.
3rd part - 30 min.
(with intermission)

Production : KARAS (Tokyo)
Co-production : Creation in Rome April 2005. Developed at the studios of Ballet National de Marseille.

Choreography, Set design, Lighting Design, Costume: Saburo Teshigawara
Artistic collaboration: Kei Miyata
Music: Original sound by SAND, Neil Griffiths

SCREAM & WHISPER REVIEWS

Kazahana - "Wind Flower" in Japanese
Kazahana has the meaning, flakes of snow drifting with the wind in the fair blue sky.
Teshigawara focuses on the radical sense of time and beauty in dance.
Dancers of his company KARAS will be dancing with some new European dancers.
This is the newest creation since his latest group piece Luminous which was created in 2001.

Production: KARAS (Tokyo)
Co-production Kazahana was originally coproduced by Lille 2004 - European Capital of Culture / Lille Opera
It will be reproduced at the New National Theatre Tokyo in February 2005.
First production 28, 29 May 2004 at Lille Opera, France
Reproduction planned 4,5,6, Feb 2004 at New National Theatre Tokyo.

Choreography, Set design, Lighting Design, Costume: Saburo Teshigawara
Artistic collaboration: Kei Miyata
Choreography assistant: Rihoko Sato
Music: Original sound by Neil Griffiths
Compilation: Saburo Teshigawara, Kei Miyata

KAZAHANA REVIEWS

This is a solo piece by Saburo Teshigawara which was originally created at TAT(Theater am Turm), Frankfurt, in 1991. Teshigawara dances in his installation work "Dance of air", which is created with many books, shoes, a live crow, and other various elements.
After more than 10 years, this piece will be recreated and given life again.

Duration: 55 min.

Production: TAT / Frankfurt, KARAS / Tokyo 1991

Choreography, Installation: Saburo Teshigawara
Lighting and Costume Design: Saburo Teshigawara
Music Compilation: Saburo Teshigawara, Kei Miyata

BONES IN PAGES REVIEWS

Prelude for Dawn Creation for Blind Students.
This is a performance evolving from the continuous workshops Saburo Teshigawara has been doing with some blind students since October 2003.
Interested in their abilities, and how they feel and create space, Saburo Teshigawara is off on a journey to meet with these not-yet-known possibilities.

Saburo Teshigawara first worked with blind students in an education project called "S.T.E.P." (Saburo Teshigawara Education Project) based in London. One of these participants, Stuart Jackson, worked with him in the group piece "LUMINOUS".

Duration: 60 min.

Production: KARAS (Tokyo)
Co-production Lille 2004 - European Capital of Culture / Lille Opera with help of the EU Japan Fest.

Choreography, Set design, Lighting Design, Costume: Saburo Teshigawara
Artistic collaboration: Kei Miyata
Choreography assistant: Rihoko Sato
Scenography assistant: Shun Ito
Music: Original sound by Neil Griffiths
Compilation: Saburo Teshigawara, Kei Miyata

PRELUDE FOR DAWN REVIEWS

This new piece emanates from the performance "Raj Packet" which was originally created in Tokyo as a co-production between the New National Theatre and KARAS.
Apart from Saburo Teshigawara and the members of his company KARAS, there will also be appearances from guest dancers from Europe, the UK rock band SAND, various performers, and live animals.

The piece consists of 2 parts:
Throughout the 1st part, there are solo and group dance performances, synchronizing and melting into the atmosphere created by the music and the field-like green which covers the whole stage.
In the 2nd part, more members join the performance : an opera singing sumo wrestler, ducks marching to trombones, cow and guitarist in duet... The performers will transform the whole quality of the space with their harmonic breathing. Dance will take over the whole space, emerging, fading and overlapping continuously. Anything can exist on this green. Anything can happen. And as if struck by divine thunder or a rainstorm, everything is suddenly washed away, and there stands life itself, a solo by Saburo Teshigawara to the music of Mozart. Nothing else exists on the green. Just one fragile life, one breath. And this one life, one breath, will continue to grow far beyond the space.

Duration: Part 1/ 30 min. Part 2/ 60 min. (break: 15 min)

Production: Karas
In co-production with: Festival Montpellier Danse 2003

Thanks to: Hiroki Shimizu (HALO)

Choreography, Set design, Lighting Design: Saburo Teshigawara
Artistic Assistant: Kei Miyata
Costume: Saburo Teshigawara, Kei Miyata
Costume Production: Production of New National Theatre, Tokyo
Live Music: SAND

GREEN (RAJ PACKET) REVIEWS

A group piece by Saburo Teshigawara/KARAS. Premiered in Tokyo March 2001, at Theatre Cocoon. The revised version was premiered in the summer, at the Aarhus Festival.

Throughout the whole piece, there is a search for the purity and essentials of movement through its relation with light and sound. How an invariant substance such as the existence of the human body and its movements, perceive, adapt, or change, depending on the variant information the optic array affords us in space, together with acoustic environment. This is also apparent in the stage apparatus, created with light and its scattered reflections, resonant or reverberating with sound, each influencing one another, providing a multiple atmosphere for the receptor, the dancer.

Duration: Part 1/ 35 min. Part 2/ 55 min. (break: 20 min)

Production: Bunkamura Theatre Cocoon and KARAS / Tokyo Japan 2001

Co-production: Aarhus Festival, La Filature scene nationale de Mulhouse, Festival D'Automne a Paris, Maison des Arts de Creteil, Het Muziektheater Amsterdam

Thanks to: Jan Zetterberg & Dansens Hus (production/Light Behind Light), Joe Banks (artistic research collaboration)

Choreography, Set design, Lighting Design: Saburo Teshigawara
Artistic Assistant: Kei Miyata
Music Compilation: Saburo Teshigawara, Kei Miyata
Costume: Saburo Teshigawara, Kei Miyata

LUMINOUS REVIEWS

Teshigawara's solo piece premiered in Tokyo in 1998, revised version in 1999, European premiere at the Hebbel Theater in Berlin in 1999. Consisting of 3 parts, one part of which is a duet with Kei Miyata.

For Teshigawara, dance is something like a stream which is moving towards the future. Through dancing, Teshigawara actually senses the invisible and not yet felt, which lies beyond this stream. The motive is not to express the absolute stillness, but "to keep on moving with stillness lying in front of the body". With his body leaning towards the time yet to come.

Duration: Part 1/ 25 min. Part 2/ 30 min. Part 3/ 30 min. (breaks: 15 mins)

Premiere:
27 June - 1 July 1998/ Setagaya Public Theatre, Tokyo
Production: Sept, KARAS
Administration & Public Relationship: KARAS

Choreography, Scenography: Saburo Teshigawara
Lighting Design, Costume Design: Saburo Teshigawara
Music Compilation: Kei Miyata & Saburo Teshigawara
Video: Shun Ito (Part 1), Saburo Teshigawara (Part 2)

ABSOLUTE ZERO REVIEWS

VACANT (2006)

Choreographic work for the Geneva Ballet, premiered in May 2006. All stage/lighting/costume designed by Saburo Teshigawara. Choreographed to the music of Gyorgy Ligeti. Duration: 25min. Performed by 15 dancers.

“Saburo Teshigawara projects us towards the abyss, but grabs us back before we fall. Suddenly, the bodies are freed, lightness returns. The grace of a moment. Harmony snatched from torment. [Le Temps]

VACANT REVIEWS

AIR (2006/ 2003)
In 2003, Saburo Teshigawara was invited by the Opéra National de Paris to choreograph a new piece AIR which premiered February 2003. Revised version premiered in March 2006. A piece with four tableaux, to the music of John Cage. All stage/lighting/costume designed by Saburo Teshigawara. Duration: 30min. Performed by 12 dancers.

“…the bodies play with the air, swing slowly and sway with elegance…give tangible form to the inseparable link between thought and movement, between music and breathing.” [Le Figaro]
“AIR” is undoubtedly a contemporary classic.”[Ballet-Dance.com]

AIR REVIEWS

Para-Dice (2002)
Choreographic work for the Geneva Ballet, premiered in March 2002.
All stage/lighting/costume designed by Saburo Teshigawara. Duration: 22 min. Performed by 8 dancers.

“…the piece possesses infinite warmth… we touch and embrace the present and are at the same time deeply moved by these fleeting moments.” [Le Temp]

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