Japón

(2008) – app. duration: 15’
Original name:
‘Japón’

Premiered in:
Bunkyo Civic Center (Tokyo, JP), on October 17th, 2008
Performed in:
Bunkyo Civic Center (Tokyo, JP)

Made through a collaborative process with dancers from the Ochanomizu University Dance Club (Tokyo), ‘Japón’ is a piece spawned out of misunderstandings, wrong translations, preconceptions, language barriers, transliterations and all kinds of equivocal communicative strategies. Trying to accept the necessity of these accidents and to embrace the dynamism of communicative processes, ‘Japón’ attempts to exploit the creative potential of the situation and the context in which it was created.

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coreography and direction: Pablo Fontdevila

performed by Sumie Kubo, Saki Abe, Yuka Kobori, Chisa Nashimoto, Eriko Sakurai, Kana Ikegaya, Mayu Michimachi, Naho Hori, Anna Kawai, Yuki Shigematsu, Chiho Yokoyama, Minami Shincho and Aya Ito

graphic design: Sr. Mara
video and photos: Nick Vroman and Virginia Sorrells
produced by Trimurti (p)
co-produced by Ochanomizu University Dance Club

endorsed by Embassy of the Argentine Republic in Japan

supported by the Embassy of the Kingdom of The Netherlands – “Nederland in Japan 2008-2009”