'HOTPOT East Asia Dance Platform' Japan【City Contemporary Dance Festival 2023】City Contemporary Dance Company
"Da Dad Dada"
Concept, Performance, Staged Objects, Music Composition and Video Design: Saori HALA
This self-documentary performance centres on Saori Hala’s late father Ken Hara. Through dance and sound and video recordings from his lifetime, it describes how his long-term absence during her childhood and adolescence created fuzzy zones in the artist’s life and memory. It is an attempt to reconstruct her impressions of her father as well as a discourse on a social issue. Ken Hara was an active musical dancer in the 1960s, the post-war golden years in which Japan was rebuilding itself and its economy boomed. Saori’s memory of her father is vague and tenuous, and dance has become an important connection between them. After their brief reunion and her father’s death, she grew curious about his life as a musical dancer, thus embarking on a creative study through surviving works and recordings.
"ZOU made from fume"
Choreography, Direction, Composition and Performance: Ikumi KUROSU
Intangible ‘smoke’ can represent our anxiety about the future, or an unverified piece of news. Filled with illusions, emotions, and imagination, it challenges us to deconstruct our real-life goals. Wearing what appears like gas masks and chasing and restraining one another on stage, the dancers conjure a mystical atmosphere with vibrant and dynamic movements. Choreographer Ikumi Kurosu, well-known for his passionate pursuit of unique and unconventional bodily concepts and movements, will be delighting the audience at the CCDF 2023 with his work debuted at the Yokohama Dance Collection in 2020.
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