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| In her own words, Japanese artist Sachiyo Takahashi is an SAC, a "Sound & Action Creator." Takahashi trained in traditional Nô and Bunraku theater at the University of Tokyo and has long been interested in the use of the body and voice in traditional Japanese art and contemporary performance. A grant enabled her to travel to Belgium, where she joined the ensemble of Jan Fabre, dancing in several of his productions, e.g. in Glowing Icons. In Belgium, Takahashi also found time to study electronic/acoustic composition, and her first own smaller performances as well as her first major work, Aviation/Abbreviation, also fall into this period. She is a member of the UFAC (Unidentified Flying Art Company) – a cooperative of artists with an interdisciplinary approach. Orpheus in the Dark is the UFAC's first stage work. Orpheus in the Dark interprets the ancient Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydike from a contemporary point of view. On a metaphorical level, Takahashi examines the eternal conflict between body and mind – the duality of our modern culture. Music acts as the connecting element here. On his search for his own body in the underworld, Orpheus asks the intellectualizing question, "Does my body really exist?" Song, which does not ask these questions and is simultaneously physical and ethereal, returns body and movement to the mind. |
April 11/12/13 8:00 p.m. Sachiyo Takahashi Orpheus in the Dark (German premiere) Concept: Sachiyo Takahashi, Concept development/ Music/ Choreography/ Video/ Set Design: Rohal De Ridder, Sidney Fels, Christelle Fillod, Barbara Mavro Thalassitis, Sachiyo Takahashi, Kris Van Aert, Sven Van Kuijk, and Michel Yang, Performance: Rohal De Ridder, Christelle Fillod, Barbara Mavro Thalassitis, Sachiyo Takahashi, Kris Van Aert, and Michel Yang Sachiyo Takahashi's performances are supported by the APAP - Advancing Performing Arts Project II, which is in turn funded by the Culture 2000 Framework Programme of the European Commission. Production: UFAC - Unidentified Flying Art Company Antwerp, Co-produced by: Armunia Castiglioncello, CCNB Rennes, Danças na Cidade Lisbon, Dans in Kortrijk, Podewil Berlin, Szene Salzburg, TanzWerkstatt Berlin   |
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| Takahashi's approach to the myth of the underworld is pragmatic. The "unseen" takes place on stage. The dancers move within an interactive installation that absorbs various impulses, changes them, and makes them visible to the audience. The dancers have the sense of being in the dark, "unseen;" however, their movements are recorded with infrared cameras and thus made visible to the viewers. Orpheus in the Dark is an interactive live installation. Musicians and vocalists interact with dancers on stage, with young Belgian percussionist, Rohal De Ridder, setting the rhythm. Sachiyo Takahashi weaves all these various physical, acoustic, visual, and tactile aspects into a dense tapestry of emotions and images. |
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