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'Japanese artists in Trafó' - new photo exhibition in our Café! The recent Hungarian premier of Compagnie Oki Haiku Dan markes the introduction of Japanese artists yet in a new genre, cirque nouveae or contemporary circus and gave us the idea and opportunity to show the most interesting moments so far of Japanese art as seen on Trafo’s stage.
Co-organized with the Circle Around programme.
Between circus arts, dance and juggling, Gai-Kotsu is one of those spectacles that defy classification, but which still delight by their astonishing inventiveness. A former student at the Centre National des Arts du Cirque (National Centre of Circus Arts), Keisuke Kanaï revealed his talent in the show by Philippe Decoufflé, Cirk 13.
A dancer, mime artist, acrobat and juggler, this artist with a virtually complete range of talents, has since then taken flight by developing his own universe. After Bougez pas bouger, his first creation that went on a long international tour, Keisuke Kanaï now proposes with Gaï-Kotsu an amusing exploration of the body and its various facets. Based on a subtle play of lights and a square of Lycra, like a scanner or a photo negative, the body will be the subject of all experimentations revealing unusual and comical images of our silhouette or bone structure and their unsuspected extensions…
Gaï-Kotsu shows the skeleton. Through a fabric, like a scanner or a photo negative, the skeleton body appears… The silhouette is then a play and transformation tool. The juggler character moves his skeleton with sticks like an extension of his own body.
A fabric behind which he moves, specific lighting, plays of reflections on the Lycra; a brilliant square which unveils or absorbs the dancer character; these are the bases of a theatre of surprising objects whose animated sequences will enchant all audiences. The combination between what is unveiled and what is concealed offers a multitude of possibilities.
Concept: Keisuke Kanaï
Performed by: Keisuke Kanaï
Directed by: Sébastien Lalanne
With the collaboration of: Rumi Kumatsubara
Light: Cécile Hérault, Hervé Lonchamp
Sound: Thomas Costerg, Julien Cocquerez
Costume: Aurélie Secondé
Music: Rui Owada
www.scenesdecirque.org/compagnie-oki-haiku-dan.php
Coproduction: Scène nationale de Sénart
With the support of:
Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication (DMDTS – aide à la création pour les arts du cirque), Fondation Franco-Japonaise Sasakawa, La Grange Dimière - Fresnes, Le Cirque du Grand Céleste – Párizs, Festival MIMOS – Périgueux, Centre culturel Marcel Pagnol - Bures-sur-Yvette, La Coupole - scène nationale de Sénart, Le Manège - scène nationale de la Roche-sur-Yon, Les Subsistances – Lyon, La Maison de la Culture du Japon – Párizs
