SAKURAI Ikuya dance solo
”LANDING ON THE LOST”
7th and 8th, November, 2015 plan-B, Tokyo
Dance,Choreograph, Lighting design, Sound and music composition = Sakurai Ikuya, Art installation,Costume= SAKURAI Emico,
Production = CROSS-SECTION, Coproduction= plan-B
【schedule】Saturday,7th to Sunday, 8th, November,2015/Start; Sat =20PM, Sun=19PM
【venue】Alternative space "planB" (4-26-20 Yayoicho nakano Tokyo)
【access】7 minites walk on Nakano dori from Nakano-Fujimicho station (Subway, Marunouchi Line). 1 minute walk from Fujikoukomae bus stop (Nakano >> Shinjuku Nishiguchi, or Shibuya)
【Fee】 ¥3000 ( ¥2800 reservation )
TICKET RESERVATION (need your Name and Date:Sat.7th or Sun.8th)
contact: CROSS-SECTION_Email ※The day of the performance=planB TEL 03-3384-2051
It's the dance as a requiem for the modern. In this dance, Sakurai views the earth as a metaphor of the "pain" . And he repeated contact with the earth, through the dance. It is also an act dating back memories of our own pain. Contact with the earth. It is also the contact with the lost soul.
Sakurai Ikuya is a dancer/choreographer based in Tokyo. He became a pupil of Kasai Akira . In 1997, he has created a company with artist Emiko Sakurai a company “Sakurai Ikuya/CROSS-SECTION”. Until this date, he has created and performed more than 40 dance pieces, and also has been teaching professionals and amateurs, through exploring the new possibilities of butoh. 2000: Participated in "Theater X(cai)" International Dance Festival Tokyo. 2001and 2006-2009: participated continuously in "Dance Hakushu" Festival directed by Tanaka Min. 2002: Choreographed for NHK educational TV Program. 2006: Invited from 10th “a sul” Contemporary Dance Festival in Portugal. 2012: participate in Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale Niigata Japan.2012: Invited from "Centre culturel régional Dudelange", and "Centre de Création Chorégraphique Luxembourgeois" , LUXEMBOURG. Works 2005〜2015
artists statement :
I pursue my dance works to be “a body as zero” on stage. It is just a body, which has no individual background, no generation, no border, and even no identity. It is a body for resonance, and it is like a natural phenomenon, which is changing continually like fire or earth. I think dance is the art of dynamics. The moment “a body as zero” starts moving with the new power of life created by the operation of music, lights, and the space, I think that is the beginning of dance. Dance is like a correlation between rising and vanishing energy on a purified body and the way it becomes is just like primitive rites or meditations seeing unknown imagination.-----Ikuya Sakurai