Please allow me to announce a premiere opening of theatrical artwork, taking place in Berlin next week. This work was scheduled to be shown in Mar.2020, although it was postponed due to pandemic. After 1.5 year of delay, it will finally appear in public. The concept of this work is based on Zhuangzi’s ‘The Butterfly Dream’ of questioning the reality and fantasy, somehow reflecting the situation of what we are facing today. I am honored to be part of the work, at the same time I am fortunate to meet wonderful friends that gave me deep insights toward life and art. 🙏
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M U G E N – sleepless butterfly
Premiere
DECEMBER 17(Fri), 18(Sat) | 19:30
DECEMBER 19(Sun) | 17:00
📍SOPHIENSAELE FESTSAAL (Berlin, Germany)
* – restrictions apply due to Corona regulations in Germany. Please follow the venue website for details.
https://sophiensaele.com/en/stueck/yui-kawaguchi-mugen-1
🎫 Tickets: 15€ (regular) /10 € (reduced)
CONCEPT, CHOREOGRAPHY: Yui Kawaguchi
DANCE: Joy Alpuerto Ritter
MUSIC: Mohammad Reza Mortazavi
INSTALLATION ART: Acci Baba
COSTUME: Sadak
LIGHT, TECHNIC: Fabian Bleisch
SOUND: Satoshi Okamoto [sub-tle.]
DRAMATURGE: Rosi Ulrich
PRODUCTION: Ilja Fontaine
PHOTO: Brice Robert, Issei Suzuki
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Am I a man who had dreamed he was a butterfly or a butterfly dreaming he was a man? – Zhuangzi „The Butterfly Dream“
Yui Kawaguchi translates in Mugen (Japanese: illusion, infinity) the classical elements of Japanese Nō theatre into a hypnotic interplay of dance, music and light. In a fast-paced choreography, Joy Alpuerto Ritter seems to outright fly through an installation on stage. She is fueled by Mohammad Reza Mortazavi, who single-handedly creates a sound atmosphere of orchestral quality with his instruments. Although each element exists in its own cosmos, a trance-like flow is created through ever new encounters, changing tempos and incidences of light, dissolving the boundaries between fantasy and reality, dream and wakefulness.
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A production by Yui Kawaguchi | Mendora and NICO AND THE NAVIGATORS, in co-production with SOPHIENSÆLE, MA scène nationale – Pays de Montbéliard and WEHR51, funded by the City of Cologne. Media partner: taz. die tageszeitung
