Premiere: 13.10.2004
Tanzhaus Zürich Zurich
Inspired on the novel "Shunkin shou" by Junichiro Tanizaki
- memory of her skin
- Tenko, the singing bird in the cage
- three steps to become blind
- temperature of tears
- reallumination / frozen memory
Documentary of his memory: He knows her - she is beautiful - somebody hurts her - she is very injured and her face destroyed - to keep her in his mind as she was before, he decides to become blind.
In Tanizakis story of a blind woman and a man equally blinded, but by
his own will, Heshiki is fascinated by the deliberate break with socially
accepted norms. Based on his personal experiences (a six-hourly performance
with folded eyes and covered ears), he approaches the essence of darkness
and investigates the retreat in an inside, which may just as well be an
outside.
Choreography/Dance Hideto Heshiki Music Ralf Freudenberger/Japanese Noise Research Lightdesign Niki Good Thanks to Tanzhaus Zürich, Anutoshen M. Hueer, Präsidialdepartement der Stadt Zürich, Yuuki
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