DANCE GUEST PERFORMANCE

3S

EASTMAN
Photo: Filip Van Roe
Depot 1
09 until 11 DEC 2020
Unfortunately, the planned guest performance by Hofesh Shechter cannot take place due to the current situation. However, we were able to gain the Belgian company Eastman to show the new piece 3S by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui. The three solos focus on the self: lonely and yet bound to the world. The dancers Nicola Leahey, Kazutomi Kozuki and Jean Michel Sinisterra Munoz draw invisible lines between the countries in which they were born (Australia, Japan, Colombia), forming a triangle across the globe which corners are distant but which medians touch us everywhere. So do the themes expressed in the piece: the abuse of forests by multinational corporations, a legacy of colonial oppression of Aborigines; the collective trauma of a nuclear disaster; the juggernaut of Syria's civil war and Colombia's guerrilla war with its deadly characteristic of attracting young people as fighters. The singers Ghalia Benali, Patrizia Bovi and Tsubasa Hori give voice to the loneliness, and the pictures of filmmaker Sabine Groenewegen are serving as portals that transfer elements of the outside world onto the stage.
Choreography & direction: Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui
moving image & sound design: Sabine Groenewegen
composition: Ghalia Benali, Patrizia Bovi, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Karsten Fundal & Tsubasa Hori
live music: Ghalia Benali, Patrizia Bovi, Tsubasa Hori & Kazutomi »Tsuki« Kozuki
live recording: Denis Kooné
dramaturgy: Timmy De Laet
text: Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Arwa Damon (CNN) & Alice Eather
light design: Krispijn Schuyesmans
costume: Veerle Van den Wouwer
Cast
Kazutomi »Tsuki« Kozuki
Nicola Leahey
Jean Michel Sinisterra Munoz