08/12/2021
MUGEN Premiere in 2weeks… so excited!!
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M U G E N - sleepless butterfly
Premiere
DECEMBER 17 18 | 19:30
DECEMBER 19 | 17:00
📍SOPHIENSAELE FESTSAAL [ Sophiensaele ]
🎫 15/10 €
CONCEPT, CHOREOGRAPHY: Yui Kawaguchi
DANCE: Joy Alpuerto Ritter [ C Joy Alpuerto Ritter ]
MUSIC: Mohammad Reza Mortazavi [ Mohammad Reza Mortazavi]
STAGE DESIGN: Acci Baba [ Acci Baba]
COSTUME: Sadak [ SADAK ]
LIGHT, TECHNICIAN: Fabian Bleisch
SOUND: Satoshi Okamoto [sub-tle.]
DRAMATURGE: Rosi Ulrich [ Rosi Ulrich ]
PRODUCTION: Ilja Fontaine
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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
Nico and the Navigators Wehr51 - Andrea Bleikamp & Rosi Ulrich
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