Hiroaki Umeda’s works are regularly presented at avant-garde festivals held in Europe and the States. They are reflections of the contemporary culture of Japan and concepts of a choreographer of the new generation. Umeda is acclaimed as a young artist with great talent, originality, and potential.
Temporal Pattern, co-commissioned by the NTCH and Esplanade-Theatres on the Bay in Singapore, is Umeda’s fourth piece for his choreography project “Superkinesis”. It focuses specially on “researching the movements” and “seeking orders that associate plural bodies and dances”.Temporal Patternwill be presented by three Asian dancers with varied styles and from different backgrounds of training. Umeda will deliberately retain their unique bodies and dance styles, and seek out order(s) for connecting those bodies/dances through the scope of time-centric perspective.
Haptic, a solo dance of Umeda, which toured around Europe and Japan, will also be presented. Discarding the computing and video projection frequently adopted by Umeda, he concentrates on the effects of light and color. More than an association of the chromatic prism with physiological stimuli – red/anger, blue/reassurance – Umeda focuses on“the physical aspect of the perception of colors, not simply to show it, but to give substance to the relationship it has with dance.”
3/15-3/16 (Fri.- Sat.) 19:30
3/16-3/17 (Sat.- Sun.) 14:30
Experimental Theater
800
◎Duration: Approx. 65 minutes with an intermission
Date:
2/15-2/16 (Fri. - Sat.) 19:30
2/17 (Sun.,) 14:30
Date:
3/2 (Fri. - Sat.) 19:30
Date:
2/21-2/23 (Thu. - Sat.) 19:30
2/24 (Sun.) 14:30
