never thought it would
The word “planet” is said to come from the Greek word “Planē ́ tēs,” meaning “wanderer.” It originated from the observation that the motion of planets orbiting a star when seen from earth looked as if they were wandering around in the sky.
I see an overlap between this wandering planet and my dancing self.
Pina Bausch said before her death, “Dance, dance, otherwise we are lost.”
But I no longer know why I am dancing, where I started, or where I am going. The only thing I know is where I have been. That is all I know.
I can only continue to dance, falling like a planet from a cliff of the “present” that lies at the edge of the past.
Ryu Suzuki
One of the key words in this work is “looking back.”
・What appears to be stationary is in fact minutely vibrating.
・The earth is not a static plane, but a rotating sphere.
・LED lights are not constantly glowing, but they are blinking repeatedly.
There is a discrepancy between the world we see and the facts of reality. And as we look back, even the world we are seeing continues to change. The person I think I am is different from the person I have been, and the person I am here and the person I am there are probably different.
Our perception of the world keeps changing in response to the continuum of facts. Amidst this constant change, if there is a pushing and shoving among the seemingly unchanging bodies, how can we think of this as a “body that looks back?” We accept it as such a challenge.
Kenshiro Miyano, Haruto Niwa
Direction / Choreography: Ryu Suzuki (Dance Base Yokohama)
Performance: Ryu Suzuki, Mariko Kakizaki *Double casting
Music: tatsukiamano
Dramaturgy: Haruto Niwa (Dance Base Yokohama)
Set Design: Kenshiro Miyano
Lighting Concept: Ludo Takebe
Costume: Shinya Watanabe
［Premiere］Music: Alva Noto Music Editor: Naoto Oka
Producer: Eri Karatsu (Aichi Prefectural Art Theater / Dance Base Yokohama)
Production Manager: Yoshinori Sekoguchi (Aichi Prefectural Art Theater)
Lighting Coordinator: Masakazu Ito (RYU)
Sound Design: Norimasa Ushikawa
Administrator: Nozomi Tanaka (Dance Base Yokohama)
Premiere: December 2021 (Aichi Prefectural Art Theater) *As part of “Ryu Suzuki Triple Bill”
Planned, Produced, and Organized by Dance Base Yokohama
◆PERFORMANCE
2023 Ashareeravani: Sound without Body
［An Indo-Japanese co-production between the Japan Foundation New Delhi and Attakkalari Centre for Movement Arts］
・Bangalore International Centre（Bengaluru, India）
・A J Hall（Kochi, India）
2022 Performing Arts Selection 2022 in Tokyo／November Kichijoji Theatre（Tokyo）2021 DaBY Performing Arts Selection ／December KAAT Kanagawa Arts Theatre, Large studio（Kanagawa）
2021 Ryu Suzuki Triple Bill ／October Aichi Prefectural Art Theater, Mini Theater（Aichi）*Premiere
◆REVIEW
Mitsutane Ota （DaBY Performing Arts Selection 2021）
