The Great Afternoon: the soft machine xxx”
Teita Iwabuchi

My first new work in three years is a trio piece. I start from the paradoxical idea that the body is a soft machine with rich and precise mechanisms that have not yet been achieved by technology. Based on the hypothesis that the advanced technology of the body is derived from ancient magic, I will refer to Butoh dancers such as Tatsumi Hijikata, Kazuo Ohno, and Ko Murobushi, traditional dances of Asia, possession, ghosts, Nietzsche, and Tamio Hojo’s “The First Night of Life,” among others. What kind of body will be created by the mixture of these elements? The work will overlap the visible and invisible, the dead and the living, ancient rituals and the contemporary dance floor.

Credit

Direction and choreography: Teita Iwabuchi
Cast: Teita Iwabuchi, Kogure Kaho Performed by Naoyuki Sakai
Understudy: Otsuki Yu
Music: Takashi Sugawa
Costume: Kako Fujitani
Dramaturg: Aoto Niwa (Dance Base Yokohama)
Producer: Eri Karatsu ( Aichi Prefectural Art Theater/Dance Base Yokohama)
Technical Director: Yoshinori Sekoguchi ( Aichi Prefectural Art Theater)
Technical Director: Chikage Yuyama
Stage Manager: Hiroo Nakai
Sound: Raku Nakahara
Lighting: Akiyo Kushida
Production: Miyuki Sakaguchi (Dance Base Yokohama)
Planning and production: Dance Base Yokohama [SEGA SAMMY Foundation for Arts and Culture]
Co-production: Dance Base Yokohama [Sega Sammy Foundation for Arts and Culture], Aichi Prefectural Art Theater[Aichi Culture Promotion Organization]
Grant: Fund for Strengthening Infrastructure for Cultural and Artistic Activities (Support Program for Fostering Creators and Cultural Facilities with High Added Value)｜Japan Arts Council