Duration 55min
Available on tour Season 2024-2025 and 2025-2026
Recording available on request
The birth of a choreography that bridges between the imagination of two artists. One is a French-Belgian choreographer, the other, a Japanese visual artist.
Damien Jalet loves metamorphosis. That of bodies, forms, materials. Elements that go from solid to liquid, from horizontal to vertical, from gravity to the air, from the real to the to the phantasmatic, from the human to the non-human. His dance is perpetual movement. Life unfolds on stage in a balance of opposites that Japanese artist Kohei Nawa's gaze makes phantasmagorical.
Together Damien Jalet and Kohei Nawa created Vessel, a dance in which the almost naked bodies of dancers glistened under the light. With Planet [wanderer], they loop the loop of their diptych with a dreamlike choreography as if carved on a sparkling black floor.
Choreography
DAMIEN JALET
Set design
KOHEI NAWA
Music
TIM HECKER
Lighting
YUKIKO YOSHIMOTO
Costumes
Sruli Recht
Sound design collaboration
XAVIER JACQUOT
Assistant to the choreography
ALEXANDRA HOÀNG GILBERT
Outside Eye
CATALINA NAVARRETE HERNÁNDEZ
With
SHAWN AHERN
KIM AMANKWAA or KARIMA EL AMRANI
AIMILIOS ARAPOGLOU
FRANCESCO FERRARI
VINSON FRALEY
CHRISTINA GUIEB or THI MAI NGUYEN
ASTRID SWEENEY
EMA YUASA
Production revival 2023: Théâtre National de Bretagne / Production creation 2021: Chaillot - Théâtre national de la Danse
Coproduction : Chaillot, Théâtre national de la Danse – France ; Charleroi Danse – Belgium ; Sandwich Inc. – Japan ; Théâtre National de Bretagne – France ; Festspielhaus St Pölten – Autstria ; Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre – Japan ; Rohm Theatre Kyoto – Japan ; Opéra de Rouen Normandie – France ; Theater Kampnagel Hamburg – Germany ; Ballet du Grand Théâtre de Genève – Switzerland ; Nagelhus Schia Productions – Norway.
With the support of Grand Marble and matsushima holdings co., ltd.
Thanks to Théo Casciani, Prabda Yoon, Didier Deschamps and Fabienne Aucant
Nominated for the FEDORA – VAN CLEEF & ARPELS prize for ballet 2020. Co-financed by the Creative Europe program of the European Union.
Cooperation: Kyoto University of the Arts - ULTRA SANDWICH Project #14 #15 #16 #17, Kyoto University - Takenaka University