Dance

Jo Kanamori, the Artistic Director of Noism1 and choreographer of NINA – materialize sacrifice, studies how one might produce an energy strong enough to give a sense of the beauty and power to a body before it moves in space, and explores how to create a body which would absorb the energy of the floor and would not fall even when being pushed. French born Vietnamese composer An Tôn Thất creates a compact music with mechanical sound and hammering percussion, together with the mysterious dim stage light, the piece transpires a sense of thrilling tension. The female dancers’ bodies are stiff like robots with no facial expression, yet their movement is sharp, fast and skillfully controlled, contrasting to the powerful but arbitrary manipulation of the male dancers.

Acclaimed as a “compelling work”, NINA has toured to many cities including Paris, Moscow, Washington, Seoul and Taipei.

Supported by the Agency for Cultural Affairs Government of Japan in the fiscal 2017