INTIMACY
LAUNCH
18:30 Goldsmiths Ben Pimlott Foyer & Seminar Rooms, George Wood
Theatre
Live Performances (Programme TBC)
SATURDAY
8th December
SCREENINGS
AND SHOW & TELL PRESENTATIONS (Programme TBC)
11:00-18:30 (Goldsmiths Small Hall / Cinema)
LIVE
PERFORMANCES (Programme TBC)
11:00-18:30 The Albany Studio, Community Rooms & Cafe
World
Première: SUNA NO ONNA (Woman of the Dunes) book
19:30-20:30 Laban Studio Theatre
Dans
Sans Joux has been commissioned to create a new movement-design
performance for Intimacy. Suna no Onna, adapted from Hiroshi
Teshigahara’s mysterious 1960s cult movie, is a dance installation that
merges virtual and real images of a life of existential entrapment in
an inhospitable habitat. The ominous sand dunes of Teshigahara's desert
are transformed into virtual realities that shape the unconscious
ground where the Woman (Katsura Isobe) meets a scientist-foreigner who
stumbles into her life to become a captive.
The
work combines dance, interactive video and animation, fashion design,
and electronic music created by an ensemble of artists from diverse
creative backgrounds. The integration of the various elements of this
performance follows an experimental fashion design concept for the
development of sensorial and interfacial garments (built with
intelligent materials) which respond to movement qualities, energies
and emotional gesture.
Conceived
and directed by Johannes Birringer and Michèle Danjoux, the
stage production features new fashion concepts by Danjoux and digital
designs by a group of collaborating artists including Paul Verity
Smith, Doros Polydorou, Maria Wiener, and Jonathan Hamilton.
Original music is composed by Oded Ben-Tal, and the
scenography is by Hsueh-Pei Wang. Lighting design by Miguel Alonso.
Suna no Onna is performed by an international cast of three – Japanese
dancer Katsura Isobe, British dancer Olu Taiwo, and Chinese
dancer Helenna Ren.