Saburo Teshigawara/Karas - Bones in pages

Saburo Teshigawara returns to Dance Umbrella with the revival of his solo Bones in Pages first brought to London in the 1993 festival. Originally commissioned as a gallery installation, Bones in Pages uses fine shafts of light and broken glass to breathtaking visual effect. Attacking the surrounding space with both furious energy and great delicacy, Teshigawara’s starkly uncompromising approach makes compulsive viewing. Now accompanied by two female dancers, the piece sees Teshigawara performing against the intriguing ‘Dance of Air’ stage installation comprising one thousand books, one thousand shoes and a crow.

‘Above all, Teshigawara is an artist who knows how to give physical presence to space and time and music. His body language is captivating since it is perfect in its form, keeping a balance between serenity and ecstasy. Rarely has a dancer chiseled his movements with such glasslike clarity, just to dissolve it at the next instance and then recreate it, reshaping his body with flash-like speed.’ Kurier (Vienna)

Choreography, Installation: Saburo Teshigawara
Lighting and Costume design: Saburo Teshigawara
Music compilation: Kei Miyata, Saburo Teshigawara
Dance: Saburo Teshigawara accompanied by Kei Miyata, Rihoko Sato
Lighting/technical coordinator: Sergio Pessanha
Stage manager: Jörn Fenske
Stage: Markus Both
Sound: Neil Griffiths
Assistant/wardrobe: Rihoko Sato
Creation: 1991 Frankfurt
Production: TAT (Frankfurt), KARAS (Tokyo)

Co-production (2003~):
Théâtre de Caen
Maison des Arts de Créteil
Festival d’Automne à Paris
Dansens Hus Stockholm
La Filature, scène nationale - Mulhouse

22 & 23 Oct 04 | Queen Elizabeth Hall, Belvedere Road, South Bank, London, UK

UK tour production: Forma