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IRIS

Philippe DECOUFLE

  • 2003
  • Performing Arts
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This dance piece unfolds like a picture book combining multiple choreographic elements of dance, live music and video.

Set up on stage are a Japanese-style house and telegraph poles, creating a very Japanese, familiar yet not necessarily nostalgic atmosphere. Appearing in this setting are several dancers, each of which begins to talk to the audience in his/her own native language (Japanese, Chinese and French in this case).

The performance unfurls in an acoustic setting mixing sounds of insects and birds with guitar play and singing, and against a visual backdrop of footage of the dancers' choreographies, and an "eye" projected onto a large screen in the back in reference to the piece's title, with additional projections of abstract lights and shadows. The colorfully choreographed dance - from dynamic group performances to gracefully flexible solo performances of dancers with outstandingly high physical ability - create a mystically fantastic atmosphere, and at the same time, lay out the possibilities of the human body.

Profiles

Philippe DECOUFLE

Dancer / Choreographer / Stage director

A dancer, choreographer, theatre director and audiovisual artist. Born in Paris in 1961. Studied circus, mime and dance, and in 1983 took first place in the Concours choregraphique international de Bagnolet. In the same year, formed the Compagnie DCA (Diversity, Camaraderie, Agility). In 1992, he headed the production of the opening and closing ceremonies of the Albertville Winter Olympics for which he received worldwide acclaim. Decouflé introduces circus techniques into dance, and using images and sound, amazes his audiences with his poetic expression and extraordinary ideas. Principal works include Triton (1990), Shazam! (1998), Solo (2003), Sombrero (2006), and Coeurs Croisés (2007). He is active in a wide range of areas including films, commercials, musicals and ceremonies.

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Credit

Direction, Composition and Choreography: Philippe Decouflé

Assistant: Chie Ito

Performer: Masahiro Kohama, Kaori Ito, Miya Kim, Muriel Corbel, Alexandra Naudet, Stéhane Chivot, Jean-Baptiste André, Christophe Waksmann, Oliver Simola, Jiang Yang, Fei Bo, Lu Xin-yun

Original music: Claire Touzi Dit Terzi, Tao Hiboo

Set design: Kunio Shachimaru, Pierre-Jean Verbraeken
Lighting design: Hisashi Adachi
Costume design: Sonoko Takeda
Organic counselor: Pierre Dubois Gance

Sound engineer: Yasuyoshi HosokoshiTechnical manager: Seiichi YagiStage manager: Akinori Sagawa

Assistant lighting designer: Satoe MorishimaAssistant technical manager: Yoshiyuki Sonoda

Interpreter: Ayako Shibata, Hiromi Ishikawa, Yo Hayashi, Ka Ei

Scenery construction: Toho Stage Craft
Stage crew: Nike Stage Works
Lighting crew: Impression
Sound crew: Aoi Studio
Video crew: Takashi Kimura

D.C.A.

Administration: Dominique Laulanné
Technical coordination: Lalhou Benamirouche

Performance

Philippe Decouflé

IRIS

Finished

Saturday, November 1 — Monday, 3, 2003

* Information in Japanese only

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