Tai [Body]　

Overview

Ishii Midori's choreography to Stravinsky's 'The Rite of Spring' is not the usual story of sacrifice, but rather uses themes that the famed piece inspired in Ishii: nature and vitality. The dancers' interplay of curves and straight lines, feet shifted by the centre of gravity and stillness in motion are excellent, and the expression captured by their bodies in the final chapter is a beautiful hymn to humanity.

-Presented at the Ishii Midori Dance Recital as Ishii Midori Dance Works Vol. 2.
-Premiered in 1961, this version was performed in 1983. Awarded the Art Encouragement Prize in April 1962. Orita Katsuko, was awarded the first Art Festival Individual Performance Award for Modern Dance with this piece. It was performed again in 2015 and 2018 at the Dance Archive Performances organised by the Contemporary Dance Association of Japan, and hailed as a powerful and dynamic work.

Details

Title

Tai [Body]　

Performance creator(s)

Midori Ishii and Katsuko Orita Dance Studio

Direction/Choreography

Choreographer: Midori Ishii

Venue

Tokyo Post Saving Hall

Performance date(s)

22 March 1983

Performer(s) and staff

Performers: Katsuko Orita, Takako Teshiba, Yasue Naito, Utako Hamada, Ruri Koreto, Keiko Nakano, Takae Shiroya, Chizuko Noma, Hideko Kobori, Yukari Hayakawa, Shigeko Matsunaga, Makiko Ide, Hitomi Yoshimura, Yuka Kanokogi, Miki Sasaki, Noriko Kumagai, Kumiko Minamikawa, Rei Otsuka, Yuriko Takamiya, Kyoko Hirata, Mako Watanabe, Naomi Akita, Chie Hayashi, Yoshiko Shiraki, Kei Otsuka, Atsuko Kaneko, Katsushi Izumi, Jun Kono, Takamasa Okamoto, Seyao Kansui, Keiji Koike, Satoshi Masaki, Masayuki Sumi, You Yoshimatsu, Akira Ito, Shigenao Omatsu
Stage and Costume Designer: Tetsuhiko Maeda
Lighting Designer: Yuji Sawada
Sound Designer: Nao Yamamoto
Stage Manager: Noriyuki Shirato
Publicity Design: Deborah Ray

Genre

Modern

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