SUSABI [S’amuser]

Masaki Iwana

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Video ID number: V00046
Recording date: October 1989

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Premiered in Paris, 1989. 'S'amuser' (Susabi in Japanese), means 'play'. It is a part of the dance series 'Shozoku wa Mizu' [Costume is Water] which embodies the structure of self-love expressed in 'Awahi' from the same series, based on the Noh play 'Izutsu'. The beauty and dangers of love are expressed through a dance performed on top of a 1m² x 6mm glass sheet balanced on 5-6 cups filled 70% with water. During the performance in Paris, there was an incident where the dancer broke through the glass sheet, which later became a theme in Iwana Masaki's fourth feature film 'Charlotte-Susabi' (2017).

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