The Butterfly Dream

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Video ID number: V00519
Recording date: 2021

Overview

New solo work by Pechika Satoh, an artist admired by many for her introspective performances. After going down the stairs of the Former Hakubutsukan Dobutsuen Station carrying a fish tank, she plays with water in the underground space, and eventually transforms from a larva into a butterfly wearing a giant sunflower, and heads up to the surface. A quiet, thrilling video performance that transforms the relationship between ground and underground, life and death, and inside and outside.

-Takao Kawaguchi Selection: Un Certain Regard
-Tokyo Real Underground (Tokyo Tokyo FESTIVAL Special 13): 1 April - 15 August 2021

Details

Title: The Butterfly Dream
Performance creator(s): NPO Dance Archive Network
Direction/Choreography: Choreography by: Pechika Satoh
Venue: Filmed at the former Hakubutsukan Dobutsuen Station [Museum Zoo Station]
Performance date(s): 5 June 2021 - 15 August 2021（online viewing）
Performer(s) and staff: Dance: Pechika Satoh
Guitar: Hayato Mochizuki
Cameraman: Ryo Sakemoto
Stage Manager: Takashi Kawachi
Lighting Designer: Noriyuki Mori (balance,inc.DESIGN/LIGHTING)
Filming: Masabumi Kimura
Sound: Ryotaro Miyasaka
Post Production: Ryo Sakemoto
Filming Coordinator: Dai Matsuoka
Filming Cooperation: LAND FES
Photography: Tatsuhiko Nakagawa, Tsubasa Wada
Publicity Design: Young Soul
Organiser(s): Organisers: Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Arts Council Tokyo (Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture)
Planning and Production: NPO Dance Archive Network
Genre: Butoh