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- Video ID number
- V00569
- Recording date
- 15 August 2001
- Video length
- 1h 10m
Overview
"Curious Fish" premiered at the San Francisco Butoh Festival in 2001 and received a five-star review at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe that same summer.
The dance piece was inspired by Minamata disease and mercury poisoning. In the 1970s, many areas of Japan were plagued by environmental pollution, and as rapid economic growth led to toxic waste in the rivers and seas, it gave rise to deformed fish. Cats, dogs, and chickens ate these fish, performing a Death Dance, and humans too fell victim by consuming them. This fragmented dance piece serves as a requiem for the spirits that could not fully manifest as human, for the lives erased before they could come into being.
- Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Details
- Title
- Curious Fish
- Performance creator(s)
- Kan Katsura
- Direction/Choreography
- Creation: Kan Katsura
- Venue
- The Garage
- Performance date(s)
- 13 August 2001 - 27 August 2001
- Performer(s) and staff
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Performer: Katsura Kan, Ledo, Terry Hatfield, Kage, Jean Pagni,
Masato, Francie Barbe, Jennifer Hicks, Florence Menard,
Mineko Aoyama, Kiyoko
Sound Design: Noriko Tomatani - Organiser(s)
- Organiser: Katsura Kan & Saltinbanques
- Genre
- Butoh
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