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- Video ID number
- V00709
- Recording date
- 16 March 1968
Overview
A youth calls out to the sun as it bathes all things in light, making them shine, and sinks while dyeing the clouds of the western sky gold. This work premiered in 1968. Having been taught by her father that “nature is the teacher of art,” Mieko Fuji had always loved the sun; yet in the 1960s, amid the vexations of the human world, she sought themes in the cosmos. It was during this period that she rediscovered the theme of the sun, presenting the large-scale work “Breeze From the Sun” in 1966. In 1968, she also began the joint performance “Children of the Sun Dance Recital,” involving her students and their pupils’ children, centered on the idea that “dance is for everyone.”
- Music: Art Blaky
- Due to the deterioration of the half-inch magnetic tape on which the footage was recorded, the image quality is poor.
Details
- Title
- The Sun’s Kiss
- Performance creator(s)
- Mieko Fuji Dance Company
- Direction/Choreography
- Choreography: Mieko Fuji
- Venue
- National Theatre of Japan : Small Theatre
- Performance date(s)
- 16 March 1968
- Performer(s) and staff
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Dancers: Yoko Hirayama, Kuniko Kiso, Emiko Inoue, Toshiko Miki, Minako Manita, Yoko Endo, Fumiko Wada
Lighting: Saburo Oba
Costume: Kikuko Ogata
Images
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