After ITs: Japan

Genre: Dance & Choreography
Language: no problem
Duration: 20 minutes

Find out where Japan will be performed again. Simon Tanguy is the winner of the ITs Choreography Award 2011.

Tour dates:
De Melkweg (The Netherlands) - 27 August 2011
Veemtheater (The Netherlands) - 9 September 2011
Theatre des Abbesses (France) - 15 - 20 September 2011
NEU/NOW Festival (online festival) - 17 - 20 September 2011
Short Theatre Festival (Italy) - 5 - 18 September 2011
Fabrica de Movimentos Porto (Portugal) - May 2012
ACT Festival (Spain) - June 2012
Huis van Bourgondie (The Netherlands) - date to be announced

In this solo, I explore the whole physical and poetical vocabulary of agony. Agony is the combat just before death. I contract and release the whole body or just parts of it. I suspend movements. ‘Agon’ in Greek signifies the battle. It is an exploration of collapsing, fainting, awakening, the burst before death, the terrible and brutal coma, the downfall of the body. Thus, the movements are bound to gravity and to the floor. The horizontal dimension is somewhat the dramaturgy of the piece, ‘something comes to standing and returns to the ground’. The research is a record about the poetry of the body on the ground: an insomniac body; a dream body; a corpse. All this vocabulary has a musicality that stops abruptly, that unfolds, that melts, that unsettles. TO me it’s a free-jazz musicality that defines itself without defining itself.

Choreography by Simon Tanguy
Photo: Nellie de Boer