Martine Pisani and Michikazu Matsune present "Kono atari no dokoka"
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Out of the artistic relationships between Japanese-Austrian performer Michikazu Matsune and French choreographer Martine Pisani, accompanied by Theo Kooijman, Dutch painter and performer, arose a question: What remains of dance, once the show’s over? In Kono atari no dokoka (Somewhere around here), they use archives, personal memories, shared anecdotes, notebooks, and drawings to reinterpret Martine Pisani’s early creations. Somewhere in Japan, in a place dreamed up for the performance... Over here in Europe... Between beautifully simple poetry, humour and, above all, tenderness, they reconstruct what’s left of the past to form a composite present.
Kono atari no dokoka is a place at once far away and oh so close, with blurry yet familiar contours, a journey through time and space. From a Kobe beach to the port of Marseilles, from Paris to Vienna or somewhere else yet, a collective memory starts to appear between the lines of personal stories.