Space and time for contemporary productions
Sa.
21.12.19
19:00

Showing Frankfurt LAB Residenzprogramm: Kihako Narisawa & Keith Chin

Nach einer vierwöchigen intensiven Probenphase präsentieren Kihako Narisawa & Keith Chin ihre Arbeitsergebnisse im Frankfurt LAB:

The basis of concept for this research originally derive from my own interest and experience in communication and relation – as Japanese person in Europe, as a dancer, as a woman – from the perspective of a non European, non-native speaker, communication has been a continuous confrontation and adaptation to find better translation and interpretation to express myself in certain circumstances.

In this project, I focus on the concept of proxemics, gesture and behaviour which occur in a physical space between two people. People often make expectations and modify their surrounding needs, those adaptation and rearrangement include cultural and familial background, experience and knowledge of learned upon personal history and cultural influences, according to the source of inspiration from an American
anthropologist Edward T. Hall, who extensively exposes cross cultural communication and anthropology of space.

I apply this concept to investigate how cultural systems push me to choose between verbal and non-verbal communication and how cultural codes and norms deconstruct our use of space among human beings.

Have I ever spoken properly? – reflects the doubt and uncertainly behind communication, and the desire to resolve problem of translation under the pressure of cultural and linguistic differences. How can we address the disparity between idea and word, language and movement?


Kihako Narisawa (concept, choreography, performance)

Born in Tokyo, Japan, Kihako is a physical performing artist, choreographer and visual artist, based in Frankfurt a.M., Germany, and as well active in Basel, Switzerland.
She received a certificate B.A. in art, in the bachelor programme of Dance at Codarts in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, where she studied from 2004 to 2006. She also previously studied at the Ecole supérieure de Danse de Cannes Rosella Hightower from 2002 to 2004. Upon completion of her formal dance and art studies, she had the opportunity to work with various creatives in the European dance scene.
She has had engagements as a professional dancer/artist with the Fondazione Nazionale della Danza Aterballetto under the direction of Mauro Bigonzetti in Reggio Emilia, Italy from 2005 to 2009, at the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden – Thoss Tanzkompanie under the direction of Stephan Thoss in Wiesbaden, Germany from 2009 to 2013, and at Ballet Basel under the direction of Richard Wherlock from 2013 to 2016. During that period, she had the opportunity to present works in the aforementioned
companies as part of young choreographers evenings as well as in independent scene spaces, mostly in Germany, Switzerland and Italy.
Kihako has been working as a freelance artist since 2016. She has received creation residencies in order to develop her own project FIGURATIVE, an ongoing conceptual works she has presented on different occasions. FIGURATIVE is supported by the Hessisches Staatsballett - Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden and Staatstheater Darmstadt, ZAIK Cologne, Braswell Arts Center Basel. Lately she has received a residency from the Goethe-Institut Montreal, Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, fabrik Potsdam and Circuit-Est centre chorégraphique in the summer 2018 to pursue her work on FIGURATIVE, entitled “re/cognition”, and had a public presentation at the completion of the residency programme. She has participated in Choreografische Werkstatt at Künstlerhaus Mousonturm in Frankfurt am Main, Germany with “re/cognition”, in November 2018.
After the residency project at Frankfurt LAB in November/December, she will have another residency at Theater Roxy Birsfelden (Basel-Land), Switzerland in May/June and the performances will be presented at the same venue in June 2020. The performance is entitled “Have I ever spoken properly?”.

Keith Chin (performance in collaboration)

Keith is a freelance dancer, dance teacher. He grew up in Malaysia and began his dance training there before moving to Australia to complete ad Advanced Diploma in Performing Arts (Dance) at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts where he was awarded the Finley Award upon graduation. He then began his professional dance career working with the West Australian Ballet, dancing in pieces by John Cranko and Youri Vamos before moving to Europe.
He has since worked with Tanzkompanie des Stadttheater Gießen, Dance Company Theater Osnabrück and Danish Dance Theater working with choreographers like Tarek Assam, Mauro de Candia, Marco Goecke, Stephan Thoss, Phillip Taylor, David Williams, Massimo Gerardi, Henrietta Horn, Rafaele Giovanola, Shang Chi Sun, Stefano Mazotta, Mary Wigman, Daniel Goldin, Hagit Yakira, Didy Veldman and Wubkje Kuindersma, and even spent 6 months on board the Mein Schiff 2 cruise ship as part of the Entertainment department out of curiosity.

(c) Clarissa Lapolla
(c) Christian Schuller
(c) Christian Schuller
(c) Christian Schuller
(c) Christian Schuller
(c) Christian Schuller