In this double programme with Ensemble Intercontemporain live on stage, Saburo Teshigawara and Rihoko Sato dance on Arnold Schönberg's Pierrot Lunaire and Alban Berg's Lyric Suite.
Stripped down, poetic and light as a feather. “Lost in dance” is masterful dance art in its rawest, most concentrated form; as always when acclaimed veteran Saburo Teshigawara creates his artworks.
Teshigawara is truly an all-rounder in the true sense of the word. Choreographer, but also writer, artist, lighting designer and stage designer.
I don't live to make dance. When there is something I want to express, if I hold a pen it will be poetry, if I have a canvas in front of me it will be a painting, and if there is space around me it will become a dance.
Saburo Teshigawara
And in his works, he also likes to do everything. In the duet “Lost in dance” he is responsible for directing, lighting design, sound collage and also dances on stage himself.
But the real protagonist of “Lost in dance” is Rihoko Sato – Teshigawara's partner for over 20 years. Inspired by Teshigawara's universe of movement but with its own original expression, Sato's swirling, virtuosic creature is a thoroughly marvellous experience.
Cultivating for many years an art of refined and vibrant movement, at the forefront of choreographic creation, the Japanese dancer and choreographer Saburo Teshigawara reunites with the soloists of the EIC with Pierrot Lunar by Arnold Schönberg and the Lyric Suite, for quartet strings by Alban Berg. Revisiting the poems of Pierrot Lunar, a collection of poetry by the Belgian Albert Giraud, Teshigawara Saburo invents a new vocabulary of gestures to respond to the Sprechgesang (spoken-sung) used by Schönberg in this masterpiece marking a real break with post music romantic. Continuing his exploration of the Second Vienna School, Teshigawara also takes up Alban Berg's Lyric Suite. This work with its labyrinthine structure gives rise here to a melee as lively as it is majestic, bringing to the surface all the torments of passion.