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SINGAPORE: Critically acclaimed dancer and choreographer Takao Kawaguchi may be trained in pantomime but his latest performance is anything but silent movements.
Collaborating with other Japanese artists and dancers in ‘true’, this multi-sensory performance seeks to explore the relationship between the brain and the reality we face.
Using high-technology devices such as LED lights, oscillators and myoelectric sensors to create a highly enhanced sound and light experience, the theatre space becomes a flickering and vibrating extension of the performers’ bodies.
Kawaguchi shares that he wants the viewers to experience the perplexities of perception.
Be it through revolving shadows created by LED lights that are in constant circular motion or high sound frequencies that sends mild vibrations through the enclosed performing venue, he says that the beauty of theatre lies in the fact that “when you are inside the show, you experience (what your senses perceive) and feel what is explained there, instead of having it explained (literally) to you,”
He is not too concerned about differing interpretations of the message he wants to put across; after all, perceptions mean that "you can never tell what the other (person) thinks,"
What’s more, this poetic journey will get the audience to re-examine our relationship to the world we thought was predetermined.
The purpose of using vibrations and our sounds is to allow the audience to look at the world with their other senses before triggering our visual senses, which is predominately used in forming perceptions first.
So if you want to play around with your perceptions of reality, ‘true’ will be performing at the Esplanade Theatre Studio from the 24th-26th July.
Tickets are available from Sistic.
Just an advisory note though: the production uses high sound levels and strobe lighting effects so if you’re particularly sensitive about these effect, you might have to give ‘true’ a miss.
-CNA/jk
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