DISCLAIMER: I am not and have never
been a dancer myself (excluding the odd reluctant school
performance), and so I am in no position to comment on the
technical aspects of Kizuna Dance's Cultural Exchanges performance. But
anyone in that audience will have recognised the amount of time,
effort, and love that went into their choreography.
Through three dances,
Kizuna brought fluidity and creativity to a range of subjects, from
Buddhist sins to the struggles of 21st century life. Using
only their bodies and expressions they told story upon story with no
words.
Most interesting to me were the choices
in music and sound. House music flowed into Japanese folk songs, then
transformed into sections of monologues and stand-up comedy
routines. Though these choices were worlds apart, they seemed to
culminate in a whole new world of Kizuna's own creation; a world
that, in that hour and a half, made complete sense.
The complexity of the choreography was
overwhelming, with many instances in which each dancer was delivering
a different performance to those around them. However it became clear
that every single step was calculated, with the smallest of touches,
balances and moments of eye contact keeping the dancers together as
one moving organism.
But above all this, seeing the dancers'
sweat and bandages, hearing their breathlessness, and watching the
unwavering concentration on their faces was perhaps more moving to me
than the dances themselves.
Check out Kizuna's website here
Araminta Jürgen-Romrig
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