Where did the form of the body come from?
“Play is the essence of humans”, said Johan Huizinga.
He explores body language outside of human vocabulary, to recur ancestral attitude and change the communication codes. An enormous possibility is to be born and to die, endlessly repeated.
“When I was little, I used to walk on all fours around the town at night. Climbing on the fences and poles, jumping off, and holding my breath not to be found by passersby. I was thinking how to trace back from the tip of the evolutionary tree to its root. Now, I’m trying how to be an animal with the human body.” Hisashi presents one of the most impressive performances ever seen, a new form which explores both circus and dance, but especially which brings us in a special dimension where we can be anything and everywhere.
Unmissable!!!!!
Hisashi Watanabe has been juggling since 20, and as his interest gradually shifted to the body itself, he also began his career in dancing. With a strong animalistic physicality, his dance freely mixes contortion, hand balancing, and transformation of body’s texture.
He has performed nationally and internationally as a member of a contemporary dance company Monochrome since 2013.
In 2015, Hisashi premiered the first solo piece Inverted Tree in which he uses the innovative method of “floor juggling” he invented. With the piece, he is selected as the finalist of the most well-known contemporary dance award, TOYOTA Choreography Award, in Japan held in 2016.
At the end of 2015, he started a company ATAMA TO KUCHI, and gave a performance that attracted great attention from various quarters of performing arts. In 2016, he premiered two duo pieces Solaris and WHITEST.
Hisashi aspires to a nonhierarchical relationship between a body and objects beyond the existing concepts of dance and juggling.
