Bones in Pages by Saburo Teshigawara and KARAS (Japan)

"Books are breathing in the pages
Books are moving bodies when you read them
Your bones are dancing in the pages"
- Saburo Teshigawara

Lean cut, Teshigawara strikes a magnetic presence on stage. Moving like no other, his body dissolves into elemental qualities, combusting with molten mercury, steel-like grit, aerial grace, and earthliness all at once.

In Bones In Pages, Saburo and his dancers perform in an installation work Dance of Air created by Teshigawara himself. A wall lined with hundreds of books, pages flying in the wind, heaps of shoes, and panels of glass and acrylic traces the reflections of their bodies. Displaying his keenly honed sculptural sensibilities and powerful sense of composition, they move fluidly and effortlessly with complete freedom, uniting body and space.

Teshigawara is fascinating to watch. Moving with his trademark incisiveness, possessed by knowledge of the body that cannot be read like an encyclopedia, he can only be felt as dance -- luminous, pure and profound.
10 & 11 June, 8.00pm
Victoria Theatre
$60, $40, $30, $20
55mins (no intermission)
www.singaporeartsfest.com

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• Bones
• in
• Pages
• Saburo
• KARAS
• dance

[RussellHiGGS]

I love Saburo Teshigawara's performances so much. I first saw him in the early 90s. The piece with the broken glass and the crow and his garment that gradually unravelled.

[snafuart]

This is so impressive, so good - beyond words! TYVM

[RahSabs]

I first saw Karas in the FIND festival in Montreal, likely in the late 1980s. This was a reminder of how hypnotic the performance was. Thanks.

[cinderfarm]

teshigawara throwing a tantrum !

[suekanji]

Wow! Thanks for posting this!! I'm a huge fan of Teshigawara. I saw the first performances of this piece in Tokyo back in the early 90's. It's my favorite, but I don't have anything on video. Could you tell me where you found this? Is there more?