Fumiyo Ikeda & Tim Etchells | IN PIECES

Axe, break, frozen, sea and inside. Tim Etchells found these words in a quote from Kafka. He gave them to Fumiyo Ikeda, who created a dance phrase with them. This was the genesis of the new performance a solo for Fumiyo at the point where theatre, dance and performance meet.

Fumiyo Ikeda has danced with Rosas since 1983. During the course of her career she has also chosen her own direction. She recently created the confrontational Nine Finger with Benjamin Verdonck and Alain Platel. Now she is joining forces with Tim Etchells, a writer and highly acclaimed director with Forced Entertainment, Britains most brilliant experimental theatre group (The Guardian).

In movement and language I love what Fumiyo does - the way she does undoes words, blurs actions. I love the way she can shift her presence in movement, fading in the space of one second from something taut, hard and harsh to something soft, almost dissolving. Tim Etchells

direction & text Tim Etchells | creation & performance Fumiyo Ikeda | directors assistance Sara Jansen | lighting design Nigel Edwards | set design Richard Lowdon | costume design Ann Weckx | technique Peter Fol (Kaaitheater) | production management Hanne Van Waeyenberge | production Rosas | coproduction Kaaitheater, Sadlers Wells (London), PACT Zollverein (Essen), Théâtre Garonne (Toulouse), Festival dAutomne (Paris), Théâtre de la Bastille (Paris) | with the support of the British Council

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I cannot believe witnessing such fluid movement,when initially you seemed to be unable to move as if in a dream,without control.