Sengiku／Laurent Ziegler／Ryohei

____ Three _____

by Juin 2004 Art Corporation

Technical note:
Running time:60 min.
Number of dancers:2(+1) Sengiku , Ryohei Kondo, (Laurent Ziegler : Photographer)
VStage specifications :
- Several screens that are made of semi transparent mesh and that have gliding mechanism with their strings (system for mobility). (See the annexed document of space design by Laurent Ziegler.)
- Cameras and video projectors. Computer ( to process the filmed image).
Lighting:Lighting design is in preparation. But we're sure that we use some spotlights and footlights.

Presentation of the project:
   "Three" is a choreographic installation project by Sengiku (from Japan) and Laurent Ziegler (from Austria). The seed of this concept has started to grow in Monaco Dance Forum 2004, where Sengiku and Ziegler had met and had discovered the work of each other, as dancer and as photographer.
   "Three" refers to the unexpected meeting of the three different worlds: traditional Japanese dance (Sengiku), contemporary dance (Kondo) and photography (Ziegler). The each sequence of the movements of two dancers will be filmed by the photographer and the image of this moment will be projected upon the screens as a memory. Walking through this mixed media installation garden, the audience can experience an extraordinary space, which would be designed and redesigned by dancers as well as the audience them selves, and where this moment and its memory coexist in harmony.

Object of the project:
   "Three" is the collaboration work of a Japanese traditional dancer, a contemporary dancer and a Austrian photographer. "Three" is also the name of the space where these three viewpoints and three ways of being meet and communicate each other. Here, the screens in the performance space are like picture books of this moment and the memory of our life.
   In this installation, two dancers, the photographer, and audience walk through between the screens, on which the image of dancers on real time will be projected. The images on the screens are sometimes exactly same as the dancerﾕs movements, but some another time, it will be cut and getting stiffen like a stop motion, as a picture. This effect refers to a paradoxical relation between dance and photography.
   The first object of "Three" is to make audience experience the meeting of choreographic art, always in movement, disappears in a split second, and photographic art, which aims to fix these movements to keep them forever.
   During the filmed image is projected upon the screens, the dancers continue to dance in the same space, among these screens. As the screens are made of semi transparent mesh, the audience can see the dancers from any angle in the space. So, they can see the memories on the screens and the movements of dancers which are going on, at the same time. The second object of "Three" is to invite the audience in this uncharted space, where this moment and its memory are crossing.

Degree of completion:
   This is a project in preparation. With Laurent Ziegler, photographer, we are preparing details of the project. We are also thinking about the technical support staff to realize this mixed media performance. Keiko Courdy would help us to make it.
   Our company had already presented several experimental choreographic pieces in the same angle: meeting of the different types of art in a performance space; till now, traditional art and contemporary dance.

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