NATIONAL PREMIERE
Technology used to reshape the body, envelop it, and project it into other dimensions. An evening composed of two different works by two artists with distinct origins and backgrounds, who have come together to work in symbiosis with digital technology and its infinite possibilities. Hiroaki Umeda, a globally recognized and dynamic Japanese performer based in France, is known for immersing his body in a veritable storm of lights, sounds, and technology. Since founding his company S20 in 2000, he has been creating truly unique multidisciplinary performances. The blend of elements is so layered that his body on stage becomes one with electronic music, noise peaks, and technological bombardment. Umeda dances the fusion of knowledge, drawing movements from hip-hop as well as modern dance, succeeding in erasing the distance between himself and the landscape that envelops him as the performance evolves. In Intensional Particle, a one-man show, a trembling horizontal line projected onto a screen gradually develops into a technological design of multiple lines capable of drastically propagating their energy and vibrations outward. Just like particles in space releasing intentional force, Umeda's body becomes an exciting vibration that spreads to the audience.
Finnish artist Johanna Nuutinen, with a successful career as a dancer with the Finnish National Ballet, focuses on creating performances where the relationship with technology and video translate into an intimate, personal journey. In her solo Hatched, she addresses themes of identity and anonymity while partially nude and immersed in digitized projections. She embarks on a visceral journey, reminiscent of the ritual of birth, stirring emotions and awakening new questions in the observer. Hatched is the first germ of self-definition, the first steps toward determining the self.
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