About the event
Premiere: 2008 @ Asahi Art Square,Tokyo
Duration: 65min..
Dancers：6 (M:2, F:4)
Chibiruda Michiruda, Masako Yasumoto’s first production after an interval of five years. Choosing five young dancers through an audition, this piece was presented as a corpus of Masako Yasumoto’s creative career up to that point.
The audience is drawn into Yasumoto’s coquettish and humorous performance. Memorable scenes include a duet of male and female dancers with bunny ears, a representation of a girl bitten by an annoying mosquito, and a dear mascot named “Nara-chan” [Nara is a city famous for dears] which Yasumoto towed around the stage. But the arguably most impressive of all are Yasumoto’s solo scenes, in which Yasumoto’s elastic body mesmerizes the audience. While drawing out the best from all the dancers, Yasumoto refines her distinct aesthetics. Bearing witness to her aesthetic philosophy that “music makes us dance; we become dancers through music,” the entire piece makes it clear that her entire oevure has been inspired by the music she has chosen herself.
Nino Oliviero & Riz Ortolani／Messer Chups／GONZALES
MATMOS／DAISHI DANCE／SANDII／Yasuaki Shimizu
Review: Weekly Friday Mar.28.2008
... With support of the other five, the stage lasted for 70min. It was titled as “Chibirudamichiruda.”The daily life was courteously deformed, as she dances, toing and froing between the images of an individual and a sculpture-like group. In that sense, it looks as if her physical expression is similar to the one of chelfitsch, which represents the “lost generation.” Yet, because of the quite many changes in the pace and the use of exaggerated poses, Yasumoto's dance has more theatrical elements - which is very rare in a recent contemporary dance scene. Though being theatrical, it never completely leaves apart from the ordinary lives. That gives the audience a chance to laugh: if there was a movement that anyone could have done, they would laugh. Her dance doesn't seem comfortable at all; but when she makes a dead halt and breaks into a run, that is the moment we see “Yasumoto.”
Itaru Mita
