AURÉLIEN BORY / KAORI ITO Plexus – GREC’13

Genre: DANCE

THE SHOW

Using drama, visual art, circus and music, Aurélien Bory has created magical shows in which objects and stage set often play a leading role. This time, though, he places the performer in the foreground in order to create a portrait of the dancer that we will see on stage. Kaori Ito is a dance phenomenon who studied classical ballet in Japan before pursuing her training in contemporary dance in New York and Europe, working with such renowned choreographers as Alain Platel, Philippe Découflé and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui. Bory recreates the inner world of an artist who has left her original context and been transformed by experience. He achieves this by allowing Ito to perform his choreographies whilst he immerses her in a set from which she cannot escape, and which alters her dance. For Bory transforms the space, converting it into a forest of threads that represent all the obstacles that can change a dance… or a life. The return to Barcelona of a director who has thrilled Grec audiences with such shows as “Sans objet” (2011)

Produced by Compagnie 111 – Aurélien Bory.
Coproduction Le Grand T – theatre of Loire-Atlantique / Nantes, Théâtre Vidy / Lausanne, Théâtre de la Ville / Paris, Le Parvis – scène nationale Tarbes- Pyrénées, Les Théâtres de la Ville / Luxembourg, La Coursive – scène nationale / La Rochelle, Agora – Pôle national des arts du cirque / Boulazac

SHOW AND ARTIST INFORMATION

Conception, set design and direction Aurélien Bory
Performed by Kaori Ito