Min Tanaka
Locus Focus
© © Shiho Ishihara ©
Locus Focus
Dance, Min Tanaka
Light, Jean Kalman
With « Les Nomades » by Thomas Gleb
Corealisation C.I.C.T./Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord (Paris) ; Festival d’Automne à Paris
Thanks to Jean-Lurçat Museum (Angers)
With the support of The Japan Foundation
With the support of the Franco-Japanese Foundation of Sasakawa
In Min Tanaka’s practice, influenced by the teachings of Tatsumi
Hijikita, the body fully partakes of its mental and sensory environment, exploring the relationships between man and nature. Each performance of Locus Focus is improvised, and the present is treated as a constant process of transformation. Blending the contemporary and the traditional, his art ultimately expresses a quest for origins.
In the same place
Joséphine Markovits, l’art d’écouter
On 11 November at the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord, the Festival d'Automne is dedicating a concert to Joséphine Markovits. In her memory, the Ensemble Intercontemporain and the Ensemble L'Instant Donné will perform works by Claude Vivier, Olga Neuwirth, Gérard Pesson, Pierre-Yves Macé and Arnold Schoenberg. All proceeds from the ticket sales are donated to the Association for ALS Research.
Dorothée Munyaneza, Kae Tempest Inconditionnelles
For this new performance, titled Inconditionnelles singer, author, and choreographer Dorothée Munyaneza stages her French translation of Kae Tempest’s fervent play, Hopelessly Devoted (2015). Inconditionnelles explores the interstices where love and connection abound.
Pascal Rambert Je te réponds
Six voices ring out, bringing with them the captivating stories of six men and women, aged between 30 and 60 years old, and who are currently serving prison sentences. Usually confined to within prison walls, their words find a stage on which to be heard at the Bouffes du Nord theatre.
Dorcy Rugamba Hewa Rwanda – Lettre aux absents
Thirty years after the genocide in Rwanda, Dorcy Rugamba, actor, author and director, brings to life an extract from this work Hewa Rwanda – Lettre aux absents, published by JC Lattès.