Night Stroller

performance

May 12 2011

at TrouwAmsterdam

Amsterdam, the Netherlands

This is a collaboration work together with an Amsterdam based Japanese artist Q Hisashi Shibata. This work aims to explore a possible visual poem to express our common humanity and fantasy with a form of a procession, to walk through Wibaustraat and the restaurant of TrouwAmsterdam. We carefully select twelve diverse performers, artists, designers, an opera singer, a musician, and a chef. We prepare all costumes and objects as extensional bodies of those performers with a site specific approach. What's happened; The performance was held in the restaurant of TrouwAmsterdam. Two micro-procession operators entered the restaurant, and gently clear the tables for the miniature procession. The micro-procession was moved from one side of the table to the other side with a music Nocturne No.2 in E flat major by a use of a portable CD player. When the micro procession was getting the middle of the table, a real size procession started with a sound of a bell. The procession entered inside of the restaurant, and they stopped at each of own positions. One micro-procession-operator (Shibata) metamorphosed a stag beetle, and dance with a stag beetle woman. An opera singer appeared on the balcony, and sang 'Until I see you again' (song by Kiyohiko Ozaki) while the micro-procession climbed up on the pillar. After the song, all performer walked through the table and away from the door.