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CURRENT PRODUCTIONS
> Performances at KARAS APPARATUS
Creations for KARAS
> Voice of Desert (2024)
voice of desert
© Mariko Miura
A group piece co-produced by Montpellier Danse Festival, created in residence at Agora cité internationale de la danse.

For this performance, Kei Miyata who co-founded KARAS and Javier Ara Sauco, a newcomer in the company will dance alongside Saburo Teshigawara and his long term collaborator Rihoko Sato.

Premiere: 22 June 2024, Festival Montpellier Danse, Théâtre de l'Agora, Montpellier (FR)
> Adagio (2022)
adagio
Adagio © Umberto Favretto
A duet by Saburo Teshigawara and Rihoko Sato.

An adagio by Mahler, Beethoven, Mozart, Rachmaninov, Bruckner, Bach and then largo and adagietto… When I am dancing an adagio, my body melts and my heart is floating in space to dissolve into nothingness. The words slowly evaporate and when even reality and the thoughts go away, I feel like I am living life and death. Saburo Teshigawara.

European premiere: 01 December 2022, Teatro Grande, Brescia (IT)
Initially staged on 13 November 2021 at Karas Apparatus, Tokyo (JP)
> Petrouchka (2022)
petrouchka
Petrouchka © Akihito Abe
Golden Lion 2022, Saburo Teshigawara presented his own version of Petrouchka performed with Rihoko Sato, for the opening of La Biennale Danza in Venice.

Premiere: 22 July 2022, 16th International Festival of Contemporary Dance, Biennale di Venezia, Teatro Malibran, Venice (IT)
Initially staged on 15 June 2017 at Karas Apparatus, Tokyo (JP)
> Ophelia (2022)
ophelia
Ophelia © Florin Ghioca / International Shakespeare Festival Craiova
From Hamlet by William Shakespeare
- The death of his lover Ophelia - 

European premiere: 29 May 2022, International Shakespeare Festival, Craiova (RO)
Initially staged on 3rd February 2020 at Karas Apparatus, Tokyo (JP)
> Lost in Dance (2019)
lost in dance
Lost in Dance © Akihito Abe
Lost in Dance was originally created for Japan-Cuba Encounters, Gran Teatro de La Habana Alicia Alonso (CU).
This duet with Rihoko Sato was recreated in an 1-hour version at the Dansens Hus Stockholm (SE) on 26th Septembre 2019.
> The Idiot (2016)
the idiot
The Idiot © Akihito Abe
I was aware of the impossibility to create a dance piece from such a great novel.
Yet this impossibility was the key to approaching and creating something completely new.
A dance that only exists here.
With no usage of text at all, a pure dance piece is embodied from the novel. (...)
The Idiot told by the body, not as a literature. (Saburo Teshigawara)

Premiered the 8 June 2016 at Karas Apparatus, Tokyo (JP and on tour in Europe from September 2018.

> Tristan and Isolde (2016)
tristan and isolde Excerpts of the music from Wagner’s opera “Tristan and Isolde” is edited into an original and unique dance piece. 

Premiered the 8 June 2016 at Karas apparatus, Tokyo (JP).

Collaborations with musicians
> Pierrot Lunaire (2018 - 2023)
pierrot lunaire
Pierrot Lunaire © Sakae Oguma
Duet by Saburo Teshigawara and Rihoko Sato on Arnold Schönberg's Pierrot Lunaire, created the 1st of December 2018 at the Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre (JP), with soprano Marianne Pousseur.

Pierrot Lunaire is re-created with a new set at La Philharmonie de Paris - Cité de la musique in the double programme Pierrot Lunaire / Lost in Dance on 11 and 12 May 2023, with soprano Salomé Haller and the soloists of Ensemble intercontemporain.
> Bach / Bartók (2023)
bach - bartok
Pierrot Lunaire © Sakae Oguma
Duet by Saburo Teshigawara and Rihoko Sato, with Sayaka Shoji (violin).

Premiere : 04 May 2023 at Cité de la musique - Philharmonie de Paris, Salle des concerts (FR).
> Garden in The Sky (2022), with Jonathan Roozeman

garden in the sky
Garden in The Sky © Kosaku Nakagawa
Courtesy of Aichi Prefectural Art Theater

Duet by Saburo Teshigawara and Rihoko Sato with cellist Jonathan Roozeman live on stage, based around solo works by Bach, Kodaly and Cassado

Premiered: 16 September 2022 at Aichi Prefectural Art Theater, Concert Hall, Nagoya (JP).

Choreographies for other companies
> Verwandlung Teshigawara: Metamorphose / Like a Human (2024) — For the Ballett Basel
A special evening in two parts dedicated to Saburo Teshigawara consisting of a new version of Metamorphosis created in 2014 in Stockholm and the creation of Like a Human both for the Ballett Basel. The double programme is presented after several months of residency at Theater Basel.
Premiere: 22 March 2024, Theater Basel (CH).

With: the Ballett Basel and the Choir of Theater Basel
Production: Theater Basel

> Metamorphosis (2014) for Göteborg Opera Ballet
metamorphosis
Metamorphosis © Bengt Wanselius
Choreography inspired by Kafka's novels for Göteborg Opera Ballet.
Premiered the 8th of March 2014 at Göteborg Opera (SE).
Operas
> Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno (2023) by Georg Friedrich Händel

Oratorio by Georg Friedrich Händel
La Fenice Orchestra
Singers: Giuseppina Bridelli Disinganno Valeria Girardelo Tempo Krystian Adam Bellezza Silvia Frigato Conductor: Andrea Marcon
Direction, sets & Costumes: Saburo Teshigawara
Direction and choreograph assistant: Rihoko Sato

Premiere: 25 May 2023 at Teatro Malibran, Venice (IT).

Installations
> DOUBLE DISTRICT - ReACTOR (2008)

DOUBLE DISTRICT
This is a 3D video installation in a six-sided architectural container that the audience can look into and freely circulate around. One can experience the virtual reality as if dancers are really dancing inside this imaginary space.
DOUBLE DISTRICT was produced in collaboration with Volker Kuchelmeister for the ReACTOR designed by Sarah Kenderdine and Jeffrey Shaw.

Premiered the 18th of October 2008 as part of the group exhibition eLANDSCAPES in Shanghai eARTS Festival (CN).
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