Saburo Teshigawara / Karas








CURRENT PRODUCTIONS


Creations for KARAS Update Dance series at KARAS APPARATUS Collaborations with musicians Choreographies for other companies Opera stagings Installations



Creations for KARAS



> Voice of Desert (2024)
© Alain Scherer		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, Rika Kato and Izumi Komoda 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)



> Waltz (2023)
Waltz © Akihito Abe		A duet by Saburo Teshigawara and Rihoko Sato. The music in the piece are various waltzes, from many countries and many eras. But the piece is not just about dancing to the waltz. The 3 beat tempo resonates with each dancer's interior rhythm, heart beat and breathing. Premiere: 16 July 2023, Aichi Prefectural Art Theater, Nagoya (JP). Premiere Karas Apparatus version: 20 October 2023, Update Dance #99, Karas Apparatus, Tokyo (JP).



> Adagio (2022)
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 © 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 © 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 © 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 © 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)
		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 © 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)
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)
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).



> The Well-Tempered Clavier (2022)
The Well-Tempered Clavier © Bengt Wanselius		Duet by Saburo Teshigawara and Rihoko Sato on Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier (extracts), with pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard live on stage. Premiered: 12 April 2022 at Cité de la musique - Philharmonie de Paris (FR)





Choreographies for other companies



> Verwandlung Teshigawara: Metamorphose / Like a Human (2024) — For the Ballett Basel
Metamorphose (top) / Like a Human (bottom) © Julian Mommert / Theater 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





Opera stagings



> Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno (2023) by Georg Friedrich Händel
© La Fenice		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).



> DOUBLE DISTRICT - ReACTOR (2008)
Light behind Light © Sakae Oguma		This installation is part of the stage set of Saburo Teshigawara's master dance piece Luminous (2001). The light multiplies by its numerous reflections. By putting an object in between the panels, one can see the multiplication of light and its shadows, and the perspective. Borderline Festival, Maubeuge (March 2004), Exit Festival, Créteil (March/April 2004) as part of « Light ! » exhibition.



> Drawings
Installation view at Bonlieu Scène nationale d'Annecy © Anne-Laure Chemin		Installation designed by Saburo Teshigawara presenting a collection of his drawings.