parole

17min. (original version: 70min.) in shin-bi, Kyoto, 2006


Direction: Hajime Fujita
Choreography and Interpretation: Hajime FUjita / Meri Ohtoshi
Music: Hikaru Shimizu
Video: Yuki Netsu

“Parole” is Hajime Fujita’s represented work ever. This very simple but very thoughtful duo dance performance was presented in Tokyo and Kyoto in the beginning of 2006. Afterwards, in Japanese dance magazine “Engekijin”, one article remarked “Parole” and reviewed with long text.

Hajime Fujita and Meri Ohtoshi, two dancers’ very slow and sensitive movements, using a essence of contact inprovisation, with light electlonic music by Hikaru Shimizu and beautiful videos by Yuki Netsu. “Parole” tryed to reveal the our tiny and sensitive activity between our communications.

The biggest unique point of this piece is that dancers had not fixed the detail of movements. All of the movements were in-between choreographed and improvised. According that, all the moment, dancers were taking care of each partner. To realize the choreography, dancers needs a cooperation in the improvisation. Even small movements like one dancer goes up on the other’s body, they have to imagine how the partners thinking/feeling presicely. This is like a real converation: “Can I go on?”, “Sure.” So sometime they shows even hesitation.

The piece had also the unison part. But that is also not only to show the dynamics of the same movements of two dancers. Actually, what could be seen is the difference of two dancers. Fujita and Ohtoshi tryed to dance same movements, but unconsciously thier movements are involved by the backgrounds of each(how he/she has been studing dance, what kind of thechnique is his/her speciality, preferences a.o.). Hajime Fujita, started his career with the theater, and Meri Ohtosh, started her career with long time training of ballet, so they have totally defferent experiences. According, the difference of them is easily to be seen as the detail of the movements with unison.