26,27/5｜Friday,Saturday｜20:00
Macao Cultural Centre Small Auditorium
Tickets: MOP 200, 150
Commissioned work:
Choreography: Hiroaki Umeda
Holistic Strata:
Commissioned by: Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media
Choreography and Dance: Hiroaki Umeda
To choreographer Hiroaki Umeda, dancing is not just movements of body but a form of visual art about lights and shadows. A dancer, audio artist, and visual and lighting designer, Umeda presents through his works comprehensive aesthetics involving multiple layers of the human body, visual and space. His productions are also renowned for his characteristic technological art form in which the body and technology resist and interact with each other surrounded by electro music and digital images, creating a whole new perspective to appreciate dance.
Following the huge success and popularity at the 2014 Macao Arts Festival, Umeda returns with his acclaimed solo piece Holistic Strata. All the elements of the movements are transformed into physical data, then further dissolved into the information units (pixel), bringing unprecedented challenges to the audiences’ senses as the body and pixels clash on stage.
The solo piece aside, a brand new work of Umeda commissioned by the Macao Arts Festival and jointly developed with local dancers will debut with Holistic Strata.
Duration: approximately 1 hour and 30 minutes, including one interval