One work based on a moment and place. Another, a narrow but endless space.
International collaborative production between Murasaki Penguin (Japan and Australia) and Yu-Feng Lai (Taiwan). Embodying the movement of colours created by light and waves through dance. A double bill featuring ‘Dove Lake’, previously performed at Nibroll’s Dance Lab 2023, and new work ‘Aqua Line’.
Concept – Murasaki Penguin, Yu-Feng Lai
Dance – Yu-Feng Lai, Anna Kuroda
Sound, Visual, Lighting – David Kirkpatrick
Dove Lake (2023)
The water is blue from afar. On approach, amber. Rays of light reflect towards the sky and refract beneath. Leaves fall, submerge, decompose. Bubbles form and are drawn together, rising to the surface, travelling in an infinity mirror of thin lines defying wind and wave. 10 seconds later they are gone. Time is moving forward but I am thinking of someone in the past.
The work is based on a visit to Dove Lake in Tasmania, Australia by Kuroda in 2017, where she was inspired by a natural phenomenon of bubbles forming in orderly rows across the lake’s surface.
Dove Lake at Dance Lab 2023 archive
Aqua Line (2024)
Light from a sodium lamp flows slowly through a narrow but endless space, a one-lane highway towards eternity. Delicate ripples gently resonate, drifting between warmth and cold.
Dates
2024
30. 11 (Sat) 19:00
1. 12 (Sun) 15:00☆/ 19:00
2. 12 (Mon) 15:00 / 19:00
※ The performance duration is approximately 60 minutes
※ Doors open 30 minutes before the start time
☆ An artist talk will be held after the 15:00 performance on December 1st
Venue
MURASAKI PENGUIN PROJECT TOTSUKA
4247-21 Totsukachō, Totsuka Ward, Yokohama, Kanagawa 244-0003
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Ticket
General Advance ¥3500 (Door ¥4000)
Student Advance ¥2500 (Door ¥3000)
Supporter Ticket ¥7000 (with a postcard and special thanks to the Murasaki Penguin website)
※ For student tickets please show your student card at reception
※ If you will require wheelchair access please contact us via [email protected]
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Murasaki Penguin
Murasaki Penguin is an interdisciplinary collaboration between dancer/choreographer Anna Kuroda and sound/multimedia artist David Kirkpatrick, based in Yokohama, Japan and Sydney, Australia. Our work crosses cultures and the boundaries of dance, sound, video, electronics and large scale installation – with a focus on interactivity and live performance.
murasakipenguin.com
Yu-Feng Lai
Dancer and Choreographer. Collaborates with artists from various fields while actively engaging in dance creation. Lai explores the authenticity of dance and engage in deep communication and dialogue with local culture. His notable choreography includes “The Line” (DanceLab Tokyo, 2023), “$ür-v!rtüål-rêål!t¥” (Nuit Blanche Taipei, 2022), and works for Dance in Asia and Chiayi New Style Choreography. Collaborations extend into painting with Liou Sin-Yi’s “Sound Line” film with Lu Bo-Hsun’s “Hai-Hong Thau” and performances “Lapse” by Melati Suryodarmo.
He has frequently collaborated with Century Contemporary Dance Company, participating in key works such as “Les Noces \ Le Sacre Du Printemps,” “Wings of Desire,” and “Far-Near,” alongside pieces by Chen Wei-Ning and Mu Tian-Yun.
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Anna Kuroda
Kuroda explores choreography in which existence and memory can be perceived through the body transcending visible form. She has performed for Nibroll, Ong Keng Sen, KENTARO!!, Maki Tabata, Ko Murobushi, Phillip Adams Ballet Lab, Brook Andrew, Sioned Huws, Rena Kimura, Heather B Swann, and Charemaine Seet. She is a Toyota Choreography Award 2016 finalist. She was a performer and stand-in/picture double for Fala Chen in the Marvel Studios movie Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021).
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David Kirkpatrick
Kirkpatrick creates music, live visuals, performances and installations. In doing so he searches for essential elements that exist within the flow of time and individual moments. Yana Taylor theatre work “Leading Is Following Is Leading” Live Works Festival (2020) multimedia collaborator. Tamara Dean Installation “Stream Of Consciousness” Adelaide Biennale (2018) sound artist. “Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018)” TouchDesigner operator. Illuminate Wollondilly Festival (2015-22) projection mapping designer.
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Credits
Concept – Murasaki Penguin, Yu-Feng Lai
Dancers – Yu-Feng Lai (Taiwan), Anna Kuroda (Japan)
Sound, Visuals, Lighting – David Kirkpatrick (Australia)
Stage Manager – Tomoya Yokoyama
Front of House – Yukie Yoshida
Support – National Culture and Arts Foundation Taiwan (NCAF), Nibroll, KANAUE, MPP Totsuka
Main Organisations – Murasaki Penguin, Yu-Feng Lai
Contact: [email protected]
