Takeshi Matsumoto /
Seven Circles (UK)
Club Origami
German premiere
Welcome to Club Origami! Makiko and Takeshi show their guests in the foyer of the theatre how to fold a sheet of paper in a way that will transform it into an animal or another being. Makiko and Takeshi collect these works and bring them onto the stage. Without using any words, they then go and tell a story about which they themselves did not know much before the performance. They are inspired by the small works of art created by their audience: Butterflies, penguins, a hat, a fan, or even an airplane. You never know what might be popping out of that box! Paper is a tool of magic: It can make music, it can transform into a bird, or into a foreign land, where big adventures await! Rob performs the music to go with it on a xylosynth. Imagination is allowed to dance!
The Japanese dance artist and movement psychotherapist Takeshi Matsumoto works with children with autism and learning disabilities in Japan and the UK. As performer, he has worked with Christian Duarte, Darren Johnston, Beatrice Allegranti, Paul-Andre Fortier und Second Hand Dance, and others. Makiko Aoyama was born in Japan and moved to the UK in 2000. She trained in dance at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance in Leeds. Since then, she has been collaborating regularly with Fuel Theatre. The composer and arranger Robert Howat works and lives in London. He has created music for theatre projects as well as live soundtracks for films and videogames and regularly performs with a Variety of different bands.
Concept: Takeshi Matsumoto | By and with Makiko Aoyama, Robert Howat, Takeshi Matsumoto | Music: Robert Howat | Dramaturgy: Lou Cope | Mentor: Rosie Heafford | Stage and lighting design: Ben Pacey | Costume design: Giulia Scrimieri | Costume making: Hania Kosewicz
Club Origami has been commissioned by Little Big Dance – a pioneering national initiative creating new dance work for under-fives and their families, led by South East Dance in partnership with DanceEast, Take Art and Yorkshire Dance and funded by Paul Hamlyn Foundation and Arts Council England, co-commissioned by Birmingham Hippodrome, Dance Umbrella, Strike-a-light and Spark Arts.
location: HochX
Thursday, 4th July | 10 am and 3 pm
Friday, 5th July | 10 am
40 min. | 0 - 6 years
