Bangkok Art and Culture Centre is hosting two rounds of A Wave From A Distance, a contemporary dance performance that blends the East and the West, at its Studio on the 4th floor, on Friday and Saturday at 7pm.
Presented by Bodybuilders | Rafael Alvarez, the show takes inspiration from The Great Wave Off Kanawaga, an iconic work by Japanese painter Hokusai that was created in 1830 and reproduced from the mid-1870s through a series of lithographs using the traditional Japanese print technique known as ukiyo (literally, floating world).
This is a monochromatic performance of shadows, evocations and masks whose Hokusai wave allows to embody. It features two bodies sailing in silence for a fragile dance that is a wave and tide of encounters and disagreements.
Near and far, the two divers discover themselves in an invisible dialogue of memories and stories that invade our imagination. A paper choreography is drawn from an open dance of senses and dives in other readings -- far and near, closer than far, East and West, on either side of the ocean, bringing to the surface a sea of illusions.
In the dark and in the light, only two elements -- body and paper reveal in their plasticity and in their fragility and impermanence, a symbolic, abstract and imagery ritual immersed to East and West in a coexistence of readings and meanings, where less is more.
Performing on the stage of an origami wave, a scenographic installation made of paper will be Portuguese choreographer and dancer Rafael Alvarez and Japanese-Portuguese dancer Noeli Kikuchi. This show premiered in Japan in 2017 and has been presented in Portugal, Egypt and Cape Verde.
Tickets cost 500 baht (350 baht for students). There will also be a contemporary dance workshop on "Wave Dance Lab" designed for all levels, on Saturday from 2-4pm, with a fee of 300 baht per person.
A package deal comprising both a performance and a workshop is also available at 650 baht (500 baht for students).
For reservations, visit forms.gle/k7N43s7yomyTrtWTA. Email wavebangkok.tickets@gmail.com or call 061-268-8211.
