"Die Scheinwerferin" (the light-thrower)
- The first part of the shadow trilogy
2011. Installations-Performance
Concept, visual design, sound design, performance: Naoko Tanaka
Dramaturgical collaboration: Mariko Harigai
Duration: 30 Minuten
Production: Naoko Tanaka, Christine Peterges
Co-production: Tanztage Berlin/SOPHIENSÆLE
Supported by: POLA Art Foundation, Japan Foundation, PACT Zollverein(Essen)
Thanks to: Gallery Murata & Friends
Prizes:
The Award for the particular expressivity // 38th INFANT Festival, Novi sad
Prix Jardin d’ Europe 2012 // Festival ImPulsTanz, Vienna
ZKB Acknowledgment Prize 2012 // Zürcher Theater Spektakel
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- What is appearance?
Outward manifestations like make-up,colour, light and shadow... A transient, „empty“ surface, which allows people not only to notice one another, but also recognise one another.
In her solo „Die Scheinwerferin“visual artist and performer, Naoko Tanaka, employs light andshadow to reveal new dimensions of „appearance“ and „reality“.Carrying a torch, Tanaka departs on a fictive journey into her inner self. Using simple means, she thus creates fascinatingimaginary images - images of suppressed memories, of arampant forest that appears to grow under a simple dining table.Her powerful „illusory world“ of light and shadow takes over thewhole space, flows, disappears and reappears again.
"The ZKB Acknowledgment Prize 2012 goes to Naoko Tanaka for her performance «Die Scheinwerferin» for searching for a specific language and creative form of art to encounter visual art, installation and performance in a thoughtful context; Innovative working with objects; Interactive relations of light, sound, image and performer’s body; projecting individual life and the world outside in an analytic way, presenting the absence, challenging the meaning of reality and the dream, image and imagination; Precise work of dramaturgy and sharing an experience with audience through a playful discovery.“
- Statement of the jury: ZKB Acknowledgement Prize 2012
Tour Dates
22.06.2017 // PACT Zollverein, Essen
09.&11.02.2017 // Sophiensaele, Berlin
18.07.2014 // Schaubühne Lindenfels, Leipzig
03.& 04.&05.07.2014 // Festival Baltoscandal, Estonia
19.& 20.04.2014 // International Art Festival Ichihara Art x Mix, Chiba, Japan
25. & 26.11.2013 // Novart Bordeaux 2013, Théâtre des Quatre Saisons, Gradignan, France
22.11.2013 // ND’T Performing Arts Festival, Parma, Italy
27. & 28.09.2013 // Machine Love Festival, Dampfzentrale, Bern, Switzerland
06.09.2013 // Eisfabrik, Hannover, Germany
18.06.2013 // blickwechsel 10. Internationalen Figurentheaterfestival, Magdeburg (canceled on grounds of the flood)
31.05.2013 // 3, 2, 1. ENCUENTRO INTERNACIONAL DE NUEVAS FORMAS ESCENICAS, Bilbao, Spain
23.&24.&25.05.2013 // Alkantara & FIMFA Lx’13, Lissabon, Portugal
11.&12.&13.04.2013 // Le festival CDC, Toulouse, France
04.04.2013 // ]domaines[ national choreographic cente / Montpellier, France
01.02.2013 // Festival Antigel / Geneva, Switzerland
19.01.2013 // OFFenes Berlin / Stettin, Poland
24.11.2012 // Silencio Club / Paris,France
15.& 16.11.2012 // NEXT Festival / Buda, Kortrijk, Belgien
26.10.2012 // Nidwaldner Museum (Exhibition “Scheinbar wirklich”) Salzmagazin, Stans, Switzerland
20.09.2012 // L1 danceFest / Budapest, Hungary
14.09.2012 // KammerMachen / Chemnitz
24.& 25. & 26.08. 2012 // Zürcher Theater Spektakel / Rote Fabrik / Zürich, Switzerland
17.& 19.07.2012 // ImPulsTanz // kasino am schwarzenbergplatz / Vienna, Austria
10.& 11.05.2012 // TJCC Festival // Theatre de Gennevilliers / Paris,France
27.& 28.04.2012 // Sophiensaele / Berlin
22.03.2012 // Fondazione Teatro dell’Archivolto / Genova, Italy
13.& 14.03.2012 // Korzo / Den Haag, Nederland
07.& 08.03.2012 // Südpol / Luzern, Switzerland
26.08.2011 // Fabrik Heeder, Krefeld
28.06.2011 // Infant Festival // Novi Sad, Serbia
04.06.2011 // TRANSPORT>festival 2011 / PATHOS, München
05.05.2011 // Eröffnung des Festivals Tanz NRW / PACT Zollverein, Essen
25.02.2011 // 3. Internationales Bonner Tanzsolo-Festival / Theater im Ballsaal, Bonn
14.01.2011 (Premiere) & 15.01.2011 // TANZTAGE BERLIN / Sophiensaele, Berlin
21.& 22.10.2010 Work in Progress Showing#2 // Now&Next / Tanzhaus nrw, Düsseldorf
10.04.2010 Work in Progress Showing#1 // Atelier Spezial / PACT Zollverein, Essen