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Fusebox: Kaiji Moriyama, free shows at the Paramount April 21-22
One of Japan’s foremost contemporary dancers Kaiji Moriyama combines the grace and technique of ballet with the precision of butoh dance for an emotionally charged, visually stunning solo performance, ‘The Velvet Suite.’
‘The Velvet Suite’ was originally created to fit the theme of ‘Body and Eros’ for the 2007 Venice Biennale. It features Moriyama’s magnetic, compelling movement as he is by violinist Koichiro Muroya.
Moriyama first began his career with a musical theater company in Japan, and moved to the world of professional choreography. He has worked with a number of leading contemporary dance companies and innovative Japanese choreographers such as Kota Yamazaki, Yukio Ueshima, and Aki Nagatani. Kaiji is style has been likened to a sword, tearing through space with a smoothness and sensitivity which crosses over generational boundaries. In January 2005, his U.S. solo debut “katana”(sword) was reviewed by Anna Kisselgoff of The New York Times as “a dance of amazing concentration by an amazing dancer”.
‘The Velvet Suite’ plays two nights as part of the Fusebox Festival. And thanks to sponsorship by testperformancetest — an endowment started by arts patron Julie Thornton to bring international performance art to Austin — the shows are free.
You will need to RSVP to reserve a seat though.
Click here for the April 21 show and here for the show on April 22.
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