Description

A performance undertaken in a project paying homage to Hijikata called “Hijikata Memorial,” also serving as the first performance of Ko&Edge, which consisted of Murobushi and three young dancers. “Handsome blue sky” was adapted from a collection of Hijikata’s literary remains. The brass plates were perceived as a quotations from ”Revolt of the Body”; however, they were not simply part of the stage set, but also placed on the stage as opponents = dance partners for dancers.

(K.S)

Men disintegrate

With heated breath, they fall down

Falling down, beating their bones

 

Nothing else

Nothing will happen…

 

Only the melody for annihilation is played

 

Is it possible to create a dance of cruelty and comicalness?

Desperately distorting

Obsessively transforming the body of the self

Sweating while naked 

For the sake of uselessness

 

A victory does not win, so neither does it lose

No—a loss itself does win

Pain and weakness are what becomes power

For Ko Murobushi’s “Handsome blue sky”

translation

Ikuya Odamaki