What an amazing performance on Sunday January 29! I have not felt the sensation of being so moved by a performance that I was left dumbfounded. So in awe of the magic of the art that I was speechless. So affected by the experience that words could do no justice.
Words do not capture the ineffable joy I experienced, only a glazed look, a wide smile, and some primal sounds of contentment. And of course the sensation of profound joy expressed in SIGHS that I have only experienced while making love and and high on LSD.
Hiroaki Umeda’s performance @ the PuSh Festival tonight was amazing! The audio-visual-dance-choreography was nothing short of genius!
http://www.thesnipenews.com/features/push-festival-haptic-holistic-strata-hiroaki-umeda/
http://www.pressplus1.com/live-reviews/haptic-holistic-strata-push-festival-2013
“What I want is to transmit sensations, rather than messages, to the audience,” he says of his 2008 work Haptic. In the first half of this piece Umeda stands on stage, framed by a rectangle of fuzzy blue lighting, executing small, high-tensile leg movements whose fluidity and speed, seen against the light, induce a mildly altered visual state. As he dances, an electronic score moves up and down the volume scale from whisper to pounding migraine pulse. Umeda’s intention is to provoke an affective reaction through the use of stimuli, to focus, as he says, “on the physical aspect of the perception of colour”. To this end, he overlays the fluorescent blue with green, washes the stage with acidic lime, dims it to a bruised purple, drenches himself in poppy red. The result is engaging and attractive, but in the end inconsequential.
With Holistic Strata (2011), Umeda raises his game. He wanders on stage, there’s a crashing sound and suddenly he’s in darkness, his body studded with tiny pinpoints of light. Another crash and the pinpoints are everywhere; he’s lost in an infinite particle field. The particles start to move, the backdrop becomes a torrent of falling stars and the floor a racing sea of them. Their junction becomes a galactic waterfall’s edge which Umeda, swaying against the flow, appears to be surfing.
I found a video of a bit of the second part of the show. An amazing performer-choreographer.
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