photo by FUKUNAGA, Kohji (Studio epoque)
"My Mother" is a symbolic dance piece with the motif of longing for her deceased mother and succession of the mother's soul.
Late Honju KIM (died 1998 at the age of 86) was the most valuable asset in Korean classic music and dance, but a tide of fate broughts her to Japan which was the very nation invades and colonizes her motherland. Honju KIM was so heroic as an artist that she went on singing and dancing with full of ethnic soul against any oppression during World War II.
Her youngest daughter, hoped as a successor, contacted
polio and became severely disabled in her childhood.
Later, the daughter, Manri KIM, founded TAIHEN and is
producing extremely innovative physical theatre artworks
which is quite different from her mother's classic art.
In this piece "My Mother", Manri KIM try to absorb some
spirit of Korean classic art into her own original physical
expression.
Further, Kazuo OHNO supervised this piece from his view
point of BUTOH.
Then, three factors meet together at this piece:
mold-breaking expression by physically disabled, soul of
Korean classic performing arts and BUTOH.
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Scene 1 The Fetus in a Dark Night Scene 2 The garden of awakening. Scene 3 The flower of ego and eros. Scene 4 The Ties between Mother and Child Scene 5 The seeds of the Universe -The flowers blossoming in the universe. Scene 6 Seung-Mu of Manri -A dance of funeral. (Song by Hong-Ju Kim) Scene 7 A Dialog of Love |
Record of the shows
1998 Edinburgh / Edinburgh Fringe Festival
1998 Osaka
1999 Tokyo
1999 Berlin
2000 Kochi
2000 Berlin
2000 Osaka
2001 Osaka
2002 Okinawa
2003 Taipei
2006 Kuala Lumpur
2011.8.8 Osaka University
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