Folding Fan
June 21, 2020I’m thinking about the meaning of fan while watching ‘OKINA 翁’ piece from Noh repertoire.
Open/closed, touched, moving downward/upward, forward/backward, circling, waving, pointing – it communicates with me and I have impression it is a mean of communication between performers on the stage as well.
Fans are like mobile screens on which subtle shades of feelings, emotions and inner life are displayed. In their motion the symbolic/metaphoric/abstract manifests; tonal and rhythmic miniatures.
Chronicles 2020: From Massive Social Unrest to Global Social Lockdown
May 19, 2020Two new works emmerged as part of Chronicles that I started last year.