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- Biwako Biennale, Oumi-hachiman city, Shiga, Japan, Nov 2007 @Nishikatsu-shuzou
"E1-Aether" is a ritualistic dance-installation in collaboration with Japanese lighting artists
Genta Iwamura and Rie Uomori. The project has been assisted by Kultour - touring Australian Multicultural Arts
-a proud initiative of the Australia Council for the Arts. >> link to Australian Government site
Photo by Yuto HIRAKAKIUCHI 2007
Melbourne based Australian performance company The Tony Yap Company (TYC) presents "E1-Aether" contemporary ritual solo dance performance. tyc is an ensemble of culturally diverse independent professional artists including dancer Tony Yap (Australian/Malaysian), visual artist Naomi Ota (Australian/Japanese), vocalist Ria Soemardjo (Australian/Indonesian) and Australian contemporary musicians Tim Humphrey and Madeleine Flynn. Japanese lighting artists Genta Iwamura and Rie Uomori collaborate with tyc for this project. Their vision is to create a multi-modal art-form that is intrinsically international and their unique artistic language represents a contemporary Australian-Asian experience.
Audience experience in the time and space of the work reminded us a common spiritual foundation like a prayer for death before our eyes. - Mainichi Newspapers, Japan
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Collaborative development stage-one with Nottle Theatre
Hooyong Performing Arts Centre Artist-In-Residency, Sth Korea, December 2007
Supported by The Australia International Cultural Council an initiativeof the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
Tony Yap Company (tyc) comprising choreographer/dancer Tony Yap, composers/musicians
Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphrey, and visual artist Naomi Ota worked on
stage-one creative development of a new work with the Hooyong Performing
Arts Centre Resident Company, Theatre Nottle and Indonesian choreographer/dancer
Agung Gunawan.
The intensive creative period finished with a successful development showing
at the centre. This new work will undergo further development in 2008
and will be performed in Indonesia in November and at Arko Arts Theatre,
Seoul in December 2008.
Palimpsest - literally, scraping the vellum of one manuscript which is then re-written upon.
The project was a deep experience of creation: intercultural, and interdisciplinary- with the centre of the focus being the ability of the artists involved to create from their imaginations.
Trust and intuition combined with committed work cross cultural contexts. This is what we were working with.
It was also a precious opportunity to ascertain the fundamental meaning of collaborative work. Artists from a variety of cultural backgrounds (Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia, Japan, Australia) met to produce dynamic inter-cultural work in a perfect balance.
Artists
Agung Gunawan - choreographer, dancer
Kim Dae Gun - actor
Kim Hyou Woo - playwright
Lee Jee Hyun - actor
Lim So Yong - actor
Madeleine Flynn - sound artist
Naomi Ota - visual artist
Tim Humphrey - sound artist
Tony Yap - choreographer, dancer
Won Young Oh - director
Production team
Yoon Sang Don
Produces by Baek Kyoung Suk
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