Artist Interview アーティストインタビュー

言葉と身体の関係を探る山下残の発想
dance
Exploring the relationship between words and the body The imagination of Zan Yamashita
Zan Yamashita (Choreographer, director)
Zan Yamashita is a choreographer whose methodology is always closely tied to words, as he creates conceptual dance with an underlying vein of humor in works like
Invisible Man
, in which the movements of the dancers are put into words by a narrator,
It is written there
, in which the audience is given a booklet (a text in words and pictures) as a script that the dancers act out, and
It’s just me coughing
, where the dancers move in collaboration with images and words of haiku poems projected on stage. Working individually from his base in Kyoto since 1994, and traveling at the invitation of overseas festivals increasingly in recent years, Yamashita continues to draw attention as a unique presence in Japan’s dance world. In this interview we seek the roots of his creative imagination.
(Interview: Tatsuro Ishii, dance critic)