Naoko Tanaka: Die Scheinwerferin – Sophiensæle | Independent Theater in Berlin
Naoko Tanaka:
Die Scheinwerferin
Die Scheinwerferin
Through an imaginary journey, Naoko Tanaka projects into the room the glow of her personal story about an eating disorder. A doll, which is a miniature copy of her, lies on the dining room table. Tanaka travels along the small body with a flashlight and turns the tiny light into an actor. Fascinating imagery is created, images of suppressed memories emerge, a forest which grows beneath the dining room table, a massive illusory world in which the totally individual associations of the audience can find their own place.
CONCEPT, SPACE, SOUND, PERFORMANCE Naoko Tanaka DRAMATURGIcal Collaboration Mariko Harigai TECHNIque Milos Vujkovic PRODUCTION ehrliche arbeit – freies Kulturbüro.
A production by Naoko Tanaka and Christine Peterges in co-production with Tanztage Berlin/ SOPHIENSÆLE. Supported by the POLA Art Foundation, Japan Foundation and PACT Zollverein Essen. Media partner: taz. die tageszeitung
NAOKO TANAKA studied fine arts at the Tokyo University of the Arts and came to Germany in 1999 as a scholarship holder at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Since then, she has been developing performances and installations that closely combine choreography and visual art. She was invited to the Tanzplattform Deutschland in 2010, along with the artist collective Ludica. and the choreographer Morgan Nardi. In 2011, Naoko Tanaka created her first solo piece Die Scheinwerferin, which was successfully performed throughout Europe. The piece received the Prix Jardin d'Europe 2012 as well as the ZKB Anerkennungspreis at the Zürcher Theaterspektakel. In 2012 the performance was also shown at Sophiensælen, followed by the premiere of Absolute Helligkeit in the same year. With Unverinnerlicht (2015), she completed her shadow trilogy, which was shown in its entirety in 2017. Most recently, Tanaka showed the work Still Lives (2018) at the Sophiensælen. Here she realized the conceptual, as well as the spatial and sound design.
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