"Too easy to see" is a dance piece made by the dancer and choreographer Fernando López with which he pays tribute to the last great Japanese dance master butô, Ko Murobushi, who died suddenly in 2015. The piece is scheduled for a week at the Ko Murobushi's Archives in Tokyo, where the memory of the choreographer is preserved and where activities are promoted around his life and work.
"Too easy to see" is a comment that the Japanese teacher Ko Murobushi usually made after observing the improvisations of the dancers, urging them to break with their own limits, both physical and artistic, to generate a proposal able to shake the public's gaze and to push them to perceive and think all movement in a new way.
The aim of this artistic project is to restore the memory of the last butô dance seminar and choreographic creation that maestro Murobushi (1947-2015) gave at the renowned International Dance Festival of Vienna "ImPulsTanz", in the summer of 2014. This seminar, entitled "Les Innombrables Nijinkis", was dedicated to the investigation of the historical dancer and choreographer Vaslav Nijinsky (1890-1950) and various figures of contemporary French philosophy for whose thought Master Murobushi was interested. The aim of this investigation was to create a new piece, "Nijinski à Minuit", but his sudden death prevented it from being released.
Fernando López, choreographer, researcher in dance and philosopher, rescues with this work the content of the sessions of that last seminar and the show that never came to be performed but that was already proposed to the dancers and in the dissertations that Murobushi made about the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze, Maurice Blanchot or Jacques Derrida.
Stage and choreographic direction: Juan Carlos Lérida
Dramaturgy: Elia Rodière
Creation, choreography, and interpretation: Fernando López
Design of the sound and light space: Quelic Berga
Costume design: Fernando López
"Too easy to see" is a comment that the Japanese teacher Ko Murobushi usually made after observing the improvisations of the dancers, urging them to break with their own limits, both physical and artistic, to generate a proposal able to shake the public's gaze and to push them to perceive and think all movement in a new way.
The aim of this artistic project is to restore the memory of the last butô dance seminar and choreographic creation that maestro Murobushi (1947-2015) gave at the renowned International Dance Festival of Vienna "ImPulsTanz", in the summer of 2014. This seminar, entitled "Les Innombrables Nijinkis", was dedicated to the investigation of the historical dancer and choreographer Vaslav Nijinsky (1890-1950) and various figures of contemporary French philosophy for whose thought Master Murobushi was interested. The aim of this investigation was to create a new piece, "Nijinski à Minuit", but his sudden death prevented it from being released.
Fernando López, choreographer, researcher in dance and philosopher, rescues with this work the content of the sessions of that last seminar and the show that never came to be performed but that was already proposed to the dancers and in the dissertations that Murobushi made about the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze, Maurice Blanchot or Jacques Derrida.
Stage and choreographic direction: Juan Carlos Lérida
Dramaturgy: Elia Rodière
Creation, choreography, and interpretation: Fernando López
Design of the sound and light space: Quelic Berga
Costume design: Fernando López