Hiroaki Umeda/S20 Japan

Duo
Montevideoaki
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UK Premiere

Barbican Pit >
Tue 15 to Sat 19 Jan 7.30pm

Runs approx 70 mins including pause

All seats £12
Online booking >

From one of Japan's most exciting young performers, three ultra-contemporary pieces which flash between the sublime and the violent. Street dance and Butoh combine to explore a radically minimalist aesthetic featuring fluid elegance and sudden shock waves of movement. In each work, Umeda's extraordinary actions appear within environments of sparse, dramatic lighting, strobing cyber-imagery, electronic beats and crackling digital soundscapes. Drawing on his contemporary Japanese roots he explores the disorientation and chaos of life in the big city.

Born in 1977, Hiroaki Umeda studied photography before turning to dance.
Trained in classical ballet and hip hop, he founded his own company, S20, in 2000. He is a multi-disciplinary artist, creating all his own choreography, music, lighting and video and has performed at cutting-edge festivals around the world, including Kunsten Festival Des Arts in Brussels, as well as at many important international dance venues such as La Maison de la Danse in Lyon and New York's Dance Theatre Workshop. This is his first UK appearance.

www.hiroakiumeda.com >

Presented in association with Barbicanbite08

Hiroaki Umeda is supported by the EU Japan Fest