Hiroaki Umeda / S20 (Japan)
Haptic + Holistic Strata
UK Premiere
Linbury Studio Theatre at the
Royal Opera House
Mon 16 Jan > Tue 17 Jan
7.45pm
After-show Discussion: Mon 16 Jan
Runs 60 mins / plus interval
Book online >
£11.50/£13.50/£16.50/
£7 standing/£8.50 students
Tel: 020 7304 4000‘Like a tin man with oil flowing freely through his veins, Umeda mirrored the pulsating score with an accumulation of motion’. New York Times
Tokyo-based multidisciplinary artist Hiroaki Umeda is a performer, sound artist and lighting designer whose work is both sublime and violent, and very much in touch with his contemporary Japanese roots.
Combining street dance and butoh, in the spectacular and high tension Holistic Strata he appears almost to dissolve in a hurricane of digital images, while in Haptic beautiful bright hues shift and morph in relation to his fluid movements creating an exquisite visual and sonic experience. These are works to be felt and experienced more than simply watched.
Both pieces contain loud music and strobe lighting
Age guidance 12+
For Haptic: Production-S20. Co-production-Théâtre de Nimes; Festival d'Automne, Paris For Holistic Strata: Commissioned by YCAM (Yamaguchi Centre for Arts and Media); Co-developed with YCAM Interlab Associate production: Quaternaire-Sarah Ford Hiroaki Umeda/S20 is supported by EU Japan Fest
