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Dance:Ruri Mito

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Matou / Session Online Theater / Saturday 23 May 2020 /

Title: Matou

Choreography / Dance : Ruri Mito

Music: Yuta Kumachi

Lighting: Akiyo Kushida

Costume: Tomoko Inamura

Premiere: October, 2015 (Session House, Tokyo, Japan)

Supported by EU-Japan Fest Japan Committee,
The Saison Foundation, Session House

🔒https://youtu.be/Xqge8S3y6aQ

-Matou’s Review-
▶︎Review(Dance House / AsiaTOPA 2019)
https://www.smh.com.au/culture/dance/dancer-shows-the-flexibility-to-astonish-20200216-p5418q.html

▶︎Review(Taiwan Dance Platform 2018)
https://taiwandanceplatform.tw/en/writings/ruri-mito-matou/

▶︎Review(Gdansk Solo Dance Contest 2017)
https://www.gdansk.pl/wiadomosci/japonka-ruri-mito-wygrala-konkurs-solo-dance-contest-konczy-sie-gft-w-zaku,a,80459

-History-
2019/02 Asia TOPA in Melbourne, Australia
2018/11 Taiwan Dance Platform in Kaohsiung, Taiwan
2018/10 Kuandu Arts Festival in Taipei, Taiwan
2018/09 d-souko, Tokyo, Japan
2018/07 M1 CONTACT Contemporary Dance Festival in Singapore. Won the MASDANZA prize.
2018/05 HOKURIKU DANCE FESTIVAL III in 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
2017/11 Odoru.Akita International Dance Festival 2017, Akita, Japan. Won the first Tatsumi Hijikata Memorial Award.
2017/10 ONE DANCE WEEK in Plovdiv, Bulgaria
2017/10 AURA international dance festival in Kaunas, Lithuania
2017/06 SOLO DANCE CONTEST in Gdansk Dance Festival 2017 held in Gdansk, Poland. Won the first prize.
2017/05 Rencontres Choreographiques International de Seine Saint - Denis in Paris, France
2017/05 Gaala performances in Pori, Finland.
2016/10 L1 danceFest 2016 in Budapest, Hungary
2016/05 CÁDIZ EN DANZA in Cadiz, Spain
2015/10 Premiere at Session House, Tokyo, Japan

#セッションオンライン劇場　#keepgoingTOGETHER #Contemporarydance

MATOU
It has direct meanings like “to wear, put on, tangle, roll up,” and it is often used figuratively.

I put on my body.

I can not see all of my body for a lifetime.

Tissues make up my body are kept being renewed, and they will vanish someday.

The body without contents will not remain, and where the contents without the body go?

Will they keep remaining?

Like Snakes and cicadas, most parts of their outer layer of the skin slough off at once and become new.

Although what is left is not a dead body, it still has a perfect shape of the animal and it has no life. Is it an evidence of its life? Is there an evidence of my life?



‘Matou’ also sounds like “willing to wait” in Japanese.

I’m waiting for my death.

‘Tsukimatou’ means “to haunt.”

It always haunt me and don’t go. My body haunt me until the day I die.

‘Soumatou’ revolving lantern

An expression describes an occurrence that many visions appear in one’s mind as shadow cast by a revolving lantern. It happens when people have a brush with death and past memories come and go randomly and quickly.

‘Mattou’ means “to complete.”

I completed my life.

Title: Matou
🔒 https://youtu.be/Xqge8S3y6aQ

Choreography / Dance : Ruri Mito

Music: Yuta Kumachi

Lighting: Akiyo Kushida

Costume: Tomoko Inamura

Premiere: October, 2015 (Session House, Tokyo, Japan)

Supported by EU-Japan Fest Japan Committee,
The Saison Foundation, Session House

-Matou’s Review-
▶︎Review(Dance House / AsiaTOPA 2019)
https://www.smh.com.au/culture/dance/dancer-shows-the-flexibility-to-astonish-20200216-p5418q.html

▶︎Review(Taiwan Dance Platform 2018)
https://taiwandanceplatform.tw/en/writings/ruri-mito-matou/

▶︎Review(Gdansk Solo Dance Contest 2017)
https://www.gdansk.pl/wiadomosci/japonka-ruri-mito-wygrala-konkurs-solo-dance-contest-konczy-sie-gft-w-zaku,a,80459

-History-
2019/02 Asia TOPA in Melbourne, Australia
2018/11 Taiwan Dance Platform in Kaohsiung, Taiwan
2018/10 Kuandu Arts Festival in Taipei, Taiwan
2018/09 d-souko, Tokyo, Japan
2018/07 M1 CONTACT Contemporary Dance Festival in Singapore. Won the MASDANZA prize.
2018/05 HOKURIKU DANCE FESTIVAL III in 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
2017/11 Odoru.Akita International Dance Festival 2017, Akita, Japan. Won the first Tatsumi Hijikata Memorial Award.
2017/10 ONE DANCE WEEK in Plovdiv, Bulgaria
2017/10 AURA international dance festival in Kaunas, Lithuania
2017/06 SOLO DANCE CONTEST in Gdansk Dance Festival 2017 held in Gdansk, Poland. Won the first prize.
2017/05 Rencontres Choreographiques International de Seine Saint - Denis in Paris, France
2017/05 Gaala performances in Pori, Finland.
2016/10 L1 danceFest 2016 in Budapest, Hungary
2016/05 CÁDIZ EN DANZA in Cadiz, Spain
2015/10 Premiere at Session House, Tokyo, Japan

#Contemporarydance

MATOU
It has direct meanings like “to wear, put on, tangle, roll up,” and it is often used figuratively.

I put on my body.

I can not see all of my body for a lifetime.

Tissues make up my body are kept being renewed, and they will vanish someday.

The body without contents will not remain, and where the contents without the body go?

Will they keep remaining?

Like Snakes and cicadas, most parts of their outer layer of the skin slough off at once and become new.

Although what is left is not a dead body, it still has a perfect shape of the animal and it has no life. Is it an evidence of its life? Is there an evidence of my life?



‘Matou’ also sounds like “willing to wait” in Japanese.

I’m waiting for my death.

‘Tsukimatou’ means “to haunt.”

It always haunt me and don’t go. My body haunt me until the day I die.

‘Soumatou’ revolving lantern

An expression describes an occurrence that many visions appear in one’s mind as shadow cast by a revolving lantern. It happens when people have a brush with death and past memories come and go randomly and quickly.

‘Mattou’ means “to complete.”

I completed my life.

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