The Bubble
My Role in the Project: Performer, dancer and contemporary circus artist
Dance, physical and visual performance exploring environmental issues
The BUBBLE is a site-specific urban performance directed by Shusaku Takeuchi (Japanese/Dutch choreographer).
A contemporary investigation weaving together bodily action, visual elements, music, light, and poetry — tools combined into a composition that alternates between powerful and strikingly beautiful imagery.
The theme of the Bubble lies at the heart of the work: a fragile container of memory and dreams, and at the same time a metaphor for the environmental and social issues of our time.
The performance invites the audience to follow a gyōretsu — a ritual-like procession — leading into a beautiful plastic world that humanity builds around itself: infantile in its refusal to face reality and naïve in its hope of finding a better place to live.
It all ends with a joyful waltz under a rain of bubbles made from plastic bags — empty dreams that people cannot hold onto, and that will never come true.
Photo by Daniele Mantovani
A contemporary investigation weaving together bodily action, visual elements, music, light, and poetry — tools combined into a composition that alternates between powerful and strikingly beautiful imagery.
The theme of the Bubble lies at the heart of the work: a fragile container of memory and dreams, and at the same time a metaphor for the environmental and social issues of our time.
The performance invites the audience to follow a gyōretsu — a ritual-like procession — leading into a beautiful plastic world that humanity builds around itself: infantile in its refusal to face reality and naïve in its hope of finding a better place to live.
It all ends with a joyful waltz under a rain of bubbles made from plastic bags — empty dreams that people cannot hold onto, and that will never come true.
Photo by Daniele Mantovani
