Running sushi

Premiered at ImPulstanzfestival Vienna July 06
Running sushi is based on the question of how we receive performance nowadays.
The screenplay was cut in different scenes - the audience can choose between
the sequences and the order of the 12 scenes like in a running sushi
restaurant where the guest chooses bits and pieces - With this system the
audience creates every evening a new story board, but the "pulp fiction"
Effect stays left, that build the story together afterwards in the head of the
spectator.
One main aesthetic element is the acoustic (or sonic) display of this new
hybrid social space.
The voice has always been considered the very core of the private self, the
main channel through which the interior can invade and address the exterior
space.
The performance is very much based on synchronization of voices and body
language and the performers basically work on movement characters that they
bring on stage.
The term "superflat", which was coined in Japan mainly by Takashi Murakami,
describes not only the comic or Manga as a form of communication, but also
characterizes it as a conceptually flattening society of the post-post modern.
The experience and „reality“ of communication are shifting increasingly
towards a bi dimensional surface.
Animation is nothing more than a series of images that differ from one another
minimally. But through playing them at the correct speed, they give the
impression of an organic movement.

An image has copied and advanced itself here, in order to return to it’s own,
two dimensional reality.

Inspired by this thought, liquid loft is searching for the way of the samurai
on stage, Feng Shui is exercised in cyberspace and chopstick high- jumping
carries the performers to the classical Pas de Deux.

The performance lapses as an image progression of a Manga figure, trying to
reanimate its private idyll which has become senseless, in order to write a
possible storyboard for a future existence on screen (or: moitor/display/video
screen).

Credits

Dance, choreography: Stephanie Cumming, Johnny Schoofs
Musical concept: Glim / Andreas Berger
Artistic director, concept, choreography: Chris Haring
Dramaturgy: Thomas Jelinek
Stage: Annja Krautgasser
Hansjörg Fauland, Oliver Kirchhofer
Installation: Aldo Giannotti, Viktor Schaider
Comics: Bert Könighofer
Assistence/ Dance: Matthew Smith
Intro: Alex Gottfarb, Sora Honda
Photography: Michael Loizenbauer, Chris Haring
Organisation: SODAart.at

Koproduktion ImPulstanz Festival Wien und liquid loft
In cooperation with the choreographic center Linz, TanzIst Festival
Dornbirn
With the kind support of the MA7- Kultur Stadt Wien, Bundeskanzleramt Kunst

www.liquidloft.at