Teshigawara takes on Dostoevsky: The Idiot at the Print Room

By Graham Watts, 31 March 2019

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“arms fluttering around his torso like a kaleidoscope of butterflies”

Reviewed at Print Room Theatre at the Coronet, Kensington, London on 27 March 2019

The Idiot (Saburo Teshigawara)

Rihoko Sato, Dancer

Saburo Teshigawara, Dancer

Emiko Murayama, Dancer

Teshigawara recreates a contemporary Petrushka at the Biennale Danza

Silvia Poletti, 22nd July

A new Petrushka full of contemporary anguish as Japanese artist Saburo Teshigawara presents a world premiere to celebrate his Golden Lion Lifetime Achievement award in Venice.

****1

Aesthetic unity shines in bold staging of Orfeo ed Euridice in Tokyo

Nahoko Gotoh, 19th May

Several notable house debuts, including the renowned director and choreographer Sabuto Teshigawara, enlivened the New National Theatre's first-ever production of Gluck's opera.

****1

French Baroque meets modern dance at Drottningholm

Laura Servidei, 31st July

Saburo Teshigawara sets Rameau’s opéra-ballet Pigmalion as a compelling dance performance

***11

Saburo Teshigawara takes on Wagner

Carla Escoda, 10th March

Saburo Teshigawara's condensed reading of Wagner's Tristan and Isolde plays down notions of an adulterous union, a lovers' pact and spiritual journey, instead delivering a powerful image of female resilience.

*****

Goteborgs Operan Danskompani: Spirit

Sofia Nyblom, 4th April

Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Saburo Teshigawara present a double-bill under the heading Spirit. At the Gothenburg Opera. The evening promises high quality, yet harbors the danger that the level of abstraction which permeates the two works might undermine the urgency of the message.

****1

Paris Opera's triple bill: Teshigawara, Brown and Kylián

Katja Vaghi, 2nd November

For this fall season, the Paris Opera Ballet presents a triple bill that explores the hidden corners of the Palais Garnier, with pieces by Saburo Teshigawara, Trisha Brown and Jiří Kylián. All ‘investigators of the fringes of the unknown,’ the three choreographers set in place theatrical devices that mesmerize the audience with enigmatic dreams.

****1

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Graham Watts

Graham Watts is a freelance dance writer and critic writing regularly for Dancing Times, Dance Europe, Danza Europa, and many more publications. He regularly writes features for Sadler’s Wells, London Coliseum and La Scala. Chairman of the Dance Section of the Critics’ Circle in the United Kingdom and of the UK National Dance Awards he has interviewed many of the greatest names in dance including Maya Plisetskaya, Vladimir Vasiliev, Boris Eifman, Alexei Ratmansky, Andris Liepa, Sir Peter Wright, David Bintley and Dame Gillian Lynne. When not involved in dance Graham is a keen fencer, and has captained the British Sabre team.