Teshigawara recreates a contemporary Petrushka at the Biennale Danza

Saburo Teshigawara in Petrushka

Rihoko Sato and Saburo Teshigawara in Petrushka

Rihoko Sato in Petrushka

By Silvia Poletti, 25 July 2022

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“Teshigawara leads spectators on voyages into intimate turmoils through danced soliloquies”

Reviewed at Teatro Malibran, Venice on 22 July 2022

Petrushka (World premiere) (Saburo Teshigawara)

Saburo Teshigawara, Director, Costume Designer, Lighting Designer

Rihoko Sato, Costume Designer, Dancer

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

Teshigawara takes on Dostoevsky: The Idiot at the Print Room

Graham Watts, 27th March

Teshigawara is now 65 and it is beyond comprehension that a man can still move with such muscular control and feline fluidity well into his seventh decade.

***11

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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Silvia Poletti

Silvia Poletti was a professional dance writer, contributing to the culture pages of the daily news www.sole24ore.com and Corriere della Sera/Corriere Fiorentino and collaborated to specialist magazines such as Danza &Danza, Tanz, Dance International. She prepared essays and conferences about dance for the principal Italian festivals and opera houses and was lecturer of History of Dance at the Urbino Carlo Bo University and Venice Ca’ Foscari University. She was the author of the monography ‘John Neumeier’ (Palermo, L’Epos 2004).

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