Ex Oriente Lux

Minako Seki

Minako Seki, born near Nagasaki, has been living in Berlin since 1986, with the occasional interruption. The dancer and choreographer produces and instructs both at home and overseas and is, among other things, the co-founder of the first Japanese-German Butoh ensemble, tatoeba, which was brought into being in 1987.

»EX ORIENTE LUX«
Visual Theatre

Am I awake or am I dreaming? The worlds presented on this peep-show stage are fairytale grotesque, wavering and vulnerable. It is the theatre as a series of magic picture frames, with doubles and human marionettes tumbling out of them in strange clothes; or weird, floating, turning objects full of visual, acoustic and intellectual illusions and irritations. A poetic game with associations familiar to everyone, associations that can nevertheless change direction from one moment to the next. It is a type of theatre in which light, colours and images dance nimbly with one another, provoking the question of whether this world might indeed be the true world and whether we might merely be living in its shadows.

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direction: Minako Seki
performer: Elwira Niewiera, Minako Seki
when: Friday, June 7th, 7.30 p.m. and Saturday, June 8th, 8.00 p.m.
where: Waldschloss
duration: ca. 60 minutes