Tsuyoshi Shirai has calmly yet insistently produced revolutionary work that challenges existing dance.
With Kyoto Ar t Center’s theater program “Theatre Project”, Shirai pushed the frontier with “blueLion” (2009) and “still life” (2010). For KYOTO EXPERIMENT 2011, he introduces a further developed version of still life, the grand sum of his Kyoto work.
“When one is devoted to describing something that is present in the moment of dance, dance exceeds the dancer’s ego and touches infinity” says, Shirai. “still life” is an ambitious work which attempts to look into the abyss of “dance” with precision and a bold subtraction. It plays with a dynamism of perception that allows the performance to elude the landing site of interpretation, avoiding meaning and drama, and just quietly arraying movements.