Hiroaki Umeda Hiroaki Umeda
Adapting for Distortion / Haptic
[Dance]
30 year-old Hiroaki Umeda is a performer of rare intensity, whose solos
Adapting For Distortion and
Haptic (2008) are an intriguing mix of art and dance.
Based in digital-obsessed Japan, Umeda relentlessly seeks to reveal what humanity there remains once you're plunged right at the center of technological mutations.
So expect the unexpected.
Credits
Adapting for Distortion
Creation
Solo
Created and interpreted by, Hiroaki Umeda
Produced by le Studio - Le Manège ; Scène nationale de Maubeuge
Romaeuropa ; S20
Haptic
Creation
Solo
Created and interpreted by, Hiroaki Umeda
Co-produced by the Théâtre de Nîmes ; Festival d’Automne à Paris ; S20
With the support of Nomura, the Franco-Japanese Sasakawa Foundation, and the Foundation for the study of the Japanese language and culture, working under the aegis of the Foundation of France
Within the context of the 150th anniversary of Franco-Japanese relations
