Fleur Barron mezzo-soprano; Suleiman Suleiman dancer; Jong Sun Woo piano; Hibiki Ichikawa shamisen; Lifeng Liao costume designer
Wigmore Hall36 Wigmore Street, Marylebone
Sun 11 Oct · 19:30 · £18
About this event
This project is a meditation on sound and silence, solitude and communion, love and loss, explored through the intertwined narratives of Yasuna , one of the great kabuki plays dating back to 1818, and Schubert’s iconic Winterreise , conceived a decade later in 1827. Grief splinters the psyches of both Schubert’s Wanderer and Yasuna, compelling a journey into the darkness and depths of Self. This is where our performance begins: two individual paths that converge and inspire. Kabuki is a form of traditional Japanese theatre that sprang from the dry beds of the Kamo river in Kyoto in 1603. Yasuna was originally written by Chikamatsu Monzaemon, a master of lyrical beauty regarded as ‘Japan’s Shakespeare’, and it features michiyuki (dream-like dance journey scenes) that resonate deeply with the romantic sensibility of Schubert’s Winterreise . With movement directors Misa Koide, Aigorō Hanayagi, and Sophie Daneman.
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