Tuesday, June 13, 18.30 / Latvian National Opera New stage

Ko Murobushi, Soshi Matsunobe (Japan)

Simona Orinska, Modris Tenisons (Latvia)

„Z.I.M.E.”

Choreography, dance: Ko Murobushi, Simona Orinska

Visual artist: Soshi Matsunobe

Directing: Modris Tenisons

Video artist: Gita Strausti?a

Sings: Zane Šmite

Sound designer: Artis Gulbis

 “Z.I.M.E.” is Japanese-Latvian artist collaboration project/performance. The contradictions and struggle of human body together with nature and ancient Baltic sign show the intertwine of life and death, serving as a metaphor of human life. At the end of it we find a new beginning – NOTHING.

At the beginning Butoh had no name. Butoh was an Anti dance, a substance, raw material. What material is NOTHING made of? How can we escape our old system of MEANING/HISTORY? What can we accomplish by doing nothing? How can we create new meaning or NOTHING? These are the most important question of our life and death.

Soshi Matsunobe – visual artist. Soshi has already had seven personal exhibitions in Japan and Germany. He has been participating in exhibitions from the age of 19. He was awarded special prize for contemporary artists “Those who will make history” by Taro Okamoto.

Simona Orinska – interdisciplinary artist, dance movement therapist, and poet. Her dance is like poetry, opening link to “body archaeology”. It is a flow of non-conscious material that is linked to conscious word as expression of bodily shape. She is the author, movement director and performer of several multimedia performances, such as “eyes fluttering in my knees”, “Sacred Dances of the Night”, “Z.I.M.E.”, and others.

Modris Tenisons – artist, theatre director, founder of professional pantomime theatre in Lithuania. Has been working as theatre director, set designer and movement consultant in different theatres in Latvia (Riga, Valmiera, Liepaja) since 1972. Co-authored the project “Z.I.M.E.” in Latvia’s pavilion during   EXPO 2000 in Hannover. Co-author and director of performances “eyes fluttering in my knees”, “Sacred Dances of the Night”, “Z.I.M.E.” and others.

Gita Straustina – artist, designer, associated processor in Art Academy of Latvia. Participated in various multimedia projects as video and photo artist: with musicians (Igo, Latvian Voices, Rolands Udris), and performances (“Man on the Stairs”, “Sacred Dances of The Night”, “Somebody Who Leads”, “Human Project”, “Z.I.M.E.”).

Zane Smite – musician, singer, vocal pedagogue of traditional singing at the Latvian Academy of Music. Singer in trio Smite, Karlke & Cinkuss, former singer in famous Latvian post-folk group Ilgi. Her previous experience includes such musical groups as Rice Fishermen, Flying Carpet, Targa, and Puce’s Etnographical Orchestra.

Artis Gulbis – sound and performance artist, director, set designer, sound artist in ethnopercussion band Perkonviri. Long-time participant in Ansis Rutental’s Movement Theatre. Participated in many multimedia projects in Latvia and abroad.

photo by Kimiko Watanabe, Janis Deinats