Saburo Teshigawara: Waltz

“When there is something I want to express, if I hold a pen it will be poetry, if I have a canvas in front of me it will be a painting, and if there is space around me it will become a dance.”

The UK premiere of Waltz – a deeply moving duet from Japanese master choreographer Saburo Teshigawara and artistic collaborator Rihoko Sato. Waltz is a dynamic perspective on his own life: “I find I see my life through both ends of a telescope – with memory, experience and an imagined future sometimes magnified, and sometimes distant.”

Teshigawara harnesses the three-beat tempo of waltzes from many countries and eras to evoke the dancers’ interior rhythm, heartbeat and breathing. Waltz communicates on a spiritual level, connecting the audience and performers with their own memories and consciousness.

A significant figure in the dance world, Saburo Teshigawara has won international acclaim as a choreographer, director and performer for over thirty years. He has also received international attention in the visual arts field, with art exhibitions, films and videos, as well as for designing scenography, lighting and costume for all his performances. Here, as with his last appearances at The Coronet Theatre in The Idiot and Tristram and Isolde, he dances with his long time artistic collaborator Rihoko Sato.