KAGEMI
Beyond the Metaphors of Mirrors

Directed, Choreographed and Designed by Ushio Amagatsu

Music by Takashi Kako and Yoichiro Yoshikawa

Co-produced by Theatre de la Ville, Paris, France; Biwako Hall, Center for the Performing Arts, Shiga, Japan; and Sankai Juku

The Kage of Kagemi is shadow
The light of contrast, the image in the mirror of water's surface
The mi is seeing and being seen

Some say Kagemi is the ancient origin of "mirror" (kagemi)
In light, the surface that reflects and is reflected, looked into and looking back
Surface beginning in the horizontal water plane and transforming to
the perpendicular face

From an ambiguous and transient state to one clearly outlined
The right hand asks, the left hand answers
Once an imaginary surface is defined

-Ushio Amagatsu

Supported by the Japan Foundation through the Performing Arts JAPAN Program.