Yuki Onna (雪女)
Choreographing
a modern adaptation of an old Japanese folktale...
Urban opening, people
packed on trains, cell phones.
Traveller with rucksack. Red
screen, robed red wraiths.
Taiko drums, click, smack
of drumsticks.
Chinese ribbon dance, a
shishi lion writhes on stage.
Yuki Onna enters in white,
threatens with ice knife.
Ayatori string game,
ohajiki with rubber marbles.
Chorus, shakuhachi, techno
music changes to piano.
Japanese folk music, rice
planting, happi coats.
Baby arrives, father
dances, sounds of winter wind.
Red wraiths reappear in
force, drag him away.
Yuki Onna restrains them,
she has the agony of dilemma.
She leaves the baby with
the travelling man and disappears.
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Voice-over
Directors:
Rio Mitani and Christian
Martinu
ECLECTIC.
Great performance!
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