Ryoanji - A Meeting
2012
A dance performance based on the musical composition Ryoanji, by John Cage. Four dancers move into the world of the music. Inevitably they meet and observe the movements and paths of the others. They are set on their individual courses but their movements can only survive if they borrow from each other, allowing themselves to be effected by the people who surround them. That is how their movements and lives change and expand. The performance can be described as a social project as well as, to use the words of Cage, an anarchic-harmonic project. Thus, the performance is partly based on Cage’s thoughts around simultaneity rather than chronology and chance as a determinant factor.
Performed at The House of Dance, Stockholm.
On stage
Anna Pehrsson dancer
Love Källman dancer
Pontus Pettersson dancer
Tove Brunberg dancer
Ivo Nilsson musician (trombone)
Jonny Axelsson musician (percussion)
Credits
Music John Cage
Concept and direction Johan Petri
Dramaturge Tora von Platen
Set design Alice Collective for Sound&Stage Art
Costume design Filippa Hanzon
Lightning design Jenny André
Sound design Niklas Billström
Set construction Anders L Lindholm
Film photographer Dan Lepp
Producer Suzi Ersahin
Produced by Alice Collective for Sound&Stage Art in collaboration with The House of Dance, Stockholm.