LANGUAGE: not spoken
DURATION: 45 minutes
TICKET: €6 single ticket
K(-A-)O is a show for all ages that puts emojis in the center: the funny and colorful smileys we use every day to convey our emotions in messages.
But do we really laugh when we send a laughing smiley?
And if we use the crying one, what face do we really make?
But the real question at the heart of the work is: how can we recover our true feelings?
Through dance and digital technologies, the Japanese choreographer Kenji Shinohe accompanies us through symbols, bodies and feelings, questioning ourselves about how the language of emojis, so present in the lives of the new generations (and not only), can hide, impoverish or simplify our true emotions. A show that puts words aside to address the very current theme of “superficial communication”.
IN A NUTSHELL
K(-A-)O explores through body and technology, the effect of emojis on our ability to express real emotions. A wordless dance that questions the feelings behind the faces.
Of and with Kenji Shinohe
Lights Cristina Fresia
Photo Gabriele Conti, Davide Barbafiera
Kenji Shinohe is a Japanese choreographer and dancer. He started dancing in early childhood with his grandmother. He studied dance philosophy and art history in Japan, and obtained a scholarship to the Folkwang Universität der Künste in Essen, Germany. After graduating there in the summer of 2019, he danced for Neuer Tanz in Düsseldorf and as a freelancer in many international festivals, receiving several awards. Among them: the audience award at the Internationales Tanz Theatre Festival in Erfurt, the award for best new soloist at the Internationales Tanzfestival Solo Duo in Cologne, the award for best soloist and audience award at the SzólóDuó International Dance Festival in Budapest and seven awards at Teatri: Riflessi di Zafferana Etnea for Dramaturgy, best Direction and best Interpretation, the Press and Critics Awards and the awards related to the “Valentina Nicosia” Fund established by IterCulture.
