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Date
06/05/2022-06/06/2022

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The Story of The Tower at Brighton Fringe

An avant-garde dance performance with a multimedia twist — from Tokyo! 

Inspired by the tale, Tower of Babel, “The Story of the Tower” combines elements of Words, Dance, and Projection Mapping to depict the dismemberment and reconnection of body and spoken words.

Hirai-Kikaku and Media Kobo (Japan)
The Story of the Tower
C ARTS digital online programme at C venues at the Brighton Fringe

Venue: C ARTS digital online Programme
Online on-demand: Recorded live will be available on May 6th – June 5th

Box office:  +44 (0)131 581 5555

Show site:

Brighton Fringe :  https://www.brightonfringe.org/whats-on/the-story-of-the-tower-164337/

C ARTS :https://res.cthearts.com/event/34:3401/34:59365/    

We are participating in Brighton Fringe 2022 with an ambitious work that combines dance, spoken word, projection mapping, and chromakey.

The concept of this performance is based on the tale, “Tower of Babel” recorded in the Old Testament.

We will use excerpts of Yasunari Kawabata’s “One Arm,” Mimei Ogawa’s “The Black Tower,” and an automatic transcription of the breaking news of the 2001 terrorist attack on the Twin Towers.

We used speech-to-text software to automatically extract the words of the original news broadcast. The software algorithm produces a variety of linguistic errors, resulting in an incomprehensible string of sentences.

Through this work you can experience the confusion of language and the richness of images it evokes when free from human control.

With the rapid development of communication technology, we can instantly exchange words with someone far away. How will language change as we confront each other as anonymous “bodies” that have no contact with each other?

Take a peek through the camera at the process of dismemberment and reconnection of body and words !
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Showing as part of the C ARTS digital online programme at C venues at the Brighton Fringe 2022
Bookings and information www.CtheArts.com

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Hirai-Kikaku and Media Kobo (Japan)
WEB site : http://www.mitsukohirai.com/
Twitter : https://mobile.twitter.com/hirai_kikaku
Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/hiraimitsuko/

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