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Project

The performance “Da Dad Dada” is a solo dance project which is examining the relationship between a successful musical dancer in the 1960’s, Ken Hara, and me, his daughter Saori Hala. We were related by blood, but never familiar. After his death, I started to dive into his personal life through the archives of him as a dancer, so that I could know about him not only as a father but also as a dancer. In this project, I dealt with his career archive as a dancer collected over the last two and a half years, culminating with an audio recording of our reunion, 3 weeks before his death.

The biggest purpose of this research is to distill and decompose several elements and constructs of autobiographical narrative, in order to share it with an observer in an abstract way.

My general research question since I started to work with the body is “how do we read the context of the environment and find motives to make our own actions?”. This was born from my perspective as a dancer with a background in design.

1960年代にミュージカルダンサーとして活躍した実父、原健にまつわるリサーチをベースに、「不在」をテーマとして制作したセルフドキュメント・パフォーマンス。

2017年ドイツ初演。

ハラサオリと原健は、血の繋がった父と娘の関係にありながらほとんど会うことのないまま25年近い年月を過ごす。2015年に再会を果たすもその直後に原健は急逝。以降、娘は踊り手としての父に向き合うべく、その軌跡を辿りながら、本プロジェクトを始動させる。

遺らなかった記憶。

選ばれなかった道。

あったかもしれない物語。


かつて昭和の高度成長期日本とともに人生の黄金期を駆け抜けた身体と、その血を受け継ぎ現世を生きる身体が、この舞台で再び出会う。
 

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