Zachęta Narodowa Galeria Sztuki, 2022
Endless Box is a dance of defiance against spatial, ideological and emotional expansion. It’s a celebration of limitation as an engine for creativity, a turn to the narrow crevices of freedom, the ones we don’t notice when our gaze reaches too far.
Taking the story of Kanawa, well-known from nō theater, Hana Umeda undertakes a study of sadness, frustration, aggression and violence. Within the safe framework of the form – both the dance form and the form of the wooden box – she seeks an escape for her inner demons in a way that will not endanger her surroundings. Endless Box is at the same time a place of escape that offers shelter from the horrors of the surrounding world.
concept, choreography, performance: Hana Umeda/Sada Hanasaki
scenography: Małgorzata Iwaniuk
music: Anna Jedrzejewska, WaqWaq Kingdom
The project was realized within the framework of the “Mobilni w kulturze 2021” program led by the Other Space Foundation, organized and financed by the Warsaw City Hall.