Damien Jalet + Kohei Nawa
VESSEL (2016)

*Nominated for the 2020 Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Dance Production(2020)

Choreography: Damien Jalet
Stage Design: Kohei Nawa

Music: Marihiko Hara (Special Appearance: Ryuichi Sakamoto)

Dancers: Mirai Moriyama, Emilios Arapoglou, Nobuyoshi Asai, Jun Morii, Mayumu Minagawa, Ruri Mito, Naoko Tozawa

Lighting: Yukiko Yoshimoto
Stage Manager: So Ozaki

[Performance]

Sep 2016 – ROHM Theatre Kyoto, Japan [World Premiere]
Oct 2016 – Inujima, Okayama, Japan [Outdoor Special Performance at Inujima Seirensho Art Museum Area]
Jan 2017 – Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse, Yokohama, Japan [Yokohama Dance Collection 2017]
Feb 2018 – Perth Festival, Australia
Apr 2019 – La Monnaie / De Munt, Brussels, Belgium
Apr 2019 – Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London, UK
Mar 2020 – Chaillot – Théâtre national de la Danse, Paris, France
Sep 2022 – Torinodanza Festival, Turin, Italy
Jul 2023 – Grec Festival, Barcelona, Spain
Mar–Apr 2024 – Bregenzer Frühling, Bregenz, Austria

[REVIEW]

“Marihiko Hara’s music is a beautiful experimental flowing soundscape like a dawn chorus on Jupiter.” — Gabriel Wilding

“The compositions by Marihiko Hara (with participation by Ryuichi Sakamoto) range from ambient sound hinting at primordial existence to musique concrète through to throbbing, climactic and unnerving rhythmic passages.” — Lisa Lanzi, Stage Whispers

“Vessel opens with three shapes on a black mirrored stage featuring a rock formation, set to an electro-pond-like soundscape created by Marihiko Hara. Immediately we are transported to another dimension.”

— Savannah Saunders, The Wonderful World of Dance

“In the tangled group on the left, legs were moving and someone was doing a shoulder stand to the electronic score by Hara Marihiko and Sakamoto Ryuichi.” — Susan Meehan, The Japan Society

“Ghostly whooshes and clangs are laid over thumping primal beats in a spectral soundscape (Marihiko Hara and Ryuichi Sakamoto) that delicately outlines this other world.” — Alison Flett, InDaily

“The music itself is organic; it throbs and rumbles, pulsing with power. It is so intense that it resonates through the auditorium and everyone in it.”— Penelope Walker