Hanako Hayakawa: Lurker – TANZTAGE BERLIN 2025
Hanako Hayakawa:
Lurker
Lurker
No language
10€/15€
The performance takes place as a double bill with Daybreak by Shade Théret. The performances will be shown one after the other, with a break of 30 minutes. When you buy your ticket, you will receive a combined ticket with which you can attend both performances.
Subjected to endless streams of information, the figure of the lurker commonly describes someone who reads messages in a chat room without taking part. It is also a figure that lies hidden, as if in ambush, observing, playfully hiding in the shadows and allowing for ambiguity to happen. In her performance, Hanako Hayakawa proposes a ghostly, empty, floating body – an unsettled being, reluctant to settle into a singular identity, immersed in sensation and emotion, spacing out and pausing to contemplate.
Hayakawa’s artistic approach draws from both Para Para and Nō theatre. Para Para is a popular club dance style from Japan, with synchronized choreographies danced from the 1980s to today; Nō theater influences the creation of archetypal characters and the interplay between the mundane and the supernatural. In Lurker, Hayakawa wanders through a landscape with eerily animated objects while the dance stretches time and holds space for the audience to dwell in. The performance is a physical inquiry into modes of being today, in times marked by crisis, rupture and displacement, a homoeopathic medicine, a tool to overcome alienation through alienation.
If you have any questions from the following information, please contact Stefanie Hauser at barrierefreiheit@sophiensaele.com or 030 27 89 00 35.
Duration
- approx. 45 minutes without break
Language
- No language
Light
- The lighting mood is alternately bright and dark.
- There are no abrupt changes of light.
- There is a moment of almost complete darkness.
Sound
- There is very little sound
- There is a loud passage that ends suddenly.
- There is a passage with very high-pitched sounds.
Audience area
- Seated grandstand
- 2 beanbag seats bookable subject to availability
- 2 wheelchair spaces bookable subject to availability
Early boarding
There is the option of early boarding.
Tickets
- Reservations can be made via the ticket telephone at 030 283 52 66, Monday to Friday from 4pm-6pm
- Via the online ticket shop
- At the box office
You can also find more information about accessibility at the house here.
Concept, direction, dance: Hanako Hayakawa
Sound: Kazumichi Komatsu
Light: Lies Van Loock
Technical support: Daniel Romeo, CalderonThomas Glorieux (A Two Dogs Company)
Mentor: Simon Van Schuylenbergh
Movement research with: Yuri Shimaoka
Outside Eye: Hannah Brugge, Norbert Pape
Special thanks to: Louise Van den, Eede Kris Verdonck, yu-ki(ex baby’s), Osamu Kobayakawa, Michiel Vandevelde, Toon Geysen, Kristof van Baarle
Teaser: Charles Dhondt
A production by Hanako Hayakawa in co-production with DE SINGEL. Residency support by Toyooka Theater Festival, Dance Base Yokohama, Theaterhaus Berlin, BUDA (Kortrijk) and technical residency support by A Two Dogs Company. The 34th Tanztage Berlin is a production of Sophiensæle. Funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion. With the kind support of Tanzfabrik Berlin e.V., Theaterhaus Berlin and Uferstudios GmbH. Media partners: Berlin Art Link, Missy Magazine, Siegessäule, taz.
Hanako Hayakawa is a Japanese dancer and dance maker based in Berlin. She graduated from P.A.R.T.S. training cycle in Brussels. Prior to that, she studied in Tama art University where she majored in Performing Arts mentored by Saburo Teshigawara. She works with international artists such as Tino Sehgal, Miet Warlop, Leiko Ikemura, Benjamin Abel Meirhaeghe, Emmilou Rößling, Simon Van Schuylenbergh. Her choreographic work is an extension of her dance practice and is built on a combination of her experiences as a dancer, performer and mediator.
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