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.
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Hanako Hayakawa: Lurker
Hanako Hayakawa: Lurker
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.
(NO LANGUAGE)
Dates
January 2025
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