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Cascade
Cascade
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Cascade is the installation/performance related to dumb type performance memorandum.

The visitor, whose existence is part of the installation, strolls around in a 3 metre-wide aisle with two giant screens on either side.

Projected images and live performers form the walls of the installation.
(duration of performances : 15 minutes)

Commissioned by the Milan Design Salon, Cascade was the large entrance installation leading to rooms by Peter Greenaway, Emir Kusturica and Bob Wilson in the enormous architectural exhibition "Rooms and Secrets" at the Rotonda della Besana, Milan (Italy) from April 11th to August 20th 2000.

Cascade was also presented as part of the "Translated Acts" exhibition at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin from March 22nd to April 16th 2001.



Video director
Shiro Takatani

Music
Ryoji Ikeda

Lighting
Takayuki Fujimoto

Choreographers
Noriko Sunayama
Takao Kawaguchi

Manager
Yoko Takatani

Production dumb type
Co-produced by Change Performing Arts Milano
With the support of Kyoto Art Center


The show memorandum is co-produced by Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Créteil Maison des Arts/ Festival d’Automne à Paris, Le Manège Scène Nationale de Maubeuge, Pilar de Yzaguirre - Ysarca Madrid, La Bâtie Festival de Genève, The Museum of Art, Kochi