I was aware of the impossibility to create a dance piece from such a great novel.
Yet this impossibility was the key to approaching and creating something completely new.
A dance that only exists here.
With no usage of text at all, a pure dance piece is embodied from the novel.
Not just embodying the character related to the original novel, but the embodiment of movement inside words.
Silent voices heard within words, screams and moans, murmurs and sighs, all become physical movement.
Coming from the interior, moving the body.
The dance of a continuing life, in the form of a human body.
A body with no answer keeps questioning life with continuing movement.
The power of the voices of the silent and noisy body, structures the whole piece.
“The Idiot” told by the body, not as a literature.
Saburo Teshigawara

Premiere: 21 June 2016, Karas Apparatus, Tokyo (JP)