NARAKU 奈落 (ABYSS)
DANCE COMPANY LASTA
A man sits alone, haunted by a mysterious presence. What begins as attraction soon becomes an intoxicating force that draws out his possessiveness, jealousy, and need for control. As his dream self battles his real self, his fantasies intensify until he reaches the edge of the abyss. Strange and compelling figures appear, tempting, guiding, and ultimately pulling him back from the void
First staged in Yokohama in 2020 and later adapted into an award-winning film, Naraku has been acclaimed across European art-film festivals in Paris, Venice, London, and Athens.
Choreography by
Music by Costume Design by Yoshimitsu Kushida
Performed by
Motoi Matsuda hitoha.nasu, Grelot Arbre Co.,Ltd.
Satoshi Nakagawa, Miwa Motojima, Yumika Yasuoka, Mana Tazaki, Riku Ogawa, Aoi Okamoto
Yoshimitsu Kushida founded the Japanese dance company Dance Company Lasta in 2013.
They were finalistsfor two consecutive years at the SFC Seoul International choreography Festival and were invited to perform at the Busan International Dance Festival in South Korea.
Erotic, violent, dark, beautiful, grotesque, in ‘Naraku’, Kushida plunges the audience into the world of the shadow self, exploring what lurks beneath the civilised veneer.
Naraku is a visceral journey into a man ’ s psyche, where desire, ego, and obsession clash with electrifying intensity
Reality and fantasy are like two mirrors, reflecting each other and easily transcending the boundaries between them. The question is how to return from the fictional world to the real world, and how to connect the two
Don’t run. Ask yourself
Why am I here?
Who am I?
SPOKEN TEXT: TRANSLATION FROM JAPANESE
What am I doing here?
What did I see?
What can I do?
What should I do?
Can I do it? Can’t I do it? Do it
Audience Experience Manager
Giudi Di Gesaro
Theatre Administrator / PA to the Artistic Director
Vihaan Chandy
Duty Managers
Producing & Marketing Assistant
Esme Bishop
Francesca Battinieri, Joanna Papanastassiou, Hazel Townsend, Aylin Rodoplu
Box Office Assistant
Ivana Dieli
Front of House Staff
Maria Lisberg-Jonasson, Andreane
Rellou, Thea Gavanski, Eugénie Bakker, Emma Laird-Craig, Scarlett Stitt, Dominika Jarečná, Hamza Mullick, Stefanie Bruckner, Juliet Dempsey, Katrina Foster, Stephanie Christodoulidou, Annabelle Gardner, Aidan Bose-Rosling, Li Ikoku-Smith, Merilee Ettia, Matilda Badziak, Francesca Slater, Trey Francis
Trustees
Linda Bernhardt, Mike Fisher, Mimi Gilligan, Jane Quinn, Anda Winters, Bill Winters (Chair)
