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Jon Filip Fahlstrøm

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TeZukA

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Visionary Japanese manga artist and animator Osamu Tezuka provided the inspiration for TeZukA. Working with an international cast of 11 performers, 3 musicians and a calligrapher, Cherkaoui explores Tezuka's fascinating world - a blend of tradition, science fiction and contemporary reality. Two of Tezuka's manga stories which are well known in Japanese popular culture – Astro Boy and Buddha – particularly captured Cherkaoui's imagination in creating this work. TeZukA features a specially commissioned score from award-winning composer Nitin Sawhney with lighting and set design by Willy Cessa and costumes by fashion designer Sasa Kovacevic. Tezuka's original illustrations are projected alongside work by video artist Taiki Ueda and calligraphy by Tosui Suzuki. Using the dancers' movements to trace the physical evolution of Tezuka's drawings – from a line on a blank page to a single Japanese kanji (letter) to a fully-formed manga character – Cherkaoui brings the 'God of Manga's' philosophy, drawings and characters to life.

Premiere: 06 September 2011, Sadler's Wells

Choreography
Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui
Music composition
Nitin Sawhney
Additional / traditional music
Tsubasa Hori, Woojae Park, Olga Wojciechowska
Set design
Willy Cessa
Dance
Jon Filip Fahlstrøm, Damien Jalet, Kazutomi 'Tsuki' Kozuki, Satoshi Kudo, Shintaro Oue, Daniel Proietto, Guro Nagelhus Schia, Helder Seabra, Vebjørn Sundby, Huang Jiahao, Li Bo, Mirai Moriyama
Calligraphy
Tosui Suzuki
Live music
Tsubasa Hori, Halee Jeong, Woojae Park, Olga Wojciechowska
Assistant choreographer
Ali Ben Lotfi Thabet
Costume design
Sasa Kovacevic
Second cast
Kieran Brown, Hirotsugu Saegusa, Minoru Harata
Light design
Willy Cessa
Video design
Taiki Ueda
Production / technical manager
Adam Carrée, Andrew Stock, Gemma Tonge, Laura Ann Booth
Technician
Jon Beattie, MJ Urbenek
Executive producer
Suzanne Walker, Hisashi Itoh
Consultant producer
Karthika Naïr
Producer
Sadler’s Wells (London), Bunkamura (Tokio), Eastman
Co-producer
Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay (Singapore), La Villette (Paris), deSingel International Arts Campus (Antwerp), Movimentos Festwochen der Autostadt (Wolfsburg)
Last modified: 22 January 2020
Eastman - Shintaro Oue

Shintaro Oue

Eastman - Gemma Tonge

Gemma Tonge

Eastman - MJ Urbenek

MJ Urbenek

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Woojae Park

Eastman - Sasa Kovacevic

Sasa Kovacevic

Eastman - Satoshi Kudo

Satoshi Kudo

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Sadler’s Wells (London)

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Laura Ann Booth

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Adam Carrée

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Vebjørn Sundby

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Li Bo

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