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A glimpse into my life in Paris, as I immerse myself in the arts and culture of France.
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Bonjour tout le monde!
This has been an unprecedented period of intense anxiety and disruption across all industries, and the arts especially had taken a heavy toll. Hence, I am elated to lend my voice to vOilah! France Singapore Festival 2020, and to be a part of this cultural heritage exchange that thrives between our two countries. Although grand festival events and red carpet may no longer be possible, but nothing should stop us from sharing the charm and finesse of French culture and arts.
I currently reside in Paris, having moved here three years ago. We too experienced a two months country-wide confinement from March to May this year, during which only essential shops were allowed to remain open, namely, supermarkets and boulangeries. A week into the lockdown, President Macron announced that not only was food for the body important to the people, food for the soul was equally critical to a civilization. What followed was that bookshops were given the permission to resume business, as long as rules of social distancing were observed. This was what struck me the most, that when life is stripped to the bare minimum, bread and books are all we need. After all, “culture is what remains, when everything else is forgotten” French statesman Edouard Herriot once wrote. Indeed, in the most robust economy, the market provides everyone with everything, except the power to determine what people should value. It is thus heartening to see culture held at such high regards, especially in times of crisis.
Back in our literary and philosophical past, only a small percentage of people had the privilege to be exposed to great traditions of arts and intellect. Now we are fortunate to live in a world where the cultural divide is no longer as deep, where global communities come together on creative platforms, where thinkers reunite for meaningful dialogues. Culture should travel, even when we can’t.
De gustibus non est disputandum. I look forward to the calendar of great works in this year’s vOilah! Festival, and meeting all of you through the upcoming online activities.
Let’s safeguard the future of our arts and innovation together.
Mes meilleurs sentiments,
Sharon Au
Très honorée to be appointed Patron of this year's France Singapore Festival, together with my idol Ivan Heng! vOilah! commences today till 22 November, a full month of science, arts and French culture. Enjoy! French Embassy in Singapore - Ambassade de France à Singapour Voilah
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Dance:Ruri Mito
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Matou / Session Online Theater / Saturday 23 May 2020 /
Title: Matou
Choreography / Dance : Ruri Mito
Music: Yuta Kumachi
Lighting: Akiyo Kushida
Costume: Tomoko Inamura
Premiere: October, 2015 (Session House, Tokyo, Japan)
Supported by EU-Japan Fest Japan Committee,
The Saison Foundation, Session House
🔒https://youtu.be/Xqge8S3y6aQ
-Matou’s Review-
▶︎Review(Dance House / AsiaTOPA 2019)
https://www.smh.com.au/culture/dance/dancer-shows-the-flexibility-to-astonish-20200216-p5418q.html
▶︎Review(Taiwan Dance Platform 2018)
https://taiwandanceplatform.tw/en/writings/ruri-mito-matou/
▶︎Review(Gdansk Solo Dance Contest 2017)
https://www.gdansk.pl/wiadomosci/japonka-ruri-mito-wygrala-konkurs-solo-dance-contest-konczy-sie-gft-w-zaku,a,80459
-History-
2019/02 Asia TOPA in Melbourne, Australia
2018/11 Taiwan Dance Platform in Kaohsiung, Taiwan
2018/10 Kuandu Arts Festival in Taipei, Taiwan
2018/09 d-souko, Tokyo, Japan
2018/07 M1 CONTACT Contemporary Dance Festival in Singapore. Won the MASDANZA prize.
2018/05 HOKURIKU DANCE FESTIVAL III in 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
2017/11 Odoru.Akita International Dance Festival 2017, Akita, Japan. Won the first Tatsumi Hijikata Memorial Award.
2017/10 ONE DANCE WEEK in Plovdiv, Bulgaria
2017/10 AURA international dance festival in Kaunas, Lithuania
2017/06 SOLO DANCE CONTEST in Gdansk Dance Festival 2017 held in Gdansk, Poland. Won the first prize.
2017/05 Rencontres Choreographiques International de Seine Saint - Denis in Paris, France
2017/05 Gaala performances in Pori, Finland.
2016/10 L1 danceFest 2016 in Budapest, Hungary
2016/05 CÁDIZ EN DANZA in Cadiz, Spain
2015/10 Premiere at Session House, Tokyo, Japan
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MATOU
It has direct meanings like “to wear, put on, tangle, roll up,” and it is often used figuratively.
I put on my body.
I can not see all of my body for a lifetime.
Tissues make up my body are kept being renewed, and they will vanish someday.
The body without contents will not remain, and where the contents without the body go?
Will they keep remaining?
Like Snakes and cicadas, most parts of their outer layer of the skin slough off at once and become new.
Although what is left is not a dead body, it still has a perfect shape of the animal and it has no life. Is it an evidence of its life? Is there an evidence of my life?
‘Matou’ also sounds like “willing to wait” in Japanese.
I’m waiting for my death.
‘Tsukimatou’ means “to haunt.”
It always haunt me and don’t go. My body haunt me until the day I die.
‘Soumatou’ revolving lantern
An expression describes an occurrence that many visions appear in one’s mind as shadow cast by a revolving lantern. It happens when people have a brush with death and past memories come and go randomly and quickly.
‘Mattou’ means “to complete.”
I completed my life.
