[>Fumiyo Ikeda, Jean-Luc Fafchamps : interview](https://www.ictus.be/interview)

Il est plus méritoire de découvrir le mystère dans la lumière que dans l'ombre.
(Arthur Cravan)
Ne demande jamais ton chemin à quelqu'un qui le connaît. Tu risquerais de ne pas te perdre.
(Rabbi Nachman de Breslov)

Ce spectacle de "danse de chambre" nous emmène au coeur de l'art de Morton Feldman (1926-1987) : une oeuvre de 80 minutes pour piano et cordes, irradiant une lumière calme, où chaque son “est un écho du Rien”.

La danseuse-chorégraphe Fumiyo Ikeda partage l'espace de ses camarades instrumentistes, comme si elle était un sixième musicien. Pas de décor, pas de coulisses, pas d'artifices : tout est à nu. Les "répétitions inexactes" des mouvements d'Ikeda sculptent doucement l'espace, comme la musique de Feldman le fait du temps. Le spectateur perd pied dans ce tissage du familier et de l'imprévisible où la mémoire se trouble, s'égare, et finalement se laisse vaincre.

Fumiyo Ikeda : Quand j’écoute Piano and String Quartet de Morton Feldman, j'aime fermer les yeux.  Et je laisse entrer les sons invisibles. Je flotte, tout ondule, les sons m’ouvrent un nouvel espace et me font remonter le temps, jusqu’à l’utérus. Cette musique est dénuée de toute  tension dramatique ; on a pourtant l’impression que tout peut y arriver, comme en voyage à l’intérieur d’une vague. S’ils le veulent, les spectateurs peuvent fermer les yeux et se concentrer sur le flot musical,  puis les ouvrir à tout moment pour regarder la danse — exactement comme le ferait un promeneur sur une plage immobile.
Bruxelles, Décembre 2014

Ikeda : biography

Fumiyo Ikeda, born in 1962 in Osaka, Japan.
In 1979, she entered MUDRA, Maurice Béjart’s dance school, where she met the choreogrtapher Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker.
In 1983 she joined the newly-founded company Rosas.
Between 1983 and 2008 she contributed to the creation of (and danced in) almost all the Rosas productions: rosas danst rosas, Elena’s Aria, Bartók / Aantekeningen, Mikrokosmos, Ottone,Ottone, Stella, Achterland, Toccata, Just Before, Drumming, I said I, In Real Time, Rain, April me, the Repertory Evening, Bitches Brew / Tacoma Narrows, Kassandra, Raga for the Rainy Season, D’un soir un jour, Zeitung and the revivals of Mozart / Concert Arias and Woud.

Fumiyo also contributed to several of Rosas’ films and videos:
Répétitions, Hoppla!, Monoloog van Fumiyo Ikeda op het einde van Ottone Ottone,
Ottone Ottone I & II, Rosa, Achterland and CounterPhrases.
Alongside her activity within rosas, Fumiyo Ikeda also worked with Steve Paxton, Needcompany, Josse De Pauw and Tom Jansen.
She has participated in several films and theatre plays. In 2007 she created Nine Finger with Benjamin Verdonck and Alain Platel. This performance was selected for the Festival d’Avignon 2007.
She appeared in the production In pieces, a collaboration with the British playwright and director Tim Etchells that premiered in June 2009.
She performed in Life and Times, Episode 2, a performance in collaboration with Nature Theater of Oklahoma (2010).
Since last season, she performs in the reruns of Drumming and Elena’s Aria, and leads the rehearsals of Rosas danst Rosas and Bartók / Mikrokosmos. In 2013 she creates a new performance together with the Japanese dancer Un Yamada.

They said...

More than anything else her movement seems constantly weighed, as if there is some sub-micro-second (or unquantifiable attention-split) of contemplation involved in even the fastest move. Not all dancers give that impression but with Fumiyo it's very strong. For me it means that what happens counts. What's amazing too is how fast she picks up and drops a particular energy in her movement - so the tone of what she's doing can seem extremely fluid, changeable, unstable - light one moment, harsh or difficult another, with barely a boundary between the two.
Tim Etchells, artistic director of Forced Entertainment, London

With her straight black hair, smooth face and fierce technique, Ikeda flips in an instant from girlish to witchy, subtle to brash.
Lilian Baylis, The Guardian

Une formidable comédienne capable d'exprimer tous les sentiments, du rire aux pleurs, de l'espièglerie à la rouerie.
Guy Duplat, La Libre

To be able to witness the combined talent of this exceptional duo is a real treat; something that will surely stay on your own list of significant memories for a long while.
Oonagh Duckworth, Brussel deze week (about the duo in pieces)

SEE ALSO THESE PROJECTS :

"Piano & String Quartet" will be part of larger events :
[Jardin Des Secrets](https://www.ictus.be/garden), Opéra De Lille, February 3, 2017
Saint John's Eve, Handelsbeurs, Ghent, June 17, 2017