Dancer, Choreographer Rina Kato

In dance — a physical art form — the presence of the body and its surrounding context is usually taken for granted. This work challenges that assumption by contemplating its opposite: absence. It takes a meta-approach, exploring whether the phenomenon of absence itself can be realized as a dance work.

Using a number of chairs that seem too many for a single performer, the piece constructs space through a chain of self-choreographed movements — a dialogue between what is present and what has vanished.