BLOOM 2007
BLOOM is a Gisela Rocha Company production in co-production with Tanzhaus Zürich and Théâtre La Fourmi Lucerne. Supported by Präsidialdepartement der Stadt Zürich, Fachstelle Kultur des Kanton Zürich and Pro Helvetia Schweizer Kulturstiftung
Girl blossoms in the Tanzhaus
The two dancers Aoi Keimi and Kayoko Minami appear in white kimonos. They emerge from their wrapping of clothes to become gaudily coloured girl blossoms styled in mini skirts and high heels. Their beauty seems to depress the dancers, and so their attepts of escape are accordingly vehement. The performers show a wide range of expressions among coquetry, desire, rage and grief. There are two superb dancers to be admired.
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Neue Zürcher Zeitung – 27th/ 28th October 2007
Sketches of a liberation
Gisela Rocha creates a time-lapse female history. [...] In an one-hour process the choreographer makes two women fight for individuality and femininity, lets them feel their liberty and makes them loose it again. [...] Aoi Keimi and Kayoko Minami fill the stage with their strong presence. In an excellent way the intensity of their movement work brings out the poetry of contrasts. [...]
Der Bund, Bern – 22nd October 2007
Contraries
Gisela Rocha leads off her round of contraries with the two Japanese Aoi Keimi und Kayoko Minami in paper kimonos: tradition against modernity, a modest and shy woman in a cocoon against a vulgar and provocative peep show dancer, a brightly lit figure against darkly silhouetted shadows, a prima ballerina against a dance fool. [...] In «Bloom» Gisela Roche combines undefined borders or tightrope walks which can hardly be expressed by language, and by doing so she finally comes very close to her declared purpose: The return to the sources, the female world.
P.S. Nr. 40/07, Zürich – 1. November 2007