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Posted July 12th 2006 under Performance
Takashi’s Seasons, by Takashi Kawashima, a grad student of UCLA, is a sequential live shadow puppet / video performance in which various scenes interpreting the four seasons are performed by a modern Utsushi-e artist.
“In the spring children are seen walking back to school with their school bags (the academic year begins in April in Japan). The proud performance of cicadas can be heard on a hot summer evening. Dragonflies smoothly glide in the cool air of a fall afternoon. On New Year’s Eve the chimes of temple bells are heard in the freezing winter night”.
Its a beautifully simple piece, with one performer controlling the puppets and the other controlling the animations and sound. The scene is rear projected, augmenting visuals over the puppets, like leaves falling, flying butterflies or flowers growing.
Related Post: Shadow Monsters, Shadow Story.
(also on WMMNA)
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