Video capture made during the B Motion festival in Bassano del Grappa, 2021 edition.

Video montage produced by Laura Combeau.

Vibes # 3

A dialogue between bodies, architectures

and urban vibrations

Duration: 40 minutes

Choreography: Masako Matsushita

Music: Mugen Yahiro

Digital creation: Xavier Boissarie and Tomek Jarolim

A first phase of training installs the participant in a state of receptivity to his environment. The experience begins with the roll of the Japanese drum, the Taiko. Its vibrations are propagated in the city and resonate with its architecture, its flows. This vibration, imprint of the place from which it emanates, animates each body, carries it in a common pulsation. The moving dancer begins a danced dialogue with the place, its lines, its forms. Gradually he connects with other participants, in pairs, then 4, 8 ... The groupings increase the intensity of the vibration. From the intimacy of individuality to common paths and collective belonging. The energy gradually rises, up to the point of melting. Then the dancers separate, find their way again, imbued with this common vibration. Three key words to describe this performance: vibrations, movement, environment.

"I'm an artist, so I'm taking action."

Masako Mastushita is an Italo-Japanese dancer and choreographer. In

2012 she graduated from Trinity Laban Conservatory of Music and Dance and in

Dance theater in London.

Subsequently, she was hosted in residence in Europe and internationally such

as Residency Unlimited in New York, the Experimental Theater in Pesaro or the 4bid

Amsterdam Gallery. With a lot of artistic collaborations behind it,

Masako choreographed the piece LAND SKAP with Ingvild Isaksen, SHINODO and

ONE / DRESS. She is also a dancer for several artists like Curandi

Katz and at the moment she works with the Municipality of Bassano del Grappa and

Arte Sella Borgo Valsugana in Italy.

Mugen Yahiro is an artist and master of traditional Japanese percussion (Taiko) recognized by the Oki do Mikkyo Free Yoga University. He studies and applies art in various fields, from the visual to the performative, both as a form of expression and as a method of inner deepening, trying to create an ideal type of training, which can lead to

development not only of mind and body, but also of heart and spirit.

In 2014, he founded "Munedaiko", a study group dedicated to the practice of the traditional Japanese drum which values ​​this instrument to discover, develop and evolve.

"I work on a variety of projects, and I have the chance to work with very talented people.

From the chef restaurateur, to the technical team of a feature film, including the entrepreneur, the professional dancer, the baroque quartet and the liberal nurse:

I adapt to different types of content.

It is the authenticity of each theme that drives my creativity. "

Orbe designs and implements digital devices for multimedia authors, artists and the general public. Each device explores new hybridizations between the digital and the tangible, and constitutes an experimental matrix. Tools accessible for everyone make it 

possible to stage an experiment within a device either from an administration interface or directly in the field with a mobile terminal.
  Orbe brings together programmers, designers, artists and scientists around the experimentation and implementation of new experiences involving the body and new media. Orbe works mainly in the cultural field in the design-creation of mediation devices, situated experiences and authoring tools.