ところが幕があいて最初の作品は、井関佐和子の踊る金森の最新作『The Dream of the Swan』だった。舞台にはベッドが置かれ、そこに井関がひとり寝ているという意外なシチュエーションに、心が揺れた。病院でよく見るようなベッドの上には、室内灯がさがり、やや狭い空間の印象。どう見てもバレリーナが寝ている優雅な部屋とは思えない。そこでの井関の動きは、寝ていることの苦しさから、なんとか脱出しようといった「もがき」から始まった。細かな動きを積み重ね、ついにベッドの外へ。彼女の動きはますます加速され、ついには狂おしいまでに高調し、ベッドの周辺にまで広がったが、それはすべて 夢の中のことなのだ。すべては、バレリーナを夢見る少女の生態の精密な描写だった（もしかすると怪我で動けないダンサーの・・・）。井関の迫真の演技が、見る者の心を鋭くえぐった。しかしそこに描かれていたのは、どこかにはなやかささえ感じさせる、よくある普通の情景だった。
バレリーナが踊るソロ作品は、意外なことにほとんど無い。アンナ・パヴロワが踊ったフォーキンの名作『瀕死の白鳥』ぐらいしか思い出せない。バレエの世界で女性がソロを踊る時には、グラン・パ・ド・ドゥのバリエーションが選ばれることが多い。そんなバレエ界に出現した『The Dream of the Swan』は今後たびたび見たい作品のひとつになる可能性を秘めている。
『NINA－物質化する生け贄』は今から10年以上前に発表された人工の知能を備えたロボットの反乱を描いたようにも見える問題作だ。冒頭の大音響で観客を別の世界へ隔離して、以後の衝撃的な展開を語りつぐ。その前に『The Dream of the Swan』を置いて、異界への転異の衝撃を和らげた金森の配慮には意味があった。今後、このふたつの作品は同時に上演されるようになるのかもしれない。
初めて見た『NINA』は、期待通りのインパクトのある作品だった。Noism1のダンサーたちの、感情を交えない動きの不気味な展開は、我々の生きる未来の風景だった。彼らの好演を恐々見終わった後、『The Dream of the Swan』の人間感情の横溢するどこか危うい世界をもう一度懐かしく思い出すことになった。
Before I started dancing, I never did any exercises in my daily life. At
that time, there are just studying in my life. I didn’t even know what I want
to do and what I will do after high school. Also, because there was no more
extra money for me to join any after-school activities, the only one
entertainment I can do was watching TV. It’s also one of the reason to start
dancing.
One day, I watched a TV program about dance. And I saw that the male
dancers was so charming when they were dancing and I could not take my eyes out
of them. From that time, I started to watch so many dance videos on YouTube or
any other social media and I found out that the kind of dance I watched is
called contemporary dance. I tried to learn dancing from the video but I didn’t
learn dancing before and no one was coaching me. At that moment, although I
didn’t know what I was doing, I was really enjoying it and it was my first time
that I was really into something and want to know more about dance.
That’s why, after graduated from high school, I applied the dance school of
Hong Kong academy for performance arts(HKAPA). But I didn’t take any dance
class before and didn’t have any experience in dance. Of course, I failed it.
After that, I chose to study another subject, but I didn’t give up dancing.
Except studying, I went to do some part time job in weekends to earn some money
to take dance class. In that year, although I was so tired between study, work
and dance, I liked the feeling that fighting for something. Everything comes to
one who waits. In next year, I got in HKAPA, majoring in contemporary dance.
翌年、その同じオーディションに晴れて挑むことができました。結果は合格！そのステージで演じた後、観に来ていた Central School of Balletの先生の目にとまったことから、そちらにてフルタイムで学ぶオファーをいただき、16歳で、プロになるためのダンスのトレーニングを始めて、あとは皆さんご存じのとおりです！
I can look back on my dance journey so far and identify a chain of events
and decisions that have led me to here to Noism dance company.
I remember at the age of 12 joining a breakdance and street dance class, at
a local studios near to where I lived in London. This was where my love for
dance started, even though I wasn’t very good! After watching popular dance
films at the time I wanted to learn to move in those ways! When I was 14 they
started a boys ballet at the studios, to try and encourage the dancers to
become more versatile and move in different ways. I decided to give it a go and
thus started my passion for classical dance. I was enjoying my dancing a lot
but was still not taking it too seriously. I was dancing alongside my other
hobbies, such as football, athletics and acting. But a year later, while
playing football I broke my collar bone, which meant that I missed an important
audition for a production called ‘London children’s ballet’. This was something
I was very much looking forward to and this is when I realised I had to make
the choice about what I wanted to do and to commit to one or the other, as the
demand from the body is very different, and of course I chose dance.
The next year I was able to attend the audition again, and was successful!
After taking part in this show, I was offered a full time place at central
school of ballet after a teacher from the school had come to watch, so at 16 I
began my professional dance training and then the rest is history!
Looking back on it now I can recognise that it took many sacrifices, and at
such a young age it took a lot to make some mature and difficult decisions,
spending much of my time dancing meant that I missed out on lots that you as a
young person would want to do, committing to dance is a lifelong decision, but
I wouldn’t change any of it.
As my big sister had trouble with her hip and was too much turned in, my
mom decided that doing ballet would improve her situation. This is how the rest
of the family soon followed and started this adventure. My mom also said that I
used to wear my sister’s skirt and dance upstairs and I do remember one of
those days so I guess it was somehwere in me !
I always felt and thought of myself as a dancer but I actually never
thought of becoming one. I wanted to be fireman and help people. My dance
teacher believed in me and he is the one who pushed and looked where I could go
and train professionally after graduating from school. I didn’t know much about
dance but the more I worked for it the more I wanted to succeed.
