- shibui collective
MORNING RELAY
The collaborative and artistic intermedial dance project
MORNING RELAY
While a young man in Kamchatka
Dreams of a giraffe
A young girl in Mexico
Waits for the bus in the morning haze
While a little girl in New York Rolls over in her bed with asmile A little boy in Rome
Winks at the morning sun that colors the column capital
On this Earth
Always, somewhere, morning is starting
We are relaying morning
From longitude to longitude
Taking turns protecting Earth, as it were
Prick up your ears awhile before you go to sleep
And, somewhere, far away, you'll hear an alarm clock ringing
it's proof that someone has firmly caught
The morning you've passed on
The collaborative and artistic intermedial dance project MORNING RELAY (2020-2023) includes research periods at different locations (Japan, Taiwan, Germany) with diverse cross-genre forms of expression. Inspired by the poem "Morning Relay" by Shuntaro Tanigawa, choreographer Emi Miyoshi and photographer and video artist Marc Doradzillo want to capture the private morning rituals of many individuals and carry them out into the world. The differences and similarities between different generations and cultural backgrounds are captured through interviews, video and photo shoots with locals as well as pure sound recordings at several locations and made tangible in connection with dance art. Each participant's body sensations, scenes, words and emotions are extracted from each encounter, especially in the morning, in order to weave them into a cross-disciplinary, multimedia "Morning Relay" poem.