Mujokan 2021 

Marie-Gabrielle Rotie was commissioned by Kew Gardens to create a promenade performance through the Temperate House, taking inspiration from the surrounding plants and from the enormous handing sculpture by internationally celebrated artist  Chiharu Shiota

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Butoh-informed dancers and live artists, under the artistic direction of Marie-Gabrielle Rotie performed a series of vignettes.

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They embodied the flower in its stages of blooming, fragrance and decay, to underscore the transience of all existence.

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The work builds upon Rotie's current work investigating gardens, plant life and performance

Invited solo dancers:

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Eeva Maria Mutka

Yumino Seki 

Yuka Negoro

Yuliya Krylova

Hollie Miller

Athina Vahla 

Marie-Gabrielle Rotie 

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Composed and live sound by Nick Parkin

Costumes by Yuliya Krylova 

Photography by Keiko Ikeuchi