WALDEFFEKT

June 2020
Weltkunstzimmer Düsseldorf
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A brief rest in a performative thicket and a joint search for an own story within it.

Age of Curse

2020 Cubic Studios Düsseldorf

Within analog and digital bodies, the new dance piece by Chikako Kaido seeks for the voodoo in modern information-technology.

Black is the color, None is the number

2019
Cubic Studios Düsseldorf

The zero hour that this piece represents is perhaps a metaphor of the nihilistic time in which we live. One should make something new out of nothing.

WE NEED FICTION

2018
Weltkunstzimmer Düsseldorf

This performance deals with the necessity to tell universal stories based on choreographic material. In a world that is so much about facts, we need more fiction.

Die Insel

2016
Weltkunstzimmer Düsseldorf

If you ask a Japanese about his home country, in most cases you will get the following answer: “You know, Japan is an island.”

Azamino Tokio

2015
Weltkuntzimmer Düsseldorf
Fabrik Heeder, Krefeld

HOME HAZARD

2014
Fabrik Heeder, Krefeld

HOME HAZARD is a search for reasons for the Fukushima disaster, which leads deeply into the subconscious patterns of behavior of Japanese society.

Jihi (Nemuri)

2013
Asphalt Festival, Düsseldorf
100° Festival, Berlin

ARBEITEN 2006 – 2010

Earlier works by Chikako Kaido

Showcase of the body (2006)
Tanzsolo (2008)
There is an abyss (2009)
Schattenlinien (2010)