Hello waters
with designer Aliki van der Kruijs (NL), artist Misa Murata (JP) and dancer Meri Otoshi (JP)
2024
in Kyoto, JP
Photo Daisuke Taskashige
Exploring movement as a relational practice, the score of “Hello waters” is meant to guide the participants into
activating and meeting both their own body of
water (inside), and the water in the landscape
(the river, the rain, the mist etc). Both as
individual bodies, and as a group too. It brought
(non)locals connection to the elements in
and around the Kamogawa river, in Kyoto, Japan.
The score of this walk was a succession of
movement guided sessions, tasting of local
spring water, collective making of a matcha tea
composed with riverbeds wild flora, and reading
poetry.
This piece was created as part of Aliki van der Kruijs and Céline Pelcé’s research “Ukiyo, the water way”, an exploration of the floating worlds concept starting in Japan. This project was supported by Creative Industrie NL and Institut Français