PARK KEITO & CUMPLICIDADES
ROKATEI
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Thursday-Friday •
Duration: 50min
Age-range: +6
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ROKATEI is a choreographic work that combines body and sound, taking Takahide Nishiwaki’s tanka poems as its starting point. Brief impressions and timeless reflections that address the ephemeral condition of the human being and the relationship with nature. ROKATEI means “the hut of six songs”. Two people on stage in a movement of translation through different fictions, around a utopian core. They search for and construct landscapes through incorporation, the transformation of space and words. This hut is a fragile shelter, a structure as strong as a rock, but also vulnerable in damp terrain, an abyss in a cave… Various symbolic implications unfold throughout the show, raising questions about the cycle of life.
Artistic and Technical Team:
Concept, creation and interpretation: Park Keito
Text: Takahide Nishiwaki and Kotomi Nishiwaki
Sound and music design: Miquel Casaponsa
Light design: Ivan Cascón
Costume design: Andrea Otín
Set design: Park Keito
Dramaturgy support: Quim Pujol
External look: João Lima
Sound technician: Rodrigo Rammsy
Co-production: Eira, Mercat de les Flors, Festival TNT
Collaboration/residency: TNT, La Caldera, CRA’P
PARK KEITO company established in Barcelona since 2017, formed by Kotomi Nishiwaki and Miquel Casaponsa. Their research interests come together in different disciplines such as dance, sound and visual art to compose and choreograph, in the creation of stage pieces and ‘site-specific’ installations. The projects emphasize sharing states, rhythms and alternative temporalities. Transformation of the scenic space through fictions, diverse materialities, artificial landscapes, minimalist radicality, movement and embodiment.
The 2025 edition of CUMPLICIDADES, the international contemporary dance festival that takes place every two years in Lisbon, returns on May 10 and runs until June 2 in various venues around the city. This year we’re celebrating the spectacle, but also the process, the hidden side of creation.
There are more than twenty proposals available to the public, including absolute premieres, national premieres and repositions of the best national and international work.
The 2025 edition of the CUMPLICIDADES Festival has been curated by the choreographer duo Sofia Dias and Vítor Roriz to program artists residing in Portugal, along with shows from abroad, proposed by EIRA. Bringing the tentacular nature of their artistic research to the Festival, Sofia and Vítor put together a program that occupies the various spaces with shows, open classes, talks, performances in the Museum and in the public space. A program that offers different possibilities for the public and artists to meet, made up of proposals that test contexts and presentation formats and stand out both for their risk and for the intimate and sensitive way in which they challenge us.
The public will be able to encounter dance, or the process that gives rise to it, in spaces as diverse as the Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology (MAAT), the Belém Cultural Center (CCB), the Champalimaud Foundation, the White Pavilion, the Marvila Library, Rua das Gaivotas 6, the Monsanto Interpretation Center, Jardim da Estrela, the Bairro Alto Theatre (TBA) or even Rossio Station.
As usual, Passaporte da Dança, the initiative that offers free dance classes in various locations in Greater Lisbon, precedes the start of the Festival and runs from May 5 to 9.