FUMIYO IKEDA (JP/BE) & TIM ETCHELLS (GB)
IN PIECES

›It’s not only Ikeda who enjoys this but also we, the audience, who are given the freedom by her to see our own fantasies and memories in her actions. Those who already think they know Ikeda will get to know her here for the very first time.‹ ballet-tanz, Juli 2009

›in pieces‹ is a collaboration between Tim Etchells and Fumiyo Ikeda, a solo performed by Ikeda. Comical, puzzling, emotional, intimate and veiled by turns in pieces combines movement, dance, written text, improvised speech and concerns itself with memory, with the processes of remembering and forgetting, exploring these both as they are felt and articulated by the body and as they are made manifest in language.

Formed out of fragments – one sense of the ›pieces‹ of the work’s title – the performance comprises an unstable, absurd, surprising, poetic and occasionally numbered catalogue containing remembered phrases, movements, narratives, emotional states, music and songs. Somewhere in the space between these things – between movement and speech, between past remembered and the unfolding present moment of the stage – the event of the performance takes place.