In the
creative process of UNFIGURE, I’m not trying to transform his works to a dance,
but confronting his spirits and questioning at each creation.
Human bodies depicted by Francis Bacon (1909 – 1992) are
extremely disfigured or fragmented in many of his works. These figures are often
confined in small frames as though just about
screaming.
I first encountered his works in New York and they
grabbed my heart. Bacon fascinated me furthermore when I was in London and made
me start a self-investigation whether I could find some connections between his
works and my own physicality.
Introduction
UNFIGURE is a dance art project, dealing with the
paintings of Francis Bacon, figurative painter, as a
theme.
"unfigure" is no longer the name of group only; it
represents the fundamental theme "the truth of human beings” and our bodies
themselves as a medium.
Shoko Ota