This performance is inspired by the traditional Japanese folk tale “The Bamboo Cutter”, an iconic tale from X century Japan. The story describes an old man who finds a small girl, the size of a hand, inside a bamboo stalk. She turns out to be a princess and a divine figure that comes to this world to experience all humans emotions. It so happens that melancholy and depression dominate her adulthood. This performance is not only a story of a sad princess, but an exploration of the emotional disconnection that humans could experience when are ejected from their context and environment in this case referring to the events of Japan at the end of WWII and the emergence of the Post War Avant-Garde art movement in Japan.
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