The Idiot – Saburo Teshigawara/Rihoko Sato

Cult Japanese choreographer Saburo Teshigawara stages his hypnotic, danced telling of Dostoevsky’s The Idiot in its UK premiere. Teshigawara’s The Idiot is pure dance, intricately sculpted and fluid. Two performers ? Saburo Teshigawara and his long-standing artistic collaborator Rihoko Sato, embody the principal characters of the novel; Prince Myshkin (the Idiot) and the fascinating Nastasya Filippovna. Together they reveal the movement inside Dostoevsky’s words ? silent voices, screams and moans, murmurs and sighs are fleshed out by their moving bodies, with their gestures in the space echoing the structural images in the novel. A major figure in the world of dance, Saburo Teshigawara has attracted international attention as a choreographer, director and performer for over 30 years. He takes complete creative control of all his productions and, for The Idiot, he is performer, director, lighting and costume designer and creator of the soundscore which includes a Shostakovich waltz.