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Shizuka Hariu

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Shizuka Hariu

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Dr. Shizuka Hariu is an interdisciplinary designer between Scenography and architecture. Her scenography describes the relationship between concrete and imaginary space, based on her acute understanding of architectural environments.

Stage Productions include: Dystopian Dream (Nitin Sawhney, Wang&Ramirez); New World (Robert Binet, Ballett am Rhein in Düsseldorf); Medea (Bristol Old Vic); No Body (Sadler’s Wells); Sacred Monsters (Akram Khan & Sylvie Guillem); Solid Traces (Charleroi Dances); Pernombre (Les Ballet C de la B); Cloud/Crowd (Japon Dance Project, New National Theatre Tokyo); A Time There Was (Jubilee Opera); Kunsten Festival des Arts and many others throughout Europe.

She is the winner of the Bronze medal for World Stage Design 2022 and 2017, D&AD Design Award, German Design Award, Tokyo Design Award, Pola Art Foundation Award and many others. She is selected UK representation team for PQ2019, 2015 and exhibited at V&A.

Shizuka is a co-director at SHSH Architecture+Scenography with architect Shin Bogdan Hagiwara. SHSH designed for the exhibitions for Sensing Spaces (Royal Academy of Arts); Timeless Beauty (Gallos Roman Museum) as a finalist; Fear&Love (The Design Museum) and the European Commission Information Centre.


DYSTOPIAN DREAM

 
   
 
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Role:
Scenographer
Year:
2017
Venue:
Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, Théâtre de la Ville-Paris, Sadler's Wells

Scenography describes a representational space between a dream and the twisted reality combining with projection mapping images on top of this scenography.

The central space was used as the main performing area for dancers with three different shades of grey chairs, an originally designed thin table. The platform is connected to a large curved ramp, where dancers fly with wired-action. The platform also has a long staircase in which the top part is transformable, creating an effect similar to MC Escher’s Relativity. The horizontal solid wall performed as both the vertical floor with a chair and a horizontal wall for projection images. Underneath the platform are lattice elastic layers, which hide dancers and a singer.

The overall scenographic design was harmonized in a light grey colour, producing slightly blurred edges of the staircase, ramp, screen, and wall. Performers move and float in between reality and dream alongside music.

“I HOPE THAT MY INVOLVEMENT IN EACH PRODUCTION IS BREAKING THE BOUNDARY BETWEEN WEST AND EAST. MOREOVER MY DESIGN APPROACHES BETWEEN SCENOGRAPHY AND ARCHITECTURE HOPEFULLY SUPPORT AND SURVIVE SCENOGRAPHY IN THIS DIGITAL WORLD.”

Credits:

Concept originator, co-devisor, album composer:
Nitin Sawhney
Directors, choreographers and performers:
Honji Wang & Sébastien Ramirez
Singer:
Eva Stone
Set Designer:
Shizuka Hariu / SHSH Architecture + Scenography
Costume Designer:
Hussein Chalayan
Lighting Designer:
Natasha Chivers
Co-production:
Company Wang Ramirez, Clash66 Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg Théâtre de la Ville-Paris Stanford Live
Video Designer and Projection Mapping:
Nick Hillel
Dramaturgy and Creative Consultant:
Farooq Chaudhry
Set Design Assistant:
SHSH Architecture + Scenography
Production:
Sadler's Wells London

Contact Shizuka

Website: http://www.shsh.be
Instagram: @Shizuka_Hariu
Website: info@shsh.be
Facebook: SHSH_Arch_Sceno


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