A dance of East and West

Bangkok Art and Culture Centre is hosting two rounds of A Wave From A Distance, a contemporary dance performance that blends the East and the West, at its Studio on the 4th floor, on Friday and Saturday at 7pm.

Presented by Bodybuilders | Rafael Alvarez, the show takes inspiration from The Great Wave Off Kanawaga, an iconic work by Japanese painter Hokusai that was created in 1830 and reproduced from the mid-1870s through a series of lithographs using the traditional Japanese print technique known as ukiyo (literally, floating world).

This is a monochromatic performance of shadows, evocations and masks whose Hokusai wave allows to embody. It features two bodies sailing in silence for a fragile dance that is a wave and tide…