Montevideoaki

5:08 min |  2004 | Mexico/Spain/Uruguay/Japan

Director: Octavio Iturbe / Choreographer & Performer: Hiroaki Umeda

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkZfEDif0U4

Against the dramatic city backdrop of Montevideo, Uruguay, Hiroaki Umeda's fluid and subtle solo flickers aga inst the hard lines of the buildings. A study of the human body in the urban landscape. The piece is based on Umeda’s solo for the stage "While Going To a Condition". Octavio Iturbe, a Spain-based director and editor, is particularly known to the world audiences by his collaboration with a Belgian choreographer Wim Vandekeybus on the film “Roseland”.