The situation is peculiar: On the left of the screen, you can see a twitching receipt, a fluttering piece of foil. And on the right lies a dancer, arching his back, stretching his arms and legs into strange angles to mimic the fluttering choreography of the object. The seemingly simple idea harbors a multifaceted reflection on movement and the body, on perception and the environment.
Littered Mvmnts, the performance series by the Japanese-American dancer and choreographer Shoji Yamasaki, began in 2020 as a lockdown discovery and quickly went viral on TikTok and Instagram: For six years now, Yamasaki's videos, with millions of views, have shown split screens in which trash and people "dance" in sync. Dance? A body that moves like a crushed plastic bottle in the wind subverts any notion of ...
