Liebe Mami Kawabata, wie sieht jetzt Dein Tagesablauf aus?

Hi, what`s your routine at the moment?

Taking care of my children, going to dance training and rehearsals, working in the theater in the evening and doing house work.

Was ist jetzt für uns alle besonders wichtig?

What`s now particularly important for all of us?

Inner peace.

Vor einem Aufbruch und Neubeginn werden wir jetzt alle gesellschaftlich und persönlich stehen. Was wird dabei wesentlich sein und welche Rolle kommt dabei dem Tanz/Theater/Schauspiel, der Kunst an sich zu?

New start, new beginning. What will be essential and which roles will dance, art play on society process?

Since we are using smartphone the most in history, my personal hope for the future the roll of dance and theater community would be the place to feel our available senses as much as possible and contact to people and social place directly, not through screen with highly focused visually. Place for sensing the vibration of music/sounds, feeling the breath of performers, sensing the atmosphere of stage and audience, observing own emotion, connecting to own memories and so on. I think we leant those are so important after pandemic period.

Was liest Du derzeit?

What are you reading currently?

Haruki Murakami, „Killing Commander“

Welches Zitat, welchen Textimpuls möchtest Du uns mitgeben?

Which quote, text will you propose to us?

Stand in someone’s shoes./ Put yourself in someone’s shoes.

Vielen Dank für das Interview, liebe Mami Kawabata, viel Freude und Erfolg weiterhin für Deine großartigen Tanz-, Kunstprojekte und persönlich alles Gute! 

5 Fragen an Künstler*innen: Mami Kawabata, Tänzerin

Aktuelles Tanzprojekt von und mit Mami Kawabata: „Garden“

Fr 19.12.2025 _ 19:30h  Off Theater Wien

My roots are in Japan, my branches are in Europe.
My seed is from there, my seed continues here.
My body is just passing from the past to the hereafter.
My feet are heading to nature.
Garden, the place where I can be myself.

Choreography/Performing: Mami Kawabata
Music: Paul Gessner, Kodo
Calligraphy: Buho Uchida
Choreographic support: Yukie Koji
Special thanks: Hanae Mori

Dauer: 20 min

https://off-theater.at/project/tanz-im-off-iii-tanz-company-gervasi-martina-haselgruber-bianca-anne-braunesberger/

Tanz im Off _ zeitgenössisches Tanzfestival des OFF THEATERS!

13. – 19. Dezember 2025 _ Off Theater Wien

mit OFF TANZ Tirol, orgAnic reVolt, Ardan Hussain-Evi Jägle – Jan Barner, Tanz Company Gervasi, Julia Mariacher, Lîla Collective, Carla Schuler und Mami Kawabata.

TANZ IM OFF

Fotos: privat

Walter Pobaschnig 9/12/25

https://literaturoutdoors.com