Koki Nakano - Oceanic Feeling (Official video)

22.01.2025 - CAFÉ DE LA DANSE - PARIS

Talking about the project, Seroussi explains, “It’s about an immersion that evokes a variety of reading: the life of the baby in the mother womb, birth and death. I was looking for something dramatic, abyssal as in a fall in a dream. We don’t know where we go, we don’t see the beginning nor the end of the story. We don’t know if we can touch the bottom, if it’s calm or rough.”

Expanding on this through the choreography, Jalet details, “We worked together to recreate this ambivalent feeling we got from performing in the bay of Ishinomaki – one of the areas most devastated by the 2011 tsunami; the ambivalence of water as a simultaneously devastating and repairing force. Here is a dancing portrait of a man on a liminal edge, on the fluid and mirroring frontier of an overwhelming element that evokes both death and rebirth.” — NOWNESS

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CREDITS
Composer and Artist: Koki Nakano
Album: Oceanic Feeling
Label: Nø Førmat!
Supported by CNC & Grand Marble
Director: Benjamin Seroussi
Artistic Direction: Benjamin Seroussi & Damien Jalet
Production: Art Bridge - Quad
Choreographer: Damien Jalet with Aimilios Arapoglou
Dancer: Aimilios Arapoglou
Creative Producer: Olivier Bassuet & Benjamin Seroussi
Director of photography: Martin De Chabaneix
1st Assistant Camera: Clément Champion
Drone Operator: Aurélien Journez
Behind the scenes: Julie Haddad
Post-Production: Fix Studio
Editing: Maxime Pozzi-Garcia
Color Grading: Thomas Canu & Tristan Do

Special thanks to:
David Daim / Martin De chabaneix / David Tajchman / Melting Pot Agency / RVZ / Charleroi Danse / Animal Animal / Aquaboulevard / Julien Corbiere / Julie Haddad / Gypsy Ferrari / Fred Guehant

#KokiNakano #OceanicFeeling #DamienJalet

[originforces]

Love, death, rebirth, finding self, losing everything, gaining peace. this composition and choreography is a masterpiece.

[tiagod]

I can feel #TomJobim in this song, via his #ÁguasDeMarço (#WatersOfMarch)... but can also feel other beautiful things in this inspired - and inspiring - music.

[musicvideoshuffle]

Total awe. Wow. Very beautiful, thank you!!

[VideoTalesV]

Coming to see you live in Marseille, à la vieille Charité 🌠