https://kenjiwilkie.com Kenji Wilkie Sun, 04 Feb 2024 13:51:55 +0000 https://kenjiwilkie.com en https://kenjiwilkie.com/Home Sun, 03 Oct 2021 10:46:59 +0000 Kenji Wilkie https://kenjiwilkie.com/Home https://kenjiwilkie.com/Works Sat, 02 Oct 2021 21:41:22 +0000 Kenji Wilkie https://kenjiwilkie.com/Works WORKS <img width="3184" height="2388" width_o="3184" height_o="2388" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8c096a092e98b26b4ee668f7a37433e7d50b1e52d9d97b93324e551b51b06d68/08.-Skyggen.jpg" data-mid="205411840" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8c096a092e98b26b4ee668f7a37433e7d50b1e52d9d97b93324e551b51b06d68/08.-Skyggen.jpg" /> <img width="4290" height="3218" width_o="4290" height_o="3218" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/67ec33f6b2754a7970c325ce72b80b500819c50310cff71e4359602c70157424/07.-World-Zero-Files.jpg" data-mid="205406498" border="0" 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The second installment to the choreographic adaptation of Kraftwerk’s Man Machine album, World Zero Files explores themes of evolution, industrialisation, modernity and systems theory within the structure and soundscape of the music. Music: Spacelab, Metropolis, Neon Lights by Kraftwerk Lighting: Paul Vidar Sævarang Set Design: Seungae You Costume: Marianne Jensen Makeup: Henning Noack Rehearsal Directors: Riccardo Ambrogi, Idun Bækken Dancers: Alberto Ballester, Samira Bethke, Isabella Boyd, Helge Freiberg, Yoshifumi Inao, Dmytro Litvinov, Gakuro Matsui, Josh Nagaoka, Elise Nøkling-Eide, Johanne Pederson, Julie Petanova, Sofie Ruthenbeck, Veronika Selivanova, Tsukino Tanaka, Mathias Tannæs, Kenji Wilkie Photography: Helena Byrt Special Thanks to Andrew Coffey, Linus Lynch, Isaac Martin, Tara Millard, Shaakir Muhammad, Erika Pastel, Simon Regourd, Caroline Roca https://kenjiwilkie.com/World-Zero-Files-Set-Design Wed, 06 Dec 2023 13:32:04 +0000 Kenji Wilkie https://kenjiwilkie.com/World-Zero-Files-Set-Design World Zero Files - Set Design Created for Norwegian National Ballet RAW 2023. Set Design: Seungae You Set Build: Mats Haaskjold Sætre, Glenn Skoglund, Kenji Wilkie, Seungae You https://kenjiwilkie.com/Next-Step-Into-New-World-One Sun, 03 Oct 2021 10:42:38 +0000 Kenji Wilkie https://kenjiwilkie.com/Next-Step-Into-New-World-One Next Step Into New World One Created for Norwegian National Ballet RAW 2019. “[Wilkie] used Kraftwerk's album The Man-Machine from 1978. The choreography, which has been named Next Step Into New World One, is largely the dance version of the songs' theme. For the song The Model, both Kraftwerk and [Wilkie] play with self-image, the fashion industry and individualism. In The Robots, the dancers are robots, who make a living from a battery. The cartons, in that they contain real nutrients, work well to represent the battery.” - Frida Fliflet, Kontekst Following the concepts of Kraftwerk’s The Man-Machine album, the choreography became a reflection on what it is to be human both in terms of experience and appearance. Do we frame ourselves as organic beings or complex machines? In the context of dance, movements must be learnt or programmed into the dancers. Somatic experience retained or stored and saved in memory. Are aspects of dancing machinelike, regarding their precision and automation through endless repetition? Are connections between people also to be interpreted as part of a program or larger system, as well as the perceptions and measurements made of others and ourselves? Music: The Robots, The Man Machine, The Model by KraftwerkLighting: Paul Vidar SævarangCostume/Set Design: Kenji WilkieMakeup: Henning NoackDancers: Sindre Berntsen, Idun Bækken, Ada Marthinsen, Erik Murzagaliyev, Freya Thomas, Kenji Wilkie Photography: Anne-Sylvie Bonnet, Victoria Francisca https://kenjiwilkie.com/Next-Step-Into-New-World-One-Set-Design-1 Sun, 03 Oct 2021 17:09:42 +0000 Kenji Wilkie https://kenjiwilkie.com/Next-Step-Into-New-World-One-Set-Design-1 Next Step Into New World One - Set Design Created for Norwegian National Ballet RAW 2019. “Behind us…is a well-organized tower of cartons: skim milk, soy milk, apple and orange juice. It is the main prop in [Wilkie’s] work, and should function ‘as a kind of battery’ - fittingly enough, since the music is by Kraftwerk.” - Frida Fliflet, Kontekst The starting point for designing the set was to reuse and reframe waste materials. Using empty milk and juice cartons to gradually form the base structure, and clear plastic fruit punnets to create the hanging structure, it began to transform from the image of its parts to an image wholly disassociated and recontextualised. Cartons, resembling power banks and processing modules, their lids becoming buttons and dials on a control panel, and their open spouts turning into various input sockets. Above it hung a chandelier of plastic punnets, now a fibre optic cable network, streaming data down to the base structure. Altogether, an archaic supercomputer built from the waste remains of civilisation to program and power robots that perpetuate the tradition of live dance performance.However, whilst projecting such transformative images, it simultaneously offers its more banal reality. Perhaps the materials simply remain unchanged, forming only a flimsy totem to lost technology and the stories of a bygone people. Set Design: Kenji WilkieMaterials: Oslo Opera House Canteen, Dancers of the Norwegian National Ballet