KOHEI NAWA

We are delighted to announce the 2026 European tour of Planet [wanderer], a performance work by Damien Jalet and Kohei Nawa.

The stage opens with a striking image: a black mass crouching in total darkness as shimmering stardust begins to fall upon it. Tiny particles drifting endlessly through the cosmos over vast spans of time and space accumulate to form the surface of a planet. Awakened upon this terrain, the dancers gradually transform in response to rain, mist, and light, and eventually begin to move. What emerges is a vision of life itself—oscillating between power and fragility, harmony and resistance, extinction and evolution.

Planet [wanderer] is part of a trilogy of collaborations that began with VESSEL (2016). While VESSEL drew on the underworld (Yomi no Kuni) from Japan’s oldest chronicle, Kojiki, and the subsequent film Mist evoked the heavenly realm (Takamagahara), Planet [wanderer] focuses on the third world, Ashihara no Nakatsukuni—the earthly realm where we live. “Wanderer,” part of the title, echoes the original Greek meaning of “planet”—“a wandering body.”

On this planet—subject to gravity and extreme environmental shifts—the dancers’ bodies sway and drift like reeds, wandering through an ever-changing landscape. Within their movement unfolds both the sense of rootlessness that defines our unstable age and the vitality of life that resists it.

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◼︎Brussels, Belgium
Date / Time: February 11 (Wed), 2026 | 19:15 -
February 12 (Thu), 2026 | 20:15 -
Venue: Théâtre National Wallonie‑Bruxelles
Bd Émile Jacqmain 111-115, 1000 Bruxelles, Belgium
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◼︎Sceaux, France
Date / Time: February 18 (Wed), 2026 | 20:30 -
February 19 (Thu), 2026 | 20:30 -
February 20 (Wed), 2026 | 20:30 -
Venue: Théâtre Les Gémeaux
49 Avenue Georges Clémenceau, 92330 Sceaux, France
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◼︎Salzburg, Austria
Date / Time: March 30 (Mon), 2026 | 19:00 -
Venue: Haus für Mozart
Haus für Mozart, Hofstallgasse 1, 5020 Salzburg, Austria
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Concept and Choreography: Damien Jalet
Concept and Scenography: Kohei Nawa

Music: Tim Hecker
Lighting: Yukiko Yoshimoto
Costumes: Sruli Recht
Sound Design Collaboration: Xavier Jacquot
Assistant to the Choreography: Alexandra Hoàng Gilbert
Outside Eye: Catalina Navarrete Hernández
Stage director: Masaya Natsume

Cast: Shawn Ahern, Karima El Amrani, Aimilios Arapoglou, Francesco Ferrari, Vinson Fraley, Christina Guieb, Astrid Sweeney, Ema Yuasa

photo: Yoshikazu Inoue

 

Planet [wanderer]