October 1st, 2021, 7:00 p.m. – Kyoto train station – Duration: 40 minutes

沈黙の聖母 Our Lady of Silence (Notre-Dame du silence) is a choral performance in several languages.

沈黙の聖母 (Notre-Dame du silence) is a choral performance in several languages, inserted in a video installation, inspired by a text from The Book of Disquiet by the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa. This polyphonic composition blending poetry, choreography and vocal expression, strives to turn the deep silence unto limitless poetry, both heard and felt.
Make silence heard and show the infinite poetry on a blank page.

A silence filled with music and individual and collective memories. A silence that precedes life wanders beyond death. A silence that gives birth to all sounds and where all sounds die. It’s not a void that needs to be filled but an ongoing energy moving through space and time.

A presence feeding on absence. In our post-pandemic cities, where bodies deserted, memories still drift. They dance, they sing, and they give everything a brand new meaning. We simply need to listen…

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Concept, staging, and musical direction: Marcus Borja (2020 winner of Villa Kujoyama)
Text: Bernardo Soares (Fernando Pessoa’s heteronym)

With: Rumi Matsui (soprano), Nao Tanida (alto), Masanao Kakuchi (tenor), Koji Toriyama (baritone), and 25 members of Youth Theater Japan-Kansai

Partners: YTJ, Villa Kujoyama, Institut Français du japon Kansai, 京都駅

Text projected in Japanese with French subtitles.

クロノファジーまたは15日目 / Chronophagie or the 15th dayKYOTO

クロノファジーまたは15日目 / Chronophagie or the 15th day

沈黙の聖母 / Our Lady of SilenceKYOTO

沈黙の聖母 / Our Lady of Silence

Notre dame du silence kyoto
沈黙の聖母ニ / Our Lady of Silence 2KYOTO

沈黙の聖母ニ / Our Lady of Silence 2

Night drift Marcus Borja
夜行性のドリフト / Night driftKYOTO

夜行性のドリフト / Night drift

Concert cassé - kyoto 21 - Interpreludes - Marcus Borja
壊れたコンサート / Concert casséKYOTO

壊れたコンサート / Concert cassé

Voices of kyoto Marcus Borja Interpreludes
京都の声 / Voices of KyotoKYOTO

京都の声 / Voices of Kyoto