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Instinctively you grasp the soft organ tighter, startled. Your own pulse even beats faster. And yet I am only holding onto a throbbing beatbox connected with a cable. Aren’t I? I am holding a dancer’s heart in my hands.

Kawaguchi has created an outstanding concept: she brings 3D imagery and live performance into direct contact with each other and peppers the show with different questions.

In collaboration with film director and visual artist Yoshimasa Ishibashi, she has produced a total work of art lasting three quarters of an hour and of a coherence that is as surprising as it is relaxing.

It is a multimedia performance and from the off it launches an assault on the senses...