Supported by Canadian Cultural Center and Nemo Biennale, Paris (France), ELEKTRA Montreal and CALQ (Quebec, Canada)
Commissioned by the Canadian Cultural Center Paris, Premiered at Némo — International Biennial of Digital Arts of the Île-de-France Region, France, 2023

Inspired by Yukio Mishima's Five Modern Noh Plays, I came up with the idea of creating these Five UltraModern Noh. Space exploration was then considered as “ultramodern,” associating the characteristic slowness of the narrative deployment of Japanese Noh theater to the movements of astronauts in space. This first episode, Apollo 11 Dream, takes as its starting point the arrival on the moon of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin during the Apollo 11 mission. The finale leaves us with an uncertainty and suggests an alternative ending: did the astronauts return to earth or did they remain on the moon, “trans-formed”.