Born in 1965, at the age of 25, Naruyoshi Kikuchi played as the third saxophonist of the back band for The Fifth Dimension. It was actually debut as a professional. Kikuchi met up with IMAHORI Tsuneo and they formed TIPOGRAPHICA. Besides participating in live performances and recordings YAMASHITA Yosuke, and OTOMO Yoshihide’s Ground-Zero. In 1998, Kikuchi formed Date Course Pentagon Royal Garden and SPANK HAPPY as a leader, and released the album "REPORT FROM IRON MOUNTAIN" and "COMPUTER HOUSE OF MODE" respectively. In 2004, Kikuchi has recurred to the acoustic jazz scene and has released "Degustation a Jazz" and "Elizabeth Taylor en amerique du sud". For more new possibilities in his performance, Kikuchi has formed the groups Naruyoshi Kikuchi Quintet Live Dub and Pepe Tormento Azucarar. In 2005, Kikuchi has debuted to the film music field as a music director of "Until the lights come back". His first produced album is Hiroshi Minami's "Touches & Velvets" (2004, ewe).

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A producer, a composer, a keyboard/piano player, WATANABE Takuma (1975- ) has an distinguished level of ability to assemble remarkable musicians and apply their talents to his own projects. These projects is called "COMBOPIANO". "COMBOPIANO" is his musical ideas. 1999, he started his own label with EWE inc.The label is called "Sycamore Records" and released its first one "another rumor" with the ideological contribution, and influence from Kip Hanrahan (american clave), which has been lasting up to now, as a friendship. Since then, he has been working with the artists of States ; Joan La Barbara, Carmen Lundy, Jonas Mekas, Kip Hanrahan, John McEntire, Emmett Kelly, Mark Bothwick, Steve Swallow, Fernando Saunders, Pedro Martinez, Robby Ameen, Richie Flores, Teddy Jefferson, and David Sylvian etc. He is also writing music for films, AND CM. Takuma was invited to David Sylvian's Would Tour of 2007, "The World Is Everything ", as a pianist.

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KUROSAWA Mika, the ‘God Mother’ of Japanese contemporary dance scene, is born in 1957 in Yokohama into a family of modern dancers/choreographers. Being a promising young dancer, she went to New York in 1982, where she developed her own distinct style through collaborations with local artists and being strongly influenced by the experimental, bare-movement style of the Judson group. Returning to Japan in 1985, she started collective works based on improvisation with musicians, artists, and poets under the name of ‘Mika Kurosawa and Dancers,’ which continued for 15 years in Japan and in other countries. In 1999 she started to focus on solo dances. Since then, Kurosawa performed her solo pieces in NY, Montreal, Bangkok and Seoul. In 2007 she gave successful performances in New York at The Kitchen; of her solo, “Romantic Night” and “lonely woman,” a work with dancers and musicians of Tokyo and New York. Her performances also were highly acclaimed by critics of The New York Times. Alongside she has been performing under an alias ‘LouReeko (Ruriko) Kazama’ which denies/disguises ‘KUROSAWA Mika.’

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MUROBUSHI Ko studied with HIJIKATA Tatsumi in 1969 and took part in the establishment of ‘Dairakudakan’ in 1972. He produced a butoh company, ‘Ariadone,’ and founded another butoh group, ‘Sebi,’ in 1976. His “Le dernier eden - porte de l’au-dela”, which was shown in Paris for a month, made butoh internationally acknowledged. Since 2000 he has been touring Europe, South America, and Asia with Edge, a series of solo pieces. His unit with young dancers, ‘Ko&Edge Co.,’ was founded in 2003 and started a new series, “Experimental Body,” which has been pursuing the notion of ‘edge’ in terms of physicality in butoh. A solo piece, “quick silver,” was invited to La biennale di Venezia and CNDC/Angers in 2006. In 2005, he received the Dance Critics Society of Japan Award.

ARICA theater company aims at unique and exceptional way of expression as performing arts, which consists dynamic structure of human body movement and poetic text. ARICA concerns about composition of the space, decors, costume and sound effect. Solo performer, ANDO Tomoko has experienced as theater actress for long time with the director OTA Shgo with Tenkei Theater, then formed Arica theater company with the director FUJITA Yasuki, script writer KURAISHI Shino, and the producer MAEDA Keizo. All the production is created through long-process rehearsal. ARICA invites numerous number of artistic staff into the production process, then finally, the director FUJITA Yasuki combines all different elements of body movement, visual image, music, light and text. The production has often presented with live music by SARUYAMA Osamu, which is strongly connected with each body action by performer. ARICA is invited by the Japan Society New York this coming September 2008. Also ARICA is planning to perform in Europe 2009-2010 season.

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Founded by TODA Hiroki in 1997. Presented “Defeated Hope/Station” in 2005, “Before Society Begins” in 2007, and other works. “Let’s say, now and here, what only theatre can do lies in the fact that an actor is a human being who has ‘emotions.’ A line is given to an actor, and it goes through his emotions. These emotions are saved until they are used as tools on stage. Is such a thing possible? Maybe not. You need to change for this. You need to change. Into an ‘artificial’ domain. You need to change. You can count only on ‘imagination.’ You need to change…” (excerpted from “Before Society Begins”)

Organized by playwright and director Tae-Sook Han（ハン・テスク）, Theatre Moollee is an experimental theater company that has been striving to define and materialize the principle and phenomena of all things in this universe. Theatre Moollee had started the first work [What happens to those sister?] directed by Tae-sook Han in 1997. Since its foundation, has created controversial yet inventive theater pieces that have drawn much attention within modern theater circles. It is not long before Theatre Moollee came to be invited officially from the Kontakt Festival for [Lady Macbeth] in 2002 and then, won the prize and praise of the year in every formal awards and institutes for [Train for Xian] in 2003 and was also invited officially from the BeSeTo Theatre Festival in 2005. Recently, Han has produced the several classical drama [A Humpback, Richard III (2004)], [By the Bog of Cats (2005)], [Iago & Othello (2006)], [Wally's Cafe (2007)], [Burden (2007)]. Theatre Moollee has annually procreated the experimental and unique works and won the favor from audience.