Yukako Ogura
Director, AI.HALL / Itami Culture Foundation
Born in Hyogo in 1976. Graduated from Kobe College. From 2001 to June 2006, she worked for the AI.HALL in Itami City, Hyogo, and was responsible for the dance programs. She became a freelance performing arts presenter in 2006 and engaged in various performances and events mainly of dance but also including theatre and music. She became a director of AI.HALL in 2008, and has been planning and producing mainly the dance programs and workshops. A staff member of KYOTO EXPERIMENT since 2010.
Is it possible to stimulate “omnivore collaboration” by bringing even more diverse manpower and methodologies into performing arts? Creation of new viewpoints, values and discourses through information gathering, discussions and intervention by Other: how can we draw ideas from each human and each space, being free from “self-expression” and establishment of styles? The artists that I would like to introduce in this program have digested existing genres such as “fine art” “dance” or “theatre” and create through unique artistic approaches, exploring the intersection of documents and fictions as well as effective structures and compositions in order to leave “a sense of incongruity” in audience. I hope their tryouts will make this program a place for bringing omnivore and diverse materials and tools into the domain of performing arts to stir it up, since it needs to continuously renew itself.
『24 OUR TELEVISION』(2010) Photo: Nadegata Instant Party
Extra Curtain Call
Feb 17 (Sun) 17:00
Kanagawa Arts Theatre, Hall
Admission included in TPAM Pass
Ticket: Adv (Ticket Kanagawa) / Door ¥2,000
Nadegata Instant Party’s works create a place where strangers get together, generate new relationships and subvert preexisting frameworks. Extra Curtain Call is an attempt to “present a theatre piece Win Win Mountain to only 12 members of audience in a 1,200-seat theater.” However, this theatre work cannot establish itself without 500 extras. Nadegata directs this piece live on stage, and the piece develops every moment. It is a “participation-in-audience-seat theatre” that comprises three parties — 12 “audiences,” some “performers” and 500 “extras” — and deconstructs the notion of “theater.” Who is the real protagonist?
Nadegata Instant Party (NAKAZAKI Tohru + YAMASHIRO Daisuke + NODA Tomoko) An artist unit formed in 2006 by an artist Tohru Nakazaki (b. 1976 in Ibaraki), Daisuke Yamashiro (b.1983 in Osaka), and Tomoko Noda (b. 1983 in Gifu) who engage in art management. They start a project by establishing the most appropriate “excuse” in accordance with the place and situation. Involving various people in installations and events, they present a process of changing “reality” through the “excuse” as a piece.
Kitamari has created four new and challenging works with her company during her three-year engagement in “Take a chance project” in co-production with AI. HALL. Her works often involve characters that do not appear to be “suitable” for dance; it is said that her dance works are like caricatures of birds and beasts. We re-create one of the works from the project, which is inspired by Japanese folklore and sacred dance and explores “contemporary folklore performing arts.”
Kitamari Born in 1983. Formed a dance company “KIKIKIKIKIKI” in 2003. Since then she has been working as artistic director, choreographer and dancer. She won the Audience Award at TOYOTA CHOREOGRAPHY AWARD 2008″ for Sakariba 007 and Fly to the Future Award at Yokohama Dance Collection R for School Girl. In addition to her own shows, she produces other artists’ performances and events to widely disseminate the interest in physical expression.
A story of a lonely man who starts to look for a crocodile because of a strange telephone call asking him “Do you need love?” The story is told by six performers and musicians on a stage made only by two while lines, and the space morphs into various situations through their physical performance. An imaginative piece that expresses hope and despair about love and the sadness of life in spite of the comical storytelling.
Performed in English with no translation
Written and directed by: Takashi Masuyama
Performers: Hanaka Kiki, Toru Kageyama, Kanji Masuyama, Natsuki Oku, Tai Konaka, Takashi Masuyama, Yuji Ishihara (drums, feat.tutanTHEkhamens / Neyagawa Jam)
KODOMOKYOJIN Formed in 2005 in Osaka around Takashi Masuyama and Kanji Masuyama, the brothers who represent the company. A free-style theatre collective that digs for “stories” buried under the world using diverse methodologies and theatrical dynamism to freely produce unrestrained and hallucinating images with dreams and fears as the motifs. They have organized their Europe tour for three times, and took part in lille3000 (France) in 2012.
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