Katsuhiro Ohira Direction | TPAM in Yokohama 2013

大平勝弘
STスポット館長
1971年大阪府生まれ。多摩美術大学卒業後、大学助手、専門学校講師を経て、2006年より「STスポット」勤務、「急な坂スタジオ」立ち上げに参画、その後2008年よりSTスポット館長。コンテンポラリーダンスを中心に公演企画、及び若手アーティストの育成、観客創造のためのワークショップ構築に従事。また近年はアーティスト・イン・レジデンスなどの国際交流事業も手がける。

本プログラムでは表現における界面と共有をテーマとし、今、舞台に何を持ち込むか、何を他者と共有できるかということを軸に、パフォーミングアートの可能性を探ります。観客と表現者が目前にある身体や行為を凝視することによって得られる想像力を拮抗させ、私たちがいま抱えている欠落感をあらわにすると同時に、イメージの連鎖によるあらたな風景を喚起させます。また、社会と個人、生と死、言葉と身体など、その異なる事物の間にある世界を舞台上で展開させることによって、それぞれ表現者としての世界観を提示できればと考えています。今回、ご紹介させていただくアーティストはそれぞれ異なる視野を持ち、観客との対話を通じて現代に活きる者のコミュニケーションのあるべき姿を提案します。

Katsuhiro Ohira
Director, ST Spot
Born in Osaka in 1971. After graduating from Tama Art University and working at a university and professional school, he started working at ST Spot in 2006 and took part in the establishment of Steep Slope Studio. He has been the director of ST Spot since 2008, focusing on contemporary dance and engaging in productions, support for young artists and organization of workshops for audience development. He recently organizes international exchange projects including artist-in-residence as well.

This program explores the possibility of performing arts with “interface and commonage in expression” as the theme and with a focus on what to bring onto the stage and what we can share with Other now. We intend to create tension between the imaginations of the audience and artists, who stare at the bodies in front of themselves, to expose the loss we feel now and to induce a new perspective through a series of images. I would also hope that we will be able to present each artist’s worldview by bringing the worlds that exist between different elements such as society and individuals, life and death or words and bodies. Each of the artists I would like to introduce in this program has a unique point of view and proposes the ways communication between those who live in the present should be through dialogues with audience.

Kakuya Ohashi

WAGASHI (2012)
Photo: GO

WAGASHI — my master, my words, my death, my will

Feb 15 (Fri) 19:00 | 16 (Sat) 14:00
Director’s Talk after the performance on Feb 15
Kanagawa Arts Theatre, Large Studio
TPAM Pass required

Double feature with Zeitgeber by Takuya Murakawa
*Order of appearance: 1) Kakuya Ohashi, 2) Takuya Murakawa

Through humorous choreography based on butoh methods, the three male dancers “Dancies” describe the disconsolate daily life of people who have lost home due to the Great East Japan Earthquake and the accident of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant on March 11, 2011. With pop songs related to summer, the essence of the tale of Urashima Taro and a seashore in late summer as the background, young people’s anxiety, nostalgia for home and the current situation of Japanese society are revealed.

Subtitled in English

Dance: Dancies (Masazumi Minaki, Ayumu Yamada, Masahito Karakama)
Choreography: Kakuya Ohashi
Video: Shun Ishizuka

Organized by: Performing Arts Meeting in Yokohama 2013 Executive Committee
Contact: Performing Arts Meeting in Yokohama Secretariat

Photo: GO

Kakuya Ohashi
Choreographer and the leader of avant-garde dance company “Kakuya Ohashi and Dancers” that explores people’s physicality in contemporary society by adopting choreographic methods from butoh by Tatsumi Hijikata. The company took part in the Rencontres chorégraphiques internationales de Seine Saint-Denis Yokohama Platform in 2000 and Toyota Choreography Award in 2004, and was invited to The Kitchen (NY) in 2005. An awardee of The Saison Foundation from 2007 to 2009. Toured three cities in Germany and Poland in 2010. His new work The Grand Vacance is planned to be premiered in July 2013.

Takuya Murakawa

Zeitgeber (2012)
Photo: Hideto Maezawa

Zeitgeber

Feb 15 (Fri) 19:00 | 16 (sat) 14:00
Director’s Talk after the performance on Feb 15
Kanagawa Arts Theatre, Large Studio
TPAM Pass required

Double feature with WAGASHI — my master, my words, my death, my will by Kakuya Ohashi
*Order of appearance: 1) Kakuya Ohashi, 2) Takuya Murakawa

A work with the situation of communication between care workers and the cared as its theme and documentary as its methodology, which exhibits reality in a particular relationship and a new image of Other. Starting theatrical creation not from fiction but from daily life, it aims to gain reality in theatre, to reflect on problems that the performers themselves have and to extend the notion of time in theatre.

Performed in Japanese with English subtitles

Direction: Takuya Murakawa
Cast: Shuzou Kudo

Organized by: Performing Arts Meeting in Yokohama 2013 Executive Committee
Contact: Performing Arts Meeting in Yokohama Secretariat

Takuya Murakawa
Performance maker / filmmaker. Born in 1982. Joined Chiten (director: Motoi Miura) in 2005 as assistant director. Departed from the company to start his own work in 2009, and created pieces in various genres employing methodologies of documentary and field work. Having been active also in other fields than performing arts, he has created such works as an outdoor participatory theatre work about a folklorist Tsuneichi Miyamoto (2011), Zeitgeber (2011), a documentary film about a town in Miyagi after the Great East Japan Earthquake Oki e (2012) and words (2012).

Chiharu Shinoda

Photo: Tada Hengsapkul

Bo Ya tt O Su Ru (b l o c k h e a d)

Feb 15 (Fri) 14:00/14:30/15:00/15:30
Feb 16 (Sat) 11:30/12:00/12:30/13:00
Reservation required (availability limited)
⇒080-4416-4434 (10:30–19:00)
Admission included in TPAM Pass
Ticket: ¥500
*Audience are asked to gather around the ticket center on the second floor of Kanagawa Arts Theatre five minutes before each performance.
*Few members of audience are guided to the performance venue in the order of their arrival.
*In some circumstances audience are asked to wait for a while until their turn.

The unnamable things stand in front of standard, and overflow from it too. We cannot see and hear them without the distance from standard, since we cannot name them. Signs, sympathies, unsure happiness, unattended violence, uncomfortable relief ― these things, whose names we cannot spell out, are celebrated from justice evermore. Justice is established by the mortgage (montage) of the unnamable things evermore too.

Direction: Chiharu Shinoda
Crews: Ayami Sasaki (FAIFAI), Orawan Arunrak, T.U, Unchalee Anantawat, Yutaka Endo

Organized by: Performing Arts Meeting in Yokohama 2013 Executive Committee
Contact: Performing Arts Meeting in Yokohama Secretariat / during the TPAM period 080-4416-4434

Photo: Yumiko Kobayashi

Chiharu Shinoda
Born in 1982 in Tokyo and lives in Bangkok. Performance maker, playwright and eventor. As a central member of faifai, she worked mainly on direction, scripts and atmosphere. Her unique activities are beyond preexisting genres and presentation forms and have interfered in theatre, dance, visual arts, party and events. My name is I LOVE YOU won the grand prize at Zürcher Theater Spektakel in 2010. She departed from faifai in September 2012 and has started solo activities.