Advance booking discount 3000 yen

3500 yen Same-day

Advance booking discount 1500 yen for 24 years old and under (Under junior high school age are not admitted)

2000 yen for 24 years old and under Same-day (Under junior high school age are not admitted)

9/2 (Sat) 19:00
9/3 (Sun) 14:00

Using an early masterpiece of dark dance and the sense of beauty derived from gay culture as a foothold, Kawaguchi pursues a wide range of possibilities for performances delusional about tomorrow's dance (dance), and has received high praise both domestically and internationally. We will challenge new works centered around awareness of issues related to identity and gender, which have been placed at the core of our activities until now, and “dance,” which has been intensively researched in recent years. Starting from the 60's masterpiece “Rose Dance - A LA MAISONDE M. CIVEZAWA (Towards Mr. Shibusawa's House)” by Hijikata Tatsumi, one of the founders of dark dance, it does not nostalgically look back on history or deify it, critically examines it from a modern perspective, and opens up new possibilities for 21st-century dance. A dark show that is far from the bottom up bright.

Directed and choreographed by Takao Kawatsura
Cast: Takao Kawajou Miura Kazuo, Kawamura Mikiko, Fujita Shinnosuke, Miyoshi Karyu,
Music: Toru Umehara, Ryuichi Ono, Kei Matsumaru
Dramaturge: Kuremiya Yuriko
Costume: Kitamura Noriaki
Lighting: Nakayama Nami
Stage manager: Haraguchi Yoshiko
Stage club: Maeda Jun
Video production: MOTEA LLC
Video Operation: Yuto Niyama
Producer: Takagi Koichiro
Produced by Hayashi Keiichi
Advertising Art: Kitakaze Sotaka

Related events

●Gypsum workshop
A workshop where you can actually experience whitewashing with the “gypsum” that appears in the performance with his own lecture.
8/13 (Sun) 14:00-17:00, admission free (advance registration required, capacity 8 people)
https://www.nahart.jp/course/20230813/

●Video program
“The Japanese 'Camp' Waterline”
Curated by: Suzuki Akihiro (Art Saloon) Twitter: @SaloonArt
The provocative and chaotic aesthetics of “Rose Dance” created by Hijikata Tatsumi have been handed down from generation to generation in the underground world, along with a “camp” sense of beauty. A special screening of radical video works from “Camp,” which shoots the present day.
2023/9/2 (Sat) 15:00 - Free*Registration required
Middle school students and younger are not admitted

“The Japanese 'Camp' Waterline”
・ “Kiya Yumetomi (Camp)” (1970, 45 minutes) Director: Okabe Michio
・ “Takada Fuyuhiko Short Stories” (2013-2018, 17 minutes) Director: Takada Fuyuhiko
- “Dream Catcher” (2018, 4:30)
- “Fights of a Faun” (2015-16, 5 minutes 27 seconds)
- “Love Exercise” short version (2013/7 minutes)

● Crosstalk Takao Kawaguchi x Ikuo Shinjo
A conversation between Takao Kawaguchi, who is in charge of the organization, planning, and choreography of this performance, and Shinjo Ikuo (University of the Ryukyus Associate Professor), who studies Okinawan literature and gender and sexuality.
9/2 (Sat) 16:15 May be delayed due to movie end time
Free registration required

How to apply for the movie Crosstalk
Reception is at the Hanato information counter and by phone (10:00 to 19:00, excluding closed days).

Kawakado Takao
Participated in the performance group “Dumb Type” in 1996. He began solo activities in 2000 and pursues a wide range of performance possibilities across theater, dance, video, and art. The private performance series “A Perfect Life” began in 2008, and participated in the 5th Ebisu Film Festival in 2013. In recent years, performance works related to butoh “The Chic Dancer” (with Tomomi Tanabe, 2012) and “About Kazuo Ohno” (13) have been released. The latter was nominated for the New York Bessie Award, and was also performed at the Paris City Theatre in 2018. The performance “TOUCH OF THE OTHER - Other People's Feelings,” based on Archived video materials on sexual behavior between men in public toilets in 1960s America, was performed in Los Angeles in 2015 and in Kanazawa/Tokyo in 2016. In '21, he served as artistic director at the “TOKYO REAL UNDERGROUND” festival and presented his new work “Minotauro Disco.” In the same year, David Vompak and Fukuda Pero co-planned “INOUTSIDE.” Received the Reiwa 3rd Art Encouragement, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Award.
http://www.kawaguchitakao.com/

Performance details

https://www.nahart.jp/stage/1686812977/