4000 yen for the General-admission public

U253000 yen

1500 yen for high school students and younger

Following “Old Flower Night Thoughts” (2021) and “Living Home” (2022), this is the third new dance performance based on Ota Shogo's play. Kitamari has been creating works based on plays by Ota Shogo since 2021 as a motif. The fluctuating physicality lurks in Ota's unique dramatic language. Furthermore, it is an attempt to open up new dance by interacting with live performances of various instruments. The third installment in the series following “Old Flower Night Thoughts” (2021) and “Living Home” (2022) is based on the play “Komachi Fuden,” which is a revolutionary period of Japanese contemporary drama written based on the pop song “Zutsuba Komachi,” and confronts “What about Silence” at the Oe Noh Theater, the oldest existing Noh theater.

Original story: Ota Shogo
Choreography/Direction/Performance: Kitamari
Voice cast: Shinagawa Toru
Music and performance: Ishihara Sansei a.k.a. Numabara (shakuhachi) /Kinoshita Izuru (vocal music) /Saga Haruhiko (batou) /Tanabe Yuki (song/sanshin) /Yamami Chiyae (Tasao shamisen)
Special appearance: Saga Dainembutsu Kyogen Preservation Association
Stage manager: Hamamura Shuji
Lighting: Miura Asako
Sound: Sato Takenori
Costume: Ono Tomohide
Dramaturg: Naoyuki Niisato
Advertising Art: Masuda Manabu
Production: Yamazaki Kanako
PR: Takemiya Hanami
Documentary photo: Yoshikazu Inoue
Documentary video: Kawabata Mirai/ Nishimoto Yoshinori

Kitamari/ KIKIKIKIKIKI
choreographer. While attending the Department of Visual and Performing Arts at Kyoto University of Art and Design (now Kyoto University of Art), he has presided over the dance company KIKIKIKIKIKIKI since 2003. In recent years, they have begun a project to choreograph all Mahler's symphonies, and won the Agency for Cultural Affairs Art Festival Rookie of the Year Award (2016) for their second work, “Night Song.” They are developing a wide range of creative activities that transcend genres, such as “Atago,” co-starring with Saga Dainembutsu Kyogen, and starting a series that dances the play language of playwright Ota Shogo, who was his college teacher. Saison Fellow II of the Saison Cultural Foundation starting in 2023.

Komachi Fuden
In 1977, it premiered at the Yarai Noh Theater (theater company performance, written and directed by Shogo Ota). It is a revolutionary work of Japanese contemporary drama, and Ota derived a unique method of putting “slow tempo” and “silence” at the center of expression through this creation that assumes a Noh stage. The play, which was written based on the pop song “Sudoha Komachi,” was translated into English, German, and Korean after winning the 22nd Kishida Kokushi Drama Award.
The main character, an old woman, appears as if leaving herself alone. Surrounded by household items brought to the stage by a procession of people, the old woman lies down with her dreams, tirelessly between death and life, and eventually leaves to visit a place where she is alone...

Ota Shogo (1939-2007)
Director and playwright. Born in Jinan, China. From 1970 to 1988, he presided over the theater company Tenkei Gekijo. In the 1990s and 2000s, he successively served as artistic director of the Fujisawa Shonandai Cultural Center Civic Theater and head of the Department of Visual and Performing Arts at Kyoto University of Art and Design (now Kyoto University of Art).
In a group of works called “Silent Drama,” such as “Komachi Fuden” and “Water Station” (premiered in 1981), actors pursue acting expressions that move at a slow tempo without uttering words. In parallel with these, he created many unique and experimental dramatic works in a style that utters lines.


Organizer: Dance Company KIKIKIKIKIKI
Grants: Saison Cultural Foundation/Japan Association for the Promotion of Arts

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