2024 11.11
Open call
Theater
Since launching his company blue egonaku in Kitakyushu, playwright and director Shinichi Anasako has expanded his activities throughout Japan, with bases in Kyoto and Tokyo. Dancer and choreographer Pijin Neji began his career with Akaji Maro’s Dairakudakan, and has since developed his own solo dance and choreographic works while also collaborating with various other artists. The two, who are both associate artists of THEATRE E9 KYOTO, will co-direct a work together for the first time.
A long-time interest for Neji and Anasako, this work focuses on the theme of life and death. Anasako’s script starts from the following question: Is it possible to stand in the presence of the dead (today or a hundred years from now), whose relationship with you is suspended? How will Neji’s physicality intervene in Anasako’s lyrical script? Electronic musician and DJ Tenteko, previously a member of the idol group BiS before going solo, provides the music.
Perhaps conversations between the dead will bring about a landscape more real than the reality of the living. What will this work reveal to the audience about life, death, and the present?
10.18 (Fri) 15:00 ★
10.19 (Sat) 13:00 / 19:00
10.20 (Sun) 13:00 ♡
★ Post-show Talk
♡ Childcare Service (reservation required 7 days before each performance)
Duration: 90 min (TBC)
Japanese with English surtitles
⚠️ There is a smoking scene in this performance in which the pharmaceutical product Neocedar will be used.
Advance tickets:
Adult ¥3,500
Youth (25 and under), Students ¥3,000
High School Students & Younger ¥1,000
Pair ¥6,500 (Advance tickets only)
Day tickets are the same price as advance tickets.
Seating: Unreserved
Shinichi Anasako
Kitakyushu, Kyoto and Tokyo, Japan
Founded his own company blue egonaku in 2021. Based in the three cities of Kitakyushu, Kyoto, and Tokyo, the company aims to create both universal and innovative theater works. Through incorporating lyrics into his scripts and a directing technique that focuses on musical elements in terms of the works speech and structure, Anasako’s works are characterized by a style that focuses on the small details of an individual while attempting to reveal the state of the word. Selected for the ROHM Theatre Kyoto + Kyoto Art Center KIPPU Under 35 Creative Support Program, in which they performed sad (2018). He is a third term associate artist of THEATRE E9 KYOTO since 2022, and has presented two works, Doudemoii Shi (2022) and Namima (2023). As part of the Fringe Program at Toyooka Theater Festival 2023 the company stayed in Takeno Town, Toyooka City and performed The Road Goes Around with the cooperation of the local Bon Odori Promotion Association. Anasako is also The Saison Foundation ‘Saison Fellow I’ and a part-time lecturer at Toho Gakuen School of Music.
Pijin Neji
Kyoto, Japan
Neji is a dancer and choreographer. His work include solo dance pieces that take a microscopic approach to his own body, as well as choreographic pieces that deal with the materiality of the dancer's body. He creates dance works that focus on gestures that have no purpose and disappear the moment they move, the space of the theater and the time of the performing arts that integrates these into a work. He is a second term associate artist of THEATRE E9 KYOTO and The Saison Foundation ‘Saison Fellow Ⅱ’.
Tentenko
Tokyo, Japan
Tentenko is a Tokyo based electronic musician. She has released An Antworten from TAL (DE) and The Soft Cave from Couldn't Care More (DE). She is part of the Zundoko-style live improvisation unit ZVIZMO with Atsuhiro Ito and the B2B DJ unit HappySet with Country Tamura. She is currently organizing a tanuki (Japanese racoon dog) banquet-themed party called "Ponpokoyama" at FORESTLIMIT in Hatagaya, Tokyo.
Playwright: Shinichi Anasako
Direction: Shinichi Anasako and Pijin Neji
Music: Tentenko
Performers: Haruka Sakai, Sachi Nakamura, Akari Nomura, Leon Kou Yonekawa and Haruna Tanaka
Stage Management: Yohei Sogo
Lighting: Nami Nakayama
Sound: Bunsho Nishikawa
Set Design: Ayami Sasaki
Costume: Chie Ohno
English surtitles: Jeremy Kuhles
Production Manager: Hiroshi Watanabe, Tomo Wakita
Visual Design: mizuno hiro
Produced by Kyoto Experiment
Supported by Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan | Japan Arts Council
Presented by Kyoto Experiment
Part of the Kyoto City Board of Education "Trial Sounding Project at the Horikawa Oike Gallery Building (formerly @KCUA)"