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 | New National Theatre, Tokyo, 2008/2009 Season Lineup announced |
| | New National Theatre, Tokyo, has announced 2008/2009 season lineup.
| + | Theater
In his second season as artistic director of the theater division, director Hitoshi Uyama has chosen to present Aya no Tsudumi and Yoroboshi from Yukio Mishima’s Modern Noh Plays to carry on the focus on modern theater which has characterized the New National Theatre’s programming since it opened. Chosen to direct these two plays are Shiro Maeda of the Gotanda-dan, who won this year’s Kishida Drama Award, and Shigefumi Fukatsu of the Toenkai who won high acclaim for his directing of Kunio Kishida’s play Doin Sowa at the New National Theatre, as a contemporary director presenting two plays simultaneously. As part of the ongoing 2007/08 season “Series: Our Contemporary” the focus is on noted overseas contemporary artists, with two works chosen from Germany and one from Ireland to be directed in translation in search of new possibilities by young directors born in the 1970s, including Yutaka Kuramochi of Penguin pull pale piles, Takahiro Tamura of ONEOR8 and Toshiki Okada of Chelfitsch. Also there will be performance of the new contemporary play by Yoji Sakate based on the Noh play Nue and titled Contemporary Noh Play—Nue to be directed by Hitoshi Uyama.
New National Theatre later 2007/2008 season lineup (to July, 2008)
Joint Japan-Korea performances of Yakiniku Dragon
Dates: Apr. 17-27, 2008 Venue: New National Theatre, Tokyo, The Pit
Play by: Chong Wishing Directed by: Yang Jung Ung/Chong Wishing
*Korea performances (Dates: May 20-25, 2008 / Venue: Seoul Arts Center, Korea)
A Japanese Named Otto
Dates: May 27-Jun.8, 2008 Venue: New National Theatre, Playhouse
Play by: Junji Kinoshita Directed by: Hitoshi Uyama
“Series: Our Contemporary” Collaborations between Young Playwrights and Veteran Directors
· Vol. 1: Choukanzu
Dates: Jun. 11-28, 2008 Venue: New National Theatre, The Pit
Play by: Satoshi Hayafune Directed by: Yuko Matsumoto
· Vol. 2: Majiriaukoto, Kierukoto
Dates: Jun. 27-Jul. 6, 2008 Venue: New National Theatre, The Pit
Play by: Shiro Maeda Directed by: Akira Shirai
· Vol. 3: Mahoroba
Dates: Jul. 14-21, 2008 Venue: New National Theatre, The Pit
Play by: Ryuta Horai Directed by: Tamiya Kuriyama
2008/2009 season lineup (Sep. 2008-Jul. 2009)
Modern Noh Plays, Aya no Tsudumi, Yoroboshi
Dates: Sep.-Oct. 2008 Venue: New National Theatre, The Pit
Play by: Yukio Mishima
Directed by: Shiro Maeda (Aya no Tsudumi), Atsushi Fukatsu (Yoroboshi)
I Giganti della montagna
Dates: Oct.-Nov. 2008 Venue: New National Theatre, Playhouse
Play by: Luigi Pirandello Translation by: Minoru Tanokura Directed: Georges Lavaudant
Illusion Comic
Dates: Dec. 2008 Venue: New National Theatre, Playhouse
Play by: Pierre Corneille Translation by: Hiroshi Ito Directed by: Uyama Hitoshi
“Series: Our Contemporary” (Foreign) Vol. 1: Die Frau von früher (Germany)
Dates: Mar. 2009 Venue: New National Theatre, The Pit
Play by: Roland Schimmelpfenning translation by: Tadashi Otsuka
Directed by: Yutaka Kuramochi
“Series: Our Contemporary” (Foreign) Vol.2: Shoot the Crow (UK)
Dates: Apr. 2009 Venue: New National Theatre, The Pit
Play by: Owen McCafferty Directed by: Takahiro Tamura
“Series: Our Contemporary” (Foreign) Vol.3: Tatowierung (Germany)
Dates: May 2009 Venue: New National Theatre, The Pit
Play by: Dea Loher Translation by: Reiko Miwa Directed by: Toshiki Okada
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Venue: New National Theatre, Playhouse Play by: William Shakespeare
Translation by: Kazuko Matsuoka Directed by: John Caird
Nue
Dates: Jul. 2009 Venue: New National Theatre, The Pit
Play by: Yoji Sakate Directed by: Hitoshi Uyama |
| + | Contemporary Dance
The new season works for the annual gDance Exhibitionh series adopts the theme of “Dance Meets Music” and presents six works that deal directly with the relationship of dance and music and also the use of video in dance works. It is a collaborative program that brings together prominent contemporary artists with highly diverse styles. The schedule calls for new works to be introduced by Kaiji Moriyama in Feb. 2009 and Jo Kanamori in June 2009.
2008/2009 season lineup (Sep. 2008- Jul. 2009)
DANCE EXHIBITION 2008 —Dance meets Music—
[Program A] Dates: Sep, 6-8, 2008 Venue: New National Theatre, The Pit
· Co. Un Yamada + musicians (dance to live music)
· Hiroaki Umeda Accumulated Layout (light and dance)
· Kazuyuki Futami, Dance Company Kaleidoscope (video and dance)
[Program B] Dates: Sep, 13-16, 2008
· Yui Kawaguchi, REM – The Black Cat (video and dance)
· Kaori Kagaya + musicians (dance to live music)
· Yukio Ueshima, Ueshima theatre (danceable work mainly for male dancers)
New Piece with Ancient Music “The Rite of Spring”
Classical Music and Stravinsky Kuniko Kisanuki + Motoko Hirayama (tentative title)
Dates: Nov, 15-16, 2008
· Title undecided
Choreography: Kuniko Kisanuki
· Rite of Spring
Choreography: Motoko Hirayama, Masahiro Yanagimoto Music: I. Stravinsky
Dance Planet No. 29Moriyama Kaiji DANCE SELECTION (tentative title)
Dates: Feb.9-15, 2009
· Yoroboshi (revised version)
Performers: Kaiji Moriyama, Kaori Kagaya, Reijiro Tsumura Music: Yasuhiro Kasamatsu
Flute: Dougen Kinowaki
· OKINA
Dancers: Kaiji Moriyama, Reijiro Tsumura Music: Gou Taneda
· Kuruisoro *New solo work
Dancer: Kaiji Moriyama Music, percussion: YAS-KAZ
Joint production with Ryutopia Niigata City Performing Arts Center
Jo Kanamori Noism09
Dates: June 17-21, 2009
Direction, choreography: Jo Kanamori (details of work undecided) |
| + | New National Theatre, Tokyo
Opened in 1997 with a different focus from the National Theater that concentrates on traditional arts of Kabuki and music, the New National Theatre, Tokyo is a comprehensive arts facility designed for performances of the contemporary arts of opera, ballet, dance and theater. It features an opera theater, a mid-sized theater (Playhouse) and a small theater (The Pit). In July of 2007, Hitoshi Uyama took over the art directorship from Tamiya Kuriyama as the theater’s second artistic director. The artistic director for the theater’s ballet and dance department is Asami Maki and for the opera department the artistic director is Hiroshi Wakasugi.
http://www.nntt.jac.go.jp/ |
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