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Festival/Tokyo 2016

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"x / groove space"

Genre:
  • Theater / Dance
photo: Katja Illner, design: Shinpei Onishi

What is the “groove” of a city and its inhabitants?

This performance series sets out to choreographically explore the specific “groove” of different cities with new collaborators each time. How do the inhabitants of a city move? What is the rhythm of their bodies? The latest entry in this fascinating project by Sebastian Matthias now comes to F/T as a co-production between Tokyo and Düsseldorf, the city with the most Japanese residents in Germany. The results of the research into the shared groove of Tokyo and Düsseldorf are realized as installation, sound and space design by an international team of dancers and Japanese artists. In the performance there is no distinction between the stage and the audience. Rather, it attempts to integrate the audience and their response into a space that dismantles and reconstructs the city where the performance takes place, and thus presents us with an opportunity to reinterpret our community.

Running Time: 90 min. (no interval, TBC)

Dates

Thursday, November 3, 19:00
Friday, November 4, 19:00
Saturday, November 5, 13:00★
Sunday, November 6, 12:00☆ / 17:00
*Box office opens 1 hour before. Lobby opens 30 minutes before.

★Post-show talk
☆World Cafe event (free, reservations required)

Cast & Creative Team

Choreographed and Conceived by Sebastian Matthias
Visual Artists: Atsuhiro Ito (light and sound installation), Masaru Iwai (video installation), Yoko Seyama (kinetic sculptures, costumes)
Co-choreographers, Dancers: Jubal Battisti, Lisanne Goodhue, Deborah Hofstetter, Oskar Landstrom, Harumi Terayama, Idan Yoav
Dramaturge: Nanako Nakajima
Lighting: Andreas Harder
Production Support: Akiko Okamoto
Production Coordinator: Mira Moschallski
Producer: Sebastian Matthias
Co-produced by tanzhaus nrw, Festival/Tokyo, Goethe-Institut Tokyo, Tanz im August 2016 and Sophiensæle
Supported by the NATIONALES PERFORMANCE NETZ (NPN) Coproduction Fund for Dance, which is funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media on the basis of a decision by the German Bundestag as well as by the Kunststiftung NRW, the Ministry for Family, Children, Youth, Culture and Sport of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, the Arts and Culture Foundation of the Sparkasse Düsseldorf and Japan Foundation.

Tokyo Production
Technical Manager: Eiji Torakawa
Stage Manager: Keisuke Watanabe
Stage Assistants: Nozomi Murakami, Kentaro Sakurai
Sound Coordinator: Akira Aikawa (Sound Weeds Inc.)
Lighting Coordinator: Makiko Sasaki (Factor Co., Ltd.)
Publicity Design: Shinpei Onishi
Production Coordinators: Yumiko Okazaki, Orie Kiyuna
Program Coordinator: Masahiko Yokobori
Endorsed by Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Japan
Produced in association with Goethe-Institut

Tickets

Advance: 3,500 yen
Same Day: 4,000 yen
There is no audience seating.

・F/T Ticket Center

Period

Thursday, November 3 – Sunday, November 6, 2016

Venues

Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre (Theatre East)

Credit

Organized by
Festival/Tokyo Executive Committee,
Toshima City, Toshima Future Culture Foundation, NPO Arts Network Japan (NPO-ANJ),
Arts Council Tokyo & Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre (Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture)

Festival/Tokyo 2016 is organized as part of Tokyo Metropolitan Festival 2016.