The seventh performance by Aoyama Experiment Studio: "Tsuizen Hitotsuyanagi Satoshi"
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- Name of the organization or individual
- Aoyama Experimental Workshop Executive Committee
- subsidy category
- Creation Grant
- Grant Type
- single year
Reiwa 4(2022) 1st Term Creation Grant Category I Single-Year Grant
Business Overview
The Aoyama Experimental Studio performs music related to the experimental studio and new works, as well as dances, performances, experimental noh, and kumi-odori. At the invitation of Noh actor Kanji Shimizu, we have been striving to create new creations on the Noh stage that transcend the boundaries of traditional and modern genres. In the seventh episode, Yuji TAKAHASHI and Aki TAKAHASHI, who had long been friends with the late composer Satoshi HITOTSUYANAGI, pay their respects to him. Starting with the world premiere of Yuji Takahashi's memorial song "Yumeato Isshi," piano music, violin, music with Sho, master J Cage's masterpiece, graphic score "Approach" is performed for the first time in half a century. Other works include solo music by up-and-coming composer Enka Mori and talks by Yuji Takahashi. It presents a multilayered program befitting Hitotsuyanagi, a lifelong avant-garde who worked across time and space. He also performed the world premiere of a Noh play composed and composed by Barbara Monk-Feldman, a first-time Japanese composer. Performers: Yuji Takahashi (piano), Aki Takahashi (piano), Kanji Shimizu (Recitation, Noh dance), Fumiko Kai (violin), Takashi Ishikawa (sho), Mutsumi Hatano (mezzo-soprano), Takao Nishimura (noh dance)
- Period of Activity / Project
- May 19 (Fri) -20 (Sat), 2023
- Venues
- Tessenkai Nohgaku Training Institute (Minato Ward, Tokyo)
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Profile
[Aoyama Experimental Studio]
While performing classical pieces mainly at Tessenkai, he also directed and played the main role in new Noh plays written by the late Tomio TADA, such as "Okinawa Zangetsuki" and "Nagasaki no Seibo." He has also appeared in contemporary dramas and dances, and collaborated with other traditional performing arts, such as Ryukyu kumi-odori, Chinese kungeki, and Bunya puppets. He is a part-time lecturer at Tokyo University of the Arts.
Kanji SHIMIZU (Noh actor) ... Graduated from the Faculty of Education, Waseda University. He became a disciple of Tessenkai and studied under the late Hisao KANZE, the late Tetsunojo KANZE the eighth, Tetsunojo KANZE the ninth and others. While performing classical pieces mainly at Tessenkai, he directed and played the main role in new Noh plays such as "Okinawa Zangetsuki," "Nagasaki no Seibo," "Bohyoka," and "Jacob's Well." In addition to performing in contemporary dramas and dances, he also collaborates with other traditional performing arts such as Ryukyu kumi-odori, Chinese kungeki, Bunya puppets, and the Yuki theater. He is a part-time lecturer at the Tokyo University of the Arts and lecturer at 'Theater Creation Academy.'.