Condolz Tokyo Performance Special 2020
*Information at the time of adoption.
- Name of the organization or individual
- ROCKSTAR Co., Ltd.
- subsidy category
- Tokyo Tokyo FESTIVAL Grant
- Grant Type
- single year
2020 Tokyo Tokyo FESTIVAL Grant
Business Overview
Composition, direction, and choreography: Ryohei Kondo Performance: Satoshi Ishibuchi, Satoshi Okuda, Yasuharu Katsuyama, Naoto Katori, Michihiko Kamakura, Ikumi Kurosu, Tsuyoshi Koga, Akisaku Kobayashi, Jintoku Suzuki, Takuro Tanaka, Tatsurou Hashizume, Toshihiro Hashizume, Yoshihiro Fujita, Yugo Yasuda, Kojiro Yamamoto, Ryohei Kondo Description: Condors has been leading the way as Japan's representative company since the beginning of the 21 century. They performed in more than 30 countries around the world, and sold out the NHK Hall performance (NHK HALL) with a capacity of 4000 people on the same day plus additional performances. The 16 male members, led by Ryohei Kondo, made full use of the diverse physicality, presence, and techniques possessed by the group, embodying a work that fuses innovation, contemporaneity, artistry, and popularism with a unique originality that has received overwhelming acclaim. While taking the COVID-19 pandemic into consideration, they boldly added "contemporary" production, and meticulously calculated dance, performance, live music, video, puppetry, and conte into the multi-centered and multi-layered scene structure that Condors has excelled in. At the same time, they expanded the new possibilities of contemporary dance by abundantly incorporating dynamic spatial production unique to a large theater called LINE CUBE SHIBUYA.
- Period of Activity / Project
- Saturday, September 5, 2020
- Venues
- LINE CUBESHIBUYA Shibuya Public Hall (Shibuya-ku, Tokyo)
Profile
[ROCKSTAR CO., LTD.]
Ryohei Kondo Profile
Condors director, choreographer, and dancer. He received the 67 th Minister of Education Award for Fine Arts. In 2021, he was appointed the next artistic director of the Saitama Art Theater in Sai no Kuni. In 2016, the orchestra "Condors" sold out its NHK Hall performance on the same day and added additional performances. Performed in over 30 countries around the world, highly praised by the New York Times. Currently, we are engaged in social contribution activities with a view to promoting SDGs, such as choreography of participatory performances for children and dance performances for the disabled. He is a part-time lecturer at the University of Tokyo and other universities. He grew up in South America. A dog lover.