My Neighbor Town's Unknown Dancer (New York Performance)
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- Name of the organization or individual
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- subsidy category
- Creation Grant
- Grant Type
- single year
2019 2nd term Creation Grant [Single-year grant program]
Business Overview
The ambitious work "The Unknown Dancer of My Neighbor Town" was performed at the Japan Society in New York as an invited production of Public Theater's Under the Radar Festival 2020. It features the text of Takutaka Yamamoto, which depicts the "indifference to others" and "unconscious violence" prevalent in modern society, and the physical body of Wataru Kitao, who skillfully dances and performs 25 roles, ranging from men and women of all ages to trains and dogs. We were able to present to the audience a work of "the present" created with an extremely modern sense, such as communication through "letters" which is a natural feeling for the digital native generation, a method of drawing a city by layering multiple characters on one person's body, and a work that is both theater and dance.
- Period of Activity / Project
- Friday, January 10, 2020 -14 (Tue)
- Venues
- Japan Society (New York/USA)
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Profile
A theater group based in Tokyo since 2007 that also performs overseas.
Look at the boundary between reality and story, and reconsider where they are by going back and forth. The creation of stories, such as life and death, sensation and language, group society, and family, starts with the object of interest each time, and goes further and accesses universal "questions".
In recent years, he has attracted attention not only in Japan but also in Asian countries with his unique direction combining the elements of characters, photos, colors, lights and shadows projected on the stage with the actors, and with his strong script that shakes the moral sense of the audience. He has performed and co-produced in Malaysia, Thailand, India, China, Singapore and the United States.
Won the Bangkok Theatre Festival 2014 Best Screenplay and Best Film awards for Young Woman X.