Trans Step Road Tokyo Project
*Information at the time of adoption.
- Name of the organization or individual
- Institute of Music and Poetry
- subsidy category
- Creation Grant
- Grant Type
- single year
FY30 Creation Grant [Single-year grant program] 1st term
Business Overview
In its overseas business, the company performed a musical play as a new work of our association's "Eurasian Opera Project" through international collaborations with artists around the world, using the Japanese oral performing art "Sanse Dayu" as the text, with the traditions, beliefs, and history of East Asia, Central Asia, and Siberia as the backdrop. In Tokyo, they held a festival style event with the theme "Asia, Community, Voice" together with Tsumugine and Silk Road Nohgakukai, groups that have reconsidered music culture and performing arts from different approaches, focusing on vocal ensembles, ethnicity and community. In addition to performances of works by each group, workshops and collaborations were held with audience participation, presenting a vision of contemporary culture to be transmitted from Tokyo to the world. ■ Main Programs ・ "Sansetayu in Kazakhstan" ・ "Kotan" ・ "Dojoji" (Silk Road Nohgakukai) ・ Workshop + "◎" (Tsumugine) ■ Main Artists and Staff Jun Kawasaki (direction/composition/contrabass), Aya (dance), Hiroyo Miura (dance), Jae-cheol Choi (Korean percussion instrument), Akira Yoshimatsu (singing/dance), Hideto Sangyo (video) Shinya Imai (Silk Road Nohgakukai presenter/writing/direction/small hand drum/singing), Yasuno Miyauchi (Tsumugine presenter/composition/direction) Sergei Lethov (saxophone/flute), Alina Mikhailova (dance), Mariya Koolniva (vocals), Gurjan Amanzor (cobs), Kate Zvonik (choreography/production), Anya Tchaikovskaya (vocals), Sainho Namuchirak (vocals)
- Period of Activity / Project
- Friday, March 8, 2019 – 10th
Thursday, March 14, 2019
Sunday, March 17, 2019 – 21st
Saturday, March 23, 2019 – 24th
Wednesday, May 29, 2019
Sunday, June 16, 2019
Friday, June 28, 2019 – 30th
- Venues
- ■Friday, March 8, 2019
Chamberlain Country Club (Almaty/Kazakhstan)
■ Saturday, March 9, 2019 – 10th (Sun)
Transforma (Almaty/Kazakhstan)
■ Thursday, March 14, 2019
Contemporary Culture Center SMENA (Kazakhstan/Tatarstan/Russia)
■ Sunday, March 17, 2019
Cultural Center Open Film Studio LENDOK (St. Petersburg/Russia)
■ Monday, March 18, 2019
Kozlov Club (Moscow/Russia)
■ Tuesday, March 19, 2019 – 20th (Wed)
GROUND Khodynka Museum (Moscow/Russia)
■ Thursday, March 21, 2019
Come-In (Moscow/Russia)
■ Saturday, March 23, 2019 – 24th (Sun)
Art Residence Guslitsa (Guslitsa/Russia)
■ Saturday, March 23, 2019
Cultural Center DOM (Moscow/Russia)
■ Wednesday, May 29, 2019
Chaabee (Koto-ku, Tokyo)
■ Sunday, June 16, 2019
Koen-dori Classics (Shibuya-ku, Tokyo)
■ Friday, June 28, 2019 – 30th (Sun)
Half Moon Hall (Setagaya-ku, Tokyo)
*Information such as project outlines is provided by organizations and individuals providing subsidies.
Profile
【 Music Poetry and Drama Research Institute 】
Jun Kawasaki mainly works in Tokyo with performances and workshops composed and directed by him. He collaborates with artists of various origins in various regions of Eurasia such as Armenia, Russia, Buryatia, Turkey and Ukraine. This musical drama, which traces back to performing arts and folklore from around the world and uses a unique choral system that does not rely on any of the techniques of folk rituals, religion, or classical music, is connected to the creation of García Lorca and the modern Latin American art tradition of García Márquez, and has been called the "Asian version of magic realism."