Noh Re Imagine 2018, London Noh Music Live, Madrid Noh Performance
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- Name of the organization or individual
- International Noh Project Executive Committee
- subsidy category
- Creation Grant
- Grant Type
- single year
FY30 Creation Grant [Single-year grant program] 1st term
Business Overview
Following on from 2016, the second "Noh Re-Imagined" festival at London's Kings Place featured a cross-genre collaboration between Japan and the UK, focusing on the theme of "Dreamy Noh" through the lens of contemporary art and science. Six Noh performers presented the dreamy Noh piece "Izutsu" (half-Noh), as well as classical pieces and a new Noh piece, "Reflection," with music by Yukihiro Isso and script by Atsushi Iriki. Pioneering British artists also presented two new works, exploring the illusions and aesthetics of Noh. Two Japanese and British neuroscientists gave a presentation that scientifically explored the relationship between the dreaminess of Noh, which freely expresses the soul's ability to move between reality and the imaginary, and the brain. Two professors from Hosei University's Noh Theatre Research Institute also gave a lecture, complete with a Q&A session, on "The Mechanisms that Create Illusions: Noh Movements and Masks." At the London live music venue Café OTO, he performed an improvisational performance with two local musicians, and at the international performing arts festival Clasicos En Alcala in Madrid, he performed a Noh performance at the Cervantes Theater in Alcala (Madrid) as part of the 150th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Japan and Spain. <Cast> ■Noh actors: Yukihiro Isso [Isso-school flute player], Masaki Umano [Kanze-school shite player], Jiichi Asami [Kanze-school shite assistant player], Yasusuke Tanabe [Okura-school kotsuzumi player], Mitsuhiro Kakihara [Takayasu-school otsuzumi player], Kiyoshi Yoshitani [Konparu-school taiko drum player] ■Collaborating artists in the UK: Clod Ensemble (performing arts company), Wiebke Leister (photographic artist), David Toop (sound artist), Leon Michener (avant-garde pianist), Neus Torres Tamarit & Ben Murray (artist), Roger Turner (percussion), Ute Kanngeiser (cello) ■Neuroscientists: Atsushi Iriki (RIKEN), Semir Zeki (University College London) ■Nohgaku researchers: Reiko Yamanaka (Director and professor of Hosei University Nohgaku Research Institute), Keizo Miyamoto (Professor, Hosei University Nohgaku Research Institute)
- Period of Activity / Project
- Friday, June 29, 2018 - Wednesday, July 4
- Venues
- King's Place (London) Café Oto (London) Antiguo Hospital de Santa María La Rica (Madrid/Spain) Salon Cervantes Theatre [Classicos En Alcala International Theatre Festival] (Madrid/Spain)
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Profile
The International Noh Project Executive Committee aims to introduce Noh overseas and contribute to the creation of new culture by developing innovative projects based on the traditional Japanese art of Noh through collaborations with artists from various traditional cultures and contemporary arts around the world. In 2016 and 2018, he held the Noh Reimagined festival at Kings Place in London, and also gave performances and workshops at the Japanese Cultural Center in Rome and the Classicos En Alcala International Theatre Festival in Madrid. Established in January 2015.
President: Akiko Yanagisawa/Deputy President: Yukihiro Isso/Accounting: Yuriko Mizoe/Accounting Auditor: Yuki Yokoishi/Special Adviser: Atsushi Iriki