Kaori Seki PUNCTUMUN's new performance "Utori"
*Information at the time of adoption.
- Name of the organization or individual
- Kaori Seki
- subsidy category
- Creation Grant
- Grant Type
- single year
FY29 Creation Grant [Single-Year Grant Program] 1st term
Business Overview
Based on the exploration of the body and the approach to the senses of others, which he has consistently worked on, he rethinks that what can be conveyed only when the performers and the audience share space and spend time together, and continues to search for information obtained from sight (the state of the dancer's body, its subtle changes, changes in the shadows and colors of space), as well as what is transmitted from physical sensations, such as hearing and smell. The title "Utouri" is a colloquial word from the Heian period, "Utsuru" (meaning that time passes, fades, flowers scatter, monsters move around, appearances, etc.), and the etymology theory of "Utsuru" in "Utsura Utsura" is "present, empty, empty". With keywords such as the existence here, the existence that existed, the things that do not look like ghosts, and the things that are forgotten, the aim is to create "time" rather than "place". == Choreography/Direction: Kaori Seki Cast: Shiki Kitamura, Yu Goto, Masashi Koyama, Shun Shimizu, Kiyotaka Suzuki, Kozue Takamiya, Yui Yabuki, Hanano Yamada, Kei Yoshida, Kaori Seki Choreography Assistant: Yu Goto, Yui Yabuki Rehearsal Assistant: Kaiharu Goto Stage Director: Chikage Yuyama, Yoshiko Haraguchi Lighting: Masayoshi Takada (RYU Co., Ltd.) Sound: Yuji Tsutsuda Costume: Kaori Tamura (HAReGI) Fragrance Direction Cooperation: Toshifumi Yoshitake (Fragrance Design Research Institute) Publicity Arts: Atsuki Kikuchi Planning and production: Group Sekikaori, Dance in Deed! Overseas Contact: Yoko Kawasaki Production Cooperation: Setagaya Public Theater Organizer: Kaori Sekiki Group Partnership: Setagaya Cultural Foundation Setagaya Public Theater Sponsor: Setagaya Ward Grant: Arts Council Tokyo (Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture), Arts and Culture Promotion Fund, Saison Cultural Foundation
- Period of Activity / Project
- Friday, June 30, 2017 to Sunday, July 2
- Venues
- Theater Tram, Setagaya City, Tokyo
*Information such as project outlines is provided by organizations and individuals providing subsidies.
Profile
【 Kaori Seki 】
From the age of 5, she studied classical ballet, and from the age of 18, she started modern and contemporary dance, and at the same time, she started creative activities. He started producing works in 2003 and established "Seki Kaori PUNCTUMUN" in 2013. In recent years, he has been interested in the ecology and sensory functions of humans, plants and animals, and has performed works in Japan and overseas that incorporate the sense of smell into their elements. In 2012, she won the French Embassy in Japan Award for Young Choreographers in Yokohama Dance Collection for her collaboration with Teita Iwabuchi, the Toyota Choreography Award 2012 for the Choreographer of the Next Generation Award in the same year, the Rookie of the Year Award of the El Sour Foundation in 2013, and the Japan Dance Forum (JaDaFo) Award 2016 in 2017. He was a Junior Fellow of the Saison Cultural Foundation from 14 to 17.
*PUNCTUMUN
Coined from the Latin punctum(Small dots, dots, punctures) and the French un, it means a collection of small points.