Document Post Human Theater
*Information at the time of adoption.
- Name of the organization or individual
- Gekidan Kaitai Sha
- subsidy category
- Creation Grant
- Grant Type
- single year
FY25 Phase II Creation Grant [Single-year Grant Program]
Business Overview
"Document Post-Human Theater" is the collective name for performances, screenings, lectures and symposiums that culminate in "Post-Human Theater" performed in Tokyo in 2011 and toured to Germany and Poland in 2012 by Gekidan Kaitosha together with Polish avant-garde theater company Theatre Cinema in response to the current situation of "animalizing humans" (Alexander Kojeve). Production: Nobuomi Shimizu, Zbigniew Schumski Performers: Kenjiro Kumamoto, Hayako Hino, Miyuki Nakajima, Reiko Aota, Jonathan Giles Garner, Koji Ishii, Ryoji Honma, Kumiko Yabe, etc Stage Art: Katarzyna Lotkiewicz-Schumska Saturday, January 11, 2014, 12th (Sun) "Document Post-Human Theater" Monday, January 13 Symposium "Preparatory Meeting for the Post-Human Association" Panelists: Hideyoshi Ko, Jun Ooka, etc.
- Period of Activity / Project
- Saturday, January 11, 2014 - 13 (Mon)
- Venues
- Morishita Studio (Koto-ku, Tokyo)
Profile
"Gekidan Kaizo-sha"
Established the theater group in 1985. Performed "Tokyo Ghetto" and "Bye-Bye" at the Tokyo International Performing Arts Festival, Eurocaz (Zagreb) and Laokon (Hamburg) festivals. In 2004, she began an international co-production project called Dream Regime, which explores the hidden history of this multi-cultural, mobile world through the 20 century, performing in Wales, Jordan, Brazil, Timor-Leste, England, the United States, Germany, Australia, Denmark, Poland and Japan. From 2011, he launched an international co-production called Posthuman Theatre with Theatre Cinema in Tokyo, and in 2012 toured four cities in Poland.