Document Post Human Theater

*Information at the time of adoption.

Name of the organization or individual

Gekidan Kaitai Sha

subsidy category

Tokyo Arts and Culture Promotion Subsidy

Grant Type

single year

FY 2013 Phase II Tokyo Arts and Culture Promotion Grant (Single Year Grant Program)

From the performance of Document Post Human Theater

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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.

implementation period

Saturday, January 11, 2014 - 13 (Mon)

Place of implementation

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.