bearer's ball

*Information at the time of adoption.

Name of the organization or individual

Wakaba Coffee

subsidy category

start-up subsidy

Grant Type

single year

FY 2024 1st Startup Subsidy

Kajin Butokai (2025) Photo by Taiga KOSHIYAMA

Kajin Butokai (2025) Photo by Taiga KOSHIYAMA

Workshop at the Kateen's Ball (2025) Photo by Wakaba Coffee

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Business Overview

It is an approximately one-hour dance and dance piece titled "The Kannin's Ball." "Chiren" is a Chinese word meaning 'to taste and eat a person.'. The word is interpreted as "to enjoy dancing as a person and a real thing" and created. Five performances including one pre-performance will be held from Friday, May 30, 2025 to Sunday, June 1. The event will be held at an elevated warehouse in Suginami Ward, Tokyo. The performers are Norihito ISHII, Kim ITO, Mana KAWAMURA, Fuzushi, Amiko HOSOKAWA, Rikako YAMANOGUCHI, and Kohei WAKABA. The main staff members are Ami Ishii, Taiga Koshiyama, Manami Morita and U43.
There will be two workshops: a dancing workshop and a dancing contemporary dance workshop. The participants experienced part of the choreography in the workshop, with Flashing and Ito Kim as guest lecturers. After the last day of the performance, Takashi Morishita from the Keio University Art Center "Hijikata Tatsumi Archive" was invited for an exchange meeting (after talk).

implementation period

Friday, May 30, 2025 to Sunday, June 1, 2025

Place of implementation

Vacant warehouse under elevated tracks (Suginami Ward, Tokyo)

Profile

[Wakaba Coffee]
A unit founded in 2023 by Kohei Wakaba and Mana Kawamura. The project aims to create a space where people can freely come and go like a coffee shop and connect through art. In September 2023, she gave an independent performance "Don't dance, body" as her first performance. Regular workshops have been held since January 2024, and in December of the same year, the workshop performance "Little Red Riding Hood" was held for about 10 days with a presentation of the results.