Picnic Dance Channel #1 Kuma Tanaka “Running to Cosmos”
Business Overview
Chicken Picnic Club, which started out as a dance artist's agency, and new artist Tanaka Kuma organized their first performance at a small theater in Tokyo, by the stream of Theatre Babylon. Running to Cosmos was co-produced by Nono Kinouchi, Seito Niwa, Shinno Hatakenaka, Masaya Fukunaga, and Kohei Fujimura (in alphabetical order) as guest artists, and had its premiere in early November 2024. It was a dance piece in which 3 performers meticulously passed each other for about 45 minutes in almost silence. While pretending to speak to the audience, his movements, which were not completely understood but somehow synchronized, evoked a new feeling.
The entire project was designed with an awareness of the network. For example, a commercial for a public relations cooperative organization was shown before the performance, an interview about the work was published, and an article looking back on conversations at a closed salon that had been held previously was published.
- Period of Activity / Project
- Friday, November 8, 2024 to Sunday, November 10
- Venues
- Theater Babylon no Nagare nashita (Kita-ku, Tokyo)
Profile
[Tanaka Kuma]
Born in Miyazaki Prefecture.
He is interested in contemporary dancers and creates about 150 movement phrases a year. After bringing in a demo video for his previous work, Born Again (2023), he was registered as a Chicken Picnic Club author.