Picnic Dance Channel #1 Kuma Tanaka “Running to Cosmos”

*Information at the time of adoption.

Name of the organization or individual

Kuma Tanaka

subsidy category

start-up subsidy

Grant Type

single year individual

FY 2024 1st Startup Subsidy

Running to Cosmos (2024) Photo by Masaya Fukunaga

Running to Cosmos (2024) Photo by Masaya Fukunaga

Running to Cosmos (2024) Photo by Masaya Fukunaga

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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.

implementation period

Friday, November 8, 2024 to Sunday, November 10

Place of implementation

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.