Xstream project 2『THE LONG STRONG HAPPY DEATH』
Business Overview
The second film from the Xstream project by Kitamura Akiko, who has made numerous international collaborations centered on fieldwork.
This is a fantasy dance in which artists from India, the Philippines and Japan go back and forth between each other's reality and social history, shedding light on the intersection of "memory and death.".
Composition, Direction, Choreography, Performers:
Akiko Kitamura
Music Director:
Hiroaki Yokoyama (agehasprings)
Performers and Choreographers:
Ayami Ida
Ikumi Otsuka
Ikumi Kurosu
Isamu Kuroda
Yukio Suzuki
Kei Tsujimoto
Yuki Nishiyama
Performers and Singers:
Mayanglambam Mangangsana Meitei (India)
Collaborators:
Rhosam Villareal Prudenciado Jr. (Philippines)
- Period of Activity / Project
- Saturday, November 1, 2025 - November 3 (Mon/Holiday)
- Venues
- Theater tram (Setagaya Ward, Tokyo)
Profile
Akiko Kitamura: After studying ballet, street dance and Indonesian martial arts, she founded the dance company Leni Basso in 1994 while studying at the Graduate School of Literature, Waseda University. In 1995, he went to Berlin to study as an overseas trainee dispatched by the Agency for Cultural Affairs. After returning to Japan, he released his representative work "finks" in 2001. It has been performed in more than 60 cities around the world and won the Montreal HOUR newspaper's 2005 Best Dance Production award. His work "enact oneself" commissioned by the American Dance Festival (USA) in 2003 was selected as Best Dance of the Year (North Carolina). Since 2010, he has been working as a solo artist on international collaborative projects for research and creation. It has been performed in Japan and overseas through international co-productions with Indonesia and Southeast Asia. In 2018, his song "Tsuchi no Uke" won the 13 Japan Dance Forum Grand Prize.