This musical drama was staged overseas as the new work in the troupe’s initiative, Eurasian Opera Project. The script was built around the orally-transmitted Japanese folk tale Sanshô Dayû against the backdrop of traditions, beliefs and history from East Asia, Central Asia and Siberia. The performance was an international collaboration with artists from various countries in these regions.

With a continued focus on voice-oriented ensembles, ethnicity and community, the group held a festival-style event in Tokyo on the theme of “Asia, Community, Voice” in collaboration with tsumugine, an organization that uses different approaches to reconsider music culture and performing arts, and Silk road Noh gakkai. In addition to performances of each group’s pieces, the event included audience-participation-style workshops and collaborations, presenting to the world a Tokyo outlook on contemporary culture.

Core program
• SanshôDayû in Kazakhstan
• Kotan
• Dōjōji (Silk road Noh gakkai)
• Workshop ＋◎(tsumugine)

Principle artists and staff members
Jun Kawasaki (Direction, Composition, Contrabass), Aya (Butoh), Hiroyo Miura (Dance), Choi Jae Chol (Korean instruments), Akira Yoshimatsu (Japanese traditional vocal, Actor), Hideto Miyuki (Video)
Jinya Imai (Director of Silk road Noh gakkai / Tsuzumi, Japanese traditional vocal), YasunoMiyauchi(Director of tsumugine / Composition)
Sergey Letov (Sax, Flute), Alina Mikhaylova(Dance), MariyaKorneva (Vocal),GulzhanAmanzhol (Kobyz),Kate Dzvonik (Choreography, Produce), Anya Tchaykovskaya(Vocal), SainkhoNamtchylak(Vocal)