What we do

Words And Shakespeare's Birds

  • Organization : Ayaka Ono Akira Nakazawa Spacenotblank
  • Section : Artistic and creative activity in Tokyo
  • Type of Grant Program : Single
  • Art Forms : Theater

Outline

This project, presented as the sixth installment of the original dance series “Kichijoji Dance LAB.” by Kichijoji Theater, was jointly organized by Ayaka Ono Akira Nakazawa Spacenotblank and Kichijoji Theater. The production and performance were centered around the concept of “group,” “language of the group,” and “intrusion of language meaning.” Alongside members gathered through public open call, the creation process took place at Hyogo Prefecture’s Kinosaki International Arts Center, involving open rehearsals, work-in-progress performances, and discussions. After three additional performers joined, rehearsals continued in Tokyo, leading to the final implementation. Small groups born within a larger collective engage in conscious and unconscious intrusions of the meaning of words, expanding, saturating, contracting, leaving behind something that should endure. Alternatively, nothing may remain. The performance depicts a tableau of these dynamics.

Profile

Ayaka Ono Akira Nakazawa Spacenotblank
Founded in 2012 as performing arts collective of Ayaka Ono & Akira Nakazawa who makes dance, theatre and new mechanisms of performing arts. By integrating the established concepts of the performing arts with new mechanisms of their own research and development, they explore the state of the performing arts in the contemporary world and continue to experiment with the creation diverse values. With communication arising from the unique environment and relationships at the root of their creation, they are actively engaged in both continuous collaboration with creation members and collaboration with different artists.

Venues

Kichijoji Theater, Musashino City, Tokyo