2019 – SPAC

Antigone (New York)

spac — Fri, 19 Jul 2019 03:31:37 +0000

Japan 2019 Official Program

Introduction

Two years after the international sensation it caused as the opening program of the world’s top arts festival, Avignon Festival, in 2017, ANTIGONE will set off on a New York tour!
　
SPAC is re-performing its most renowned work, ANTIGONE, as one of the official programs of the Japanese culture festival Japan 2019, which started in New York and Washington, D.C. in March 2019.
This program was originally performed at the Cour d’honneur du Palais des Papes as the opening program of the world’s top arts festival, Avignon Festival, in 2017. Its production caused a great sensation among viewers and critics with its ingenious stage devices, including a floor covered with water and massive 30-meter-high projections of the performers’ shadows on the wall of the Palais des Papes, as well as its story that contrasted the Japanese view of life and death with the non-binary worldview of the mythological Greek princess.
　
The program will be performed at the Park Avenue Armory in New York, a former military facility that is now used as a venue for live performances and installation art by the world’s top artists. Utilizing the vast space and the high arched ceiling, we will make the Wade Thompson Drill Hall into a stage of almost the same size as that in the Cour d’honneur du Palais des Papes, reproducing the watercovered stage and shadow projections on the wall.
What will Antigone’s worldview, which refuses to divide people into enemies and allies, offer to a U.S. audience which has long been exposed to social disruption? We hope you will get to see this new challenge that Miyagi and SPAC are about to take on.

Park Avenue Armory
http://armoryonpark.org/programs_events/detail/antigone

Japan 2019

Japan 2019, following on the successful Japonismes 2018 in France, aims to broaden understanding of and interest in Japanese culture in the United States through two programs: the Japan 2019 Official Program featuring a series of events co-organized or supported by the Japan Foundation, mainly in New York and Washington, D.C., and the Japan 2019 Associated Program, featuring affiliated events organized by public and private entities to introduce Japanese culture and promote exchange between Japan and the U.S.

Japan 2019
https://www.jpf.go.jp/j/about/area/japan2019/

Period: From March to December 2019
　
　
Also, SPAC’s Mahabharata – Nalacharitam was a great success at Japonismes 2018 as one of the official programs, selling out all 1,000 seats for all six performances.

Japonismes 2018 “Mahabharata – Nalacharitam”
https://japonismes.org/en/officialprograms/宮城聰演出-『マハーバーラタ-～ナラ王の冒険～』

Synopsis

The scene is in Thebes of ancient Greece. The previous king Oedipus is expelled from the country after discovering the secret of his birth. Jocasta, who is Oedipus’ wife and mother, kills herself. Their sons, Eteocles and Polynices, fight for the throne and Polynices is expelled to Argos. Later, Polynices attacks Thebes with the army of Argos. There, Polynices and Eteocles engage in single combat. Under the curse of Oedipus, both brothers die by each other’s sword. Jocasta’s younger brother, Creon, ascends to the throne of Thebes. Creon decides to respectfully bury Eteocles who protected Thebes, while decreeing that Polynices’ body is not to be buried in order to let wild birds feast on it, on the pain of death. However, Oedipus’ daughter Antigone defies the order, despite admonitions from her sister Ismene, and decides to attempt to secure a respectable burial for her brother Polynices.

Information

9/25 Wed	19:30
9/26 Thu	19:30
9/27 Fri	20:00
9/28 Sat	20:00
9/29 Sun	14:00
9/30 Mon	19:30
10/3 Thu	19:30
10/4 Fri	20:00
10/5 Sat	20:00
10/6 Sun	14:00 / 20:00

　
　　　　　Park Avenue Armory
　
　　　　　Duration: 105 minutes
　　　　　Language: In Japanese with English subtitles

Staff / Cast

Conceived and directed by MIYAGI Satoshi
Written by Sophocles
Translated by YAGINUMA Shigetake
Composed by TANAKAWA Hiroko
Space design: KIZ Junpei
Costume design: TAKAHASHI Kayo
Lighting design: OSAKO Koji
Hair and makeup: KAJITA Kyoko
　
Performed by Micari, HONDA Maki, AKAMATSU Naomi, ABE Kazunori, ISHII Moemi, OUCHI Yoneji, OHTAKA Kouichi, KATO Yukio, KIJIMA Tsuyoshi, KONAGAYA Katsuhiko, SAKAKIBARA Yuumi, SAKURAUCHI Yu, SATO Yuzu, SUZUKI Mariko, DAIDOMUMON Yuya, TAKEISHI Morimasa, TATENO Momoyo, TERAUCHI Ayako, NAGAI Kenji, NOGUCHI Shunsuke, FUSE Asuka, MISHIMA Keita, MIYAGISHIMA Haruka, MORIYAMA Fuyuko, YAMAMOTO Miyuki, YOSHIUE Soichiro, YOSHIMI Ryo, WAKANA Daisuke, WATANABE Takahiko
　
　
Organized by The Japan Foundation, SPAC–Shizuoka Performing Arts Center, Park Avenue Armory
Supported by Citi, Bloomberg Philanthropies, ANA
　

　

MIYAGI Satoshi

General Artistic Director of Shizuoka Performing Arts Center (SPAC)
Born in Tokyo in 1959, after studying aesthetics at Tokyo University under ODASHIMA Yushi, WATANABE Moriaki and HIDAKA Hachiro, he founded the KU NA’ UKA theater company in 1990 and soon began staging plays overseas as well as in Japan. As a result, MIYAGI’s work — in which he often fuses contemporary textual interpretations with physical techniques and patterns of Asian theatre — has long been acclaimed both at home and far abroad. Indeed, in 2004 he received the 3rd Asahi Performing Arts Award, and the next year the 2nd Asahi Beer Art Award.
Since taking up his position with SPAC in April 2007, MIYAGI has staged many of his own works — including “Medea”, the Hindu epic “Mahabharata”, and “Peer Gynt” — and has invited artists from abroad to present pieces casting a keen eye on the modern world as they see it. In line with his aim to make theatre “a window to the world,” he has also started a new SPAC-based project aimed at the youth of Shizuoka.
In 2014, MIYAGI was invited to the Festival d’Avignon, where he received excellent reviews for his open-air version of the Hindu epic “Mahabharata” staged in La Carrière de Boulbon. Following that landmark achievement, the festival extended the honor of inviting MIYAGI to present a Buddhist interpretation he created of the ancient Greek mythological tragedy “Antigone” as its super-prestigious opening program for 2017. On that occasion, which was the first time an Asian play had ever been selected to launch the festival, MIYAGI’s exalted “stage” was the open-air Cour d’honneur du Palais des papes (the Honor Court of the Palace of Popes). By the play’s end, those towering medieval stone walls were ringing out with long and splendid standing ovations welcoming the work’s director and creator along with SPAC’s actors and staff — while more than 60 European media all gave great reviews.
In 2018, he received the 68th Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology’s Art Encouragement Prize of Drama. Also he recieved “Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres” from the Ministry of Culture of France in 2018.
　
Festival d’Avignon 2017
https://www.festival-avignon.com/en/shows/2017/antigone
　
Records of ANTIGONE at Festival d’Avignon 2017　

Japanese　　Français
　　
　

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The White Hare of Inaba-Navajo

spac — Sat, 27 Apr 2019 11:35:31 +0000

“The White Hare of Inaba-Navajo” in Paris

Date&Time:
2019
19 June, Wednesday 20:00
20 June, Thursday 20:00
21 June, Friday 20:00
22 June, Saturday 18:00
23 June, Sunday 17:00

Venue:
the Musée du quai Branly, Théâtre Claude Lévi-Strauss

＊More information: Here(in French only)

▲At Musée du quai Branly in Paris(2016) ©Jean Couturier

Conception and direction: MIYAGI Satoshi
Text: collective writing of KUBOTA Azumi and the troops
Music: TANAKAWA Hiroko
Space design: KIZ Junpei
Lighting design: OSAKO Koji
Costume&Mask design: TAKAHASHI Kayo
Props design: FUKASAWA Eri
Hair and makeup: KAJITA Kyoko

Cast

AKAMATSU Naomi, ABE Kazunori, ISHII Moemi, OUCHI Yoneji, OHTAKA Kouichi, KATO Yukio, KONAGAYA Katsuhiko, SAKAKIBARA Yuumi, SAKURAUCHI Yu, SATO Yuzu, SUGIYAMA Ken, SUZUKI Mariko, DAIDOMUMON Yuya, TAKEISHI Morimasa, TATENO Momoyo, TERAUCHI Ayako, NAGAI Sayako, NOGUCHI Shunsuke, HONDA Maki, MAKIYAMA Yudai, MIYAGISHIMA Haruka, MORIYAMA Fuyuko, YAMAMOTO Miyuki, YOSHIUE Soichiro, YOSHIMI Ryo

Information

2019

8 June, Saturday	14:00	*Guidance for theatre beginners
		*Post-performance talk
9 June, Sunday	14:00	*Nursery service
		*Post-performance talk

In Japanese with English subtitles
Duration：110min（Without intermission）

Venue：Shizuoka Arts Theatre
(2-3-1 Higashishizuoka, Suruga-ku Shizuoka City, Shizuoka)

Performances for junior and high-school students

7 June, Friday 13:30

Related events

Post-performance talk
by the artists and guests: after the performance.

Pre-Performance Talk
Starting 25 minutes before each performance.

Meet us at Cafe Cinderella!
After the performance, the actors will come to see you off in their stage costumes. We hope you will take this opportunity to interact with the actors!

Guidance for theatre beginners
SPAC actors will give beginner audiences a lecture on what to look for and pay attention to before the performance. This event can be participated in by both those seeing the performance for the first time and repeaters.
8 June, Saturday 12:30～13:30
In Japanese
Free of charge. Reservation required. Up to 20 people.

Ticket Price

4,100 yen (One viewing for regular adult)

SPAC Membership Discount
3,400 yen (One viewing for regular adult)

Pair Discount
3,600 yen per person

Group Discount
3,200 yen per person for group of 3 or more

Senior Discount
3,400 yen for seniors over 60
*Please present ID at door

Student Discount
2,000 yen (University)
1,000 yen (High School and under)
*Please present school ID at door

Handicap Discount
2,800 yen (for those who possess handicap passbook)

*Cannot use more than one discount per purchase.
*Please inform use of discount when making reservation.

How to Purchase

Prior Reservation for Membership begins: 20 April at 10:00
Advance Tickets Sale begins: 21 April at 10:00

●Online reservations

– Please enter from the language button “English”.
– Payment is possible with the following credit cards: DC, UFJ, NICOS, VISA, and Master. Tickets purchased through this website can be received at the venue from one hour prior to each performance.

●Phone reservations
from 10:00-18:00 at SPAC ticket center
TEL. +81-(0)54-202-3399

●Purchase at BOX Office
SPAC ticket center (10:00-18:00)

●Purchase at Seven Eleven
Please use Multi Copy Machine inside stores

Day Ticket
Available at the entrance counter for leftover seats, from one hour prior to each performance.
*Please confirm ticket availability on the day by phone or by visiting Twitter (@_SPAC_)

*Ticket reservations will finish at 18:00 on the day before the performance.
Please refrain from taking infants to the ordinary seats.

［Nursery room］　(up to three children, based on a first come first served basis; reservation required)
SPAC provides a nursery room where you can watch the performance with your infant children.

［Nursery service］　
Please contact us at least one week in advance if you would like to use the free nursery service run by volunteers.
9 June, Sunday
Coverage: Infants aged two and under

Staff

Assistant director: NAKANO Masaki
Stage manager: YAMADA Takahiro
Stage: HARAIKAWA Yukio, KIKUCHI Monami
Sound: MIGITA Soichiro
Light: HISAMATSU Yuka
Wardrobe: KAWAI Reiko

Subtitle translation: Steve CORBEIL
Subtitle operation: OISHI Takako

Technical director: MURAMATSU Atsushi

Production: OISHI Takako, KEIMI Aoi, NAKAO Eiji

Flyer design: SAKAMOTO Yoichi (mots)

Produced by SPAC-Shizuoka Performing Arts Center
Co-produced by the Musée du quai Branly

Supported by the Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan through the Japan Arts Council

＜For performances in Paris＞
Supported by the Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan through the Japan Arts Council
Co-operated by ANA

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