ふじのくに野外芸術フェスタ2013 – SPAC

KOJIKI episode 1

spac — Sun, 30 Jun 2013 06:42:49 +0000

＜Director’s Profile＞
Satoshi MIYAGI
Born in Tokyo in 1959. Director. General Artistic Director of SPAC – Shizuoka Performing Arts Center. Studied aesthetics from Yuushi ODASHIMA, Moriaki WATANABE, and Hachiro HIDAKA at Tokyo University, and founded the new theater company KU NA’UKA in 1990. Being active in the international industry, his directing, which fuses contemporary textual interpretations with physical techniques and patterns of Asian theater, receives high acclaims both domestically and abroad. He was appointed as the General Artistic Director of SPAC in April of 2007. Along with presentations of his own works, he invites pieces that sharply cut away at modern society from regions all over the world. Furthermore, he has started a new project aimed at the youth of Shizuoka, putting efforts into presenting theater as “a window to the world”. He is best known for such pieces as Medea, Mahabharata, Peer Gynt etc. In 2004 he received The 3rd Asahi Performing Arts Award. In 2005 he received The 2nd Asahi Beer Art Award.
→“General Artistic Director”

Open-air Performing Arts Festival under Mt. Fuji

From the most ancient historical document in Japan, Kojiki, we have chosen the story The Sword of Kusanagi, a piece with deep ties to Shizuoka as well, for SPAC’s actors to perform, along side live musical instruments. A gorgeously woven piece Directed by Satoshi MIYAGI.

First Performance: EPISODE 1 of Kojiki, Special presentation on the observation deck of Mount Fuji Shizuoka Airport.

　Information

■30 June at 15:50

■FUJISAN HONGU SENGENTAISHA Shrine garden

　Staff

Directed by MIYAGI Satoshi
Music by TANAKAWA Hiroko

Presented by Shizuoka Prefecture and ＳＰＡＣ
Assisted by　Fujinomiyashi

Open-air Performing Arts Festival under Mt. Fuji
In addition to the beautiful look out points that behold the surrounding scenery, the grandeur of Mt. Fuji has been subject to religious beliefs since ancient times and has continually stood as a womb that gives birth to countless works of art. The cities, towns and villages of both Shizuoka and Yamanashi Prefectures, in order to hand down to following generations the beautiful landscape as inheritance to share among humanity, have begun taking the proper measures in registering Mt. Fuji as a Cultural World Heritage. And now, the long awaited deliberation as to whether it will be registered as one will be held at the 37th session of the World Heritage Committee in Cambodia in June of 2013. This time, at the World Theater Festival Shizuoka under Mt. Fuji 2013, during the Performing Arts Festival under Mt. Fuji being held at the same time, we will be broadcasting to the world the allure of Mt. Fuji through the arts at several locations such as Fujisan Miyamoto Sengen Grand Shrine Main Shrine (Fujinomiya City), as well as Shimizu Port (Shizuoka City) and Granship Square (Shizuoka City) with the beautiful Mt. Fuji standing tall in the back ground.

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New Age Short Spectacle!

spac — Sat, 29 Jun 2013 06:31:23 +0000

＜KADEN Theatrical Art Company＞

Started in 2006 by Producer and Director Okada Madoka. They present numerous small to mid-scale plays in Tokyo, using a unique method of fusing physical expressions stemming from ancient Japanese performance methods (Noh, Kabuki, Kagura), with those from western regions (Mime, Masquerade, Contemporary dance), while focusing on concepts like “Tokoyo” (timelessness), “Utsushiyo” (this transient world), and “Mugen” (dream-like visions). They have relocated to Kimitsu City in Chiba Prefecture and are currently actively creating domestically and overseas, presenting pieces created with international cooperation.

＜Gekidan Watanabe＞

Formed in 2004. Their center is Theater “Atelier Mirume” in Shizuoka City of Shizuoka Prefecture and besides their studio’s performances and on-road performances, they do production planning for outdoor theater, theater cafes and stage directing for festivals. Their repertoire contains pieces that use things like the plays of Ionesco or Brecht and modern Japanese literature as subject matter.
Made up of core members in their 30’s that take theater as their nourishment for living, they are diligently active in Shizuoka at the moment.

＜KAMAGAYA Art Guild＞

They are a theater group that bases their production on a pear farm of Kamagaya City in Chiba Prefecture and the direct sales stand on the same land. On the last day of December, 2002, they formed in the basement of the Tokyo University of Agriculture, and started by putting Seishi Yokomizo’s novel into a stage piece. They aim at creating such an “occurrence in front of your eyes” that you forget to blink. They ambitiously tackle a variety of dramas from classic to modern. Their stage, full of profound art and acting physiques that overflow with vigor, has gained wide praise.

Open-air Performing Arts Festival under Mt. Fuji

We will be presenting back-to-back outdoor performances by 3 domestic theater groups in Granship Square.
Please enjoy the spectacle of well-spirited theatrical performers jumping off the stage.

KADEN Theatrical Art Company
Okada Madoka

Gekidan Watanabe
Watanabe Akifumi

KAMAGAYA Art Guild
Ishii Kouichi

Information

■29 June
12:00－12:30　KADEN Theatrical Art Company　『Kamusabi [kamu:sabi]』
12:30－13:00　Gekidan Watanabe　『hagoromo』
16:00－16:30　KAMAGAYA Art Guild　『M78』

30 June
12:30－13:00　KAMAGAYA Art Guild　『M78』
16:30－17:00　KADEN Theatrical Art Company　『Kamusabi [kamu:sabi]』
17:00－17:30　Gekidan Watanabe　『hagoromo』

■Grandship Square
The square interlocked with a beautiful lawn is a place for recreation and relaxation for those who visit Granship.
(On the West side of Granship, a two minute walk from JR East Shizuoka Station South Exit)

Presented by Shizuoka Prefecture and ＳＰＡＣ

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Vietnamese Water Puppetry Theatre

spac — Fri, 28 Jun 2013 06:42:04 +0000

Open-air Performing Arts Festival under Mt. Fuji

This Water Puppetry is an ethnic art form of Vietnam and is said to have a history of over a thousand years. Of all of the theater groups, The Thang Long Water Puppetry Theater group of Hanoi City, since its founding in 1969, has continued to develop over the years and is now the top of its class. They are highly acclaimed, both domestically and overseas, and have performed in over 40 countries including Japan. Above the water, which has been transformed into a stage, stories portraying the lifestyles of local farming villages, phoenixes and dragons, dances performed by fairies, as well as old legends and mythologies come to life one by one, both splendidly and comically, to the sound of traditional wind and string instruments.

　Information

Puppetry Theatre／Vietnam

■28 June at 17:30 ■29 June at 14:00 / 17:30
Shimizu marine park Event Square

Presented by Shizuoka Prefecture and ＳＰＡＣ
Sponsored by Suzuyo and Verkehr Shimizu Port Terminal Musium
Cooperation and Support： Shizuoka City

■■ 30 June at 15:00 / 16:30
FUJISAN HONGU SENGENTAISHA Shrine garden

Presented by Shizuoka Prefecture and ＳＰＡＣ
Assisted by　Fujinomiyashi

Duration: 45 minutes (expected time)

　Staff/Cast

Performed by Nhà hát múa rôí Thang Long (Hanoi Thang Long Water Puppetry Theatre)

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Water Fools

spac — Fri, 28 Jun 2013 06:38:39 +0000

＜Director Profile＞
Bruno SCHNEBELIN　

Born in Paris in 1949. From 1968 to 1980, strongly influenced by the French critic Roland Barthes and the Sociologist Jean Baudrillard, SCHNEBELIN studied psychoanalysis, sociology and architecture and started work as a stage technical director, contemporary dance lighting designer and musical theater art designer. In 1978, he came across a small island in Camargue, a triangular region in the Rhône River delta. Since starting Ilotopie, he has done performances in over 45 different countries all over the world as the General Arts Co-director along with Françoise Léger.

Open-air Performing Arts Festival under Mt. Fuji

A grand poetic maritime performance decorated in music and fireworks
It is the night ocean. A man stops his car on the water and gets out. He turns on a street light, takes a seat and starts to read the newspaper. A custodian walks by sweeping the street. A bicycle zooms by, kicking water up. It is a completely normal everyday scene… if you don’t include the fact that it is on water. A strange life form eventually intrudes upon this common scene as it comes out of the dark ocean depths. This water-color-like world of everyday scenes gradually becomes engulfed in flames as characters who seem to have escaped from folk tales unravel Baroque-like festivities…

　Information

Performance／FRANCE

■28, 29 June at 20:00

Duration: 50 minutes

■Shimizu marine park Event Square

　Staff/Cast

Directed by Bruno SCHNEBELIN
Produced by Ilotopie

Presented by Shizuoka Prefecture and ＳＰＡＣ
Sponsored by Suzuyo and Verkehr Shimizu Port Terminal Musium
Cooperation and Support： Shizuoka City
Under the auspice of Embassy of France in Japan, Institut français du Japon
　　　

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