「消えた蛾 (Lost Moth)」
Have you discovered a Lost Moth? Were you brought here via a website link attached to the back of your Lost Moth? You have discovered one of many Lost Moths! Your moth is part of a larger art piece, a collaboration between British dance-theatre makers Thick & Tight (Daniel Hay-Gordon and Eleanor Perry) and ceramicist Sheila Hay.
もしかして、迷子の「消えた蛾 (Lost Moth)」 を見つけましたか？あなたが見つけた「消えた蛾」の裏のリンクからここに辿り着いたのではないでしょうか？あなたが発見したのは多くの「消えた蛾」のうちの一つです！その「消えた蛾」はより大きな芸術作品の一部で、イギリスのダンス・劇作家Thich &Tight（ダニエル ヘイ・ゴードンとエレノア ペリー）と陶芸家シーラ ヘイのコラボレーションションによるものです。
https://www.thickandtight.com/lostmoths
Thick & Tight’s short film Unclouded Moon was part of Britten Pears Art’s Festival of New 2021 and is an early-stage example of a larger project. Commissioned by Noh Reimagined Festival to create a work in response to Japanese Noh and Kyogen, a 650-year-old classical Japanese dance-drama.
Thick & Tight “Unclouded Moon” commissioned by Noh Reimagined
18th &19th May 2021
National Noh Theatre (Tokyo)
Noh Reimagined x Nature Unwrapped 2021 as part of Tokyo Tokyo Festival will take place!
details will be announced soon.
Spring 2021
First time Akiko and azuki foundation will collaborate with Dartington in spring festival 2021. The details will come soon.
4th September 2020
Songlines magazine’s October issue (#161) has featured a good review of Yutaka Oyama’s new album” Obi”.
9th September 2020
Newly designed website of THE鍵KEY which was UK premiered in August 2019, is now available ( Bilingual)!
30th July 2020
As part of Coronet Inside Out, Japanese comedian, actor, dramaturg, theatre director, and manga artist Kentaro Kobayashi has shared a recording of his hugely popular solo show Mr Potsunen’s Peculiar Slice of Life in 2017 produced and promoted by Mu:Arts.
https://www.thecoronettheatre.com/whats-on/coronet-inside-out/kentaro-kobayashi/
26 June 2020
Noh Reimagined 2020 which was due to take place on 26th and 27th will return on 18th and 19th June 2021.
Looking forward to seeing you all at Kings Place.
https://www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/noh-reimagined/
1st December 2019
“Noh and the Natural World ” Kings Place Magazine Jan-Jun 2020
I wrote a short essay about Nature, and culture of Japan, and Noh.
https://www.kingsplace.co.uk/magazine/features/noh-and-the-natural-world/
11th October 2019
“French baroque music meets Noh ”
Working with the Lyon based baroque ensemble Le Concer Hostel Dieu, we had a successful R&D workshop.
The narrative of the project is inspired by the award winning novelist Yoko Ogawa’s “Yasashi Uttae”
Watch video
20th September 2019
THE鍵KEY makes its London debut at two festivals in June and August 2019
The Toru Takemitsu Composition Award ( Tokyo Opera City Cultural Foundation ) nominated by Akiko has been shortlisted !! The Toru Takemitsu Composition Award was established by the Tokyo Opera City Cultural Foundation, to realise the intension of the Foundation’s first artistic director, the late Toru Takemitsu; in order to inspire younger generations all over the world to contribute to the creation of new musical compositions. The unique selection system helps the creation and showcasing of innovative and original orchestral music.
The winner of the award will be determined by an online vote open to the entire Classical:NEXT community to be announced at Classical NEXT 2018. More information
Noh Reimagined 2018: Sublime Illusions
Friday 29th and Saturday 30th June 2018, Kings Place, London
Following the highly successful 2016 edition, Noh Reimagined is returning to Kings Place with an exciting new theme and line-up. The two-day festival explores the art of Noh, the iconic theatrical tradition that originated in fourteenth-century Japan. This edition will shed light on the unique dramaturgy of Mugen (‘phantasmal’) Noh, in which the main actor (shite) appears as a ghost in the dream of a travelling monk performed by the supporting actor (waki). The ghost then tells the tragic story of its past life, expressing deep regret and lamentations, hoping to find peace. Top Noh performers from Japan will work with innovative British artists and neuroscientists in genre-defying collaborations to examine the surreal artistic elements of Noh. Join us to explore time, space and symbolism in Noh theatre through interdisciplinary performances, workshops and talks.
Following the sell out London premier of Kentaro Kobayashi show in early 2015, Mu Arts is promoting the second edition of Mr Potsunen’s Peculiar Slice of Life again. 5-8 July at Print Room at the Coronet.Please see more detail in the Events page. We are excited and looking forward to see old and new audiences at the show!
Yukihiro Isso interview and news about Noh Reimagined Festival on WIRE magazine May Issue – by Clive Bell Yukihiro Isso_page_12
As part of the Portfolio programme, Sound and Music, mu:arts and Royal Holloway, University of London offer a fascinating and unique opportunity for two composers to develop skills in writing for the music instruments of the Japanese noh theatre. Call for Portfolio Noh
shibusa shirazu
Teatro Bellinzona (Italy)
Kentaro’s theatrical works have been so popular in Japan that hopeful audience members have to draw lots to win the right to buy a ticket! Kentaro has gained fame from a short film series “The Japanese Tradition ” which has become an internet phenomenon, one of which “ Shazai ” was the official selection for short film competition at Berlin Film Festival in 2007. This will be the first chance for a UK audience to see him perform live on stage!
Flyer WOMEX
10/30（Thu） Bird’s Eye Club(Basel)
11/1 （Sat） Im Rathaus um 4 (Thun)
11/4 （Tue） Teatro Sociale (Bellinzona)
11/6 （Thu） Kulturpunkt (Flawil)
11/7 （Fri） ADEM (Geneve)
more details on Culturescapes web page
Shunsuke Kimura & Etsuro Ono concerts at Museum Ethnography 6,7th February 2014
Musée d’ethnographie, Rue Saint-Nicolas 4, CH-2000 Neuchâtel
Visit us at WOMEX stand 173 Music from Miyakojima, Okinawa
2nd Edition of Japan Music Fest at Parco della Musica, Rome 22nd, 23rd July 2013 feautring Shibusa Shirazu Orchestra, and Aki&Kuniko, completed with a great success!
Internationally acclaimed piano duo Josef Tong & Waka Hasegawa (Piano 4 Hands) is returning to Wigmore Hall to perform Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring on two pianos to mark the 100th anniversary of the ballet’s première alongside “Three Miniatures” by Dai Fujikura, co-commissioned with the Cheltenham Music Festival.
More information here. Flyer: Piano 4 hands concert
mu:arts co-programmes the 3- week festival celebrating Japanese culture and cherry blossoms with Alnwick Garden.
