 Director: Nakao Ikemiya Choreographer: Nakao Ikemiya / Noriko Kumagai Sound Composer/Sound Technician: Hiroyuki Hatada Lighting Technician: Shin-ichi Tagawa Stage Manager: Takayuki Kuroda Assistant Director: Masako Ueno Costume Adviser: Yoshiko Wakabayashi Executive Producer: Dieter Strehly (DIES&DAS) PERFORMANCE RECORD 1993 die theater Kuenstlerhaus , Wien (Premier) 1994 THE SPACE ZERO, TOKYO LENGTH: 80minutes DANCERS:10version / 20version Yutaka Koga, Yukiko Takechi, Isshu Ochiai, Hideyuki Okaniwa, Kazuo Kanbayashi, Kaori Sato, Kenzo Kusuda, Nobuko Takahashi etc./Noriko Kumagai, Nakao Ikemiya  "Absence of a universal value" should confuse us because it affects existing social phenomena and enables individuals to see "a change in recognition". Anxiety and crisis increases as we become aware of "a lack of something" or invisible "existence" of something. We come to know the reality when a collection of "unavoidable realities" turn into an unexpected event. In the "deepness of disease" due to these unavoidable realities we feel closer to the invisible territory of death. At the particular moment that time accelerates or decelerates, we come across a question --"where are we going?" In the first part of the performance, an image of a unique metal-mode water tank is shown on the stage to indicate the contradictory image of existence and the absence of time in our lives.We come across scenery that we have never seen before and situations wherein such scenery cannot exist. In the second part of the performance, we look into everyday life from the territory of death: negative "eternity"-death guides us to a skepticism of everyday occurences. Human beings or the relation of material multiply,appearing and disappearing in a void of negative direction. This fertile space allows for an "existence of lacking" and swallows us whole. Our irritation is derived from denied "living territory". Occasionally we become introspective and receive orders to observe this absense of "life" within ourselves that is constatly lost in the void.  "Dance Performance for a Celebration that refuses Maturity" Miyabi Ichikawa, Asahi Graph July 29,1994 Followers present confusion, disorder and chaos.---The presence of the objects reminded me of a devil that attempts to invoke anarchy.---There were some sequences which attempt to construct order, but choreographers Nakao Ikemiya and Noriko Kumagai set the same scene again for a festival of the disorder represented in the messy stage. There is no poetic atmosphere. From the beginning to the end, they strove to remain immature and simple.(Theater: Shinjuku Space Zero, Tokyo, July 2 and 3, 1994) Ursulla Kneiss 93/8.24(Der Standard) The abuses of universal value, anxiety and crisis dominate the human beings of the present.-Where shall we go? Black is the color of the second act. Continuous sadness is the prevailing atmosphere. The human beings have isolated themselves and are lonely. The attempt to come into contact with others is always desperate and unsuccesful. Contrary to the tension at the beginning, the end gets lost in a long and confused search for the meaning of life. Execellent, well trained ensemble. |
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