Far East Love Story
“The Project for the Promotion of the High School Theatre Arts” aims for High school students to meet its difficulty and enjoyment by tackling the creation of theatre performance. This will be the performance for the student to present what they have done in the first half year of the project.
Students gathered from many different schools have worked hard to create the performance together with MEGURO Daiji, a Butoh dancer. They express a story of the conflict and love among young people who get rid of the society with their singing and acting.
Composed, Choreographed and Directed by MEGURO Daiji
Performed by the High School Students in Tottori: UDAGAWA Mao, DOI Lili, KAJIKAWA Mana, HARUNA Yukino,
OKAMOTO Nanaka, FUNAKOSHI Suzuka, FUJINAWA Kouhei, IZUMI Aki, NAKAMURA Takuto, IWAMOTO Taiki,
MITO Ayase, NISHII Ami, YAMAMOTO Mira, MAETA Keiko
When I was offered to create the performance with high school students, I found it really fascinating. We will perform it in August in Ansan city, the South Korea, and in September at BIRD Theatre Festival. There is the performance in the South Korea since this is part of the project for Korean and Tottori high school students to interact with each other through theatre arts. When I knew this purpose, I decided on “the individual and collective” as the theme of this production. It was because I wanted for high school students to see a person in front of them just the way he/she is before they start seeing someone as one of a large group of people such as a county or an ethic group. If people could build up a relationship that allow them to respect each other as an individual, it would come to have great meaning in terms of the relationship between both countries. How will they change through interaction with Korean students and theatre performance in the South Korea? I hope you will see it in their performance at BIRD Theatre Festival. (MAGURO Daiji)
A Butoh dancer and choreographer. In 2001, he became a member of Asbestos Studio, and studied Butoh under MOTOFUJI Akiko. He joined Ko & Edge Co., established by MOTOBUSHI Ko, from the very first of 2003 to 2010. Then he had presented performances in fourteen countries and twenty nine cities in total while in Ko & Edge Co. In 2010, he studied abroad in New York as a member of the "Program of Overseas Study for Upcoming Artists", sponsored by the Japanese government. In 2016, he founded “Yebisu Daikokuza”. He has doing performances for entertainment which combine Japanese public entertainment and western culture.
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The Assembly Hall Theatre
Grant by Subsidies for the Promotion of Cultural and Art Activities (as part of the Promotion Project for the Reinforcement
of Theatres and Music Halls) by the Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs,
Japan Arts Council
[ The Period of The Festival ] Thursday, 6 - Sunday, 23 September, 2018
[ Programme Director ] NAKASHIMA Makoto (Director /Artistic Director of the BIRD Theatre Company TOTTORI)
