Zuni Icosahedron "Tears of Barren Hill"

Tears of Barren Hill was awarded in the International Music Theater Competition earlier this year in Berlin, and has been toured to Singapore and Rotterdam after Hong Kong’s premiere in 2008. The performance features the best Kunqu Opera and Beijing Opera performers from Nanjing and Shanghai in a contemporary theater setting under Mr Yung’s artistic director and stage design.

The original Tears of Barren Hill is a traditional Beijing opera work created by Cheng Yanqiu and it was premiered in 1929. It tells a tragic tale of a woman in search for her husband, without knowing he already died. It comprises scenes of life and death and is a reflection of one’s despair under the political turmoil at that time.

Mr Yung starts off with Cheng’s rendition of an aria from Tears of Barren Hill in a church in Berlin, and crosses over to incorporate Cheng’s Western predecessors (Bach, Mozart and Verdi) as well as his contemporaries (Billie Holiday, Glenn Gould and Leni Riefenstahl).

AAPA "COVERS"

AAPA（Away at Performing Arts） is a collective of performers, environmental musician, lighting designer< set designer and architect. It is active as an experimental theater group using the non theatrical space. COVERS will be the spatial installation and performance in the BankART Studio NYK’s 3rd floor.

Yokohama Dance Neighborhood 2009

A site specific project to watch various performances in touring the downtown of Yokohama. This is the annual program of the festival and in 2009 things happen along the Nihon Odori. The detailed map is available on the day.

Suzuki Takako "MENUT"

The Japanese dancer Takako Suzuki and German musician Axel Dörner dive for one week into the world of a part of town of the Japanese city of Yokohama and develop a piece which comes after this one-week Research period on site to the performance. The town and by a mixture of many different languages and people marked part of town of Yokohama where the performance takes place in particular become by the research project a scenic and musical event in which single successive moments and the simultaneousness melt in parallel of running off situations.

"Kinjiki work in progress"
Commemorating the 50th anniversary of premiere of Kinjiki (Forbidden Color)

Kinjiki was premiered in 1959 as duo of Hijikata Tatsumi and Ohno Yoshito. On the time of its 50th anniversary, the three days project presents the performers of Kinjiki, as well as the ones before and after Kinjiki in the contemporary context. Then we reveal the legendary piece to instigate the 60s butoh movement in different aspects.

"Kinjiki work in progress 1 1957-1959"

Ohara Akiko performed with Hijikata in the duo piece of"Chino and Tete"in 1957. Ohno Yoshito performed Kinjiki with Hijikata in 1959 and Waguri is disciple of Hijikata. With three people’s performance, we try to focus the situations just before Kinjiki.

"Kinjiki work in progress 2 1959"

Kinjiki was premiered in May of 1959 followed by the Revised Kinjiki presented in September of the year. How differ the two edition of the piece? The performers of the Revised Kinjiki and Hosoe Eikoh who witnessed Hijikata’s work closely verify the Kinjiki work in progress.

"Kinjiki work in progress 3 1960"

The performers who joined in the early 60s Hijikata’s works represent their homage to Kinjiki.

Project Oyama
"Survivors in the Post War Turmoil" Reconstruction of modern dance

Inspired by the archival materials of the Japanese modern dance right after the WW 2nd, the emerging contemporary company challenges to creat a piece. The Post War modern dance is also influential to Butoh movement.

Yokohama Theater Labyrinth

A project to organize a variety of short performances in the BankART Studio NYK’s different spaces. After the show you are welcome to join in the closing party.