KAMOME-ZA (Japan)
Satō Makoto
Takeya Keiko
Nakata Takanori, Kōen Atsumi
Shima Takeshi
Suzuki Akitomo
Ōta Yūsuke
Ikeda Megumi
Hatanaka Yukiko
Takeya Keiko, Ōtsuki Hideyuki
2013
73 minutes
About the performance
Since its premiere in 2013, Her Voice, the repertory of KAMOME-ZA, has been performed again and again every year. As the life work of dancer Takeya Keiko, it was performed in Beijing in 2014, followed by a European tour in Paris, Galway, and Dublin in the fall of 2017.
As part of the Dublin Theatre festival’s 50th anniversary program, we were invited to perform in Dublin at Samuel Beckett Theatre in the campus of the prestigious Trinity College, which was an invaluable experience for us.
In search of original theatrical expression that transcends the boundaries between dance and theater, we have invited Ōtsuki Hideyuki as a new co-star for this new version of the performance. Please look forward to it.
KAMOME-ZA
Theater company KAMOME-ZA is a private theater company led by Satō Makoto, a convinced and eternally dissatisfied theater maker. Since its establishment in 1990, it has consistently continued its modest small-theater activities, advocating “ultra-private theater,” in order to leave small traces of fingernail scratches in the theatrical environment that I would like to call “Tokyo theatre”.
Satō Makoto
He is a playwright, theater director, tepresentative of Wakabacho Wharf. He has been one of the central figures in the Japanese small theater movement since the mid-1960s. In addition to directing a wide range of stage productions, he has been actively involved in discussions and practice concerning the boundaries between theater and society. In recent years, he has been devoting himself to the formation of alternative networks in the performing arts with neighboring Asian cities. He is currently the representative of Wakabacho Wharf and artistic director of ZA-KŌENJI (Suginami Art Hall).
