Hiroshi Koike Bridge Project (Japan)
Koike Hiroshi (adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters)
Koike Hiroshi
Tamura Kaori
Matsumoto Junichi
Koike Hiroshi
Koike Hiroshi
Uekawa Mayumi
Mori Seiichirō
Teshirogi Hanano, Fukushima Azusa, Kai Minasu
2019
60 minutes
About the performance
New Three Sisters depicts women’s lives in Japan in the new millennium. The women are at a turning point in the present age, caught in rapid development in technology, economic and political shifts, and global environmental change. How can a woman live as a “new human”? The three sisters question their lives and needs. Their inner dialogue is shown through intense physicality and explosive energy. The performance has many humorous moments, combining pantomime, song and improvisation. The three female performers’ nonstop vigorous expression will blow the audience’s mind and question the word Chekhovian.
New Three Sisters was firstly performed by Pappa TARAHUMARA between 2005–2009, it toured in over 150 venues and 25 countries. In 2019, Koike adapted the performance to present the current times we are living in, New Three Sisters has been performed in various venues from auditoriums, galleries to elementary schools to an audience of a wide age range.
Koike Hiroshi Bridge Project
Established in June, 2012 by Japanese theater director Koike Hiroshi. Koike was the director of former performing arts company Pappa TARAHUMARA.
KIKH Bridge Project focuses on reclaiming the body and nurturing creativity.
It’s aim is to collaborate with people from all backgrounds to explore the possibilities of a more diverse and open society through the medium of performing art in any space.
Koike Hiroshi
Founder of Pappa TARAHUMARA (1982–2012). He wrote, directed and choreographed 55 productions with Pappa TARAHUMARA, leading a generation in Japanese performing arts to cross genres of drama, dance, art and music. In 2012 he launched the Hiroshi Koike Bridge Project (HKBP) with the mission of producing collaborative projects based on education, dissemination and creativity. Under HKBP, Koike has written, directed and choreographed 21 productions around Asia. Koike has created work in 10 countries and his productions have been performed in over 40 countries. He has been invited to collaborate with artists around the world. His workshops that focus on reclaiming the physical body have been presented to professional artists as actor training and to the general public for developing creativity in both Japan and overseas. He served as the Artistic Director at Tsukuba Cultural Foundation, Chairman of Asian Performing Arts Forum, Committee Member of Japan Foundation (2005–2011). He is a professor at Musashino Art University, where he is the first theater director to be appointed in the Department of Scenography, Display and Fashion Design. He is the principal and founder of Performing Arts Institute (P.A.I.), an educational institution for developing artists. He is the author of two books. A collection of essays on the intersection of art and society entitled Listen to the Voice of the Body and his theory of direction entitled Performing Arts Theory – Fūshi Kaden for the 21st Century. His first anthology of plays entitled Journey to Night and the End of the World was published in 2018.
