Pappa TARAHUMARA (Japan)
Koike Hiroshi
Koike Hiroshi
Koike Hiroshi, Fukushima Naomi, Kondō Keiichi
Hamai Kōji, Isomoto Ryōichi
Sugaya Masahiro, Nakamura Akikazu, Yagi Michiyo
Sasaki Naruaki
Tanaka Masato, Matsushima Makoto, Miyaki Aki
Moriwaki Hiroyuki
Sekine Yukiko
Ogawa Mariko, Matsushima Makoto, Suzuki Mio, Shirai Sachiko, Nuihara Hiroko, Miura Hiroyuki, Kobayashi Nobue, Okano Takako, Teranishi Ai, Sekiguchi Makie, Nakamura Masaki, Yeung Chi Kuk
1997
100 minutes
About the performance
A story about the sea and the side streets.
The lives of various people and landscapes of a seaside town are depicted in Ship in a View. The motif is based on director, Koike Hiroshi’s hometown. Audience members will be taken on a journey through the culture of Japan. Ship in A View has toured internationally and has been staged at some of the best theaters in the world. The motif is based on a seaside town in the 1960s, which is reminiscent of director Koike Hiroshi’s hometown. The “ship” connects the town to the outside world and symbolizes an exit. The “ship” is entrusted with the simple and unfulfilled desire in humans to escape while portraying a nostalgic seaside town with poetic sentiment. The ship slowly crosses. The pole standing in the center of the stage is like the mast of a ship and also like a pole standing in a schoolyard. Nostalgic singing voices echo around. People dressed in monochromatic costumes. The suppressed movement eventually becomes an intense dance, and the stage suddenly becomes a vocal scene. A woman eating an apple. The calls of a man selling nattō. The scenery of the classroom. A suspicious man dancing with a doll. Every day, deep-seated emotions can be seen in their faces. Where are you going, can’t you go anywhere? Even so, people still slowly take their steps.
Pappa TARAHUMARA
Pappa TARAHUMARA was a Performing Arts company founded by the director, Koike Hiroshi in 1982. The company was dissolved in 2012. What made Pappa TARAHUMARA as distinctive and extraordinary from the other theater companies is their flexibility and synergetic method of their creative process. They utilized dance, play, music, and art to present Performing Arts, and attracted many audiences and recognized internationally. Talented artists from different fields were gathered at Pappa TARAHUMARA to create an extraordinary production every year. And every production represented the director’s own perception of the world.
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.
