Eurasian Opera opus 1
Continental Isolation
2018
The Modern mythography from Eurasian spiritual voice
Collection of mythology in the 21th century — Magic realism of North East Asia
Collaborations that Music and Poetic Drama Laboratory have had at Armenia, Turkey, Ukraine, Russia, and Republic of Buryatia were journey to the possibility of Eurasian voices and bodies.
In 2018, we will create and perform the new ‘Eurasian Opera’ with 4 invited artists from foreign countries who have diverse backgrounds and have collaborated with us before. In addition, with Japanese artists, we will have a concert introducing uncharted contemporary music in Siberia, Ukraine, Turkey and Central Asia which had been mainly introduced in context of traditional music so far.
Jun Kawasaki
Direction and Music
Soloist / Vocal:
Saadet Türköz
Anya Tchaykovskaya
Marya Korneva
Sainkho Namtchylak
Ensemble:
Michiyo Yagi
Koto
Junpei Ohtsuka
Japanese traditional Sho
Choi Jae Chol
Korean percussion
Jan Glembotzki
Violin
Keiko Komori
Clarinet
Aki Ozawa
Guitar
JunKawasaki Doublebass
Voice:
Seika Miki
Satoshi Tsuboi
Kentaro Tsuda
Akira Yoshimatsu
Itsuko Ijichi
Dance:
Aya
Hiroyo Miura
Stage art: Sainkho Namtchylak
DJ: Kentaro Tsuda
Music director: Aki Ozawa
Stage manager: Kiri Shirosawa
Assistant director: Hideto Miyuki
Light design: Masayo Okano
Sound engineer: Mitsuo Mashimo (The Rakuya)
Photo: mikomex
Video: Hideto Miyuki, Daisuke Mikome
Presented and produced by Jun Kawasaki, Music and Poetic Drama Laboratory
Cooperated by Naorai-do, Keio ABR (Keio University)
Supported by Arts Council Tokyo (Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture)
27 and 28 September, 2018
ZA-KOENJI 2, Tokyo, Japan
The end does not end <Collaboration for Eurasian Opera >
by Jun Kawasaki, Music and Poetic Drama Laboratory (MPDLab) (2015~)
Singing collection of mythology in the 21th century based on modern Chinese novel that describes about life of minority, nomadic, and hunting race who lived in border between Russia China, two World Wars, Russian Revolution, establishment of People’s Republic of China, and customs such as language and shamanism that being lost. This theatre music is constructed by songs and unique chorus system, and based on many locality and life of minority groups. According to a certain kind point of view, it can connect to modern Latin American Arts such as García Marchez and could be called Magic realism of North East Asia. It was premiere for the 100th anniversary project of the birth of Tadeusz Kantor in 2015 at Theater X, Tokyo. From the viewpoint of the composer, Kawasaki combined Japanese traditional play Shinju Ten-no-amijima written by Chikamatsu Monzaemon in 17th century with trauma in two World Wars. He reconstructed two motifs as new theater music.
<original story by Russian language >
The end of does not end” ( Конец – еще не конец) Synopsis of the original Chinese
"Правый берег реки Аргунь" Чи Цзыцзянь, 2005
("额尔古纳河右岸/Last Quarter of the Moon" 迟子建/Chi Zijian)
язык: китайский
на русском: любительский перевод, не окончен
Роман молодой, но уже собравшей коллекцию литературных наград писательницы Чи Цзыцзян, рассказывает о жизни племени эвенков на российско-китайской границе. Повествование ведется от лица 90-летней вдовы одного из великих вождей племени, чья сила и память позволяет ей говорить от имени всего народа, оживляя их общую историю.
Традиционный уклад жизни кочевников-оленеводов с их песнями и ритуалами испытывает натиск внешнего мира: японская оккупация, Культурная революция, стремительная урбанизация. И все же, людям удается сохранять свою древнюю, почти сказочную цивилизацию.
"Правый берег реки Аргунь" ― один из сильнейших образцов китайской "литературы родных краев", написанный уроженкой северо-восточной провинции Хэйлунцзян. Неторопливое аллегорическое повествование разворачивается будто под звуки старинного шаманского бубна, открывая читателю историю хранимого самой природой народа.
<collaboration history>
Premier(TOKYO/ Japan)2015
20 October 2015 at Theater X, Tokyo
Directed and composed by Jun Kawasaki
Guitar: Aki Ozawa Analog synthesizer, Piano: Shinichiro Kanda
Doublebass: Jun Kawasaki Vocal: Seika Miki
Marionette operator: Sakae Ebisawa Butoh: Aya
Dance: Hiroyo Miura, Satomi Akutsu, Nagako Tomaru
Sung and acted by Kentaro Tsuda, Junko Kowashi, Akira Yoshimatsu, Xeiici Ai,
Yurie Inouchi, Kanako Shiratori, Satoshi Tsuboi, Takashi Mukai, Ryota Ono
Assistant director: Kentarou Nagatomo, Daisuke Mikome, Hideto Miyuki
Organized by Theater X
Tokyo/Japan 2016
with Ayumi Paul (Violin and Sound performance from Germany)
8 May 2016 at Theater X, Tokyo
Directed and composed by Jun Kawasaki
Violin: Ayumi Paul, Vocal: Seika Miki, Double bass: Jun Kawasaki
Butoh: Aya, Dance: Hiroyo Miura
Cooperation by Theater X
Erevan/ARMENIA and Moscow/Russia 2016
with Sergey Letov (Sax, Reeds) Anya Tchaykovskaya (Vocal), Vyacheslav Gayvoronsky (Trumpet), Alina Mikhaylova (Dance)
Jun Kawasaki (Director, Composer)
Sergey Letov (Sax, Reeds) Anya Tchaykovskaya (Vocal), Vyacheslav Gayvoronsky (Trumpet), Alina Mikhaylova (Dance)
Aya (Butoh dance), Hiroyo Miura (Actress, Dancer)
Akira Yoshimatsu (Actor, voice, Japanese traditional Noh player), Kentaro Tsuda (Actor, Asian and noise vocalisation)
Satoshi Tsuboi (Actor, Singer), Aki Ozawa (Guitar), Jun Kawasaki (Double bass), Seika Miki (Vocal)
Kiri Shirosawa (Stage manager), Hideto Miyuki (Assistant director, Video)
Supported by JAPAN FOUNDATION, ARTS COUNCIL TOKYO (Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture)
6 October, YSITC Student Theatre, Yerevan, Armenia
HIGH FEST International Performing Arts Festival
7 October, Yerevan State Puppet Theatre, Yerevan, Armenia
HIGH FEST Workshop10 October, National Centre for Contemporary Arts (NCCA), Moscow, Russia
11 October, DOM Cultural Centre, Moscow, Russia
Long Arms Festival
12 October, DOM Cultural Centre, Moscow, Russia
Long Arms Festival
Irkutsk and Ulan-ude/ Russia
Baikal project 2017
with Marya Korneva (Vocal) Oxana Zhambalova (Vocal)
Director, Composer: Jun Kawasaki
Marya Korneva (Vocal) Oxana Zhambalova (Vocal)S eika Miki (Vocal)
Liudmila Zamashchikova (Violin) Ilya Lunushkin (Clarinet)
Aki Ozawa (Guitar) Jun Kawasaki (Double bass) Hiroyo Miura (Dance)
Co-director, Video: Hideto Miyuki
Supported by Andrei Gedeon, Natalya Bencharova, Gallery Viktora Bronshteyna
International Music Festival "Voice of Nomads”, Ethno gallery ORDA
Arts Council Tokyo (Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture)
rkutsk, Russia
11 July, 2017
EDISON craft bar
12 July, 2017
Old Munich / Gallery Viktora Bronshteyna
Ulan-Ude, The Republic of Buryatia, Russia
15 July, 2017 Open-air stage of "Voice of Nomads" International Music Festival
8 July, 201 7 Ethno gallery ORDA
Istanbul/Turkey and Odessa/Ukraine
Black Sea Project 2017
with Saadet Türköz (Vocal)Selen Gülün (Vocal, Piano)
Duygu Demir (Cello)Anya Tchaykovskaya (Vocal)
Vitaliy Tkachuk (Traditional flute)Butoh dance theatre "Ouroboros"（Odessa） Khakov's laboratory Arttelo (Khakov)
Director, Composer: Jun Kawasaki
Saadet Türköz (Vocal)Selen Gülün (Vocal, Piano)
Duygu Demir (Cello)Anya Tchaykovskaya (Vocal)
Vitaliy Tkachuk (Traditional flute)Jun Kawasaki (Double bass), Aya (Butoh dance), Choi Jae Chol (Korean instruments)
Ivan Eremeev, Andrey Utenkov, Volodimir Titarenko, Tymur Petrun, Alexandr Kovbasyuk, Alice Young, Natalya Chekan, Elena Ermishkina,Julia Blocha, Irina Avdeeva, Ekaterina Radushinskaya (Butoh dance)
Supported by PÜR ISTANBUL, Engin Yenidunya, Şevket Akıncı
Odessa International Theatre Festival, Ouroboros, Datskov Dmitry
Arts Council Tokyo (Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture)
Istanbul, Turkey
22 July, 2017 Bant Mag. Mekan
23 July, 2017 PÜR ISTANBUL
24 July, 2017 Bakırköy Municipality Theatre
Odessa, Ukraine
28 July, 2017 Odessa Museum of Western and Eastern Art Odessa International Theatre Festival 2017
Tokyo / Japan 2017
17 September 2017
Koen-Dori Classics
Jan Glembotzki (Violin) Keiko Komori (Clarinet) Aki Ozawa (Guitar)
Jun Kawasaki (Doublebass) Choi Jae Chol (Korean instruments)
Vocal and voice: Seika Miki, Satoshi Tsuboi, Kentaro Tsuda, Akira Yoshimatsu, Keiici Ai,
Dance: Aya, Hiroyo Miura
Kazan, Moscow,St .Petersburg/Russia
‘Trans-Steppe Road—Tokyo Project’2019
with
Sainkho Namtchylak (Vocal)
Vera Sazhina (Vocal, Accordion)
Синее Oзеро (Blue Lake)：Anya Tchaykovskaya (Vocal) Vladimir Volkov (Contrabass) Yuri Parfenov (Trumpet)
Sergey Letov (Sax, Flute)
Alexey Kruglov (Sax)Max Rothschild (Guitar)
Alina Mikhaylova (Dance)Aya (Dance)Nurbak Batulla (Dance)Anastasia Shcherbakova (Dance) Butoh workshop participants (Anastasia Epstein, Valeria Sabirova, Alexander Malyshev, Maria Rozhkovskaya, Yuri Izumi, Ilona Borodina, Karina Khabeeva, Resident artists in Guslitsa)
Hideto Miyuki (Video)
Contemporary Culture Center SMENA
14 March 2019
“Синее Oзеро (Blue Lake)” Russia-Japan Cross-cultural concert
17 March 2019 Open film studio LENDOK, Saint Petersburg, Russia
TRANE ZEN ART Tokyo-Moscow
18 March 2019 KOZLOV CLUB, Moscow, Russia
Concert with Sergey Letov
19 March 2019 GROUND Khodynka, Moscow, Russia
20 March 2019 Butoh session with Anastasia Shcherbakova GROUND Khodynka, Moscow, Russia
Culture Paradigms Rus / Jpn Art of Freedom by Usad'ba Jazz 5.0
21 March 2019 Cultural Center Come-In, Moscow, Russia
23 March 2019 DOM Cultural Center, Moscow, Russia
СВЕТ=0=ТЕНЬ (LIGHT = 0 = SHADOW) Art Residence Guslitsa, Russia
Butoh dance workshop:
23 and 24 March 2019
Concert: 24 March 2019
Supported by The Japan Foundation, Arts Council Tokyo (Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture)
