About the event
The fourth piece of Mikuni Yanaihara Project. After exploring the relationship between the body and the text in Class 2 in the 3rd Grade and The Blue Bird―the latter was nominated for the Kishida Drama Award―Yanaihara became the talk-of-the-town among theatre-goers. Her work-in-progress staged in Komaba Agora Theatre was applauded by those in the fields of dance and drama. In the final production, Yanaihara surprised the audience by using Masaya Nakahara’s music and Takayuki Suzuki’s costumes. Her evolution never stops.
This is a story about our daily “habits.”
Mikuni Yanaihara will tell us about the memory that haunts our body as a habit, even when our mind doesn't recognize, in her sprinting dance with a theatrical approach.
It couldn’t get any better than this! At first, Yanaihara seemed to be trying her hand at making a “quiet drama” (laughter), but her attempt at properly constructing a “drama” ended up in the birth of an original expressive form. Following the trajectory set in her previous productions, Class 2 in the 3rd Grade and The Blue Bird, Yanaihara has evolved. However, the number of performers―6 vividly curved characters--is small than in the previous pieces. The text has becomes simpler, in the sense that the audience is freed from a need to follow the plot or from a desire to make sense of every word. In short, the performance succeeded in creating a situation, very rare in drama if not in dance, where the audience only need to let ourselves flow with the “groove.” It is a triumph for the wonderful actors’ individual and collective performance, not to mention Yanaihara’s direction, which drew out the best from the actors.
Keisuke Sakurai, taken from his blog entry
