DANCE SELECTION at THE PIT

2007/2008 Season Contemporary Dance
Dance Planet No.25

DANCE SELECTION at THE PIT

THE PIT

CAST
	Iwabuchi Takiko(Against Newton)/ Hirayama Motoko & Nohmi Kenshi(Chaconne)/ Uchida Kaoru & Koga Yutaka(Espresso)/Kawano Mako(Circus)

PERFORMANCES

January 2008	18	19	20
January 2008	Fri	Sat	Sun
3:00			X
6:00		X
7:00	X

Doors will open 30 minutes before the opening of the performance.

ADVANCE TICKETS
	Available from Sunday 11 November, 2007 at 10:00am. To order tickets, please call +81-3-5352-9999 (10:00am-6:00pm). Internet ticket reservation available through the following Websites.(Japanese only) http://pia.jp/t http://eplus.jp/

TICKET PRICES (with tax)

Seat	A	B	Z
Price(yen)	5,250	3,150	1,500

*Seat Z(¥1,500): Sold at the NNTT Box Office and some Ticket Pia outlets on the performance date. One ticket per person. No phone reservations.
*Same day student tickets (50% off, except Seat Z): Sold at the NNTT Box Office and some Ticket Pia outlets on the performance date. One ticket per person. No phone reservations. Students must bring a valid student ID.

Looking back over the past ten years, we have selected works that received high acclaim when first staged at the New National Theatre, Tokyo. Memorable masterpieces with request from the audience, will be shown at the gala performances in this anniversary season.

Iwabuchi Takiko & Dance Theatre LUDENS: Against Newton
(first staged at NNTT in March 2003)

Against Newton is a portrait of the human being. We swing between two opposing vectors: obeying the force of gravity and feeling that “this is enough,” and defying gravity and sensing that there is “more and more from here.”

Hirayama Motoko & Nohmi Kenshi: Chaconne
(first staged at NNTT in September 2003)

A collaboration between Hirayama Motoko, with her agile body and rich artistic expression, and Nomi Kenshi, who is highly acclaimed for his works born of modern aesthetics and overflowing with a sense of speed. The world of this work is created through keen sensitivity that responds to the ambience of the times. The theme of the relationality and harmony between men and women is portrayed in fluid movements set to Bach’s Chaconne.

Uchida Kaoru & Koga Yutaka: Espresso
(first staged at NNTT in September 2003)

In this work, male and female tactics unfold in a dazzling dance interwoven with a violin performance by Suenaga Chiko. Enjoy this chic and uplifting dance by Uchida Kaoru, known for her dramatic and sharp movements, and choreographer/dancer Koga Yutaka, who is a performer in the Tsuka Kohei Theatrical Company, Kita-ku.

Kawano Mako: Circus
(first staged at NNTT in September 2006)

“The first time that a foreign circus visited Japan was 1864, and the circus reached its glory days in Japan in 1926. In the circus, we see postwar Japan and its rigid society that made people feel that they would not survive if they did not express themselves somehow. Now—when the world has been dubbed “international society”—is the time to explore the spiritual and hidden strengths of people who have walked before us. Particularly fascinating are the things that the common people created against the backdrop of their era.
The theme of this piece is not the circus itself, but our internal circus in the year 2008, and this work sheds light through that context into the hearts and lives of the common people who think about how they will live their tomorrow.”(Kawano Mako)