The END DOSE NOT END , ORPHANS AND STARS Songs of Paul Celan 2015 and with Ayumi Paul 2016

Directed and Composed by Jun Kawasaki (Music poetic drama laboratory)

The end dose not end

ORPHANS AND STARS

The end dose not end　

(premier 2015 oct at Tokyo Theater X for Tadeusz Kantor 100th Anniversary)

Directed and Composed by Jun Kawasaki (Music poetic drama laboratory)

Ghosts are singing about hunting and nomadic people’s 20th century. That tribe has lived in Siberia along right side of Arugn river. They call themselves “Evenki”.

Other Ghosts who had died at Sonezaki river are going along the river. Can they arrive at the sea? Or can they not arrive at anywhere? This plot is based on Japanese traditional Ningyo joruri play Shinjyu Ten-no-amijima. It is a famous story of a lovers’ suicide that was written by Chikamatsu Monzaemon in the Edo period.

This fictitious North East Asia folk-opera was composed and directed by Jun Kawasaki.which were realized by singer ,dancer,actor and traditional Japanese puppet operator.

“Be counter to songs, but to songs(Uta to gyaku ni Uta ni)”. It is the words that Japanese poet Touzaburou Ono left. The verbal activity begins with conflict with impossibility of making songs. This is a reactionary route to opera.

Aki Ozawa (g), Shinichiro Kanda (syn ,pf)Jun Kawasaki (cb)Seika Miki(vocal)

Aya(Butoh)Hiroyo Miura(dance)Satomi Akutsu(dance)Nagako Tomaru(dance)

Sakae Yuki(puppet operator)

sung and acted by

Kentaro Tsuda Junko Kowashi Akira Yoshimatsu Xeiici Ai Yurie Inouchi Kanako Shiratori

Satoshi Tsuboi Takashi Mukai Ryota Ono

supported by

Hideto Miyuki(film)Daisuke Mikome(photo) Kentaro Nagatomo

Music and Poetic Drama Laboratory with Ayumi Paul (digest)2016

from Ayumi Paul violin recital and sound performance

8 May, 2016 at Theater X, Tokyo

Directed and Composed by
Jun Kawasaki (Music and Poetic Drama Laboratory)

Ayumi Paul, violin
Seika Miki, vocal
Jun Kawasaki, double bass
Aya, butoh dance
Hiroyo Miura, dance

Hideto Miyuki, camera

photo by Bozzo (http://www.bozzo.jp/)

Hiroyo Miura Akira Yoshimatsu Aya

Sakae Yuuki(Sakse Ebisawa)

Seika Miki

Hiroyo Miura

Aya HiroyoMiura

Satomi Akutsu

Satoshi Tsuboi Kanako Shiratori Yurie Inouchi Takashi Mukai Ryota Ono

Yurie Inouchi

Junko Kowashi

Shinichiro Kanda

Xeiici Ai

Kentaro Tsuda Xeiici Ai Aya

Nagako Tomaru Satomi Akutsu

Aki Ozawa

Jun Kawasaki(director and composer)

ORPHANS AND STARS Songs of Paul Celan
(premier 2015 June at Tokyo Theater X for Tadeusz Kantor 100th Anniversary )
Directed and Composed by Jun Kawasaki(Music poetic dorama laboratory)

In this piece, musicians and actors perform 20 songs. Original texts of each song are mainly from Jewish poet Paul Celan’s pieces and Bertolt Brecht’s pieces. Actors read their pieces, to the audience, to themselves, and to elsewhere. 　　

“There are still songs to sing beyond humankind”(Paul Celan).

Ayako Kosaka (conductor ,mezzo soprano)

Junichi Aoki (dramaturg)

music

Seika Miki (vo), Naoko Aoki (pf), Keiko Komori (cl), Aki Ozawa (g), Jun Kawasaki (cb)

Aya(Butoh)Hiroyo Miura(dance)

Actor

Kentaro Tsuda Mariko Muraoka Junko Kowashi Kanako Shiratori Mariko Tobiyama

Satoshi Tsuboi Yurie Inouchi Takakashi Mukai Ryota Ono Mizore Yamada Junichi Aoki

Hikari Tuchiya

supported by

Hideto Miyuki(film)Daisuke Mikome(photo) Kentaro Nsgatomo