PERFORMANCES
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UPCOMING:
SECRET RENDEZVOUS Spring, 2011 HERE Arts Center, New York, NY TSW"s adaptation of Kobo Abe's 1977 novel, in a collaboration with Japanese Art Collective Nibroll.
The South Wing Theatre Company collaborates with Mikuni Yanaihara and her Yokohama-based art collective Nibroll to present a new adaptation of Kobo Abe's 1977 novel "Secret Rendezvous", chronicling the bizarrely erotic adventures of a man searching for his missing wife in a mysteriously vast underground hospital. From the moment that an ambulance appears in the middle of the night to take his wife, who protests that she is perfectly healthy, her bewildered husband realizes that things are not as they should be. His covert explorations reveal that the enormous hospital she was taken to is home to a network of constant surveillance, outlandish sex experiments, and an array of very odd and even violent characters. Within a few days, though no closer to finding his wife, the unnamed narrator finds himself appointed the hospital's chief of security, reporting to a man who thinks he's a horse. With its nightmarish vision of modern medicine and modern life, Secret Rendezvous is another masterpiece from Japan's most gifted and original writer of serious fiction, brought to American audiences for the first time through the collaboration of The South Wing's neo-expressionist style and Nibroll's breathtaking design. Developed through the HERE Artist Residency Program (HARP). Learn more about the reading and the project at HERE's webiste below: http://www.here.org/who/artists/southwing/ Also, see Ivana & Kameron's interview, also on HERE's website: http://www.here.org/harp/gospelvitrololow.mov Learn more about Nibroll: PAST PRODUCITONS: AOI! @ Underground Zero Festival July 8 & 10 @ 7pm, July 9 & 11 @ 9pm, July 12 @ 5pm P.S. 122, New York, NY AOI!
In a bold new adaptation of Yukio Mishima's modern Noh play, "The Lady Aoi", TSW distills the 1950's shingeki naturalism of the original text with their own brand of nouveau expressionism to expose the extremely conflicted nature of Mishima's psyche. Based on Yukio Mishima's "The Lady Aoi" MOSHEH TSW Artistic Director Kameron Steele directs Yoav Gal's videOpera @ HERE Arts Center Main Stage MOSHEH re-enacts the biblical saga of Moses as an ancient-futuristic ritual. Created by Yoav Gal, whose style has been termed “Indie Opera” by New York Times’ critic Anne Midgette, this work presents the new aesthetic in the realm of opera. It has evolved in small spaces and with limited means, and draws on a wide palette of genres such as performance art, video art, minimalism, modern dance and virtuosic singing. MOSHEH highlights some of the more obscure details and 'minor' characters found in the biblical text. Moses' sister, his wife, and his two mothers (biological and adoptive) present a version of the story that is different then the one generally told. Ancient, pagan traditions can be glimpsed in the details of the relationship of these mother figures and the evolving leader, in protective acts such as giving up a child for a river-bank adoption, or performing a blood-ritual circumcision in the desert. Another axis of the work is the relationship of Moses with God, a jealous and fearsome father figure. The piece is structured with God as the narrator (sung, chant-like, by an alto and counter-tenor in unison), and the ‘mother figures’ each with her own tableau. The role of Moses is performed by a dancer. The work does not attempt an over-arching narrative, rather it is a personal depiction of the leader in his early years, internalized and re-imagined by the creator in his own environment of contemporary, ‘grungy’ Brooklyn, New York, as well as in Israel, the creator’s homeland. The work is an attempt to open a window into a reality that is foreign to our contemporary sensibilities, yet familiar in its human core. /www.here.org/who/artists/mosheh/
The Prelude '07 Festival at The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, New York September 27th (The first workshop performance of Lady Aoi was presented at Institut del Teatre in Barcelona with Margalida Grimalt, Matxalen de Pedro Larrea and Jose Guirado)
In October, 2006 The South Wing and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) presented a staging of renowned Japanese theatre artist Terayama Shuji’s master workDeath in the Country. This work-in-progress performance, titled DEATH IN VACANT LOT!, opened on October 4 and ran for two weeks at 15 Nassau St. in lower Manhattan as part of LMCC’s Swing Space Series. Terayama’s films, plays and poetry – wildly popular in Japan – have rarely been seen in the West. For the first time in more than two decades, New Yorkers will be treated to a production of one of the 20th century’s most provocative and rebellious writers. A reworking of TSW's original HANJO at CRS Studio Theatre, NYC
A young woman pays the price for foreign love during a military dictatorship. An immigrant seeks citizenship despite a terrible sacrifice. A renegade citizen attempts to flee a crumbling empire. Through three narrative, Saudade investigates what happens when we server the relationship with our "home". Saudade is an original piece created by THE SOUTH WING. It was performed in July of 2005 at HERE Arts Center for the American Living Room. The American Living Room (TALR) is presented through HERE's Visiting Artist Program, which provides commissions and support through our festivals and series. Also supported by: Actors Without Borders/itonyc, Studio 111, TSW. THE SOUTH WING is further developing this piece for upcoming performances.
THE SOUTH WING presented the US premier of Hanjo in New York in November 2004 as part of the méxicoNow Festival. Previously, Hanjo was presented in Guadalajara, Mexico in November 2005 where it gained critical acclaim. Credits for the New York performance:
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