OrganWorks2020

"HOMO"

2020 Journey of Humanity:OrganWorks Dances Humanity
A journey tracing the path of humanity nurtured
by communication through condensed dance

March 6-8,2020
KAAT Kanagawa Arts Theatre Large Studio

Direction • Choreography: Shintaro Hirahara

Cast: Shintaro Hirahara, Ippei Shiba, Yasushi Shoji, Takuya Sato, Junpei Hamada, Ikegami Takkun,
          Aya Yakushiji, Taeko Machida, Mutsumi Komatsu, Maho Takahashi, Haruka Watanabe, Sae Onishi, Lemi Murai

Set Design: Rie Kawakami
Music: Yuta Kumachi

Stage Manager: Chinatsu Iwaya
Lighting Design: Akiyo Kushida
Sound Director: Kohei Harashima (SONICWAVE)
Promotional Desiner: Masahiro Yaginuma(GOAT)
Title Calligraphy: menme

“HOMO” is a word that makes up the word homo sapiens, which means human beings. Homo means the human genus, and sapiens means wisdom.

This work begins with the question of what the state of modern humanity is, and explores it.

First, various things are removed from humanity, and then elements are slowly added to the shell of humanity, making it a grand journey to explore the origins of humanity.

After removing wisdom, emotions, sensibility, voice, religion, and communication, the journey unravels the physical nature of humans and attempts to regain intelligence from there.

The concept of the work is to explore where the obsession with being “HOMO” comes from, where we are, and where we are going, by approaching it through various physical expressions including dance, and exploring the excessive development of civilization that humanity is facing, and the peace that primitive humanity desires.

Inspired by Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey,” the work expresses the development of human intelligence and the changes in the environment surrounding it.

photo by Hajime Kato

photo by Hajime Kato    

 

 

 

 

 

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HOMO

photo by Hajime Kato    

photo by Hajime Kato    

 

 

 

 

 

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発語

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Let’s begin

photo by Hajime Kato    

Planning, Production,Organaization: OrganWorks

Partnership: KAAT Kanagawa Arts Theatre

Sponsorship: Toyota Creative Space Project


Grants: Japan Arts Council, The Saison Foundation


Production Support: Lerayonvert, RACKA Inc.