Sandbox Bento — Wandering Love: Ha (Break)
TAIHEN
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In 1995, the first edition of TPAM featured two shows, one of which was by the performance troupe TAIHEN (the other was by Bangarra Dance Theatre from Australia). A quarter of a century later, at the first edition of YPAM, TAIHEN’s latest trilogy “Wandering Love: Jo-Ha-Kyu” will be presented in three consecutive nights.
With its philosophical roots in the non-compromising and non-reconciliatory disability liberation movement of the 1970s, TAIHEN has established a unique form of physical theater using leotards as costumes that clearly show the forms of the severely physically disabled. The theme of the trilogy, which was inspired by a mass murder in 2016 at a care home in Sagamihara, Kanagawa, is “love” — a theme that the company had forbidden itself to address for a long time.
The second piece Sandbox Bento, which was premiered in 2019 and presented at TPAM2020, is a humorous fantasy in which discarded lunchbox ingredients go on a journey and meet various others amidst live klezmer music.
Live streaming will also be available. Professional registrants will be able to watch it on Swapcard. Streaming for non-professional audience will be at ZAIKO.
Organizers: Japan Council of Performers’ Rights & Performing Arts Organizations; Kanagawa Kenmin Hall (Kanagawa Arts Foundation); Japan Center, Pacific Basin Arts Communication
Co-organizer: Yokohama International Performing Arts Meeting Executive Committee
TAIHEN
An Osaka-based performance troupe founded in 1983 by Manri Kim, a daughter of Korean classical performer Hong Ju Kim who worked in Japan, after 10 years in an institution and involvement in a radical movement for liberation of the disabled in the 1970s. It is a company with a disabled director and disabled performers that aims to create “unexplored beauty by turning the disabilities of the physically disabled into expressive power” and “physical expression by the physically disabled that can overturn the values of eugenics.” TAIHEN is an anagram of HENTAI (pervert).
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