Zen-go (Megumi Kamimura + Shinichi Takashima)
Shuichi Session "Meetings with proper time"
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Shuichi (once a week) session by Zen-go "Meetings with proper time" starts on November 9.
In these ten sessions, we discuss, do excercises, and create a performance piece as a group.
All the menu is about "Time". How can we realize that time is running and deal with it objectively while being in the middle of the time flow?
- Fascilitator
- Zen-go (Megumi Kamimura, Shinichi Takashima)
- Time & Date
- 2016 | 9, 16, 23, 30, Nov & 7, 14, 21, Dec
2017 | 11, 18, 25, Jan (Wed)
*Final performance date is planned in the end of Feb or the beginning of Mar.
19:30~21:30 - Venue
- blanClass (Idogaya）
- Fee
- Application fee : 5,000 yen (*only for those who haven't joined any programs at blanClass)
Participation fee : 35,000 yen - Reservation & Inquiry
- Please contact from this page
- Artist Profile
- Zen-go
Launched in 2011 by Megumi Kamimua (dancer/choreographer) and Shinichi Takashima (artist). They deal with human body, objects, and words aiming at maintaining a balance between improvisation and composition. They produce performance works which span both dance and visual art, treating the materiality of body and conception of it when bodies are recognized as the central theme.
Sado Island Galaxy Art Festival 2016
Megumi Kamimura+Mirukusouko [ Workshop ]
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On Sado Island, a new art festival has been launched this year.
Megumi Kamimura and Mirukusouko(Azumi Kajiwara, Naotaka Miyazaki) presents a dance piece [Workshop] at a oyster hut by the Kamo lake. - Concept/Performance
- Megumi Kamimura, Artists-unit Mirukusouko(Azumi Kajiwara, Naotaka Miyazaki)
- Time & Date
- 27, Aug, 2016（Sat） 14:30
- Venue
- Oyster Hut Akitsu-maru (Ryotsu, Sado Island）
- Ticket
- 300 yen (1 drink included)
- Host
- Sado Island Galaxy Art Festival Committee
Zen-go performance [Before or After ]
- Forenotice or inventory. When is it now at all? When nothing can be said about the middle, “before” and “after” come into existence, just like foresight or afterglow is needed to deal with something that cannot be caught by five senses. If you were presented the present, you will be locked out because you would arrive too early or too late, no matter which you would choose “X will happen from now” or “What happend now was X”.
- Concept/Performance
- Zen-go (Megumi Kamimura, Shinichi Takashima)
- Time & Date
- 19, Dec, 2015（Sat） 16:00 / 19:30
（Door opens 30 mins before）
- Venue
- blanClass (Idogaya）
- Ticket
- 1500 yen
- Reservation & Inquiry
- Please contact from this page
- Artist Profile
- Zen-go
Launched in 2011 by Megumi Kamimua (dancer/choreographer) and Shinichi Takashima (artist). They deal with human body, objects, and words aiming at maintaining a balance between improvisation and composition. They produce performance works which span both dance and visual art, treating the materiality of body and conception of it when bodies are recognized as the central theme.
Open Yoga Class in Waseda
- Yoga class in Waseda. Open to everyone, every level.
Maybe a good opportunity to move and feel through your body in a relaxing atmosphere.
- Time & Date
- Nov. 30, (Mon) 15:50〜17:05
- Place
- Enoki-cho Community Center, Tatami room（7 mins walk from Waseda station）
- Fee
- 1800 yen
- Application & Inquiry
- info@kamimuramegumi.info
Public video shooting of [Giving Bodies to Lines] by Kohei Kobayashi
Public video shooting of [Giving Bodies to Lines] by Kohei Kobayashi. The video shot at this event will be opened on the internet afterwards. - Concept/Composition
- Kohei Kobayashi
- Line
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Asa Itoh (Aesthetics)
- Performance
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Megumi Kamimura(Dancer/Choreographer), Mari Fukutome(Dancer/Choreographer), Ikuhiro Yamagata(core of bells)
- Camera
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Hisatake Watanabe
- Date & Time
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Sunday, Sept 27, 2015
15:00-17:00 - Venue
- The National Art Center Tokyo, Special Exhibition Gallery 2E
- * The ticket of the exhibition "Artist File 2015" will be required at the entrance of the exhibition.
- Exhibition info
- Artist File 2015 Next Doors: Contemporary Art in Japan and Korea
July 29 (Wed.) - October 12, 2015 (Mon.)
Closed Tuesdays (except Tue., Sept. 22)
Time 10:00-18:00 *10:00-20:00 on Fridays
Ongoing Fes
Megumi Kamimura dance performance "Workshop"
- Coreography/Performance
- Megumi Kamimura
- Cooperation
- Milk Storage (Azumi Kajiwara, Naotaka Miyazaki
- Time & Date
- 19, Sept, 2015（Sat） 16:00 / 19:00
20, Sept, 2015（Sun） 16:00 / 19:00（Door opens 30 mins before）
* 20 seats only for each performance - Venue
- Art Center Ongoing (Kichijoji）
- Ticket
- Advance：2,000 yen／Door：2,300 yen
- Reservation & Inquiry
- Call to: +81 (0)422 26 8454
Mail to: info@ongoing.jp
Please fix the title as " Megumi Kamimura Performance", and include your name, phone number, performance time, number of ticket in the text. Your reservation is completed by receiving our reply.
私は、身体の現し方をまるで分かっていない。口の利き方をまるで分かっていないのと同じくらいに。 あなたは、眼前の出来事の見方をまるで分かっていない。足の運び方をまるで分かっていないのと同じくらいに。 私たちは、踊る仕方をまるで分かっていない。うまい呼吸の仕方をまるで分かっていないのと同じくらいに。 それでも私はダンスの作り方を知っていると思っている。材料は全て手元に揃っているし、設計図は多すぎるくらいに持っている。どこに何があったかを思い出し、点検し、いらないものは全て誰かにあげてしまう。そして、何もないところに、何かを作り出そうとする身振りを、作り出してみることにする。 神村恵 ※「ワークショップ」とは元来、「工房」「作業場」など協働で仕事を行う場を意味する。 1960年代ごろのアメリカにおいて、専門的なアイデアや技術を共同で検討・実施し、双方向的に学び合う場 としてのワークショップが行われるようになる。 ポストモダンダンスなど新しい形態の舞台芸術を創造する母体として大いに関心が持たれるようになり、それらの試みが注目をあびて、 演劇やダンス、美術などの世界で広く行われるようになった。- Artist Profiles
- Milk Storage ミルク倉庫
Artists Unit. Based in their atelier in Kodaira and atelier/exhibition space "milkyeast" in Hacchobori, Tokyo. Members: Naotaka Miyazaki, Hiroaki Takiguti, Kazushi Yoshida, Kota Sakagawa, Eisuke Shinozaki, Azumi Kajiwara, Yuichiro Nakayama
http://www.milksouko.com/ - Megumi Kamimura 神村恵
Dancer/Choreographer. Started ballet training in her childhood. Since 2004 she has presented her solo works in various places in Japan and abroad. Kamimura Megumi Company was founded in 2006. In 2010 she was selected as a finalist of Toyota Choreography Award. In 2014, the latest company piece "Gut pathos" was presented at ST Spot in Yokohama. Kamimura’s approach to space, her creation of movements that are at the same time simple and intense, gained her wide attention in the Japanese theater and dance scene.
Michio Tsuda and Megumi Kamimura Artists' Talk
Artists' talk by Michio Tsuda and Megumi Kamimura will be held as a part of Miciko Tsuda's exhibition
"The Day After Yesterday" at TARO NASU .
18:00-19:00
Friday, March 27th - Saturday, April 25th, 2015
Gallery Hours: 10:00-18:00 Tue. - Sat.
Closed on Sun., Mon., and Public Holidays
SNAC performance series 2014 Vol.6
『procedure of analysing, tecnique of forgetting ver.2.0』
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I can tell. This trial is one of the few "axes of possibilities" left in contemporary dance (dead word yet?).
- Keisuke Sakurai (Dance critic) - Composition/Performance
- Megumi Kamimura, Shinichi Takashima, Masayuki Kanemori, Eijiro Takahashi
- Date
- 18, Jan, 2015（Sun） 15:00 / 19:00（Doors open 30 mins before）
- Venue
- SNAC (Kiyosumi-Shirakawa）
- Ticket
- Advance：1,500 yen／Door：1,700 yen
- * No English subtitles will be provided.
- Reservation
- Mail to: info@snac.in
Please fix the title as " procedure of analysing, tecnique of forgetting ver.2.0", and include your name, phone number, performance time, number of ticket in the text. Your reservation is completed by receiving our reply.
- Contact
- SNAC info@snac.in 03-3770-5721（HEADZ）
※When making phone call, please call after 13:00. - Host: Azumabashi Dance Crossing Committee
Support： Saison Foundation, Arts Council Tokyo
「プロセスを見せる」とは、今やよく使われる言い回しだが、それが有効であるとすれば、どのような点にあるのだろうか。例えば、いわゆる舞台作品が、見た目も美しく盛りつけられ完成された料理を出す高級料亭だとすれば、プロセスを見せることはちょうど、お好み焼き屋では諸々の素材を出されるのみで、客が自分で料理を完成させるのと似ていると、まずは言うことができるだろう。しかしそれでも、お好み焼き屋は料理のワークショップをしているのではなく、あくまで料理そのものを提供しているのである。
作品を没入的に体験する、感動を得る、ということがここ数年の舞台芸術において、重要さを増してきている（そしてややこしいことに、時事的な社会問題を扱うこととカタルシスを与えることが、セットになっている）。作家は観客の感情のスイッチを押したがり、観客もまたそのスイッチを押されたがっている。しかし、そんなに一足跳びに（もしくは時に斜に構えながら）「感動体験」に向かうことに、疑問を感じずにはいられない。作品体験とはむしろ、そこに障壁があることで体験それ自体を問い直すこと、つまりその了解の遅延をも含んでいるはずだ。一つ一つ石を積み上げるように、部品を組み立てるように、具材を刻んでいくように、作品を作り、鑑賞することはできないだろうか。
体験しているこれが何なのか、作る手順や仕組みを開示し、それを観客が共有してしまえば、その仕組みを忘れて一つの完結した作品世界として没頭し、感情を掻き立てられるには、一層の努力が必要となる。感動の敵は分析である。
忘れることをより困難にするために、まず分けることが必要なのだ。そのうえで、忘れたらどうなるのか。分析を伴いつつ、なおも忘れるような状況とは、どのようなものなのか。上質な製品は、工程の複雑さや困難さを感じさせず、水や空気のようにするっと消費できてしまう。そこに向かわずに「何なのこれ？」と精査する、その姿勢こそ、私たちが観客と共有したいものだ。つまりは、隠蔽の反対。幻惑の反対。ウェルメイドの反対。完了形の反対。全体の反対。
料理をしに行くつもりも、料理を習いに行くわけでもない。それでも私たちが、ついお好み焼き屋に足を運んでしまうのはなぜなのか？ それが提供するのは言わば、完成されたプロダクトではなく、プロセスの設計図と部品だ。調理だけでなく食べることもまた、瞬時ではないプロセスであることを経験させることが、お好み焼き屋の特質なのだ。そして食べることと同様に、行うことと連動するような”観る”ことも、逐一のプロセスとしてしか現れない。
このお好み焼き屋モデルを推し進めようとする私たちの試みの極北は、『注文の多い料理店』だろうか。いやむしろ、私たちは自らを料理人としてのみ位置づけるのではなく、観客のみならず作り手自身をも、調理されうる素材として提供するつもりである。準備と実現、実現とその感受の不可思議な関係が、そこではテーブルに載せられるだろう。
（神村恵、高嶋晋一）- Artist Profiles
- Megumi Kamimura 神村恵
Dancer/Choreographer. Started ballet training in her childhood. Since 2004 she has presented her solo works in various places in Japan and abroad. Kamimura Megumi Company was founded in 2006. In 2010 she was selected as a finalist of Toyota Choreography Award. In 2014, the latest company piece "Gut pathos" was presented at ST Spot in Yokohama. Kamimura’s approach to space, her creation of movements that are at the same time simple and intense, gained her wide attention in the Japanese theater and dance scene. - Takashima Shinichi 高嶋晋一
Artist, born in Tokyo 1978. He has been creating performance and video works since 2003. His motivation derives from the floating feeling (sensation of zero-gravity) which is gained by treating his own body materially and functionally. Major solo exhibitions;“One foot on the moon” (05), “These fallish things” (08) (Gallery Objective Correlative, Tokyo). Major exhibitions/performances; “Body as Interimage” (Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media, 09), “14 Evenings”(The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, 12), "exonym/endonym"(as the performance unit"Zen-go" in Brooklyn International Performance Art Festival) .- Masayuki Kanemori 兼盛雅幸
Dancer, born in Osaka 1972. He has been practicing Butoh under Minoru Takahashi since 1995. After graduating from Pappa TARAHUMARA Performing Arts Institute, he performed in Pappa TARAHUMARA for several years. In 2009, he presented his solo piece "Nantonaku yuugureni". Core member of performance group "Sekai Souchi(world gizmo)".- Eijiro Takahashi 高橋永二郎
Artist/Musician, born in Tokyo 1979. Completed B Seminar Learning System. He creates art works with electronics, and also engages in stage setting/props in several theater companies such as Theater Company ARICA. Major group exhibitions; "Cuisine and Contemporary Art", "Machines with hearts"（both in BankART1929）, "Tokunoshima Art Project". - Masayuki Kanemori 兼盛雅幸
Megumi Kamimura dance workshop
何かを稽古することの中には、できなかったことをできるようにすること、実はできていなかったことを発見すること、に加えて、
これからできるようになるかもしれないことを作り出し見つけ出すこと、があると思います。いわば、身体の中にいつ爆発するかは分からない時限爆弾をセットしていく、みたいなことです。
身体で考え、探ること、思考を動きの中で具体化していくことの両方に興味がある方、ご参加お待ちしています。
photo by Kazuyuki Matsumoto
Dec. 17（Wed）19:00〜21:00
Dec. 19（Fri） 19:00〜21:00
Dec. 21（Sun） 15:00〜17:00
※Please include your name and contact info.
Gustavo Ciriaco "A room of wonder | Tokyo"
TOKYO EXPERIMENTAL FESTIVAL Vol.8 - TEF Performance
- Date
- Nov. 15-17, 2013
- Admission
- Free
- Colloborators
- Daiske Kino-Shita / Kae Ishimoto / Kento Nito / Koh Sato / Yoi Kawakubo /
Megumi Kamimura / Noriyuki Kiguchi / Ryo Fujii / Takumi Kitada - Venue
- TWS shibuya
- Outline
- A room of wonder takes inspiration in the wonder rooms, the private prototypes of modern museums under Renaissance times, in order to create a museum of experiences, a collection of wonders of a group of artists and its insertion in real time in an exhibition room.
A collection of Japanese men and women, their biographies, their days, their belonging to different art histories, imaginaries and generations, working collaboratively across fields for the creation of a room of wonders. - Organize
- Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture, Tokyo Wonder Site
- Support
- Goethe-Institut Tokyo, Polish Institute Tokyo
[Support] Rio de Janeiro Cultural Secretariat
Ongoing Fes - Experimental Unit (Megumi Kamimura X Natsuko Tezuka)
Dance performance "half man-half fish with a half-human-looking face"
- Date
- Sep. 15-16, 2013 19:30
- Venue
- Art Center Ongoing (10 minutes walk from Kichijoji Station)
- Admission fee
- Advance 2000 yen / Door 2300 yen
- PV
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2omwTiGrkdw
Whenever Wherever Festival 2013
Zen-go (Megumi Kamimura X Shinichi Takashima) "to enquire (tada-su)"
- Date
- Oct. 13(Sun) 15:00
- Venue
- Morishita Studio B (4 minutes walk from Morishita Station)
- Admission fee
- 1000 yen
Round Table | Portrait of Choreography
- Date
- Oct. 19(Sat) 14:00-17:00
- Venue
- Morishita Studio B (4 minutes walk from Morishita Station)
- Admission fee
- 500 yen
Structured improvisation performance [ D.H.L ]
- Date
- Oct. 20(Sun) 18:00〜
- Venue
- Morishita Studio B (4 minutes walk from Morishita Station)
- Admission fee
- 1000 yen
- Whenever Wherever Festival 2013 Site
- http://bodyartslabo.com/wwfes2013/festival
Talk session with artist, Kohei Kobayashi
- Date
- Oct. 5, 2013 14:00-16:00
- Guest
- Megumi Kamimura (dancer/choreographer) / Mari Fukutome (dancer)
- Venue
- Okazaki City Museum (Okazaki city, Aichi prefecture)
- Outline
- In the exhibition "Humor and Leap... Touch there" at Okazaki City Museum,
Kohei Kobayashi's new artwork "Z O M B I E T O W N" is exhibited.
Megumi joins a talk session with the artist as the demonstration of the work. - Exhibition Site
- http://www.city.okazaki.aichi.jp/museum/bihaku/handl/index.html
Ongoing Fes - Experimental Unit (Megumi Kamimura X Natsuko Tezuka)
Dance performance "half man-half fish with a half-human-looking face"
- Date
- Sep. 15-16, 2013 19:30
- Venue
- Art Center Ongoing (10 minutes walk from Kichijoji Station)
- Admission fee
- Advance 2000 yen / Door 2300 yen
- PV
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2omwTiGrkdw
Brain Strike vol.2 - what is "political"?
- Date
- Sep. 7(Sat) 18:00
- Venue
- Chateau 2F (Musashi-koganei)
- Guest
- Chigaya Kinoshita / Minoru Ide / Shinichi Takashima
- Admission fee
- 500 yen (1 drink included)
- Details
- More info will be updated soon!
Zen-Go (Megumi Kamimura x Shinichi Takashima) participated in
Brooklyn International Performance Art Festival
- Date
- Jul. 7(Sun)
- Venue
- Grace Exhibition Space (Brooklyn, NY)
- Outline
- "Which One is the Ghost?"
Text written for BIPAF by Megumi Kamimura. - Details
- Brooklyn International Performance Art Festival Official Site
TPAM Direction Plus - Dance Track Project vol.2
- Date
- Feb. 14(Thu) - 16(Sat) 17:55
- Venue
- Around TPAM main venues
Feb. 14 : Kaiko Hiroba (Port Opening Square)
Feb. 15 : ZOU-NO-HANA Park
Feb. 16 : Kanagawa Arts Theatre
*Subject to change in case of adverse weather. - Admission fee
- Free (Standing)
- Outline
- The mobile DANCE TRUCK PROJECT uses the freight box of a truck to bring performances to various locations in the vicinity of the main TPAM venues. Some of Japan’s most exciting representatives of current choreographic impulses are inspired by the extreme minimalism of a truck as a ‘stage’ juxtaposed in distinctive urban landscapes. The performances start each evening at 5:55pm, with different 30-minute performances each day.
Feb. 14 (Thu) : Kitamari / Tsuyoshi Shirai / Ho Ho-Do / Kumotaro Mukai
Feb. 15 (Fri) : Megumi Kamimura / Yukio Suzuki / Emily Tanaka / Tsuyoshi Shirai & Yoko Higashino
Feb. 16 (Sat) : Tsuyoshi Shirai / Yoko Higashino / FUKAIPRODUCEhagoromo
*Order of appearance TBA here on the performance dates. - Details
- TPAM Official Site
Dance Track Project Official Site
F/T Fringe performances Kamimura Megumi company new production "Exclave"
- Date
- Nov. 26(Fri) 20:00
Nov. 27(Sat) 14:30 / 19:00
Nov. 28(Sun) 14:30 / 19:00
*Door opens 30 mins before the start. - Venue
- Theater Green Box in Box
- Choreography
- Megumi Kamimura
- Performance
- Taiyo Tochiaki, Mari Fukutome, Megumi Kamimura
- Staff
- Stage Design Kohei Kobayashi / Lighting Design Takayuki Tomiyama / Sound Norimasa Ushikawa
- Management
- PLATEAU
- Production co-operation
- ST Spot, Precog
- Special co-operated by
- Steep Slope Studio
- Ticket
- Advance 2800 yen / Door 3200 yen / Student 2500 yen (only in advance)
WOSK presents vol.10
- Date
- Oct. 16(Sat)
- Venue
- SNAC (4-minutes-walk from Kiyosumi-shirakawa st.)
- Performance
- Megumi Kamimura, Tetsuya Umeda, Akibin Orchestra, LE TON MITE, core of bells
- Details
- For details (Only in Japanese)
Solo series "Visitors" Vol.1
- Date
- Sep. 25(Sat) 14:30 open / 15:00 start
18:30 open / 19:00 start - Venue
- SNAC (4-minutes-walk from Kiyosumi-shirakawa st.)
- Ticket
- 2500 yen (Advance / Door）
Megumi Kamimura + Mayako Ohkura "Tale, fang, and tale again."
- Date
- Sep. 16(Thu) 19:30-21:00
Sep. 17(Fri) 19:30-21:00
Sep. 18(Sat) 18:00-19:30
*Door opens 30 mins before the start. - Venue
- Art Center Ongoing (10 minutes walk from Kichijoji Station)
- Ticket
- Advance 1500 yen / Door 1800 yen / 3days 3500 yen (only in advance)
*30 seats only for each day - Outline
- I have found lots in common and differences between Mayako Ohkura, who is a marvelous butoh dancer.
In this event, we exchange emails in advance which will be updated on Kamimura's blog.
Based on that we will have talk sessions and small solo performances.
In each day there should be new discoveries between each of us and the audience.
*Mayako Ohkura web site