Transportation of the Other

The project “Transportation of the Other – Sensory Transplant” is part of the DaBY residency program for 2025.
As the culmination of the residency period, which will begin in early February 2026, a performance of the work will be held, followed by an “after and “After Discussion” will be held for the further development of the project.

A documentary performance born from the experience of endometriosis.

In this project, we will look at acting as “an act of transplanting the senses of others into one’s own body,” and while observing the “discomfort” and “rejection” that arise in this process, we will reconsider the boundary between the self and the other.

In the fall of 2019 I was diagnosed with endometriosis.

It is a disease in which membranes that normally exist only inside the uterus grow elsewhere, such as in the ovaries, causing repeated bleeding, and is said to affect one in ten women of childbearing age. Extreme pain can lead to missed work, loss of employment, and restrictions on social and sexual life.

At the time, the doctor offered me two options: get pregnant now or stop my period as soon as possible. I choose to take the pill to stop menstruation altogether.

What if I had chosen to get pregnant then?

In this work, I would like to imagine that question by implanting or being implanted with the senses.

Currently raising two children nao who is currently raising two children, to write the book as a “donor” and her words as “organs, “ The Sense of Being a Mother “ to be “transplanted” into Takenaka, the “recipient”.

At the same time, Takenaka, “ Sense of endometriosis “ and textualized the 4 transplanted to four performers.

Through this process of “sensory transplantation,” we would like to consider how we can still live together, based on the premise that we cannot understand others.

Kako Takenaka

Performance Information

Date: Sunday, March 1, 13:00-
Running time: approx. 100 min.
After the performance, an after-discussion will be held for future development.
Guests:
Osamu Sunareo (dancer/choreographer)
Masaaki Shiraishi (editor, formerly of Igaku Shoin)
Kanoko Tamura (art translator)

Application

Fee: Free of charge
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Credits

Written, composed, and performed by Kako Takenaka
Performed by Akinobu Osaki, Shingo Ota, Yu Okamoto, Yume Tanaka
Lecture by Satoru Kimura
Text provided by nao tanigaki
Stage design by Tomomi Nakamura
Narrative partner: Shie Minamino (sushi)
Cooperation by Gaëtan Vourc’h
Planning and production: General Inc. Hydroblast

Venue

Dance Base Yokohama 3F
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KITANAKA BRICK&WHITE BRICK North 3F, 5-57-2 Kitanaka-dori, Naka-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa
Bashamichi Station, Minatomirai Line Exit 2a “Yokohama Kitanaka Knot” Direct connection

Venue Facilities

All-gender to ilets and showers: There are all-gender toilets and shower rooms on the third floor that anyone can use.
Multipurpose Restroom: There is a wheelchair accessible multipurpose restroom next to the supermarket across from the venue.

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Participant Profiles

Takenaka Kyoko Takenaka Kyoko
Producer, actor, theater educator. She was the first Japanese to pass the acting section at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Théâtre de France, and in 2016, she received her French National Actor’s Certificate. Based in Paris, she has performed on numerous stages, mainly in French public theaters, and in 2021, she obtained the French National Drama Educator’s Certificate. She has appeared in “A Matter of Fairies” and “Madama Butterfly” written and directed by Satoko Ichihara, wrote her first play in 2024, “Care and Acting”, and in 2025, organized and directed “Satellite Call Theatre” at the Arts Center BUG.

nao tanigaki
Born in Nara Prefecture and currently lives in Yamagata Prefecture. Writer and editor. In 2025, she wrote the script and performed for the first time in “Satellite Call Theatre,” an art project related to family care. In this project, she sensitively captures the irreversible transformation of her own body that accompanies childbirth, and offers a text that takes the “perineum,” a blind spot, as its starting point.

Osaki Terunobu
He started dancing at the age of 30 under Mika Kurosawa. He aims to be a cool and passionate dancer. He is interested in the inheritance of the performing arts and has studied Noh and Nihon Buyo (Japanese dance). In the past, she has performed in works by Yasuko Yogoshi, Hydroblast, Takuya Takemoto, Satoko Ichihara, and others. Born in 1984 in Tokyo.

Tanaka Yume Tanaka Yume
Actor and filmmaker, graduating from Rikkyo University in 2019 with a B.F.A. in Film and New Media from the Department of Film and New Media, Faculty of Contemporary Psychology. She has appeared in theater productions such as “Malevito no Kai”, “Amusement Park Revitalization Project”, and “Momeras”, and video works such as “Body Remember” directed by Keita Yamashina, and “Turtle House” directed by Makoto Kubota. In recent years, he has directed documentary films, “Act” (2021) and “Living” (2024), which have been selected at numerous film festivals in Japan.

Yu Okamoto Yu Okamoto
Yu Okamoto began classical ballet at an early age, and in 2011 began creating works as the leader of the dance troupe <TABATHA >. He has been involved in several productions, including “Sakasama no sekai” by Ikume Ito and the opera “Yuzuru” directed by Toshiki Okada, and is expanding his activities. Double winner of the “French Embassy Prize for Young Choreographers in Japan Van Cleef & Apère Prize” and “Sibiu International Theater Festival Prize” at Yokohama Dance Collection 2019.

Shingo Ota
Film director and actor. His first film, “Graduation,” won the Excellence Award and the Audience Award at the Image Forum Festival 2010. His feature documentary film “The End of a Special Time Allowed to Us,” which was made in response to the suicide of a friend, premiered at the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival 2013 and has since been released in 12 countries around the world. His major films include “The Unkind Ghost and the Monster” and “I am the Battlefield of Several Narratives.

Satoru Kimura
Aesthetist. Professor at Japan Women’s University. Specializes in modern aesthetics, dance research and criticism, and the philosophy of laughter. Since 2014, he has been running BONUS, a platform for dance creation, and has been practicing the creation of soil for dance creation.

Minamino Shie
Born in Osaka in 1986 and currently lives in Kyoto. Playwright, director, and costume designer. In 2016, she founded the performing arts group “Sushi”. He won the Playwright’s Prize at the 15th Sengawa Theatre Drama Competition.

Tomomi Nakamura Tomomi
Stage designer and scenographer. She is active mainly in stage and dance works. Recent works include Satoko Ichihara/Q “Kitty” and KAAT Kids Program 2025 “Watashi wo Tsunagu Tabi”. He has been involved in the exhibition space design and scenography at Recruit Art Center BUG, etc. He is also a part-time lecturer at Joshibi University of Art and Design. Part-time lecturer at Joshibi University of Art and Design.

Hydroblast Hydroblast
Hydroblast was founded in 2019 by filmmaker and actor Shingo Ota as a video and theater group, with actor Kako Takenaka joining as a producer in 2022. Based on a documentary approach, Hydroblast aims to create multifaceted works by defining the roles of each project. Representative works include “At Kinosaki,” directed by Shingo Ota, and “Numakage Shimin Pool,” as well as the stage productions “The Last Geishas” and “Care and Acting. https://hydroblast.asia/

Credits

Organized by: Kako Takenaka, Hydroblast
Co-organized by: Dance Base Yokohama