BLACK ROOM
The two works both include the word “black” in their titles.
What does the word “black” remind you of?
I associate this word with so many things.
Mourning, ritual, evil, night, dream, ecstasy, taboo, rite of passage, death, darkness, light, rebirth, and the list goes on and on. And with each word, more streams of words emerge. From a single word, it fans out into many different branches, creating a large tree. Some shine under the light of clear reasoning, aiming for the sky, while others intertwine with each other in the dark underground, sucking up nutrients from the chaos that exist in the realm of the unconscious.
As I follow the chain of words, I can’t help but recognize that there are words that have been bottled up for various reasons in my life. Some have congealed like stones in my consciousness, sometimes becoming seeds of regret. Am I the only one who keeps such words inside?
For me, the “black room” is the graveyard of those “words that were buried without ever being uttered.” Moreover at the same time, I think that the grave is also a womb that nurtures someone who remembers those words.
I wonder who that someone is.
Megumi Nakamura
Choreography / Performance: Megumi Nakamura
Music: Dirk Haubrich
Costume: Masaya Kushino
Text provided by Yoko Ando, Hana Sakai, Yasutake Shimaji, Masaya Kushino, Udai Shika, Nono Kinouchi, Eri Karatsu, Yoshinori Sekoguchi, Masakazu Ito, Norimasa Ushikawa, Aiko Oguro, Maki Miyakubo
Producer: Eri Karatsu (Aichi Prefectural Art Theater / Dance Base Yokohama)
Production Manager: Yoshinori Sekoguchi (Aichi Prefectural Art Theater)
Lighting Design: Masakazu Ito (RYU)
Sound Design: Norimasa Ushikawa
Administrator: Maki Miyakubo (Dance New Air), Nozomi Tanaka (Dance Base Yokohama)
Premiere: October 2021 (Aichi Prefectural Art Theater) *As part of “Genealogy of Dance”
Planned and Produced by Dance Base Yokohama
Co-produced by Dance Base Yokohama and Aichi Prefectural Art Theater
＊This work will be performed in succession with "Solo from BLACKBIRD".
Solo from BLACKBIRD
Choreography / Staging, Costume, Lighting (Concept): Jiří Kylián
Performance: Megumi Nakamura
Music: Traditional Georgian Music
Costume Design: Joke Visser
Premiere: 2001 (Saitama Arts Theater [Saitama, Japan]) 2001 (Holland Dance Festival [The Hague, Netherlands])
◆PERFORMANCE
2023 Performing Arts Selection 2023
・ [September] Takasaki City Theatre, Studio Theatre（Gunma）
・ [September] Takatsuki Arts Theatre, Large studio（Osaka）
2022 Performing Arts Selection 2022
・ [September] The Museum of Art, Kochi, Hall（Kochi）
・ [October] Alios Iwaki Performing Arts Center, Main Thater（Fukushima）
・ [October] RYUTOPIA Niigata City Performing Arts Center, Theater（Niigata）
・ [November] Kumamoto Prefectural Theater, Theater（Kumamoto）
・ [December] Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media, StudioA（Yamaguchi）
2021 DaBY Performing Arts Selection
・ [December] KAAT Kanagawa Arts Theatre, Large studio（Kanagawa）
2021 TRIAD DANCE PROJECT “Genealogy of Dance”
・ [October] Aichi Prefectural Art Theater, Mini Theater（Aichi）*Premiere
◆REVIEW
Mitsutane Ota （DaBY Performing Arts Selection 2021）
