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Darkness created by adults<\/p>\n
Herds of children<\/p>\n
splash fear<\/p>\n
and excitement onto each other<\/p>\n
Waiting to be sent off<\/p>\n
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I want to go<\/p>\n
But I don’t want to go<\/p>\n
All the children who came back<\/p>\n
looked relieved<\/p>\n
The lit corridors<\/p>\n
may not be as scary<\/p>\n
as it looks<\/p>\n
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There is something at the back of the gym<\/p>\n
That we need to get<\/p>\n
It’s there<\/p>\n
But we can’t seem to get passed the toilet<\/p>\n
We felt that<\/p>\n
If we do get it<\/p>\n
the teacher hiding in the toilet will come out<\/p>\n
and scare us<\/p>\n
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“Tomomi” so impatient<\/p>\n
goes into the gym alone<\/p>\n
She seemed angry<\/p>\n
at our cowardness and at her own fear<\/p>\n
Only she knows what happened in there<\/p>\n
As “Tomomi” came back<\/p>\n
the teachers came out<\/p>\n
and scared us<\/p>\n
just as we thought<\/p>\n
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We all held hands<\/p>\n
screamed, and ran<\/p>\n
“Tomomi” held us tight<\/p>\n
and led us all the way<\/p>\n
The fact that she was strong<\/p>\n
or the fact that I can be weak<\/p>\n
or<\/p>\n
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the fact that we all aspire to be a strong person<\/p>\n
MAYBE, JUST MAYBE<\/p>\n
all seems right<\/p>\n
and seems wrong<\/p>\n
I screamed and ran<\/p>\n
out of excitment<\/p>\n
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The DaBY Collective Dance Project is a new project in which creators from different genres collaborate in a collective approach to creative activities at Dance Base Yokohama (DaBY).
The project will be directed and choreographed by DaBY associate choreographer Ryu Suzuki, and will involve young musicians, filmmakers, dramaturges, dancers, and production artists in their 20s and 30s, as well as stage designers with backgrounds in architecture. By bringing together creators who are not bound by the conventional framework of dance, and through repeated discussions based on their own expertise and ideas, and through experimentation with multiple perspectives, the project will explore the state of creation by artists in the new era of the spread of the new type of coronavirus infection.
The project, which began discussions more than six months ago and was fully launched in July 2020, will periodically present small works using various media such as video, sound, and photography under the theme of “gaps in perception” and the elements that emerge during creation, which will be called “fragments”. By presenting “fragments” to the public, the process of creation will be visualized, and the tryouts will explore the possibilities of further performing arts to see how these fragments can be constructed.
Direction and Choreography Ryu Suzuki (DaBY Associate Choreographer)
Dance Takayuki Ueda \/ Ken Nakagawa \/ Mano Hatanaka
Music Tatsuki Amano
Stage Design Hirotaka Isshiki \/ Kenjiro Miyano (On Design)
Video Daisuke Omiya
Dramaturg Seito Niwa
Production Nozomi Tanaka (DaBY)
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