Darkness created by adults

Herds of children

splash fear

and excitement onto each other

Waiting to be sent off

 

I want to go

But I don’t want to go

All the children who came back

looked relieved

The lit corridors

may not be as scary

as it looks

 

There is something at the back of the gym

That we need to get

It’s there

But we can’t seem to get passed the toilet

We felt that

If we do get it

the teacher hiding in the toilet will come out

and scare us

 

“Tomomi” so impatient

goes into the gym alone

She seemed angry

at our cowardness and at her own fear

Only she knows what happened in there

As “Tomomi” came back

the teachers came out

and scared us

just as we thought

 

We all held hands

screamed, and ran

“Tomomi” held us tight

and led us all the way

The fact that she was strong

or the fact that I can be weak

or

 

the fact that we all aspire to be a strong person

MAYBE, JUST MAYBE

all seems right

and seems wrong

I screamed and ran

out of excitment

 

DaBY Collective Dance Project

The DaBY Collective Dance Project is a new project in which creators of 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 include young musicians in their 20s and 30s, filmmakers, dramaturgs, dancers, production artists, and 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 program will explore the state of creation by a new generation of artists living in this time of spreading new-type 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,” calling the elements that emerge during creation “fragments”. By exhibiting “fragments” to the public, the process of creation will be made visible, and tryouts will be held to explore how these fragments can be constructed and the possibilities of further performing arts.

Direction and choreography by Ryu Suzuki (DaBY Associate Choreographer)
Dance Takayuki Ueda / Ken Nakagawa / Mano Hatanaka
Music Tatsuki Amano
Stage design by Hirotaka Isshiki / Kenjiro Miyano (On Design)
Video Omiya Daisho
Dramaturg Aoto Niwa
Production Nozomi Tanaka (DaBY)

For more information
https://dancebase.yokohama/main2/event_post/collectivetryout-1

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