Pepper's Collaboration Program ART meets BUTO & SOUND *Pepper's Gallery/Saturday Evening's Workshop Dance, Contemporary Dance, Japanese Music, and other collaboration of performance and art will be held at the basement of Pepper's Gallery. It is an act-upon experiental program as a response to the ASIAN STYLE II exhibition.

11/3sat

program2 "Guide to Sarashino Danchi Complex" Dance Group TATARA Challenges MEO SAITO MEO SAITO artist VS Performing Group TATARA performer MASATORA ISHIKAWA AKIHIRO HASEGAWA

MASATORA ISHIKAWA 1973 Born in Asakusa Tokyo 1996 Enter performance group and has been in all of their works 2000 Form performance group TATARA. Now collaborating with artist from many genre AKIHIRO HASEGAWA 1977 Born in Tokyo 1996 Enter Tokyo Geijutsu University 2000 Enter performance group TATARA 2001 Perform in "BASHARA NO TORA"

11/10sat

program4 "SORA NO HATE" KOJI MASAKI artist VS Performance unit SHIKI Yoshifumi Hashimoto (dance) Gojiro Sakamoto (sound)

YOSHIFUMI HASHIMOTO Since 1992, he has studied pantomime, silent acting , and break dance. 2000 he becomes solo after experiencing many events and shows. 2001 forms SHIKI GOJIRO SAKAMOTO Graduate Tokyo Geijutsu University. While performing at many lives and nagauta performances, in 2000, he begins improvising with electric guitars and shamisen. 2001 forms SHIKI

11/17sat

program6 "KIMOCHI" Azusa Akahane (artist) VS Akito Takimoto (dance performer) Tatsuya Honda (composer)

performance photo : Shinya Sorimachi AKITO TAKIMOTO From the outer difference, I wish to pursue the inner difference of "silence". Born in 1976, he begins classic ballet from the age of 3. He has studied at an university in USA from 1995~2001. Learned from a dancer who is now performing at downtown NY. TATSUYA HONDA He has reputation as a composer /arranger and has worked with commercial music. In 1993 he created his own band. Now he is working with many artists from abroad. Many are followers of his unique style performance.

11/24sat

program8 "November Stairs" Tsubaki Yoshiaki Yamamoto(artist) VS Satoko Takahara (sho player) Makiko Sakurai (vocalist. performer)

SATOKO TAKAHARA After graduating Tokyo Geijutsu University, she has achieved masters degree at the above graduate school. She is open minded to collaborate with many genres. She is now working on a new project after studying at INA/GRM in Paris. MAKIKO SAKURAI Composer, vocalist , performer. 1988 complete Tokyo Music Academy. Since 1988 she starts to perform solo concerts"Seimei ni Chiheisen"(1993)series . In 1997 she begins her project "Wazauta"

12/1sat

program10 "CHIRINURUWO" Toshio Imamura (artist) VS Keiko Negishi (nokan player)

KEIKO NEGISHI Tokyo Geijutsu University graduate school masters degree. Now working on doctoral degree. Her research is on "Nou and it's possibilities"