Pepper's Special Solo Exhibition
Message From Body III

2002.5/6mon~6/1sat AM11:00~PM7:00(sat~4:00)

Is it the beginning of the changes in biochemistry or genetic engineering? Or the changes being caused by symbolization or digitalization? Or the omens of a man as a creature in the 21st century or of a sharp change as existence? The changes in the expression carried out by human bodies are always surprising. And now the bodies are getting more and more important, which has made this exhibition happened. There are going to be an exhibition program at the Pepper's Gallery and a performance program named, " DANCE cross ART," at the Pepper's Gallery.


Various performers from the contemporary dance scene will collaborate with artists. They CROSS their works and try to find a new expressing ways at the basement of the Gallery.



5/6mon,7tue "Kuru(Coming)"
JUNKO KANAMATSU(performer) cross
CHIEMI TAKAHASHI(artist)

5/6(Mom) 4:30 & 7:00pm
5/7(Tue) 7:00pm
door opens 30 mins before the performance
Ticket 1,500 yen
 
 
JUNKO KANAMATSU
Before starting contemporary dance, she had trained in Jazz and Modern dance techniques. In 1998 she began choreographing. She has works titled, "Chirino Soko Kara," "Harumonia,"and "#30660 meal."  

CHIEMI TAKANASHI

MA in Metal Hammering, Tokyo National University of Fine Art and Music


5/8wed,9thu "flat knot"
KENJI HIRANO(performer) cross
CHIEMI IKEDA(artist)TAKUMI IKEDA(composer)

The body tied and untied wriggles to look for movements.
 
   
5/8(Wed) & 5/9(Thurs)
7:00pm door opens 30mins before the performance
Ticket \ 1,500 yen(at door)1,200 yen(advance)

KENJI HIRATO
"I experience between choreography and improvisation,
and I look for a new approach to discover a new body."


CHIEMI TAKANASHI

MA in Metal Hammering, Tokyo National University of Fine Art and Music

TAKUMI IKEDA

Born in Tokyo in 1975.
He has learned music theory in his own way and tries composing music.



5/10fri,11sat "four point three"
YOKO SASAKI, HIROMI OKUYAMA(performer) cross
TAKUMI IKEDA(composer)


 

expressing what we get in this moment
5/10(Fri) 7:00pm
5/11(Sat) 3:00pm & 5:00pm
door opens 30mins before the performance
Ticket 2,000 yen
 
HIROMI OKUYAMA
She started heavy gymnastics at the age of three and later had trainings in many other kinds of dance styles such as Jazz, Modern and Ballet. Right now she is discovering improvisational dances in her unit named Momoiro Tamago. 1997 founder, Momoiro Tamago 06/2000 collaborated work with ADOON(musician), Art Flea Market 09/2000 street performance, France 10/2000 performer, choreographer and director, "Two Eggs"

YOKO SASAKI
She has studied Modern and Jazz dance techniques and ballet for 15 years,
and since 1993 she has been studying Be Bop Northern Jazz.
1990-1992 dancer in musicals and k rock opera
1995 student to study Be Bop Northern Jazz, London(dancer in "kiek off
your EARTH" while studying)
1998 leader of "COSMIC EDGE"
dancer, choreographer, director "INSIDE"
1999 unit "O.S.J"
dancer, "Techno Cabaret" produced by COBU
2000 dancer, choreographer, "Techno Cabaret"
2002 organizer, "Be Bop SQUARE," "Searching," and etc

TAKUMI IKEDA
Born in Tokyo in 1975.
He has learned music theory in his own way and tries composing music.


5/12sun,5/13mon,5/14tue "Futanari"
JUNICHI YOKOTA (performer) cross
YOKO MARUYAMA (artist)

The folding screen has both sides. Inside out or outside in. Let's roll over and dance! "Sore! Hai, hoi hoi!"

 

5/12(Sun) 6:00pm
5/13(Mon) & 14(Tue) 7:00pm
door opens 10 mins before the performance Ticket 2,000yen


JUNICHI YOKOTA

"I used to be in the theater field,
but I had never though it was right for me.
Then I though "why don't I dance?" and I started dancing."

YOKO MARUYAMA
1978 born
BA in Painting in progress, Tama Art University
2002 solo exhibition "Futae," Pepper's Gallery



5/16thu "from The Monster with Many Faults "
SATORI WACHI cross SATORI WACHI

7:20pm(door opens at 7:00)
Ticket 1500 yen

 
SATORI WACHI
1982-1990 modern dance technique (instructed by Yuko Nakajima)
1991-1998 modern technique (instructed by Bonjin Atsugi)
1998-present ballet (instructed by Sayuri Igami)
1996 work "Untitled"
1998 "The Monster with Many Faults 4; A Red Flower," Butoh Association Award
2000 work presented at the Training Course for Choreographers by Lonina Nicolas, Landmark Tower, Yokohama
2002 work presented at the Training Course for Choreographers by Lonina Nicolas, Theatre Fonte
3/2002 work presented at Kitazawa Town Hall, Tokyo



5/17frl,5/18sat "Time Mass"
Hata Makiko & Akito Takimoto(performers) cross
Kiyoshi Nunokawa(artist)

a body in the constantly changing moment.

  

5/17(Fri) 7:00pm 5/18(Sat) 3:00 & 7:00pm door opens 30mins before the performance Ticket \2000
 
AKITO TAKIMOTO,MAKIKO HATA
3/2002 first duet "I & Shirts & I," Session House, Tokyo

KIYOSHI NUNOKAWA
1978 born
2002 BA in Information Design, Tama Art University
2001 SFC Digital Art Award
"This is not a spoken language but the visual language created by its size,
color, space, sound, shape and texture. You decide from what you read.
The time existing there is also visualized, and it can probably be felt and accepted.
Time is a mass, clay or gravity ,and it is not linear.
There is the time growing inside and being felt in your body,
and I experience to visualize the feeling of being wrapped in the time.



5/19(sun) "Vary"
SHUKO TAMAUCHI(performer) cross
MAYUMI TAKAHASHI(artist)


 

5/23(Wed) & 5/24(Thurs) 7:00pm
door opens 20mins before the performance
Ticket 1,500
yen
 
SHUKO TAMAUCHI
She stared creating her works in 1996. She has created "Uncomfortable
Feelings in My Heart," "Things Happened Here," "Blooming Muneno Tsubomi
on My Back," "Plus One," "adjustment," and is a director of Piush..


MAYUMI TAKAHASHI
"I want to create with the image of dissolving the poison of my heart. In
this CROSS program, I title my work "Antidote" for my creating process."
1972 born
09/2000 group exhibition, atspace kids
03/2002 solo exhibition, "cave," Pepper's Gallery



5/22wed,23thu "Mabataki Kuguri"
MARIKO OKAMOTO(performer) cross
SAORI MATSUMOTO(artist)


 

5/23(Wed) & 5/24(Thurs) 7:00pm
door opens 20mins before the performance
Ticket 1,500 yen


MARIKO OKAMOTO
She was born in Shinjyuku. In 1991 she founded a performance unit “ooze.ko.” Also, she joined Kim Ito & Kagayaku Mirai and has performed nationally and internationally. She is looking for the possibility of “dance to experience” with the human bodies and things in our everyday life.
 
SAORI MATSUMOTO
1977 born MA in Painting in progress, Tama Art University


5/24fri,25sat "Spirals of Will-casting"
YUKA OGAWA(performer) cross JYOHEI MUTA(artist)

5/24(Fri) 7:00pm
5/25(Sat) 6:00pm
door opens 30mins before the performance
Ticket 1,500 yen

 
  
YUKA OGAWA
She started dancing at the age of 7, and since she was 16 years old, she has been studying under the instruction of Mika Kuroki. She began her solo work "Spirals of Will" in 1999, and she has been collaborating on "THE MIRRORBALLS" and "VOLITIONAUTS" since 2001. The dance which continues without breaks and has no messages emerges and gives light. And there is a body singing aloud. She said, "I make dances just like plants quietly growing."
 
JOHEI MUTA
" I should not let it disappear, so I decided to return it to life even though
my deed makes slight differences from and ruins what we had before."



5/31fri,6/1sat
"Being Mother Complex And Lolita Complex"
HANAKO ATAKE(performer) cross JUNICHI SAITO(artist)


  

5/31(Fri) 7:00pm
6/1(Sat) 6:00pm
door opens 30mins before the performance
Ticket 1500 yen


HANAKO ATAKE
After having trained in ballet in Japan, she went to London to master various kinds of performing arts when she was 19. Right now she is a freelance dancer and a choreographer working in and outside of Japan.
 
JUNICHI SAITO
1974 born
03/2002 MA, Tama Art University