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ROHM Theatre Kyoto Repertory Premiere
Gisèle Vienne and Etienne Bideau-Rey
“Showroomdummies #4”
2020.2.8 [sat] 19:00 / 2.9 [sun] 15:00
South Hall at ROHM Theatre Kyoto
Using puppets that she makes by herself, Gisèle Vienne constructs a world of narrative that is beautiful and yet filled with the sense of disturbing anticipation. Her works have been provoking debates in festivals and theatres around the world including Avignon Festival. They take up various taboos of violence and sex, exploring the aesthetics of two opposite extremes: of life and death, desire and destruction, order and ruin.
What will be created at ROHM Theatre Kyoto is the latest version of Showroomdummies, which is a joint-creation with Etienne Bideau-Rey and was premiered in 2001. It is based on Venus in Furs, a novel by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, and attempts to reveal the relationship between the norm, desire and pleasure, in the space shared by both the dummy and dancers. In this latest version, the performers will be all female for the first time, trying to gain a freer gaze that is detached from the stereotypes of “men and women”.
While the lifeless dummy stands “as it is”, “flesh-and-blood” human beings are required to relate with each other in society; and the story they will unfold on stage is sure to take the audience to an unexpected abyss.
ROHM Theatre Kyoto launched this program in 2017 to create new theatre productions that can serve as part of a repertoire that will be staged long into the future. Through the process of creating new productions, it also organizes related programs for audience development and training actors, dramaturges, producers, and other specialists. In this way, the program aspires to build a new theatre culture in each community and region.
Directed, Choreographed and Stage Design by Gisèle Vienne and Etienne Bideau-Rey
Cast: Chieko Asakura, Sakiko Oishi, Yoko Takase, Rei Hanajima, Ayaka Fujita, Megumi Horiuchi
Music: Peter Rehberg
Lighting: Arnaud Lavisse, Patrick Riou
Assistant Choreographer and Director: Akiyoshi Nita
Tickets (Reserved seating) : Adult ¥4,000 / Youth (Up to 25) ¥2,000 ［Now on sale］
* For Youth ticket, ID is required on the day of performance.
* Pre-school children are not allowed to enter. School children under 12 must be accompanied by carers.
* Due to the nature of the performance, latecomers may not be guided to their reserved seats.
■ROHM Theatre Kyoto Online Tickets (English page available)
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Born in 1976, Gisèle Vienne studied philosophy and then later attended L’Ecole Supérieure Nationale des Arts de la Marionnette. She is a choreographer, director, performer, and visual artist. In addition to her collaborations with the novelist Dennis Cooper, her output includes photography and installations. In 2018, Vienne received the Grand Prix award in dance from L’Association de la Critique for “CROWD,” which also left a vivid impression on audiences during its recent run in Japan at Kyoto Experiment.
Born in 1975, Etienne Bideau-Rey studied at the St-Luc Institut in Tournai, Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Liège, and L’Ecole Supérieure Nationale des Arts de la Marionnette. In addition to being a choreographer and director, he is a visual artist with a focus on drawing and sculpture. In 2000, he received the Vocation Award from the Fondation Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet for his first theatre piece created in collaboration with Gisèle Vienne.
Graduated from the Graduate School of Tokyo University of Arts. She has been creating her own performances since 2014 and is now based in Kanto region as a freelance actor. In 2017, she presented Gently Prepare for the Day Every Day and After that I Look Back Me, Another Me, Somebody else at MEDIA PRACTICE 16-17 and also started participating in chelfitsch’s Five Days in March Re-creation. In 2019, her was presented Reflected and Shed Multiple Me at MEDIA PRACTICE 18-19.
※Selected through audition
Started ballet at the age of five. In 2005, she entered Ecole nationale supérieure de danse Marseille in France and graduated first on the list. She joined Cellule d’Insertion Professionnelle in 2006 and experienced working with Ballet National De Marseille and Ballet D’Europe. After joining CCN Ballet De Lorraine, she has also danced in the works of various choreographers including William Forsythe, Twyla Tharp, Merce Cunningham, Gisèle Vienne and Martha Graham. She is now based in France as a freelance dancer and is participating in a number of projects.
Started modern ballet from an early age and learned classical ballet at Tachibana Ballet School. After working at Austria Ballet Company-Tokyo, she is now based in Kyoto as a contemporary dancer and is looking for a body that can move with its bones. She has won the modern dance section of Kobe National Dance Competition . She has performed in the works of Naoya Aoki, Megumi Nakamura and Ryohei Kondo. While making and performing her own work, she has appeared in Lost Memory Theartre and Dream Play, both directed by Akira Shirai and choreographed by Kaiji Moriyama, and in TV commercials; searching for expressions in theatre and media through her dance.
※Selected through audition
fter receiving trainings in New York, Canada and Europe, she has graduated from Rambert School in UK. She has appeared in a number of works, including stage performances by Company Derashinera, Mari Natsuki Impressionism, NODA MAP and also in I COULD NEVER BE A DANCER. She performs not only in existing theatre buildings but also at university, art museums and a World Heritage site and has been invited to overseas festivals. She is now based in Kanto region as a freelance dancer and also choreographs for promotion videos, films and stage performances.
※Selected through audition
Started ballet at the age of five at Homura Tomoi Ballet Company and School with Makio Homura and others. After leaving hign-school, she entered L’Ecole-Atelier Rudra Béjart Lausanne in Switzerland and learnt classical ballet and Graham Technique with Michel Gascard and others. After graduating from the school, she has joined kale companhia de danca in Portugal and then Noism as an Associate Member. She is now based in Kansai rehion as a freelance dancer.
※Selected through audition
Graduated from Osaka Dance & Actors School. After studying in New York for two years and returning to Japan, she is searching for her own style based on contemporary dance. She is based in Kansai region as a freelance dancer. She also exhibits her photographic work that she has taken with a film camera.
※Selected through audition
ROHM Theatre Kyoto
13 Okazakisaishoji-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto City 606-8342 Japan
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10 minutes’ walk from Higashiyama Station (Kyoto Municipal Subway Tozai Line).
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Kyoto City Bus Nos 5, 100 or 110 to “Okazaki koen / Bijutsukan / Heian-jingumae”. 5 minutes’ walk from stop.
Kyoto City Bus Nos 31, 201, 202, 203 or 206 to “Higashiyama Nijo / Okazaki Park Entrance”. 5 minutes’ walk from stop.
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