Ground and Floor

Photo: Kamel Moussa

Two years after Toshiki Okada’s "Hot Pepper, Air Conditioner and the Farewell Speech" exploded onto the Onassis Stegi stage, the Japanese avant-garde writer, director and visual artist returns to the Onassis Stegi with his new performance "Ground and Floor", that he describes as “music theater with ghosts”.

Shocked by the change of Japanese society after the Fukushima tragedy, Toshiki Okada and his exceptional Chelfitsch company join forces with the post-rock band Sangatsu to present an archetypal and revolutionary allegory of a Japan —and a human race— that has disquietingly come to terms with its own destruction.

Parallel Events

After performance talk with Toshiki Okada

31 October 2013
Upper Stage

Moderated by:
Giorgos Mitropoulos, journalist

Workshop with Toshiki Okada: “Looking to the relationship between words and movements”

Saturday 2 November 2013
14:00-17:00 | Dance Room | 10 €

Playwright and director Toshiki Okada will run a workshop, where the participants will get to know the methodology and practice of his theater company, named chelfitsch.

Language:
Japanese, with simultaneous translation, and English
Addressed to:
Students of drama and dance schools, professional actors, directors
Reservations:
T: 213 017 8004 | Email: education@onassis.org

Credits

Playwriting and Direction
Toshiki Okada
Performers
Taichi Yamagata, Makoto Yazawa, Yukiko Sasaki, Mari Ando, Izumi Aoyagi
Music
Sangatsu
Set Designer
Shusaku Futamura
Dramaturg
Sebastian Breu
Costume
Yuko Ikeda (Luna Luz)
Anatomy lecture
Nao Kusumi
Stage Director
Koro Suzuki
Sound Director
Norimasa Ushikawa
Lighting Director
Tomomi Ohira
Video Director
Shimpei Yamada
Producer
Akane Nakamura
Company Manager
Tamiko Ouki
Production
Kunstenfestivaldesarts
Executive production
chelfitsch (Tokyo)
Associated production
precog (Tokyo)
Co-production
Festival d’Automne à Paris, Les Spectacles vivants – Centre Pompidou (Paris), HAU Hebbel am Ufer(Berlin), La Bâtie – Festival de Genève, KAAT (Kanagawa Arts Theatre), Kyoto Experiment, De Internationale Keuze van de Rotterdamse Schouwburg, Dublin Theatre Festival, Théâtre Garonne, Onassis Stegi (Athens)
Residency support
KAAT (Kanagawa Arts Theatre), Kyoto Experiment
Special thanks to
Steep Slope Studio
Supported by
Agency for Cultural Affairs Government of Japan in the fiscal 2013