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Ground and Floor

Τoshiki Okada / Chelfitsch

Dates

Prices

5 — 18 €

Location

Onassis Stegi

Time & Date

Day
Time
Venue
Day
Wednesday-Sunday
Time
21:00
Venue
Upper Stage

Information

Tickets

18 €
Concs 10 € | Unemployed 5 €

Language

In Japanese with Greek and English surtitles.

The Japanese avant-garde writer, director and visual artist returns to the Onassis Stegi with his new performance, that he describes as “music theater with ghosts”.

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.

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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

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