PRESS RELEASE
07/12/2015
Dance performance
Nibroll “Real Reality”
The Japan Foundation Asia Center (Tokyo) support the performance “Real Reality” by
Japanese dance company, Nibroll in Hanoi, Vietnam. In this performance, one Vietnamese
dancer will perform with them.
【Probing for corporality we can really feel in the current age of diluted reality】
The development of television, the Internet, mobile phones, and various other technologies
have made it possible to bring occurrences in the distant past and times from the past and
future before our eyes, as if they were really there. We nevertheless cannot imagine the
tragedies which happened long ago and share the bodies we see affected by them. Designed
especially for this present age of diluted reality, this work taps the fundamental power
inherent in stage arts, which definitely cannot be experienced without actually being there. It
is aimed at imparting a genuine grasp of reality by presenting corporality that can actually be
felt by us who live here and now, for a limited, uncertain future.
Concept
Omit the body and expand.
People use technologies that allow them to move as little as possible.
I have no quarrel with these technologies, which make life easier for all.
But when the body is omitted to this extent, it is a little unsettling.
Our imagination tries to bring occurrences of the distant past and times from the past or
future to the front of our minds, as if they were actually here in the present.
Nevertheless, people cannot even imagine the tragedies of long ago, and cannot share the
bodies which experienced them.
We stand at places that are empty, spend time that is not real, listen to voices without
speech, and encounter people without bodies.
Death is right before us, unlimited, and decisive. Life is here and now, limited, and with an
uncertain future.
The work explores corporality that can be really felt by us who live in an age in which the
body is no longer needed.
For inquiries and interviews with the company, please contact at:
precog, Masanori Okuno or Megumi Mizuno
Tel: +81-3-6825-1223 (Japanese or English only)
Mail: info@precog-jp.net
Dance performance
Nibroll “Real Reality”
[Date & Time]
Friday 15 January 2016
[Open] 19:30 [Start] 20:00
[Venue]
Youth Theatre
(11 Ngo Thi Nham, Hai Ba Trung, Hanoi）
Free ticket distribution:
*Please refrain from taking children under 6 years old.
[From 14:00 on 5 January onward]
The Japan Foundation Center for Cultural Exchange in Vietnam
27 Quang Trung, Hoan Kiem, Hanoi
TEL: 04.39447419
[Opening hours] 09:30 – 18:00 (Sundays closed)
Profile
Nibroll
Since its formation in 1999, the Tokyobased Nibroll has staged many performances inside
and outside Japan, and participated in numerous international festivals. As evidenced by the
many awards it has received, it has been widely acclaimed in Japan and other countries for
its dynamic productions, which combine dry but violent choreography with video, music,
and art, and flood audiences with their sheer volume of information.
Meanwhile, the Mikuni Yanaihara Project, a theatrical project featuring Ms. Mikuni
Yanaihara, Nibroll's leader and choreographer, won even higher levels of recognition and
note in the theatrical world when it was selected for the prestigious Kunio Kishida Drama
Award in 2012. Yanaihara took the project on a nationwide tour in the summer of 2013, and
it met with great success and fervent applause everywhere it layed, in spite of the oneofakind,
cuttingedge character of the means applied by its dramaturgy. Even in the global context,
Yanaihara must be termed a rare artist who is highly regarded in both dance and theater. She
is broadening the range of her energetic activity to the sphere of art, and avidly taking part in
exhibitions and projects in Japan and other countries, mainly in Asia.