This performance forms the second part of “From Kenji Miyazawa / Yumenoshima”, a double bill of two works by AMEYA Norimizu and Romeo CASTELLUCCI commissioned as the opening productions for Festival/Tokyo 2011.

An admirer of MIYAZAWA Kenji ever since childhood, AMEYA here meditates on matter and life through the work of the poet and writer. The venue for the performance is Yumenoshima (literally, “island of dreams”), an artificial island in Tokyo Bay made from trash during the postwar years and period of high economic growth. On Yumenoshima is also exhibited Daigo Fukuryu Maru, a fishing ship exposed to radioactive fallout from a hydrogen bomb detonation at Bikini Atoll in 1954. As such, it is a place that forms a poignant reminder of the tragic history of nuclear weapons in Japan. Following the 2011 disaster, AMEYA’s choice of Yumenoshima as the location for the performance was very intentional: “ground” conveys the ruptures and uncertainty ushered in by the Fukushima crisis, layered with evocative images: a gamelan ensemble played by children; KUBRICK’s “2001: A Space Odyssey”; Marie Curie; and the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki.

2011
Yumenoshima Park Multipurpose Colosseum
Presented by: The Japan Foundation (JF) (https://www.jpf.go.jp/e/)
In cooperation with EPAD (https://epad.terrada.co.jp/)

＜Performance Credits＞
Concept, Direction: AMEYA Norimizu
Cast:
Romeo CASTELLUCCI
AMEYA Norimizu
OYAMADA Milo
Brigid CONNOR
MURATA Reika
MATSUMURA Ami
Kurumi
KOMA Iri
TOKUNAGA Wakana
MURAYAMA Tatsuki
KOMINE Seika
SEKIGUCHI Shunko
ARAKAWA Misuzu（Sakuracho Children Gamelan Group）
Sound Design: zAK
Lighting Design and Co-ordination: TAKADA Masayoshi（RYU Co.,Ltd.）
Costume Design: KITAMURA Michiko
Costume Production: FUYUTOH Sinich
Gamelan: KAWAMURA Koheisai
Technical Manager: TORAKAWA Eiji + Karasuya
Technical Manager Assistant: KONO Chizuru
Stage Manager: TANAKA Tsubasa
Stage Assistants: HAYASHI Yoshimi
Props: KURIYAMA Kayoko
Design Co-ordination: MORIMINE Masahiro
Sound Co-ordination: AIKAWA Akira（Sound Weeds Inc.）
Sound Assistants: TAJIKA Mitsuru , NISHIJIMA Aki
Sound Programming: SAWAI Taeji
Lighting Design Assistant: KAWASAKI Wataru
Video Editing: FUKUSHIMA Miki, IKEDA Nobu
Project Assistance: corosuke
Assistant Direction: MURATA Reika
Children Gamelan Group Assistants: ICHIDA Setsuko, TSUJI Keisuke
Assistant Gamelan Players: NIINA Masahiro, SATO Nami, YAMAGISHI Tenpei
Construction: Sanwa Butai Co. Ltd.
Interpretation: HONYA Asako
Video Documentation: SUDO Takaki

F/T Staff
Program Director：SOMA Chiaki
Producer：MAEDA Keizo
Production Co- ordinators：KOMORI Aya, TODA Fumiko, SANGO Sayaka
Production Assistants：OISHI Hiroki, SUNAGAWA Shiori

Organized by Festival/Tokyo Executive Committee
Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Toshima City, Tokyo Culture Creation Project(Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture), Toshima Future Culture Foundation, Arts Network Japan (NPO-ANJ)

＜Subtitling Credits＞
Chinese Translation (Simplified): Zhenzhen WU
Chinese Translation (Traditional): NITTA Yukio
English Translation: William ANDREWS
French Translation: FUJIMOTO Satoko
Russian Translation: Ekaterina TARASOVA
Spanish Translation: Karla TOLEDO VELARDE

＜Promotional Text＞
YONEYA Naoko

End date of distribution: 19/10/2022