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Nanako Matsumoto & Anchi Lin (Ciwas Tahos)
“Sticky Hands, Stitched Mountains”

October 12th-14th 2024
THEATRE E9 KYOTO

“Sticky Hands, Stitched Mountains” is the first collaborative project by Nanako Matsumoto, a Tokyo-based dance artist and member of team chiipro, and Anchi Lin, a contemporary artist from Taiwan also known by her Indigenous Atayal name Ciwas Tahos. This is the recording of the work, created in Kyoto and Taiwan, and performed at Kyoto Experiment 2024.

Since ancient times, the deep mountains have often been depicted as a place inhabited by marginalized and unknown beings. In Japanese folklore, Yamamba is a type of yokai (supernatural being or spirit) that appears in the form of an old woman living in the mountains. In the Taiwanese Indigenous Atayal oral story, a community of women live deep in the mountains in a place called Temahahoi. What if these mountains of Japan and Taiwan were connected across borders, and Yamamba and the Temahahoi people met?

Matsumoto’s “yokai body” methodology, which constructs texts and choreography based on meticulous research, combines with the queer approach through which Lin explores culture and gender identity, to create a transnational mountain in the theater. What voices will these women use to tell their stories?

＜Performance Credits＞
Artistic Concept & Performance: Nanako Matsumoto & Anchi Lin (Ciwas Tahos)
Choreography: Nanako Matsumoto
Video Concept & Design: Anchi Lin (Ciwas Tahos)
Video software Design & Technical Support: Bih Ru Wang
Surtitle design & Technical Support: Daichi Abe
Atayal Language Consultant: Apang Bway
Choreography Support: Kengo Nishimoto
Sound Design & Operation: Mina Hayashi
Lighting Design & Operation: Kana Watanabe
Stage Manager: Kodachi Kitagata
Production Coordinators: Yuko Kuroda, Mana Okuyama (THEATRE E9 KYOTO)
Mediaturg, Visual Technology: Richi Owaki
English surtitles editing: Lillian Canright (Art Translators Collective)
Research Cooperation: Alak Akatung, Junya Kouno, Kobayashi Zoen Co., Ltd., Sakujiro Shimomura, Keita Tanaka, Jing-Yao He, Yasuko Yokoshi, Jian-Xiong, Huang, Temu Nokan
Residency support: KYOTO ART CENTER
Support: Ningenza

Organizer: Kyoto Experiment
Co-Organizer: The Japan Foundation
Co-Production: Kyoto Experiment, The Japan Foundation, Taipei Performing Arts Center
Support: Japan Foundation for Regional Art Activities [Thinking about the body, history and identity through the performing arts]

*This work was produced for the Japan Foundation‛s International Creations in Performing Arts 2024.
https://www.jpf.go.jp/e/project/culture/perform/creation/2024/index.html
*Taipei Performing Arts Center has supported the research process of “Sticky Hands, Stitched Mountains” as part of the ADAM – Asia Discovers Asia Meeting for Contemporary Performance in 2024.

Filmed at THEATRE E9 KYOTO on Oct 12, 2024
Producers of the film: The Japan Foundation, Kyoto Experiment
Archive Film by slide//show
Director of Photography: So Fukuoka
Camera Operation: So Fukuoka, Yoshitaka Shimada
Editor: Daichi Oitate

＜Subtitling Credits＞
Chinese subtitles translation (Simplified): Zhenzhen Wu
Chinese subtitles translation (Traditional): Yukio Nitta