Hiroshi Sugimoto
Noh Climax
decemberdec 3 – 6
© Masque Shintai (jeu) © Odawara Art Foundation ©
© Masque Shintai (jeu) © Odawara Art Foundation ©
Metro
ligne 12 : Abbesses
ligne 2, ligne 12 : Pigalle
Bus 30, 54, 67 : Montmartrobus
Thursday december 3
20h
Friday december 4
20h
Saturday december 5
15h
Saturday december 5
20h
Sunday december 6
15h
Sunday december 6
20h
Artistic direction and set design Hiroshi Sugimoto. Advice on the choice of excerpts Kengo Tanimoto. Musical arrangement Hirotada Kamei. Projected texts Hiroshi Sugimoto. Masks provided by Hiroshi Sugimoto. Performers (shite-kata) Kanze School — Atsuo Kanze, Kengo Tanimoto, Hikaru Uzawa, Kohei Kawaguchi; Kita School — Teruhisa Oshima. Musicians (hayashi-kata) Manabu Takeichi (nōkan flute), Yoshiaki Iitomi (kotsuzumi — shoulder drum), Kazuyuki Haraoka (ōtsuzumi — hip drum), Yuichiro Hayashi (taiko). Scenic space design Jumpei Fukuda. Lighting Kosuke Sugimoto and Ko Yamaguchi. Sound Yasumasa Ogasawara. Stage management Naoto Oguri and Mizuki Abiko. Coordination Yutaka Adachi and Keiko Nagata. Artistic advice Aya Soejima. Logistics Yoko Yamada.
Production Odawara Art Foundation
With the support of the Japan Foundation
With the support of the Fondation pour l’Étude de la Langue et de la Civilisation Japonaises
The Théâtre de la Ville-Paris and the Festival d’Automne à Paris present this performance in corealisation.
With the support of
Spanning a host of different disciplines, visual artist and internationally-renowned photographer, Hiroshi Sugimoto furthers his work on the major Japanese traditions by coming back to Noh theatre. Noh Climax, which concentrates on six repertory works, promises to overturn all our space-time points of reference.
Over the course of the last 25 years, Hiroshi Sugimoto has been revisiting his country’s great traditions of dramatic art. After presenting Sugimoto Bunraku (2013) and Sambasō, divine dance (2018), he now returns to Noh theatre. Since the 2000’s, his interest has turned towards this theatre of masks—also known as “theatre of the returned”—born 650 years ago, and one of the foundations of Japanese culture. But rather than presenting a piece in its entirety, he has chosen, with Noh Climax—which follows on from a series of seven eponymous short films—to show only the most intense scenes, the climax, taken from six pieces belonging to the classical repertory. In order to bring to the stage these sequences which are often danced and accompanied by song, and linked together by the music of hayashi, he calls upon five actors, among whom figures Atsuo Kanze, a descendant of Zeami, the founder of this art. He has also selected, from within his own collection, masks of inestimable historic value. As such, Noh Climax is an invitation, as he says, to an "experience which transcends time and space".
In the same place
Metro
ligne 12 : Abbesses
ligne 2, ligne 12 : Pigalle
Bus 30, 54, 67 : Montmartrobus