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International production

Japan – Croatia

Red Sun in the Trsat Dragon's Mouth

Mime performance

 

Opening night: June, 23rd. 2007., Rijeka,  21.00

on a  30th Anniversary of The Rijeka-Kawasaki Friendship Agreement

 

 

 

Authors and performers:     Atsuko Furuta i Ivana Peranić

Music:                                     Takatsuna Mukai i Underground Sky

Light design:                          Dalibor Fugošić

Director and dramaturgy:  Zvonimir Peranić

Scenography:                       Tomislav Ćurković

Video:                                     Tomislav Ćurković,Tomislav Nakić-Alfirević

Costume designer:               Kristina Nefat

Make-up artist:                      Ksenija Nakić-Alfirević

Stage workers:                       Hrvoje Mijočević, Ivana Butković

Lullaby:                                    Nina Viškanić

 

  Work on this project coincides and is inspired with the 30th Anniversary of The Rijeka-Kawasaki Friendship Agreement.  History and mythology were some of the elements in the attempt to analyse and compare two cultures, Croatian and Japanese. Through differences and similarities we have looked for common human and omnipresent divine qualities in both of them. Furthermore, mythology as something ideal and collective we have opposed to modernity with all its imperfections and concrete stories – “portraits” pulled out from the Japanese and Croatian modern societies. Because performing artists in this project studied together Dramatic Corporal Mime, it serves them as a common ground and the language through which they express themselves.  

We have chosen Trsat legend which talks about mysterious sacred house which had appeared on the Trsat hill in 13th century and the Japanese myth of Amaterasu - the Japanese Shinto Sun goddess, ruler of the Plain of Heaven, whose name means 'she who shines in the heavens'.

 

 

 

           

 

* Trsat is a very old (ancient) part of Rijeka, with very rich cultural and historic value.

 **Trsat Dragon is a zoomorphic mythical creature and a heraldic decoration on the coat of arms of the Nugent family. It is a symbol of Rijeka.

 
 

 

この企画はクロアチアのリエカ市、日本の川崎市の姉妹都市提携30周年記念での公演を目的に進められてきました。

物語は現代から人々の生活、過去(双方の国の神話)へとさかのぼっていきます。13世紀頃のクロアチアのTrsatの丘に纏わる伝説と、天照大神(あまてらすおおみかみ)の物語が、皆さんの目にどのように映るでしょうか?

 

天照大神… 古事記(712)に登場する太陽の神。すべての光を象徴する神。

Trsat…リエカ市の歴史深い地。

Trsat Dragon… Trsatに纏わる伝説の竜。Nugent家の肩章、リエカ市のシンボル。

 

この作品の出演者はエティエンヌ・ドゥクルー(Etienne Decroux18981991)システムのコーポリアル・マイムを共に学び、ロンドンを中心に公演活動を続けてきました。異なる言語、異なる国、文化、歴史を共有した表現方法で一つの作品と成し、クロアチア・リエカ市で公表できたことが今回の最大の喜びです。

 

今回ご協力頂きました方々に、深くお礼を申し上げます。

 

 

 

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