RAPSODY

Overview

News of Kisaragi Koharu's death reached Hitsujiya Shirotama in December 2000 while she was on a residency in New York. Subsequently, a request was made to revive Koharu's 'DOLL', and, 20 years after its first performance, 'DOLL' was revived by Yubiwa Hotel under the name 'RAPSODY'. The girls who disappeared in the sea in 1983, reappeared on a roof-top tennis court in 2003. Koharu's 'DOLL' dealt with the suicide of high school girls, and this work attempts to embrace Koharu's themes of the death of young women and raise it to new heights as 'feelings of life'.

Details

Title

RAPSODY

Performance creator(s)

YUBIWA Hotel

Direction/Choreography

Director: Shirotama Hitsujiya

Venue

Rosa Kaikan's roof tennis court

Performance date(s)

1 May 2003 - 5 May 2003

Performer(s) and staff

Performers: Ayato, Kazuyo Ikuta, Reiko Inage, Kana Oda, Noriko Kito, Yuki Sakai, Mayuko Shiho, Chizu Takahashi, Emi Tamatsu, Yuko Chigira, Koeda Nakamura, Kei Namba, Yukiko Hasegawa, Mami, Taeko Yokoi
Stage Manager: Sakae Ebisawa
Music Manager: Masami Kurihara
Music Performance: Shinji Hatono
Art Director: Yoshihisa Omata
Costume Director: Mayumi Iijima
Lighting Designer: Takafumi Kondo
Posturing: Ayako Sasaki
Hair and Make-up: Masato Sadamori, Kaori Sasaki
Video Recording: Makoto Sasaki
Producer: Shigeru Ueda
Production Coordinator: Beagle, Inc.
Production Support: Tomomi Okada
Cooperation: Ikebukuro Rosa Kaikan, Groove

Organiser(s)

Organiser: YUBIWA Hotel
Sponsorship: The Saison Foundation

Genre

Contemporary

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