Ice Cream Torch / Ceremony

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Video ID number: V00518
Recording date: 2021

Overview

"Ice Cream Torch / Ceremony" is a new piece created as part of Yuki Kobayashi's "Life of Athletics" project, which he had been working on since 2014 in conjunction with a photography trilogy: "Ice Cream Torch / Flag", "Ice Cream Torch / Relay" and "Ice Cream Torch / Flame". This piece makes symbolic use of a wedding dress flowing down stairs connecting the ground level to the underground, and a song from the 1981 film "Chariots of Fire". Tackling the authoritative framework of sports competitions and contradictions in commercialising amateur athletes, Kobayashi considers the true meaning of “sports for peace” by questioning the sexism of misogynistic remarks by Japanese politicians.

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Details

Title: Ice Cream Torch / Ceremony
Performance creator(s): NPO Dance Archive Network
Direction/Choreography: Artist: Yuki Kobayashi
Venue: Filmed at the former Hakubutsukan Dobutsuen Station [Museum Zoo Station]
Performance date(s): 8 May 2021 - 15 August 2021 (online viewing)
Performer(s) and staff: Performer: Yuki Kobayashi
Trumpet: Yoichiro Kita
Stage Manager: Takahi Kawachi
Lighting Designer: Noriyuki Mori (balance,inc.DESIGN/LIGHTING)
Film Production: LAND FES
Photography: Tatsuhiko Nakagawa, Yulia Skogoreva
Publicity Design: Young Soul
Organiser(s): Organisers: Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Arts Council Tokyo (Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture)
Planning and Production: NPO Dance Archive Network
Genre: Butoh、Performance