Traveler / summer [Tabibito – Viajante]

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Video ID number: V00606
Recording date: 15 February 2007
Video length: 1h 1m

Overview

A fugaku work of spring, summer, autumn and winter based on the haiku of “Oku no hosomichi" (The Narrow Road to the Interior) by Matsuo Basho (1644-1694).
Vivid summer colors passing a dark narrow path.

Months and days are eternal travellers, the years too are voyagers.

One rice field planted, only a willow remains.

Passing through, adorned in blooming unohana flowers. (Sora)

Summer grass grows where soldiers once dreamed.

A temple shines bright through the May rain.

Fleas, lice, then horse pisses by pillow.

Silkworm farmers are as the ancient, humble. (Sora)

Collecting May rains, the Mogami River runs swift.

- Wind’s garden project 2009
- Participated in the Festival Visões Urbanas 2019
- Funded by the 4th Sao Paulo Municipal Dance Promotion Program.
- The "Wind’s garden Project", based at Casa do Vento (Wind’s House in Sao Paulo), began in 2001 with Toshi Tanaka & Ciça Ohno (Fu Bu Myo In) and continues to this day.
- "Fugaku" (art of the wind) is an original word that has been used as a generic term for performance art by Fu Bu Myo In since 2003.

Details

Title: Traveler / summer [Tabibito – Viajante]
Performance creator(s): Toshi Tanaka
Direction/Choreography: Conception, General Direction and Body Orientation: Toshi Tanaka
Venue: Sala Crisantempo in São Paulo
Performance date(s): 7 February 2007 - 15 February 2007
Performer(s) and staff: Performance: Toshi Tanaka, Ciça Ohno, Cindy Quaglio, Amanda Lunardi, Juma Tanaka, Gum Tanaka, Yurin Tanaka
Prologue: Kenichi Kaneko
Calligraphy: Toshi Tanaka
Stage Space, Costume and Haiku Translation: Unit Fu Bu Myo In
Lighting: André Yasuda
Graphic Art: Fernanda Mascarenhas
Photography: Tainá Azeredo
Video: Salamandra project
Ceramics: Kenjiro Ikoma
Production Assistant: Cindy Quaglio
Coordination and General Production: Ciça Ohno
Organiser(s): Organiser: Unit Fu Bu Myo In
Genre: Performance