The Chikamatsu ----- Yume no Yume
By Ryohei Kondo & Sengiku Bando

The project presents an ambitious collaboration work between Ryohei Kondo, founder of contemporary dance company “Condors” and Sengiku Bando, Japanese traditional dancer. Those two artists display two different worlds which mingle together in harmony on a stage setting..

        

Freely adapted from Chikamatsu Monzaemon’s “Sonezaki Shinju”(Double suicides at Sonezaki), this piece does not follow the traditional form of a dialogue play, but is turned into a wonderful show of dancing movements.
The piece is divided in three parts as in the original version. A man and a courtesan of a brothel, yukaku, love each other. With no prospect of success, this love leads them to the path to death, in the deep forest of Sonezaki.



Direction/Choreography: Sengiku Bando
Choreography: Ryohei Kondo
Music: Mitso Miyamoto
Sound: Kohei Harashima (SONIC WAVE)
Lighting: Reiko Fukuda
Costumes: Hiroko Takamatsu
Stage direction: Akiyoshi Tsutsui,
Tetsuhiko Takahashi
Dancers: Ryohei Kondo, Sengiku Bando,
Kojiro Yamamoto, Yoshihiro Fujita
Michihiko Kamakura, Takehiko Maruyama,
Junko Okuda, Kumi Kanai, Tomoko Wakamatsu,
Kaori Natori

Production: Office Natori