Dumb Type
This performance piece was conceived in parallel with the installation "Voyages".
The stage is completely paved with mirrors that reflect projected images and the performers' bodies, blanketing the entire space with visuals accompanied by a massive, sea roar-like sound. This work, for which the Dumb Type members split up into several groups and gathered choreography ideas related to the keyword "voyage", as a whole appeared in the form of a compilation of loosely connected short pieces.
Artist Collective
Formed in 1984 around members representing forms of artistic expression as diverse as art, theater, dance, architecture, video and others, showing performance and installation pieces as multimedia art defying the boundaries of existing genres. While based in Kyoto, Dumb Type have repeatedly staged performances outside Japan, and has been collaborating with numerous overseas artists. Main works include "pH" (1990-93), "S" (1992-96), "OR" (1997-99) and "memorandum" (1999-2003).
Performer: Seiko Ouchi, Takao Kawaguchi, Noriko Sunayama, Mayumi Tanaka, Yuko Hirai, Manna Fujiwara, Hidekazu Maeda, Misako Yabuuchi, So Ozaki
Lighting: Takayuki Fujimoto
Video: Shiro Takatani, Hiromasa Tomari
Music: Ryoji Ikeda
Stage manager: So Ozaki
Sound operation: Yoshihisa Fukuhara (T&HY)
Video assistant: Ichiro Awazu
Acknowledgement (costume): Noriko Kitamura
Company manager: Yoko Takatani
Production: dumbtype
Co-produced by: le Centre de Développement Chorégraphique de Toulouse, Theater Drama City, Le-Maillon Théâtre de Strasbourg, Maison des Arts de Créteil, REDCAT (Roy & Edna Disney/CalArts Theater)
Cooperation: Institut franco-japonais du Kansai, Kyoto Art Center, Biwako Hall Foundation
