Shinnai Meets Puppetry: The Peony Lantern (WIP) @FiveMyles

 
 

Come and join our spooky WIP showing 🎃👻!

FREE ADDMISSION

Sunday, October 22, 2023 - 5PM
558 St Johns Place
Brooklyn, NY 11238

An evening of work-in-progress presentation of Shinnai Meets Puppetry: The Peony Lantern, the second chapter of the ongoing project to introduce shinnai-bushi tradition (song-storytelling from Japan accompanied by shamisen music) with visual accompaniment of puppetry creation.

The Peony Lantern is a shinnai-bushi adaptation by Master Okamoto Bunya (1895-1996) of a famous fantastical ghost love story, depicting the sorrow of a woman-in-love facing an unfaithful lover. This presentation is to share the outcome of the week-long residency at FiveMyles, a collaboration between lead puppeteer/designer Emma Wiseman, puppeteer/designer Rowan Magee, and artist/song-storyteller Okamoto Miya (a.k.a. Nekaa Lab, Sachiyo Takahashi), experimenting with light and shadow in search of new vocabularies of shadow puppetry. The presentation will be followed by a Q&A session, sharing the cultural and artistic connotations of the designs of the work.

Shinnai Meets Puppetry: The Peony Lantern (WIP) is made possible by generous support from Brooklyn Arts Council’s individual donors who contributed to the Brooklyn Empower Fund.

 
 

Upcoming Show: One Night in Winter @ Puppetopia

Sachiyo will perform this week from May 11 to 15, 2022, as Okamoto Miya at Puppetopia at HERE Arts Centre, NYC. It is a work-in-progress of One Night in Winter, the first chapter of Shinnai Meets Puppetry - a project to introduce the world of Shinnai-bushi to international audiences through puppetry.

Sachiyo worked with Brooklyn-based puppet artist Rowan Magee to develop this work. It's a story of a lonely old man who receives a surprise visit from Tanuki (a Japanese raccoon dog) on a cold winter night.

This adaptation of the song by great master Okamoto Bunya is performed by Sachiyo Takahashi, Rowan Magee, and Emma Wiseman.

Please come and meet our Tanuki created by Rowan. It is a light, fun piece to cheer you up!

The evening is a shared bill with two other remarkable puppet works.

This work is made possible by a grant from the Jim Henson Foundation, Puppetry at the Carriage House (PATCH) residency funded by the Jane Henson Foundation and Dream Music Puppetry at HERE.

http://here.org/shows/puppetopia/

(posted by Nekaa Lab)

今週、5月11日〜15日、マンハッタンのHERE Art Centreで開催される人形劇フェスティバル「Puppetopia」で「新内ミーツ人形劇：冬の夜話」の試演をします。新内節の世界を人形劇の助けを借りて海外の観客に紹介するプロジェクトの第一弾。今回はニューヨークの若手人形師ローエン・マギーをゲストに迎え、岡本文弥作品『冬の夜話』に人形をつけます。冬の夜に、山寺に住む老人の元に狸がやってくる楽しい物語。まだ試演なので、いろいろと自由に実験しています。お近くの方はぜひNYに出没の「たぬき」に会いに来てください。http://here.org/shows/puppetopia/

(posted by サチヨ）

photography by Rowan Magee

2021 Jim Henson Foundation Artist Grant /ジム・ヘンソン財団2021年度助成

We are happy to announce that Nekaa Lab’s new project, ”Shinnai Meets Puppetry: One Night in Winter”, was selected for a 2021 Jim Henson Foundation Artist Grant.

The work combines puppetry and Shinnai-bushi Japanese storytelling. Sachiyo will be working with the amazing puppet artists Rowan Magee (lead puppeteer, puppet design and builder) and Nick Lehane.

We are extremely lucky to have this opportunity, and are looking forward to sharing this work with you in the near future!

Nekaa Labの新プロジェクト『新内ミーツ人形劇：冬の夜話』がジム・ヘンソン財団の2021年度助成に選ばれました。

ジム・ヘンソンはセサミストリートでおなじみの「マペット」の生みの親。彼の功績により、NYは人形劇がとっても盛んなのです。

新プロジェクトは人形劇とのコラボレーションを通して新内節を海外に紹介する試みで、シリーズ化の予定です。第一弾は、岡本文弥作の新作新内節『冬の夜話』を題材に、NYの新進気鋭の人形師 Rowan Magee (人形デザインおよび製作） と Nick Lehane とチームを組んであれこれ実験中。

今年中に製作途中の発表の予定です。どうぞお楽しみに！

Photography: Rowan Magee

Photography: Rowan Magee

The Emotions WIP - Streaming Concert Premiere

I’m currently developing a new interdisciplinary music theatre The Emotions together with an exceptional Korean instrumentalist gamin as residency artists at HERE Arts Center in NYC. Today, we had a streaming premiere of our first work-in-progress presentation. We are still in the early stage of production and decided to share our process with you. Please watch the video and send us your feedback!

Your can watch the streaming video here until January 31, 2021.

The first WIP of The Emotions takes the form of a small concert. Tracing the emotions in Asian music heritage, the program features a traditional Korean tune, traditional Japanese storytelling and an experimental session inspired by a mysterious Korean legend, The Song of Cheoyong.

(posted by sachiyo)

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NYのHERE Arts Centerのレジデンス・アーティストとして韓国伝統楽器奏者gaminさんと一緒に作っている新作「The Emotions (感情)」の製作途中発表の動画を公開しました。まだ制作の初期の段階ですが、動画をご覧頂き、ぜひご感想をお送り下さい〜

動画はコチラで2021年1月31日まで観れます。

今回のワーク・イン・プログレスの発表は小さなコンサートの形式です。韓国の伝統的な音階を使ったgaminのソロ、私の新内節の古曲『蘭蝶』の演奏（岡本宮弥として）、韓国の伝説The Song of Cheoyong に着想を得たデュオ・セッションの３つで、アジアの古典の中にある感情を拾い上げながら、新しい表現の可能性に挑戦します。

どうぞよろしくお願いします。（投稿 by サチヨ）

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HARP Residency - The Emotions

I started to work on the new project The Emotions together with Korean instrumentalist gamin through HARP residency at HERE Arts Centre, NYC.
We are re-examining human emotions from Eastern perspective, finding the materials from traditional music, poetry and storytelling.
The final performance will be a story of emotions told through the mixture of sound, puppetry/object manipulation, movement and lighting.
The premiere will be in 2022-2023 (TBD). We will present workshop performances on the way to share our experiments. Stay tuned!
(Posted by sachiyo)

韓国の伝統楽器奏者gaminさんと共に、新しいプロジェクト『感情』を立ち上げました。ニューヨークのオフ・オフ・ブロードウェー劇場HERE Arts Centreのアーティスト・レジデンス・プログラムHARPの一環として作品制作を始めています。
このプロジェクトは東アジアの伝統的な音楽や詩、語り物を研究素材として、東洋の視点から「感情」を捉えなおす試みです。最終的には音や人形・オブジェ、動きや光を組み合わせて、感覚を通して体験できる一つの＜感情の物語＞を作り出したいと思っています。
初演は2022-2023年シーズンでまだちょっと先ですが、制作途中で随時小さな発表をしていく予定です。どうぞお楽しみに。
（投稿 by サチヨ）

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