Friday, July 31, 2009

juice

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and coffee and youghurt

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言葉

The word is created by the body and lives in the body.
There is no word without the body.
The word on stage is not ordinary, neither is the body.

Thursday, July 30, 2009

Culture is

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the body.

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たくあん

If you want to eat pickled radish you must work for it.
Some things do get lost in translation
but the body needs none when it speaks.

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

the program

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流行歌

Some things remain in the heart despite the flow of time.
Japanese songs.
King Lear.

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

A moment of clarity

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the moon

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手本

For a brief moment it stopped raining. We could rehearse. But the elements had their way in the end.

Monday, July 27, 2009

函館と人生の並木道

Planting a tree on stage is a unique event indeed.

Sunday, July 26, 2009

Torso

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Standing on one leg

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ラーメン

Full run-through of Kachi-Kachi Yama ended at 2:00 AM.
Angels and nurses dancing on car roof-tops.
And moving lots of expensive furniture.

Saturday, July 25, 2009

Old cars...

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make good houses

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The bugs are here.
And frogs.

Friday, July 24, 2009

From the wings

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rehearsing until the weehours

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思案

In the face of exhaustion one must carry on.

Thursday, July 23, 2009

A different view

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we could see just a bit of the eclipse today

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Wednesday, July 22, 2009

相手を

There must be an outsidefocus while having complete awareness of one's own body.
It is violent energy that we harness, for we must truly break with ordinary reality.
What we create on stage requires a special kind of concentration.

POST

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yes we get it too.

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稽古

It takes so many hours of rehearsal to create a single moment of theatre.
But in the end it cannotend like the faint memory of a dream. It must be able to be repeated. And then it must be repeated. Again and again.

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Similar is not the same

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and meat and veggies.

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大自然と一途な夢

To cook, a fire must be lit first.
After the meal , ashes. Theatre is different. It begins with nothing. At the end the fire remains.

Monday, July 20, 2009

The lower depth

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A part of the play.

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The missing parts of thepuzzle arrived from Russia and America today.
Under a star-lit sky.
Rehearsal reminds us howtruly brief eternity is.Nurses and madmen and women surrounded by light.

Sunday, July 19, 2009

Cleaning tools

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Dustpan.Mops.Brooms.Brushes.Etc.

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The weather was perfect for rehearsing at night.
Lifting cars. Moving lighting instruments.
People inside decaying cars dreaming of rabbits and singing of love and lies. Dancing like tomorrow won't come.
The tiny light of a lightning bug.
All in a days work.

Saturday, July 18, 2009

In hiding

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Somewhere between nowhere and everywhere

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集中力

Mr.Getz,the German actor who will be playing King Lear is now in Toga as well.
It rained all day.

Friday, July 17, 2009

Around the corner

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They come in all sizes.

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One road

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Steep and long is the path.

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A view of green

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And beyond a theatre...

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Thursday, July 16, 2009

からたち日記

Awareness of perception.Breathing. The breath.
Seeing fireworks that are visible to everybody but oneself.
Measuring the distance between a cadillac and the end of the world.
"The songs of Japan are indeed good. Really good."

嵐と雷

SPAC members arrived today from Shizuoka.
So did the guest artistsfrom Korea.
There is a fundamental,yet not at all obvious difference between scoring a goal in a soccer match and finishing a marathon race.

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Statue

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one kind of art

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still life

It is not part of the play. But it could fit right in.

美空ひばり

Training. Of course, rehearsal.
Painting walls and building stage platforms.
Speaking. Familiar songs and new songs.
The lower depths.
A scene of card playing.Nurses, doctors, alcohol.

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Toga Sambo

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It was thoroughly cleaned.

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訓練

Training began today.
At the old TOGA Sambo.

Monday, July 13, 2009

Under construction

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A new performing space

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台本を

It's all a grand collage of life.
Today we saw some archive recordings of past productions.
Reviewed some old things and learned some new things for and about the future.

Saturday, July 11, 2009

Full

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after

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Empty

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before

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All in a days work. Filling the stage with cars.Very heavy cars.
Moved mostly by sheer will and raw energy.
How many men and women does it take to lift a cadillac?
Many.

Granship/Togamura

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Granship/Togamura

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重いもので舞台

It took 5 and a half hours to get here by car.
Lots of cleaning and moving around heavy stuff today.

Friday, July 10, 2009

wednesday's view

still in hamamatsu、 enjoying a peaceful moment in the midst of preparing and packing for the summer.

Wednesday, July 8, 2009