Crossovers

291 Gallery will act as a host to a dramatic range of concerts, sound installations, performance and experimental animation. Combining dance with animation and Noh performance. This series of experimental performances offers a unique insight into both traditional approaches to Japanese culture and contemporary developments in the arts

Japanese folk concert: 3rd August 8.30 - 10.00pm

Watanabe Minyokai: 4th August 7.00 - 8.00pm, 5th August 2.00 - 3.30pm

This evening will present traditional classic Japanese folk music, Watanabe Minyokai with a regional flavour, using traditional instruments tsugaru shamisen (three stringed Japanese banjo) melancholic and reflective, giving an insight into the spiritual roots of Japanese culture, time travel.

Video & sound installation from group 78°: 9th, 11th August 8.30 - 10.00pm

Yaeko Osono, Danny Nimbus. From Berlin

Two Berlin based artists Yaeko Osono and Danny Nimbis have collectively, 78°, from Berlin, developed a multi-media sound installation, around the complex theme of cultural identity, developing a dialogue between Berlin and Japan which is multi layered and complex both aesthetically and socially. The theme of the work reflects on the crossovers between young Japanese people living in Berlin and older Germans, within the context of Berlin after the wall.

Performance and experimental animation 164, 184, 23, 25 August 8.30 - 10.00pm

Azuru Isshiki, Gencho Morita, Sangatsu Murakami, Akari Uno, Ko Nakajima

An experimental performance with animation and dance, in which the body and space are combined with the virtual world of animation, in a hybrid performance which mixes the traditional techniques of No theatre, expressing a particular method of behavior, with the projected image from the world of film and video.

'Many memories of her daily life return to her, forgotten memories. Curiously, many scenes of a place she has never visited before come to her'. "To dance to create a world where there are no words, to show through the creation of a style, repeatedly, layered, in the body, controlled, a sense of existence, in which there is no dualism (Gencho Morita)