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| Sonezaki The Love Suicide at Sonezaki Japanese traditional performing arts, Kabuki and Bunraku depicted by flamenco “Cante (vocal)” in Japanese for the first time ever in the history of flamenco Dancers that express Japanese classical world of pathos Unprecedented Flamenco Entertainment accomplished through the fusion of various new ideas |
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| Backgrounds This work is based on the story “The Love Story at Sonezaki” of Chikamatsu Monzaemon, the representative of Japan’s Bunraku and Kabuki authors. The work “The Love Suicide at Sonezaki” has been performed for over 300 years. |
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| “Flamenco The Love Suicide at Sonezaki” was born by the meeting of the producer, Yoko Aki, the music composer RyudoUzaki and the dancers and choreographers, Mayumi Kagita and Hiroki Sato. Aki and Uzaki first made the rock version of this story 20 years ago, but after getting acquainted with Kagita and Sato, the idea of the flamenco version was born. Kagita and Sato are Japan’s top flamenco dancers and choreographers. Keeping in touch with the original roots of flamenco, as Japanese, these two very talented artists also continued to incorporate original ideas into their works while testing the endless possibilities of flamenco. Ironically, when Aki and Uzaki spoke to them about “The Love Suicide at Sonezaki”, Kagita and Sato were also thinking about performing one of the double-suicide stories of Chikamatsu-Monzaemon. This is how this Japanese love story came to be performed in the flamenco style. This work was first played in 2001 and was a great success, which helped it to receive a Cultural Affairs Agency Art Festival Award and was loved by flamenco and other music and dance fans in Japan. Consequently, the show was performed at the Theater Space Zero (three times) in 2002. And in December 2003, it is going to be performed 7times at the honorable Le Theatre GINZA. |
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