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Since being founded in 1982, Pappa Tarahumara has offered unique expositions harmoniously woven of various forms of art. The company, comprising members from numerous artistic disciplines, aims to create a work liberated from meaning, to achieve universality and transcend national borders. Hiroshi Koike, artistic director of the company since its founding, has been a pioneer in Japanese contemporary performing arts. Pappa Tarahumara investigates three sisters’ characters in an all-embracing study of young women growing up in a restricting world -- one which is danced superbly and is extraordinarily engaging and entertaining. This seemingly sweet take on Chekhov’s Three Sisters unravels into a steamy meditation on female identity, coming of age, and the Japanese obsession with youth culture.
About the performance Pappa TARAHUMARA adapts Anton Chekov's literary classic to the context of the Japanese countryside in the 1960s. It's seemingly sweet portrayal of three bored sisters grappling with womanhood spirals in to a sensual and charged meditation on female identity, coming-of age and the Japanese obsession with youth culture. This eccentric comic tragedy, narrated through dynamic choreography, is a powerfully condensed alternative to the company's larger-scale multi-disciplinary works.
Director's note ’If the person who likes the play came to see our Three Sisters, he would say "Is this really Chekhov's? That's ridiculous!" Exactly, I can say about this work "This is it!" and also "This is completely transformed from Chekhov's "The setting is my home town which is one local city in Showa period. (1955~1964) The admiration of communism still remained and the Social Democratic Party of Japan was rising up its popularity, but the Communist Party was not so weak in the era. This piece has these dispositions of area as a background. What is fascination of "Three Sister"? I don't write it here, but you can see the answer in our work. Just I want to say "Three Sisters" is ridiculous comedy, which pretended to be tragedy. However, it is also our daily life. Comedy and tragedy is inside and outside, and it makes you possible to see the fact from the various points of view. The voice, sound, movement, breath, woman, the woman who men see, the man who is watched by women, miserable, love of human beings and the unity of a sacred thing and a vulgar thing. I would be very happy if you would enjoy "Three Sisters", which we can represent just in the field of Performing Arts.’
’Whether they were peeking up each other's skirts, erupting into giggles, singing complicated scat or stripping down to black-laced bodysuits, these three women seemed at first to have wandered a long way from Chekhov's play. But by the end of "Three Sisters,"...Japan's Pappa Tarahumara company had captured, through the intense, sometimes comic journey of three inspired performers, the essence of the original: a contradictory blend of unsatisfied yearning and mature acceptance. ... The many small transitions were mirrored in the structure of three contrasting scenes. In the first, the dancers started out with childlike movements and sounds, exploring their sexuality and their identities unselfconsciously to comic effect. In an abrupt shift, They stripped down to their body-builder black underwear, flexing their muscles, and then launched into a high-energy dance. In the third and final scene, they blended movements from the first two into more whole and mature characterizations.’ /Mary Murfin Bayley, The Seattle Times/
Direction: Hiroshi Koike
Dancers: Mao Arata, Rei Hashimoto, Sachiko Shirai
Music: Junichi Matsumoto
Prop Design: Yuriko Yamaguchi
Costume: Misuzu Kubozono
Stage Manager: Yoshiko Haraguchi
Lighting Design: Yukiko Sekine, Mayumi Uekawa
Sound Operator: Chikako Ezawa
Production Staff: Mikiko Takeuchi, Chisako Nakajima
Supported by: Japan Foundation
