JAPAN SOCIETY THEATER
Miwa Yanagi
Zero Hour: Tokyo Rose's Last TapeThursday,
​January 29, 2015 
Friday, January 30, 2015 
Saturday, January 31, 2015

“A Marriage: 1 (Suburbia),” a performance and installation by Nick Vaughan and Jake Margolin

Japan Society
Saturday, December 8, 7:30 PM

New York's fieriest music group, Bang on a Can All-Stars, unveiled two new Japan Society-commissioned works that draw inspiration from Rimpa--a Japanese painting movement that spanned the 17th-19th centuries.

This concert was presented in conjunction with the Society's exhibition Silver Wind:The Arts of Sakai Hoitsu (1761-1828), showcasing one of the master painters of the Rimpa movement.

"The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle"  is a play, based on the 1998 novel by Haruki Murakami, conceived by Stephen Earnhart, written by Greg Pierce and Stephen Earnhart. Opens Jan. 15 and will run through Jan. 30.


Cast

Akira Ito: Ushikawa/Dream Police
Ai Kiyono: Kumiko/Dream Police
Yoshihisa Kuwayama: Puppeteer/Dream Police
Mina Nishimura: Dream Police
Sophia Remolde: Puppeteer/Dream Police
James Saito: Noboru Wataya
Kristin Villanueva: May Kasahara
Akira Takayama: Lieutenant Mamiya
Toshiji Takeshima: Lounge Singer/Prank Show Host/Dream Police
Niho Tsukimura: Kumiko (film imagery)
Fergus Walsh: Puppeteer/Dream Police
Yoshihiro Watanabe: Waiter/Dream Police
James Yaegashi: Toru Okada
Stacey Yen: Creta Kano

Creative Team
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Director / Co-Writer : Stephen Earnhart
Co-Writer: Greg Pierce
Producers: Wind-UP Productions, Rafe Fogel,Guy & Lia Haskin Fernald and Pamela Lubell
General Management: Seth Goldstein, Aaron Thompson and DR Theatrical Management 
Co-Producer:  Rachel Cooper, Asia Society
Associate Producer:  Eric Gerber
Puppet Director/Scenic Design: Tom Lee 
Assistant Director/Movement Director: Karen Beaumont
Projection Designer: Adam Larsen
Lighting Designer: Laura Mroczkowski
Music & Sound Design: Jane Shaw
Music & Live Performance:  Bora Yoon
Costume Design: Oana Botez-Ban
Production Manager: Brendan Regimbal
Stage Manager: Neelam Vaswani
Assistant Stage Manager: Carmen Torres 
Assistant Stage Manager: 
Angela Hesterman 
Dramaturg:  Claudia Orenstein
Story Consultant:  Andrew Berg
Production Coordinator:  Jonathan Hinton
Casting Director: Judy Bowman
Japanese Translation: Keiko Tsuneda and Sonoko Soeda 
Butoh Choreography: Kota Yamazaki
Consulting Producers: Jennifer Costello, Erich Jungwirth, Alisa Matlovsky and 
Bonnie Stein

Two experimental music giants, Otomo Yoshihide and Christian Marclay, perform together in New York for the first time in over a decade. Marclay, one of the world's leading artists and winner of the 54th Venice Biennale Golden Lion Award, pushed the boundaries of musical creation when he pioneered the use of the turntable as a musical instrument. Otomo, electroacoustic improvisation musician and free jazz guitarist, earned an international reputation as a central figure in Japan's avant-garde music scene. Together, these unconventional turntablists will again push to the extreme what is possible with turntables and records. 

JAPAN SOCIETY PERFORMING ARTS
​DISCUSSION: THE ART OF NOISE
NOVEMBER 19  5PM, 2011
CONCERT: SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19 AT 8PM - SOLD OUT
OTOMO'S INSTALLATION "without records" NOVEMBER 17-20, 2011