Lee Daeil “Concert in a traditional Japanese house and report on the results of the stay”

The Traditional House Concert was conducted in the courtyard of an old Japanese home which once served as the Harada Rice Store alongside the path of the Mitokaidou. The concert was a sound performance created from three themes: present, past, and person.

For “present,” recorded sounds from the local Rakuen Pachinko Parlor and Kikyouya Dry Cleaning were remixed with piano music performed by PARADISE AIR’s very own Wataru Shoji. For “past,” the audience members themselves were incorporated into the piece when asked to “play” the house as if an instrument. Finally, for “person,” Dancer Meri Otoshi began a guerilla performance inspired by the audience’s interaction with the house while cellist Rene Van Munster and Daily accompanied on string instruments.

 

Meri Otoshi was born in Kyoto, Japan. At age three, she began studying classic dance in the Arima Ballet at the Kyoto School of Ballet. She is a graduate of Showa Academia Musicae, where she studied a wide range of dance, including classical, modern, and folkloric dance. She currently dances for street jazz clubs, special events, commercials, show clubs, etc. She has accompanied an innumerable number of actors, singers, visual artists, and musicians, she performs primarily in Kyoto and Osaka, and through her work she uses her body to explore dance free from concept.

 

 

Date | Saturday November 2nd, 2013

Concert : 15:00~ / Artist talk: 17:00~

Venue | Old House Studio “ex-harada rice store”

Players｜Otoshi Meri, Rene Van Munster,  Igakura Youko, Osada Hinako,Takamizawa Shunsuke,Tokoro Mino,Nishio Takeshi, Nonaka Keiichi,Matsuoka Masataka,,Mino Ayako