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Gekidan KAITAISHA "Dream Regime, Tokyo"

2 December 2005 - 4 December 2005

From 2 - 4 December, 2005 internationally acclaimed experimental theatre group Gekidan Kaitaisha will perform their latest production of "Dream Regime" at the Japan Foundation, Tokyo. The culminating stage of a three-year project conducted through a series of workshops in Wales, Germany, Australia, East Timor and Jordan, and productions at Chapter Arts Centre (Wales) and Broellin Arts Centre (Germany), this latest intercultural work will include artists from Australia, Bahrain, Germany, South Korea and Wales. Co-produced by the Japan Foundation, the production will tour internationally in 2006.

Since the studio production of Tokyo Ghetto in 1995, Kaitaisha have performed at festivals and venues worldwide. Focused on the body, Kaitaisha's performances critically reflect on histories of forced migration in an era of globalization. Australian writer/performer Adam Broinowski has been a core member of Kaitaisha since 2001, and Olivia Crang, a VCA graduate from Melbourne recently residing in Tokyo will perform in this production.

Olivia Crang

Olivia Crang has a Graduate Diploma in Animateuring (VCA) and a Bachelor of Creative Arts (Honours) from the University of Melbourne. She has taken a number of workshops in various performance techniques including the Grotowski method, Suzuki method, Laban Technique, Butoh (Yoshito Ohno, Yukio Waguri, Tadashi Okamura) and Noguchi taiso (Diarakudakan, Butoh-sha Tenkei), and with Gekidan Kaitaisha.

She plans to incorporate acting, multi-media, sound and music, dance, text and visual arts in her work. She has performed at Tokyo Big Site, the VCA, La Mama, the Carlton Courthouse, the Open Stage, the Adelaide and Melbourne Fringe Festivals and the Fairfax Studio of the Victorian Arts Centre.

Adam Broinowski

Adam Broinowski is a performer, writer and translator based in Tokyo and Melbourne. He lived in Japan intermittently since 1984, studied law, Japanese and performance at Monash University (BA, 1992) and Shizuoka University (Hons., 1993). With Tetrapod he made the award-winning documentary Hell Bento (SBSiTV, 1995). Since 1994 he has performed, written and directed solo and group productions with several Australian theatre companies and toured in South America, Europe, UK, US, Singapore and Australia. In 2000 he was Asialink Performing Arts Resident in Malaysia, he was a Japan Foundation Fellow in 2001 researching Japanese contemporary theatre and worked with Gekidan Kaitaisha on several productions as performer-translator-co-director until 2005. He completed an MA on Japanese avant-garde theatre (MA, Melbourne University 2003), and has recently completed research on the body and the politics of globalization at Tokyo University (Monbukagakusho Scholarship, 2003-2005).

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