TOKIDOKI-JIDO
Started from the early 1980's.
TOKIDOKI-JIDO has been continuously creating experimental works with a unique theme mixing music and theater and meeting somewhere in the middle.
Recently TOKIDOKI-JIDO called itself as a "theater band," but from this year they decided to have their yearly goal reflect what change the band would be, and how they would categorize themselves.
For this year, TOKIDOKI-JIDO is a "hiking band".
The thought is that the band (collective) walks pleasantly through nature's clear air.
Director
Naoyuki Asahina
1948 ~
composer, theater director, actor, poet, singer, artist, writer
Through TOKIDOKI-JIDO's activity, he produces the work on the theme of "new meeting between music and theater".
selected stage works
2012.11
"winter of animals"(Tokyo)
2009-2011
"area of songs 1-3"(Tokyo)
2005.9
"music no music" (Tokyo)
2004-2006
Asia tour
"Lightology" (Kuala Lumpur, Manila, Singapore)
2003.11
"dance no dance" (Tokyo)
2003.3
"katachi no katachi" (Tokyo)
2002.3
"Lightology" (Tokyo)
2000.1～11
"6events vol.1～6" (Tokyo)
1999.3
"THINKING OF TOKIDOKI-JIDO" (Tokyo)
1996.10
"GO BY AIRPLANE" (Tokyo)
1995.12
"TABISHITA Munchen version" (Tokyo)
1995.10
"M→m"
(Muffathalle in Munchen / Partipated in "SPIEL.ART" Theater- festival in Munchen)
1994.9
"M→m" (Tokyo, Nagoya)
1992.12
"TABISHITA Berlin version" (Tokyo)
1992.10
"15min." "1day←→29000days"
(Hebbel Theater in Berlin / Partipated in the 8th Urbane Aboriginale Festival)
1991.11
"IEOTATERU" (Tokyo, Nagoya)
1990.12
"15min."
(Tokyo / Partipated in omnibus stage "Tingel Tangel")
1990.10
"CONVENTION II.v"
(Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Kushiro, Sapporo, Kanazawa, Kobe, Fuji)
#traveling stage in 8 cities of Japan
1989.10
"KINEN" (Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya)
1988.10
"ICHINICHI"
(Tokyo / Partipated in The 2nd Aoyama Theater Festival)
review
Via their unique use of technology and the cast of young actresses/singers/musicians, Tokidoki-Jido presents a series of evocative visuals, sounds, and movements. And through their avoidance of logical time sequences they've been able to explore new concepts of performance. To seasoned theater buffs expecting any sort of dramatic development, this might all be imcomprehensible.
For childrens, as well as adults who still posess the childlike ability to accept alternative realities, however, this is a wondrous new world.
(THE JAPAN TIMES, Oct.08,1994 / MIKI MIYATAKE)
How can one summarize what does not belong together? How can one tell what makes one speechless?
Surprising is the ease with which the director Asahina Naoyuki combines and reshapes dance, music, theater, mimic, video, film, song, and art works. Drums become projection screens, clothes become instruments, instruments becomes sculptures and sculptures become actors. Words, images and sounds merge into a new stage language.
(Suddeutsche Zeitung, Oct.16, 1995 / Karin Steinberger)
Since its start in 1985, the activity of TOKIDOKI-JIDO has been eroding and digesting the existing category with sloughing and transforming itself. Performers of TOKIDOKI-JIDO, moving around on the stage, sometimes dance, sometimes play instruments, and sometimes play roles. Not by dividing works, they dare to show theatrical aspects in music and to draw dance from the dynamism of playing instruments. They invent original ways of composing music, choreography and even make instruments. Such system brings a vividness which never happen from a collaboration or a compromising work of each field's specialist.
Not "always automatic" but "sometimes automatic".
Our body, that moves with habits, exists also in such a semi-automatic way.
The body might be provisional formed with organs, which were applied variously in the evolution process. A scholar called it the bricolage on evolution. That is to assemble new appliances and machines by well combining existing materials.
TOKIDOKI-JIDO also transforms performers, projectors, sequencers into a new stage by the same approach.
By regarding a theater space as a performance machine, they spread their body there, that is expanding to the stage. That is the work of TOKIDOKI-JIDO.
(BT / Bijutsu Techo, May, 2001 / Nozomu Yanagisawa)
2006.4
"Lightology" (at Singapore) review
music
myspace : https://myspace.com/tokidokijido/music/songs/
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