Tera

Tera — the starting point of TERASIA. We will screen a video recording of Tera’s premiere performance at Festival/Tokyo 2018, staged in the main hall of the Buddhist Jodo School Saiho-ji Temple, which enshrines the Amitabha. The protagonist, Mitsuko Kyogoku, is a daughter of the temple. Based on the verse drama “Daffodils and Wooden Fish” (1957) by Jūrō Miyoshi, the performance interweaves various fragments from Japanese literature. Eventually, the musician, KyojunTanaka, tells the story of his upbringing as the son of a monk. 

Screening

TERA

Director: Yukari Sakata
Performance: Miho Inatsugu
Music: Kyojun Tanaka
Dramaturg: Maho Watanabe

[Overview]
- Jakarta
Venue: Komunitas Utan Kayu - Teater
Time and Date: 12:30-13:45, January 13, 2024

- Bandung
Venue: ISBI Bandung - Studio Teater
Time and Date: 16:00-17:15, January 17, 2024
* The screening will be followed by an introductory talk on Sua TERASIA (until 18:00)

Language: Japanese with Indonesian subtitles

Artists

Yukari Sakata

Yukari Sakata graduated from the Department of Musical Creativity and the Environment at Tokyo University of the Arts, then honed her skills working as a stage technician at theatres around Japan. At Festival/Tokyo 2014, she directed “Rashomon | Yabunonaka” in collaboration with Al-Kasaba Theatre from Palestine. In recent years, she has experimented with applying the ideas and techniques of theatre to the format of the exhibition. Her long-term project “Dear Gullivers” with the architect Jorge Martín García was featured in the Spanish pavilion at the 16th Venice Biennale in 2018. Sakata employs collaboration with existing narratives as a means of attempting artistic interventions in communities.

Miho Inatsugu

Miho Inatsugu started her career in the theatre while studying at Tokyo University of the Arts. She works as an independent actor, mainly for the stage. Her acting credits include productions by Sample, chelfitsch, Okazaki Art Theatre, Mikuni Yanaihara Project, Busstrio, Office Mountain, Tokatsu Sports, Yukari Sakata, Chiharu Shinoda, and OLTA. She has also participated in many international tours, as well as in the 2019 Japanese-Polish coproduction Always Coming Home by director Magda Szpecht. Playing a wide range of roles both domestically and internationally, she works beyond conventional boundaries. Since 2022, she has hosted “The Classroom of Acting” at PARA Jimbocho in Tokyo, a place to think about acting through experimentation.

Kyojun Tanaka

Born in Tokyo in 1983, Kyojun Tanaka is a drummer, percussionist, and composer. He started his musical career since he was a student in Tokyo University of the Arts. Following time with the likes of Naruyoshi Kikuchi’s dCprG, he attained his Ph.D., and is currently a rhythm-addicted university staff who travels the world in search of rhythms that make one want to “embrace.” Kyojun performs with his unit MIDOUTEI and the Latin jazz band Septeto Bunga Tropis. He is also engaged in the research and musical training of hsaing waing at the National University of Arts and Culture in Myanmar.

Maho Watanabe

Maho Watanabe is a translator and dramaturg who works in and around art, media, and humanitarian work. In 2014, during her year abroad in the West Bank as an Arabic Studies student, she joined the director Yukari Sakata in Rashomon | Yabunonaka, a theatre co-production by Palestinian and Japanese artists. This marked her first involvement in performing arts, followed by numerous international collaboration projects, festivals, and workshops. Her translation of Lilac Duhaa (Death in the Era of IS) by Palestinian playwright Ghannam Ghannam won the 2019 Odashima Yushi Award for Drama Translation. She served as dramaturg for the original production of TERA (2018), and in May 2020, she was part of initiating TERASIA with Kop in Thailand and other artists. She is an Asian Cultural Council fellow for 2022.