works-[B]CHIKUHA (dance unit);
—CHIKUHA | ちくは 「A Dance Pattern Language」 ダンス・パタン・ランゲージ + ちくはアニュアル展 annual exhibition
––CHIKUHA | ちくは「A Dance Pattern Language」ダンス・パタン・ランゲージ253 自分を語る小物 A Dance Pattern Language 253 things from your life
—CHIKUHA | ちくは 「barrier free」　バリアフリー

 

 

Chikuha Profile

A dance unit with volunteer dancers and actors from various genres in Yamaguchi prefecture in 2004. Chikuha means a fish cake without axis, representing a group with no leader and no axis: the origin of the group name. In 2006, we held an exhibition called Dance Pattern Language + Performance in Yamaguchi Center of Art and Media, intending to bring dance into Pattern Language made for architecture. The works reached beyond performing arts stage works into installations, movies and publications. Stopped in 2011.

The second work of the Dance Pattern Language series. The last and 253rd pattern of the Pattern Language is titled “small things that tell your story.” The pattern focused mainly on photo frames which individual memory is condensed into. This work uses motifs of a human body after the 253rd pattern, focusing on dancers’ inner body perceptions, producing patterns. This is my proposal for a new dance choreography method that anyone can use and choreograph dances with.

We put a huge balloon inside the exhibition area. Performance took place inside the space as if you entered into a space filled with skin of the internal organs of giants. The balloons have prongs and are the dance spaces and sheets to the audiences. These prongs functioned as costumes and stage art.

 

[ ちくは　プロフィール ]

ダンサーや役者といった異なるジャンルの有志によって2004年に結成された、山口県を中心に活動するダンスユニット。ユニット名の由来は、軸に穴が空いた練り物「ちくわ」と、リーダー不在の集合体といった「軸なし」のスタイルから。2006年、山口情報芸術センターにて、建築言語「パタン・ランゲージ」をダンスに取り入れる実験的な試み『ダンス・パタン・ランゲージ展+パフォーマンス』展を開催。舞台芸術にとどまらず、インスタレーション展示、映像、印刷物等、幅広い活動を展開。2011年休止。