Noism0＋Noism1 "L'Arlésienne" / "Boléro - before the heavens fall"

Noism0＋Noism1

“L’Arlésienne” / “Boléro - before the heavens fall”

[Niigata]
Friday, 27 June, 2025 19:00
Saturday, 28 June, 2025 17:00★
Sunday, 29 June, 2025 15:00◆
RYUTOPIA Niigata City Performing Arts Centre – Theatre

★→There will be a post-performance talk after the show (approximately 30 minutes).

*Questions from the audience will be answered.

*Anyone with a ticket for the performance (any of the Niigata performance dates) is welcome to attend.

◆→There will be a pre-performance talk from 14:00 (approximately 20 minutes).

The director/choreographer will talk about the work in the foyer of the theatre before the performance starts.

*Only ticket holders for the same day's performance may attend.

*Please note that chairs are not provided.

*Doors for the auditorium are scheduled to open at 14:30.

Admission (tax included)

All seats reserved 5,500 yen, U25 3,000 yen, High school students and under 1,000 yen

Sales:

N-PAC mate (RYUTOPIA Friends Association) pre-sale: Wednesday, 26 March 2025
General sale: Saturday, 29 March 2025

[Saitama]
Friday, 11 July 2025, 19:00

Saturday, 12 July 2025, 17:00

Sunday, 13 July 2025, 15:00

Saitama Arts Theatre – Main Hall

Admission (tax included)
All seat reserved 6,000 yen, U25 3,000 yen

Sales:
SAF members pre-sale: Saturday, 22 March 2025
General sale: Saturday, 29 March 2025
*Tickets for the Saitama performances, which are available at RYUTOPIA, will go on sale from Saturday, 29 March for both RYUTOPIA members sale and general sale.

Available at:

RYUTOPIA
＊On the first day of general sale, sales will be limited to internet and telephone bookings only. Any remaining seats will be available at the box office from 11:00 on the next working day.

◇Online ticket: https://piagettii.s2.e-get.jp/ryutopia/pt/ (from 11:00 on the first day of sale)

◇Telephone: 025-224-5521 (from 11:00 on first day of sale)

◇Box office [Not available on the first day of sale (both N-PAC mate pre-sale and general sale)]

Inquiries: RYUTOPIA Ticket Dial 025-224-5521 (11:00-19:00 / except closed days)

SAF Ticket Center *Saitama performances only

◇SAF Online Ticket: https://www.saf.or.jp/t/ (10:00- on the first day of sale)

◇Telephone: 0570-064-939 (10:00-18:00 / Except closed days)

◇Box office: Saitama Arts Theater (10:00-18:00 / Except closed days)
Saitama Hall (10:00-18:00 / Except closed days)　

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“L’Arlésienne” is the latest work of choreography directed by Jo Kanamori, created using incidental music and suite versions composed by Bizet for the performance of the drama.
Jo Kanamori, who has previously breathed new life into various stories such as “CARMEN” (2014), “La Bayadère – nation of illusion” (2016) and “ROMEO & JULIETS” (2018), was inspired by a drama based on a short story by Alphonse Daudet, and creates a new story different from those that have been performed by ballet companies and operas in Japan and abroad. At the same time, “Boléro”, which has been performed live at the RYUTOPIA Sylvester Concert 2023 and SaLaD Music Festival 2024, will be presented in a new theatre version.

“L’Arlésienne” We create “L’Arlésienne” (music: G. Bizet) as this summer's Noism0+Noism1 new production.
Bizet's masterpiece is frequently performed in concert and has been choreographed by many ballet companies. However, they are all suite versions (choreographed to a suite), and surprisingly few people know that the first performance was as incidental music with a chorus. I was one of them, and when I happened to hear a recording of the complete incidental music by Michel Plasson and the Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse, I immediately bought a copy of the drama “L’Arlésienne” (A. Daudet). The story by Daudet is famous for being the story (tragedy) of an absent woman, “l’Arlésienne” and the suicide of a young man, Frédéri.
However, reading the drama, it reveals that the tragedy is created by the relationships between the people surrounding the young man, that is to say, the communities (enclosures) of various sizes, such as his family and the people in his village. And it seems that the trigger for the tragedy is not so much pulled by “l’Arlésienne”, but rather by the people involved, especially the mother. It is not so much a tragedy caused by an individual's mental structure of illusions about the absent “other”, but rather a tragedy born out of co-dependence, out of a relationship with the real “other”.
And an important character in the story is Frédéri's younger brother. In addition to the problem of the character's name in the drama being “L’Innocent” (as the family calls him) despite the name Janet, the mother is not interested in the mentally disabled Janet and is devoted to Frédéri. Even so, Janet is always smiling, watching the absurd human drama of “intelligent” adults from the outside. It is his eyes and his presence that makes this tragedy all the more painful and raises the fundamental question of “what is a human being”.
No one can live alone. This creates the necessity to help each other, but it can also be a breeding ground for twisted relationships where people cannot (or do not want to) become independent.
Modern society, where the nuclear family has become the standard, has given rise to many problems caused by twisted ties with specific individuals, such as helicopter parents, obsession with a favorite, eventually, anonymous defamation on social networks. In other words, the problem of co-dependence addressed in this drama is an extremely contemporary problem.
Of course, this production is not a direct performance of Daudet's drama. Based on the above mentioned issues, I have created my own roles, relationships and developments, which will be performed in combination with Bizet's incidental and suite versions music.

”Boléro - before the heavens fall”

The concert version of “Boléro”, which premiered at the RYUTOPIA Sylvester Concert on New Year's Eve 2023, will be performed for the first time as a theatre version of “Boléro - before the heavens fall”.

DIRECTOR’S NOTE Concert version premiere

The original synopsis of Ravel's Boléro is: In a bar in Sevilla, a dancer is warming up her feet on stage. Eventually, her dancing became more exciting, and even the drinkers who initially turned away, gradually turn their attention to the dance, and finally start dancing with her.
In the Noism version, the bar is turned into a convent and the dancing woman is set as a sacrifice. The Eros (urge for life) arising from the dance of the sacrifice releases the monks from their chains of abstinence. And at the end, they all scream for life. It is a message to this blocked era, a hymn to life.

DIRECTOR’S NOTE Theatre version premiere

In this society with a sense of stagnation, we want to deliver the passion for living (dancing) and believing (aspiring) with an excessive amount of physical energy (crying). This concept is the same for both the concert and theatre versions. However, in the theatre version, I would like to deliver these feelings more strongly and more deeply by adding new spatial elements.
The word “Kiyu (needless anxiety)” originates from an anecdote about “a man in the ancient state of Qi(Ki) who was so worried that the heavens might fall and the earth might collapse that he could neither eat nor sleep, until others encouraged and reassured him”.
However, the anxieties that now prevails the world - fears of the collapse of international order (wars) and of natural order (earthquakes) - is a reality that is unlikely to end in needless anxieties.
In times like these, even if the heavens fall, even if the earth collapses, we must devote everything to the present moment. To challenge “here and now” with our entire spirit, together with our comrades. It is that presence, that prayer, that I wish to deliver to the audience. Because that, to me, is what dance and a dance company is all about.

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