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TÓPOS Notes on Life ​​​​​​​
TÓPOS Notes on Life 
Concept, Produce: Junya Ishii
Choreograph: Pau Aran Gimeno
Dance: Kaho Kogure, Junya Ishii
Sound Design: Noriko Okaku
Set Design: Junya Ishii
Takashi Watanabe (circo de sastre)

Cover Photo : Mika Kitamura

Feb 10th and 11th  2019 at YCC Yokohama

Japan Spain Dance project TÓPOS
Organized by TÓPOS Dance / PLATAUX
Cooperation: The Saison Foundation, Incline LLP, Colectivo La Perdición,
Casa Asia Supported by Embassy of Spain in Japan and the Agency for Cultural Affairs in Japan
2018 Dec 15 at SuperDeluxe, Tokyo
2018 at Bardenas Reales, Spain
2045 Carnival Folklore : Live screening performance
Sierror! (Naoki Kato, Keisuke Masuda)- electronic, Ryo Hamamoto - E.guitar
 Hideyuki Okamoto - vocal,  Junya Ishii - dance
2016 Nov 11th at Caixa Forum, Barcelona , Casa Asia Film Festival 2016 
The Interpreter: + performance
Visual "Interpreter" by Noriko Okaku
Dance: Junya Ishii, Music: Akihide Monna and Léo Dupleix
Oct 5th, 2016 at LantarenVenster Rotterdam
Camera Japan Festival 2016 Opening Performance

The intention of the performance is to expand on the experiment of ‘interpretation’. The artists would like to invite the audience to pay attention to their own subconscious and the stories that emerge as they interpret the performers’ interpretation of the Tarot cards.Organized by PLATAUX

Asagao
contemplations on impermanence through music and dance
Dézsi Kata / Gemza Péter / Ishii Junya
Kovács Márton - violin / Mezei Szilárd - viola / Márkos Albert - violoncello
Keszei Borbála - costumes / Payer Ferenc - light
Special thanks to Zsófia Jávor and Gabriella Mesterházy
2013, May 22-23  - Szkéné theatre, Budapest
The performance is an attempt to unravel and convey the message of JISEI (farewell and death poetry composed by zen monks, samurai and haiku poets on the verge of death) through the theatrical language of music and dance. Shohi, the composer of the jisei ‘Asagao’ died at the age of 79 on the fourteenth day of the eight month in 1750.
The morning glory (asagao) is a creeper that blooms around August in various colours. It blossoms at dawn and withers on the same day, hence the Japanese name Asagao (literally ‘morning face’) and the ephemeral flower symbolises impermanence.
FULL VERSION
youtube.com/watch?v=vVpZAym_cuE

ECLIPSE 

Video: Pogonyi Csongor, Movement: Junya Ishii 

Eclipse was created with video artist Pogonyi Csongor at Laszlo Moholy Nagy Arts and Design University, Budapest in 2011. In dark room, Pogonyi Csongor used welding machine, and shot with super slow camera to capture blinking and slow swaying vision through the reflection of light through the body and motion. I have been interested in the idea of “vision in motion”, “art of light and motion” by László Moholy-Nagy. I perceive this video piece as portrait in digital reproduction.
Length of 100 Needles 
Directed by JOZEF NADJ, Music composed by: SZILARD MEZEI 
Performers: Jozef Nadj, Gyork Szakonyi, Ishii Junya, Gyula Francia, Enike Budai, Akos Kalmar, Peter Gemza
Musicians: Szilard Mezei, Branislav Aksin, Kornel Papista, Bogdan Rankovic, Albert Markos, Ervin Malina, Istvan Cik
Length of 100 Needles is a compelling and surrealistic performance in masks accompanied by live music. The title comes from an old Hungarian saying meaning to labour in vain. Josef Nadj plays a magician. Objects, sounds, spaces and people change their meaning and function at each moment on stage - in an almost imperceptible way. Still, deep down, they all remain themselves in this perpetual variation. Despite his use of myth, iconography and discontinuity, the characters become familiar and personal. In Josef Nadj's theatre everything is being born, changing and fluctuating right before our eyes. Even those components which are certainly constructed beforehand seem to be created at that very moment. The composition and improvisation in the dance and music form an exceptional unity rarely experienced in the theatre.

Video by: Attila Ivan
HORIZON Site Specific performance
Perform: Junya Ishii,  Video: Daniel Szandtner 
Recorded at Hortobagy National Park Hungary 
The film was shot at the Horobagy, an exclave of the Eurasian Steppe called Puszta in Hungary. The word “Puszta” means “plains”, “desolate, “barren, and “bare”. Documented by Daniel Szandtner, Junya Ishii danced impulsively at the land where the wind blows strongly, and migratory birds fly above.
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