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About SETAGAYA-SILK
Described as “art that makes you chuckle,” SETAGAYA-SILK’s work portrays easily overlooked moments of everyday life and subtle emotions, leaving room for audiences to interpret the work through their own sensibilities. Aiming to avoid over-explanation and create meaning with as few words as possible, the group focuses on the concept of ma. It is a Japanese aesthetic of spatial and temporal intervals, creating a space in which something new can emerge.
The company has staged works in kabuki playhouses, ski resorts, and tennis courts, as well as at arts festivals and venues including Parthenon Tama, the Setouchi Triennale, the Oku-Noto Triennale, the Toyooka Theatre Festival, and the SCOT Summer Season, earning recognition through ongoing engagement with local communities.
Members
HORIKAWA Honoh
Founder and artistic director of Setagaya Silk. Director, playwright, choreographer, and actor. Her interests include Japanese traditional dance and manga. In 2014, she joined the directing department of Seinendan, led by Oriza Hirata.
In 2015, she trained in opera in France and Sweden as an assistant director trainee under Yoshi Oida.She received the Setagaya Arts Award “Hisho” for Performing Arts in 2010, and the Encouragement Award and Audience Award at the Toga Theatre Directors Competition in 2013.
Award Records
2010 Setagaya Arts Award ‘Hisho’ in Performing Arts section
2013 Toga Concour Encouragement Award Audience Award
Performance
2012.1 Next Generation “Migratory birds wait for the signal” Theatre Tram, Tokyo
2013.8 BeSeTo Festival “Mr.Fujino” Komaba Agora Theatre, Tokyo
2014.4 The Ninth Performance “Beautiful Hippolyta” Kichijoji Theatre, Tokyo
.6 Japan Playwrights Association “The tour of hot spring by a stork” Genbudo, Hyogo
.10 The Tenth Performance “The landscape with a red bird” Za-Koenji1, Tokyo
2016.5 Setouchi Triennale “~Open air theatre~ Le Petit Prince” Syamijima, Kagawa
2017.2 TPAM fringe “Kon-Kon/The Remaining” Sakura WORKS, Kanagawa
.9 Parthenon Tama Festival “The house with a carp” Kirameki no Ike, Tokyo
.11 Japan-Sweden cooperative production “Mysterious Shadow” Kinosaki Arts Centre, Hyogo/Other
2018.1 sponsored by Sendai Cultural Foundation “workshop and performance” Miyagi
.2 TPAM fringe “The Remaining 2018” BUKATSUDO, Kanagawa
International Performance
2016.7 Avignon Festival Original dance performance in open-air Avignon, France
2017.3 Japan-Sweden cooperative production “Mysterious Shadow” Gothenburg, Sweden
2018.8 Japan-India cooperative production “Bamboo Princess” Mussoorie and Delhi, India
Contact Us
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