21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa

Thursday November 28, 2013 - Sunday December 8, 2013

Dates & Time	28 Thu	29 Fri	30 Sat	1 Sun	2 Mon	3 Tue	4 Wed	5 Thu	6 Fri	7 Sat	8 Sun
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◎Performance & Post Talk (Guest: Tristan Sharps) ●Preview Performance
*Please come to Theater 21, 30 minutes prior to starting time.

Attention:

• "ONE DAY, MAYBE" is a mobile performance in which the audience participate in the performance as they move from Theater 21 to Tatemachi Street.


• Please come to Theater 21, 30 minutes prior to starting time.


• Once the performance starts, you are prohibited from entering the theater.


• Please wear warm outfits since you will be entering a non-operated building.


• Please contact us if you have walking difficulties or need wheelchairs.


• Our staff will guide you upon emergency.


• Age restriction: 6 or older

Other performances
Gwangju, Korea
Date: 3-15 September
Venue: The former Gwangju Girls High School
Contact: AsiaNow
E-MAIL: onedaymaybe@naver.com
Phone: +82-(0)2-765-6582

Kochi, Japan
Date: 2-9 November
Venue: The Museum of Art, Kochi
Contact: The Museum of Art, Kochi
E-MAIL: museum@kochi-bunkazaidan.or.jp
Phone: +81-(0)88-866-8000

ONE DAY, MAYBE started when I was invited to come to Gwangju and create a new piece of work. Although I was free to choose the subject of this work, it became clear during my first visit to Gwangju in 2011 that the subject had chosen itself.

The events of May 1980, when the people of Gwangju who demonstrated in the name of Democracy were brutally murdered by the paratroopers in the name of the government, are a key part of South Korea’s history. For me, in 2011, with the ongoing Arab Spring uprisings, these events felt like a key part of the present.

I realized it would be impossible to create a new piece about anything else.

However, I would never presume to be an expert on the subject of May 1980. My interest is in exploring the world we live in now through the lens of those tragic events.

What if those young people who are now dead could step into the shoes of the young people alive today and see the same world that we see? What would they make of the world we now live in? They would see a world where Liberty and Democracy have spread rapidly across a range of countries. Or would they?

ONE DAY, MAYBE.

Though dreamthinkspeak have re-created several of our productions around the world, his will be the first time that we have developed an entirely new piece of work from scratch outside of the UK. The core of our dreamthinkspeak team will work alongside Japanese and Korean artists and technicians, which includes a company of 25 performers.

Tristan Sharps, Artistic Director

Created in 1999 by Artistic Director Tristan SHARPS, dreamthinkspeak is internationally recognized as a key producer of site-responsive performance. The work of the company interweaves live performance with film and installations to create extraordinary journeys that are ambitious in scale, visually layered and popular with audiences wherever they are performed. Previous works have taken place in a variety of physical and architectural contexts from an underground abattoir in Clerkenwell, to a disused paper factory in Moscow, to the Old Treasury Building in Perth, Australia. Key productions include WHO GOES THERE? (2001), DON’T LOOK BACK (2003), UNDERGROUND (2005), ABSENT (2009), BEFORE I SLEEP (2010) AND THE REST IS SILENCE (2012) and IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE END (2013).

In 2010 the company received the Peter Brook / Empty Space Ensemble Award for “adventurous achievement in developing an ensemble of technicians, actors, directors, writers and musicians in surprising sites and venues, in a structure that is innovative in its own right”.

The company is led and managed by Tristan Sharps, Chris Stafford (Executive Director) and Lucy Godfrey (Producer).

http://www.dreamthinkspeak.com/