‘Parade’ is got back to the present age
by Keiichiro Shibuya

On May 27, 2016 and 28th, ‘Parade for The End of The World’ is given the first public performance at Maison de la Culture du Japon à Paris.

It is the latest stage work since ‘THE END’ that Keiichiro Shibuya create, and this project is announced as work-in progressive that means an exhibition producing made with Jérémie Bélingard who is Etoile of Paris opera house and Justine Emard who is a video artist.

This work start to make a modern version of “Parade” that staged at Théâtre du Châtelet in 1917. “Parade” is the legendary program of 15 minutes was in charge of a script with Jean Cocteau, a art with Pablo Picasso, music with Erik Satie, is said with an important work in not only the dancing history but also the art history.

Because this ‘Parade’ greets 100 years from presentation by the next year, we show the production middle of the work which constituted under the theme of “a parade toward the world end”.

Shibuya says、”The music just traces beat of the score by Satie which is all the sides of the rhythm including the tempo change. The motif which was sometimes made synthesizer size is inserted”
That’s why a piano, a computer, a typewriter are set with a dancer on the day in the stage.

As ‘Parade’ at the time crosses the border with the genre such as music and the dance lightly, and it was a work letting a person watching it impressed, “Parade for the End of the World” may open up the horizon of the composite art too.We cannot overlook it at a moment of the birth of new ‘Parade’ which the artist of Japan and France which achieved a miraculous encounter produces.

In addition, as an allied plan of the 100th anniversary of “Parade”, a curtain of “Parade” (1917) drawn by Picasso is opened to the public at Théâtre du Châtelet until 15th from May 7th.
Trailer：

Parade for the End of the World世界初演 / work in progress
Date：27,28 May 2016 20:00 ~

Venue：
Maison de la Culture du Japon à Paris（日本文化会館）
101Bis Quai Branly, 75015 Paris, France