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Photographs: Mayu Kanamori, Michelle Mossop, Jon Armstrong
Music: Dr Thomas Fitzgrald
CHIKA is a multi-layered production which crosses the genres of journalism, visual and performing arts, incorporating original live music, dance and narration, documentary images, archival video and recorded interviews to tell a story - the story of Chika Honda, a Japanese woman who spent a decade in Australian jails for a crime she has always insisted she did not commit.
Concept/Photography: Mayu Kanamori
Original Music Composition: Thomas Fitzgerald, with one exquisite Koto Solo by Satsuki Odamura.
Choreography: Yumi Umiumare
Director of Music: Thomas Fitzgerald
Producers: Mayu Kanamori & Malcolm Blaylock
Director: Malcolm Blaylock
Artists: Mayu Kanamori (Narrator), Tom Fitzgerald (Violin/Keyboards), Yumi Umiumare (Dance), Satsuki Odamura (Koto), Bronwyn Kirkpatrick (Shakuhachi), Toshinori Sakamoto (Taiko Drums)Sydney Season : Carriageworks, March 2008
Artists: Mayu Kanamori (Narrator), Tom Fitzgerald (Violin/Keyboards), Yumi Umiumare (Dance), Satsuki Odamura (Koto), Bronwyn Kirkpatrick (Shakuhachi), Toshinori Sakamoto (Taiko Drums)Adelaide Season : OzAsia Festival 2008
Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre, September 2008
Artists: Mayu Kanamori (Narrator), Tom Fitzgerald (Violin/Keyboards), Yumi Umiumare (Dance), Satsuki Odamura (Koto), Anne Norman (Shakuhachi), Toshinori Sakamoto (Taiko Drums)
Chika Website Chika Website
OzAsia Festival Website OzAsia Festival Website
Adelaide Festival Centre Adelaide Festival Centre WebsiteJapan Foundation Arts NSW ABC Radio National Australia Council for the ArtsAdelaide Festival Centre'sOzAsia Festival
Thank you all who contributed to the success of the CHIKA Melbourne Fundraiser - those who attended the performance, performers Anne Norman (Shakuhachi), Yumi Umiumare (Butoh), Toshi Sakamoto (Japanese traditional drum), Noriko Tadano (Tsugaru Jamisen), guest speaker Mr Remy van de Wiel (QC) and MC Yoko Davies (former producer of Japanese program, SBS Radio).
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- EnTrance in APAM
- EnTrance Sydney tour PerformanceSpace
- DasSHOKU SHAKE!!
- Performance in TOKYO Jan 2012 Earth Dimension Version 1.
- Live event in TOKYO Dec 2011 Organized by Taiyodo
- Return To Sender
- Zero Zero Melaka Art and Performance Festival
- Brisbane Powerhouse presents Finucane & Smith’s The Burlesque Hour
- En Trance NORPA
- Finucane & Smith’s Carnival of Mysteries Melbourne Festival
- In the Arts Island Performance 2010
- Butoh Class Weekend Intensive 12 June 2010 - 13 June 2010
- Trans-mute Butoh-Cabaret 9 to 29 May 2010
- Butoh Intensive Workshop 11 April 2010 - 09 May 2010
- Salon de Dance 5th to 28th March 2010
- The Burlesque Hour Salon of Live Ladies! Adelaide Fringe 2010
- Sakasama - reverse world
- Burning Daylight with Marrugeku
- En Trance World Premier Presented by Malthouse Theatre August 28 – September 13
- The Burlesque Hour LEGENDS! Presented by Finucane and Smith June 25th – August 2nd Melbourne
- Hiroshima & Nagasaki Memorial Concert ‘09 Saturday 8th August
- Dis-Oriental Napolidanza Association
- The Burlesque Hour Presented by Gold Coast Arts Centre June 14th – 16th
- Pulse Sakasama Reverse World : Yumi Umiumare Edge : Tony Yap
- Salon de Dance & The Feast of Argentina a double bill of wild delight!
- Upstart Alley VIII
- Butoh residential workshop 2008
- Ngapartji Ngapartji
- Burlesque Hour… She’s Back!
- Dis-Oriental
- CHIKA: A Documentary Performance
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- Beyond Butoh (BB08#2)
