///NEXT→Hannover!!///
chelfitsch / Toshiki Okada & Dai Fujikura
with Klangforum Wien
"Metamorphosis of a Living Room"

chelfitsch / Toshiki Okada & Dai Fujikura with Klangforum Wien “Metamorphosis of a Living Room” is  touring three cities in three European cities: Vienna, Hannover, and Amsterdam!

We successfully completed the world premiere in Vienna. Thanks to the lovely festival staff and the audience!
From the 19th, we will perform in Hannover. We look forward to seeing you in Hannover as well!

We have been rehearsing to explore a new relationship between theater and music.
And in the course of our rehearsals, we are convinced that we have found one answer to this question - the way in which performers create a fictional space and music is connected to it.
Please don’t miss the chance to experience the “new music theater”!

>> Vienna *World Premiere
@Wiener Festwochen 
Date｜May 13 (Sat), 2023 - May 15 (Mon), 2023
Performance Schedule｜
May 13, 2023 (Sat) 20:30
May 14, 2023 (Sun) 20:30 
May 15, 2023 (Mon) 20:30
Venue｜Halle G im MuseumsQuartier
Detail | https://www.festwochen.at/verwandlung-eines-wohnzimmers

>> Amsterdam
@Holland Festival
Date｜Jun 7 (Wed), 2023 - Jun 8 (Thu), 2023
Performance Schedule｜
Jun 7, 2023 (Wed) 20:30
Jun 8, 2023 (Thu) 20:30
Venue｜Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ
Detail | https://hollandfestival.nl/en/ribingurumu-no-metamorufuoshisu

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About the piece

Okada and Fujikura, who have both continued to create ambitious works in their respective fields of theater and music, and posted brilliant achievements particularly in recent years, have finally come together. 

The two have repeatedly engaged in interdisciplinary collaboration thus far, and fully exercise their collaborative powers in this project of joint work. Through it, they are generating an unprecedented new genre in which neither theater nor music plays the main role, and which is both a theatrical and a musical performance. 

What will take shape before the eyes of the audience when the script of Okada, the music of Fujikura, the acting by the performers, and the performance by the musicians appear on the same stage at the same time, on equal footing?

This work will be presented by six actors from chelfitsch and seven musicians who are members of Klangforum Wien, a contemporary music ensemble. 

It begins with the story of a family who are suddenly on the verge of being driven out of their home. However, the problem is resolved when the house itself disappears without a trace due to the workings of an enormous power beyond human comprehension. Then, an overwhelming existence extending outside the human world dominates the performance, and an entirely new world appears on the stage.

Like the preceding chelfitsch work Eraser Mountain, this work depicts a world freed from anthropocentrism. In the former, Okada explored a new relationship between people and objects together with Teppei Kaneuji, the artist and sculptor. This time, he is striving to generate a new relationship between theater and music together with Fujikura.

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If you need any further information, please feel free to let me know.
We are very much looking forward to seeing you!

Best regards,
chelfitsch / Toshiki Okada / precog
Megumi Mizuno, Tamiko Ouki, Akane Nakamura