Kasane no Irome - Piling up Colors Kev Teeb Tsa Kev Kos Duab by Nakamura Kazunobu

Kasane no Irome - Piling up Colors Kev Teeb Tsa Kev Kos Duab by Nakamura Kazunobu is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award Kub in Tsim Kev Ua Yeeb Yam, Sam Thiaj, Zam thiab Qhov Chaw Ua Yeeb Yam Competition Category.

KubKev Ua Yeeb Yam· 2020

Kasane no Irome - Piling up Colors Kev Teeb Tsa Kev Kos Duab

by Nakamura Kazunobu

Client: Egiku Japanese-Dance Products

A' Design Award Kub Winner in Kev Ua Yeeb Yam Category

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Colors

The Design

About Kasane no Irome - Piling up Colors Kev Teeb Tsa Kev Kos Duab

Tus qauv tsim ntawm Nyiv Dance. Cov neeg Nyij Pooj tau txhim kho cov xim txij li lub caij nyoog dhau los txhawm rau nthuav tawm yam dawb ceev. Tsis tas li, piling li daim ntawv nrog cov square silhouettes tau siv los ua cov khoom sawv cev ntawm qhov tob dawb huv. Nakamura Kazunobu tsim qhov chaw uas hloov cov huab cua los ntawm kev hloov pauv mus rau ntau lub xim nrog cov square "piling up" raws li motif. Panels ya hauv huab cua nyob nruab nrab ntawm cov neeg seev cev npog lub ntuj saum cov theem chaw thiab piav qhia qhov pom ntawm lub teeb hla mus rau qhov chaw uas tsis tuaj yeem pom tsis muaj daim phiaj.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Kub

Kasane no Irome - Piling up Colors Kev Teeb Tsa Kev Kos Duab yog tus yeej ntawm A' Design Award Kub, ib qho kev lees paub muaj meej mom heev uas muab rau cov qauv tsim qib ib, zoo kawg nkaus thiab tshwj xeeb. Cov neeg yeej Kub yog cov khoom tsim tshiab heev, pom deb heev thiab ci ntsa iab uas qhia txog kev txawj ntse, kev txawj thiab lub zog ntawm cov kws tsim qauv. Kasane no Irome - Piling up Colors Kev Teeb Tsa Kev Kos Duab xav tias yuav yog ib qho kev tsim uas tau txais kev qhuas ntau, tsim kev nyiam tshiab thiab loj uas ua rau muaj nqi tsis tau muaj dua. Cov qauv tsim yeej A' Design Award Kub no yog ib qho haujlwm zoo kawg nkaus thiab muaj kev hwm uas pab tau ntau thiab nthuav dav ciam teb ntawm kev kos duab, kev tshawb fawb, kev tsim qauv thiab thev naus laus zis. Kasane no Irome - Piling up Colors Kev Teeb Tsa Kev Kos Duab ua rau muaj kev xav tau heev, txhawb kev mob siab, txhawb kev tsim tshiab thiab ua rau peb xav tsis thoob.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: One Japanese Dance of Japanese traditional arts.
For a long time this dance, which has been preserved and emphasizes silence rather than dynamism, has long been out of touch with the modern atmosphere.
We grope for new Japanese dance, and this is a design of the stage art which aimed at the ideal form of Contemporary Japanese dance.
Unlike traditional Japanese dance two-dimensional stage art, three-dimensional design that takes advantage of the entire stage space.
We aimed to produce a worldview of new Japanese Dance of modern interpretation by those.
Panels flying in the air centering on the dancers cover the sky above the stage space and depict the appearance of light passing through the space that can not be seen without the panels.
Panels that correspond to light.
A space that draws light strikingly, in concert with Dancer, develops Japanese Dance.
We created a contemporary Japanese Dance of a mysterious world.
Dimensions & Packaging: 158㎡
Production Technology: Three-dimensional stage design using the whole stage space.
With 3D modeling technology, the panels floating in the air were placed around the dancers as if they were blown up by the wind.
Although the panels overlap intricately, the plurality of strings that hang each panel are calculated so as not to cross each other.
We also calculated the movements of the dancers and adjusted the position of the panels to avoid the dancers.
The panel was made of a frame made of a thin 9 mm square steel square pipe and a mesh of ultra thin transparent threads made of resin in a double layer.
We made the panels so that the mesh was not homogeneous, and made the transmission slightly different, creating a subtle difference in the way light is reflected within a single panel.
This allows the panel to receive a moderate amount of light, and the panel will appear and disappear.
We were able to realize three-dimensional stage art design closely linked to the dancers, resonating with the light.
Design Challenge: We experimented a number of times to create a panel that would receive just the right amount of light and disappear just the right amount.
We also tried many times to create a more beautiful arrangement of the panels so that they would not interfere with the dancers' movements.
The result of such an experiment was realized in this installation.
It was very difficult for me to propose this design to the people of Japanese dance, who have different values, and to get them to accept it.
This installation design was an opportunity for Japanese dance to make a leap from the traditional performing arts of an island nation that has no connection with the world to one of the world's dance genres.
Research: Originally, Japanese dance aspired to an abstract and simple expression, stripped of its superfluous elements.
That idea must be evolved and sublimated into a modern expression that fits the times.
Integration with digital technology.
It's not a collaboration with soft digital, such as media art.
By utilizing digital technology in the design of the hardware part of the stage space, we drew out the new appeal of Japanese dance.
The dancers' movements and associated forms were made possible for the first time by invisible digital technology.
Digital technology is expanding the potential for expression that was originally inherent in the traditional arts of Japanese dance.
This stage was taken away as an article in the mass media such as newspapers.
The stage was estimated worldwide, and the World Dance Festival "Festival d'Avignon 2019”　also perform in the festival.
It's expected also to do a dance performance in "Festival d' Avignon 2020 " this year.
Inspiration: Japanese have been piling up colors from olden times to express nature and feelings.
In traditional Japanese women's costumes, they have shown layers of cloth of various colors, and by showing the overlap, they have expressed sacred depth.
Also, in Japan, layering paper or cloth with square silhouettes has been used as a thing representing sacred depth.
A row of square paper decorated at the entrance of a Japanese shrine is one such example.
In this work of dancing a woman's life, I designed a space that changes the atmosphere by changing to various colors with such rectangular "overlap" as a motif.
It looks like a fog. It can be seen at one time, not seen at one time, transformed into various forms.
It, together with the tone of the mysterious Koto, represents a magnificent life full of change in a woman.
Project Duration: 12/Jun/2019 open Sakuragaokacho,Shibuya-ku,Tokyo Japan
Operation Flow: Japanese have been piling up colors from olden times to express sacred thing.
Also, piling up paper with square silhouettes has been used as a thing representing sacred depth.
I designed a space that changes the atmosphere by changing to various colors with such square "piling up" as a motif.
Panels flying in the air centering on the dancers cover the sky above the stage space and depict the appearance of light passing through the space that can not be seen without the panels.
A space that draws light strikingly, develops Japanese Dance.
Team Members: Environment Design : Kazunobu Nakamura,
Produce & Dancer : Egiku Hanayagi,
Koto player : Etsuko kawaguchi,
Lighting-design : Theaterbrain/Masao Igarashi,
Production : Tashibu to Fukushima,
Stage director : Noriyuki Shirato
Image Credits: Photograph : Atsushi Ishida