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Image: Photographer: Barry Macdonald
KAZUKO HOHKI
SIZE OF COMPANY
3–6 on the road
SCALE OF VENUE
Small- to middle-scale
PERMANENT STAFF
Artist/Artistic Director
Kazuko Hohki
Producer
Jo Crowley
ARTISTIC POLICY
Kazuko Hohki is an artist, singer, musician, animator, director, performer and storyteller. She was born and raised in Japan and came to England in 1978. Her critically acclaimed work combines theatre, live art and performance and fuses idiosyncratic storytelling, multi-media work, original songs and her trademark deadpan humour. Before making her acclaimed solo work, she founded the Japanese female pop performance group the Frank Chickens, releasing five albums and touring the world.
REVIEW EXTRACTS
Time Out
The Evening Standard
Total Theatre
CURRENT PRODUCTIONS
Inspired by Mary Norton’s children’s story , a site-responsive interactive performance and installation event for adults that reveals the unique world and culture of the small people who live under the floorboards. (75 mins, no interval, 3 on stage, 4–5 on the road.)
A site-responsive outdoor promenade show about “endings”. Through a mix of stories, performances, installations and interventions, an audience is taken on a journey through familiar, historical and fictional worlds to “utopia”. (80 mins, no interval, 6 on stage, 7–8 on the road.)
A deceptively simple love story of a Japanese office girl and an English Anthropologist. Explores a cross-cultural relationship, using storytelling, music, puppetry, film and animation. (70 mins, no interval, 2 on stage, 3 on the road.)
A poignant, comic elegy to Hohkio's mother, a popular priestess in Japan. A witty, moving, unexpected and poignant examination of a relationship with a mother, a country and life and death. (70 mins, 2 on stage, 3 on the road.)
FUTURE PRODUCTIONS
A new production inspired by Emily Bronte’s seminal novel of passion on the Yorkshire Moors, as seen through the eyes of a Japanese tourist and some very curious sheep.
A rich hallucinatory fantasy, inspired by Norwegian explorer Fridjtof Nansen’s visionary expedition of 1893-06 to the North Pole. This performance and installation will blend storytelling, music, projection, puppetry, light and darkness to address the themes of absence, myths of the arctic, survival and illusion.
WRAP-AROUND
Tailor made workshops on storytelling, object animation, devising, site-responsive theatre and adaptation. Post-performance discussions, residencies, masterclasses and talks also available. Participatory performances and collaborations ( requires a team of local volunteer performers and production assistants).
RECENT INTERNATIONAL WORK
2006 Canada, Malta ()
2005 Israel, Netherlands ()
2004 Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland ()
TOURING AVAILABILITY
Throughout 2008
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