Jo Crowley
Kazuko Hohki Productions
c/o BAC
Lavender Hill
Battersea
London SW11 5TN
T +44 (0)7843 274684
F +44 (0)20 7978 5207
E jo@kazukohohki.com
W kazukohohki.com
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SIZE OF COMPANY
3–5 on the road
SCALE OF VENUE
Small- to middle-scale
PERMANENT STAFF
Artistic Director
Kazuko Hohki
Producer
Jo Crowley
ARTISTIC POLICY
Born and raised in Japan, Kazuko Hohki came to England in 1978. Kazuko is an artist, singer, musician, animator, director, performer and storyteller. Her critically-acclaimed work combines theatre, live art and performance and fuses idiosyncratic story-telling, multimedia work, original songs and her trademark deadpan humour. Before making her acclaimed solo work, Kazuko founded the Japanese female pop performance group the Frank Chickens, releasing five albums and touring the world.
REVIEW EXTRACTS
‘Completely delightful. Lit up with a romantic, care free humour that can only inspire the highest of spirits.’ Time Out
‘Kazuko Hohki is such a deliciously droll storyteller.’ The Herald
‘Beguiling. Tongue-in-cheek techno trickery, idiosyncratic and gently innovative, this is a delightful trip to an imaginative universe where – among other attributes – one hour feels like a mere five minutes.’ Evening Standard
CURRENT PRODUCTIONS
Inspired by Mary Norton’s children’s story The Borrowers, 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. 4–5 on the road.)
A site-responsive outdoor promenade show about ‘endings’. Through a weave 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. 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. (65 mins, no interval. 3 on the road.)
A poignant comic elegy to Kazuko'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. (65 mins. 3–4 on the road.)
A rich hallucinatory fantasy, inspired by Norwegian Explorer Fridjtof Nansen’s visionary expedition of 1893–1906 to the North Pole. This performance and installation will blend story-telling, music, projection, puppetry, light and darkness to address the themes of absence, myths of the arctic, survival and illusion.
WRAP-AROUND
Tailor made workshops (story-telling, object animation, devising, site-responsive theatre, adaptation); post-performance discussions; residencies, masterclasses and talks.
RECENT INTERNATIONAL WORK
2008–9 Norway ((development)
2006 Ireland (), Canada, Malta ()
TOURING AVAILABILITY
March 2010 onwards
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