Performance Art mori
Japan tour 2016
JAPAN Tour Schedule
10/21 Fri 18:00 (17:00 OPEN) KANAZAWA
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, KANAZAWA
10/22 Sat 14:30 (14:00 OPEN) FUKUI Museum of Astronomy
19:00 (18:30 OPEN) FUKUI Museum of Astronomy
10/26 Wed 18:00 (17:30 OPEN) BIWAKO Biennale ※
10/28 Fri 18:00 (17:30 OPEN) BIWAKO Biennale ※
10/29 Sat 14:30(14:00 OPEN) Impact Hub KYOTO
Open and start time of Kyoto performance has been changed！
10/30 Sun 16:00 (15:30 OPEN) Art Center of TOKYO - SOLD OUT
(If you wish to be on the waiting list, please book through the link above)
※ Performance at Biwako Biennale is ticket at the door only. For further information, please contact Biwako Biennale office directly.
TEL : 0748-36-3766 Email: biwakobiennale2016@gmail.com
After their big national success, this Swedish experimental and multi sensory performance group now makes its first visit to Japan!
This very unique performance consists of music, body expression, film, book-reading, and audience participation.
The performance is supported by the Swedish Arts Grants Committee.
mori【モリ／もり】1 forest, full of trees in Japanese. 2 artificially created forest in Japanese. 3 To die. present active infinitive of morior in Latin (example) Memento mori. 4 To protect in Japanese.
Direction：indigolily
Film work & music：Sayuri Hayashi
Choreography：Ai Hjelm
Body expression：Ai Hjelm, Aina Johansson
Music：Sayuri Hayashi, Hannes Egnell, Björn Arkö
Reader：Shun Sakamura
朗読：村上春樹著「世界の終りとハードボイルド・ワンダーランド」（1985年/新潮社刊）より抜粋 © Haruki Murakami 1985
Sponsored by indigolily
Supported by The Swedish Arts Grants Committee (Konstnärsnämndedn)
Supported by Embassy of Sweden
Special thanks to Stockholm Eson Studio
Artist Profile
Music, film, direction: Sayuri Hayashi
Born in Fukui, Japan. she works as a composer, artist and music teacher and based in Stockholm, Sweden since 2013. She began playing piano at the age of 3. After graduating from the Music department of the faculty of Art at Shinshu Uni she got a music teacher licence by the Ministry of Education(MEXT) in Japan. She has her original works, but also produced many collaborative works with musicians, dancers, poets, painters and films .
In 2013 her music for Urban Soundscape Competetion was given the Gold Award by Ryuichi Sakamoto and was played for 3 months during Sapporo International Art Festival. They also created music for the Peace prize 2014, 2015 displayed at the Nobel Museum and the film "Family Bonds" (directed by Takashi Yamamoto) which she composed music has been selected in competition of the official selection of Manchester Film Festival 2016 in UK.
Saxophone：Björn Arkö
"A genuine and a passionate interest for music that literally gives a fantastic resonance is why Björn stands out. By his fearless and ambitious approach to allways look for new challenges, he constantly strives forward in his performance. Time and again he shows that he has a tremendous talent, which has distinguished him as one of the Royal College of Music's most eminent students...” - motivation Stipendium Morakniv
Björn Arkö grew up in Dalarna, the very heart of Sweden and was from an early age exposed to jazz, classical music pop and folk music from various places by his parent’s record collection.
He has toured and performed in Japan, China, Estonia as well as in his own country and has also been occupied with various studio sessions.
The recent years he has also started to make a name as a serious composer and arranger of symphonic music and made in 2016 a collaboration with Dalasinfoniettan, one of the foremost chamber orchestras in sweden performing his original compositions and orchestral arrangements.
Body expression: Aina Johansson
Born in Stockholm, Sweden. Began dancing 2007, with rennaisance, baroque and 17th century dancing, after which she also started studying ballet. 2014 she attended Kulturama's dance program where she found an interest in modern dancing and choreographying. Today her interest lies foremost in ballet and modern dancing.
Choreography, direction: Ai Hiroshima Hjelm
Born in Tokyo, Japan.
Based in Stockholm Sweden since 2007.
It was not a straight way to get where she is.
Trying out things that she was interested in at those very moments: started to dance classic and modern ballet under Sumiko Obana at the age of 4 , lived in the USA for a year all by herself at the age of 17, BA in Sociology from the Sophia Uni, lived in Uppsala, Sweden, for a year again all by herself, moved back to Tokyo, worked at IKEA, moved back to Sweden, started to practice yoga, MA in Fashion Studies, worked as Operation Manager at an anti-doping agency, left the corporate world for good, got certified as a yoga teacher in New York City, reconnected her love to dance in a more artistic way.
She has been performing, teaching yoga and exploring the world of body expression and continues to seek for the chances to express her beliefs. And the journey continues.
Drums, Electronic music：Hannes Egnell
born in Stockholm where he grew up in a music family and started playing piano, drums and saxophone. He studied improvisation on drums at Göteborg Academy of Music and Drama. As a teenager he was on a european tour. His co-composed music was selected for gold award at the "Urban Soundscape Competition" by Ryuichi Sakamoto and participated at Sapporo International Arts Festival. He also composed music for the Nobel Peace Prize and a couple of japanese short films.
Narration：Shun Sakamura
Born in Ishikawa. Based in Tokyo and Stockholm. Graduated from Kokushikan University with BA in Physical Education. Since he moved to Sweden in 2012, he has been working closely with the area of linguistic and language, working as a Japanese teacher and a translator. With his soft voice and vast knowledge in linguistics, he was asked to join the Performance art as a narration in Kulturnatt Stockholm in 2016.