The third phase of the project in 2019 was taking placed in Shizuoka city, Japan. The MPG phase in Shizuoka is the first phase of the realization of the Ibsen Scholarship 2019 support for this project. As the Shizuoka phase is the culmination phase of the project in 2019, this time, it took a longer time than the two previous phases. From October 16th to November 4th, the Shizuoka phase started with more than 2 weeks workshop, held in Shizuoka Performing Arts Center (SPAC), where all the core artistscollaborators of the project also had a collaborative process with 6 performing artists from SPAC, to create the first complete theater performance of the project: “Peer Gynts – Asylum’s Dreams.” The piece, the Shizuoka version of the project, was performed in the main stage of SPAC, Shizuoka Arts Theater, from November 5th until 19, 2019, in front of Shizuoka high school students on the weekday’s shows and the general public on the weekend. The hybridization between the Larantuka’s findings and Tokyo’s findings, as well as the presence of our new collaborators from Shizuoka Performing Arts Center, allow us to build a more cohesive world for the productions. All the three phases of the project in 2019 had strengthened our believe in our modular approach as well as the more dynamics relationship between performance making and the specificity of its context, location, as well as the audience where the project took place. The work in progress approach allows the performance making as a knowledge-production laboratory to grow with the public. The overall project of Multitude Peer Gynts will continue to apply and expand our modular approach as we travel back to Indonesia in 2020 and as we plan to embark to Vietnam and Sri Lanka in 2021. The phase in Shizuoka was also a co-production between Teater Garasi/ Garasi Performance Institute and Shizuoka Performing Arts Center (SPAC), supported by Japan Foundation-Asia Center, Agency for Cultural Affairs (Government of Japan through the Japan Arts Council, Japan Foundation for Regional Art-Activities) and Indonesian Agency for Creative Economy.

 

 

 

Collaborating Artist:
Arsita Iswardhani (Indonesia, performer)
Ignatius Sugiarto (Indonesia, technical director)
Micari (Japan, performer)
MN Qomaruddin (Indonesia, performer)
Nguyen Manh Hung (Vietnam, visual artist)
Takao Kawaguchi (Japan, choreographer-performer)
Venuri Perera (Sri Lanka, choreographer-performer)
Yasuhiro Morinaga (Japan, sound artist-composer)

 

SPAC Artist:
Ouchi Yoneji (Japan, performer)
Sato Yuzu (Japan, performer)
Tateno Momoyo (Japan, performer)
Makiyama Yudai (Japan, performer)
Miyagishima Haruka (Japan, performer)
Wakamiya Yoichi (Japan, performer)

 

Yudi Ahmad Tajudin – director, producer
Ugoran Prasad – dramaturg, producer
Rama Thaharani – executive director

 

Produced by:
Teater Garasi/Garasi Performance Institute
Shizuoka Performing Arts Center (SPAC)

 

In partnership with:
The Saison Foundation (for Tokyo workshop and work in progress)
East Flores Municipal Office (for Larantuka workshop and work in progress)