THE JAPANESE EXPERIENCE
FROM TUESDAY 24th TO SATURDAY 28th APRIL 2007, THEATRE DE NIMES (FRANCE)
For a week, let’s explore the wonderful creativity of the contemporary Japanese art scene. An interactive Photomaton in the four corners of the city, electro-flow, neo-dada performances, offbeat songs and phantasmagorical dances… 5 days, 8 evenings, 15 projects, 40 artists : a schedule to detonate a unique experience in the heart of Nîmes (France), getting to grips with an explosive artistic scene, where high technology is happy to flirt with the limits of the absurd. Are you ready to be immersed in the midst of off-the-wall Japanese creativity?
     

Photo © Albane Laure

Wednesday 25th Avril 2007 at 20:00 - Theatre (03+04=Price Code III)
LA VEUVE MOUSTACHUE (Tokyo)

Song

With Kishino Yuichi & Yoko Miura

A cross-genre symbol, in the same way as the penises, with which the young girls are portrayed on the canvases of Henry Darger, the moustache stuck under the nose of La Veuve Moustachue creates confusion. Confusion of the sexes – a black dress, a little hat and a veil as a sign of mourning– and confusion of styles, promoted by the particular flavor of the game played by Yuichi Kishino, who brings together comedy and tragedy, evening news and poetry, optimism and despair. Yuichi Kishino will be accompanied by Yoko Miura at the piano.

A public comic, musician, film actor, critic and professor at the Faculty of Music and Plastic Arts at the University of Tokyo, Yuichi Kishino was born in 1963 into a family that, from an early age, initiated him in the drama and the poplar arts. Also very active on the Japanese musical scene, he plays in several groups, including Watts Towers and Space Ponch, and directs his own Out One Disc label, on which has appeared the CD  Les Vacances de… La Veuve Moustachue.

 

La Veuve Moustachue (Extrait Audio Sonore)
La Veuve Moustachue (Extrait Vidéo YouTube)