Brief history
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DA-M Theater In 1986, after eight years of organizing a theater, director Hiroshi Ohashi along with some actors of this group established Theater D-AM. The name DA-M has no particular meaning but it is an unknown code for the audience and the performers. It is the motivation of DA-M to ask what DA-M is. DA-M acquired the theater space “Proto-Theater” and organizes body/mind training year round. They are energetically creating experimental work in collaborating with artists of diverse disciplines throughout the world. They consistently refuse to enact an existing text and create a stage experience that reaches beyond the limits of language. Their works are composed with fragmented movement, voices and words made by the body in the here and now. Proto-Theater has been utilized for various workshops and solo and collaborative performances, and its creative environment has also contributed to interactivity between unknown art fields. Since 1995 DA-M began to perform outside of Proto-Theater in various theater spaces and at international theater festivals. Through deepening their method of improvisational body movement, they create stages filled with uncertain life that exists beyond meaning and that does not belong to the consumer system of the big city. Critics have praised their theatrical creativity that moves towards the unknown while mixing the primitive with the modern. As a major participant of the Asia Meets Asia International Theater Festival since 1997, DA-M has contributed to the developing interactivity between Asian theaters. |
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| 1986 | Established DA-M.April |
| August 1986 | “HARE HORE FURARA” performed at TOGA International Theater Festival. |
| December 1986 | “Sanctuary,” Japanese and American co-production. |
| 1988 | Acquired performance space Proto-Theater and began experimental theater works. |
| April 1989–March 1992 | “Composition” Vol. 1 – 12. |
| October 1989 | “Hot Dog” played at Yokohama Art Festival Parallel Scene. |
| May 1992– Feb. 1995 | “Experimental Theater Series” Vol. 1 – 22. |
| June 1994–March 1995 | “Dreams” Vol. 1 – 3. |
| October 1995 | “That is not my dream” presented at Sendai Theater Festival. |
| February 1996 | “Lesson – My portrait that is framed by the dream” |
| March 1997 | “So What! – For example, an accidental bride and an inevitable groom” |
| July-August 1997 | “ARUKU/walking” performed at Avignon Theater Festival Off. |
| November 1998 | “Daydream Horizon Impro.” played at Asia Meets Asia 1998. |
| March 1999 | “Il Vulcano” |
| October–Nov. 2000 | “Unbearable Dream,” co-production with Hong Kong-based theater “Clash” and performed in Tokyo & Hong Kong. |
| November 2001 | “When we stop eating tomatoes” presented at Asia Meets Asia 2001. |
| March 2002 | “Yes” performed at M.S.A. Collection 2002. |
| September 2002 | “When we stop eating tomatoes”version3 presented at Kampnagel, Humburg. Laokoon Summer Festival |
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Takadanobaba, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 169-0075 Japan Tel&Fax: 81-3-3386-8208 ■dam@mbh.nifty.com |
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