The Fahrenheit Alliance II
2021. Oct. 17
Streamed live performance
【About Stage Design and Chroma-key Technology】
The piece will be performed using stage design by Xu Wenfei.
Landscapes, as seen by the person who recorded the ‘voice’, are projected onto the stage. The performer delivers an improv performance while listening to the recorded audio of the voice.
[ Concept of the serial streamed-live performance ; The Fahrenheit Alliance]
"Fahrenheit 451 – the temperature at which book paper catches fire and burns."
(This is the record of those who remember stories in a world where writing them down is forbidden.)
In May 2020 under the lockdown, I came across a play called The Fahrenheit Alliance. It was written by Kyle Yamada, inspired by Ray Bradbury’s SF novel Fahrenheit 451.
The play poses a secret and invisible way of gathering during an emergency time when we are forbidden to assemble in one place.
It aroused our imagination and we began a series of live-streamed projects.
It's a series of 'voices' and 'bodies', like a non-literal correspondence.
1) One person records a voice for someone else.
2) That "someone" listens to the voice and performs along with it physically with their body.
3) The performer then records their voice for another person,
thus passing the baton.
Each performance is about 15-20 minutes.
However, the overall running time is the time it takes for the chain to break --- a year, or two years, or more...? It may take.
On June 6th at 17:30pm, we havel delivered the first streamed live performance of this series.
And second literation of this series will be streamed on Oct 17tn, 2021.
Take a peek through the camera at this secret alliance against the flames.
【Credit】
Text | Kile Yamada [Allergen Theatre]
Tecnical Director | Rob Moreno [Media Kobo]
Stage Design & Vide editing | Xu Wenfei
Music | Mayumi Ishida
Produced by | Mitsuko Hirai [Hirai-Kikaku]
Voice & Movie | Takaki Terakoshi
Body | Tamaki Kobayashi
Organized by | Hirai-Kikaku & Mediakobo
【Text】The Fahrenheit Alliance
Written by | Kyle Yamada [Allergen Theatre]
＊You can also read the play here. The English version follows below the Japanese.