{"id":17571,"date":"2024-05-09T10:55:49","date_gmt":"2024-05-09T09:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/actfestival.com\/?page_id=17571"},"modified":"2024-05-29T10:35:10","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T09:35:10","slug":"the-life-of-hokusai","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/actfestival.com\/en\/the-life-of-hokusai\/","title":{"rendered":"The life of Hokusai"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Activity programmed in collaboration with the TopARTE program of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>

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Can the obsession with art make us forget love?<\/span><\/p>\n

The show attempts to answer this question by exploring the intimate world of one of the world’s most <\/span>brilliant and tormented artists: Katsushika Hokusai. <\/span><\/p>\n

Hokusai saw himself as the embodiment of a powerful dragon, scared only by the possibility of losing <\/span>his wife Koto.<\/span>
\nDespite this great love, he was so engrossed in his art that he neglected her until she suddenly dies, <\/span>and Hokusai is forever tormented by this loss.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>

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Company:<\/strong> The Life of HOKUSAI Committee<\/span>
\nLength:<\/strong> 30′<\/span>
\nCategory:<\/strong> Dance<\/span>
\nOrigin:<\/strong> Japan<\/span>
\nCast: <\/span><\/strong>Katsumi Sakakura (director, author and performer); <\/span>Yasuko Fujii (performer); Karin Kato (performer)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>

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The company was formed in 2018, when executive producer Shin Sugimoto met the <\/span>choreographer Katsumi Sakakura and expressed the will to put together a show celebrating Hokusai’s <\/span>legacy.<\/span>
\nThe company was specifically created for The Life of Hokusai by Sakakura and financially supported <\/span>by Global Business Labo and other companies.<\/span>
\nWhen the show was ready to go abroad, the pandemic hit. <\/span><\/p>\n

Representations:<\/span>
\n\u25aa\ufe0fAugust 6-30, 2021 Edinburgh Fringe Festival online edition (streaming of the movie of the show 90 <\/span>min version)<\/span>
\n\u25aa\ufe0fJune 30 and July 1, 2023 European premi\u00e8re in Bologna, Arena del Sole Theatre 4 shows<\/span><\/p>\n

Awards:<\/span>
\nCool Japan Matching Award (Performing Arts \u00d7 Technology) 2022<\/span><\/p>\n

Related Material:<\/span>
\n“SOKUIN” (compassion) a documentary depicting the journey that led to the ceration of The Life of<\/span>
\nHokusai. Available on Amazon Prime US, Japan<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BUY TICKETS FOR THE SESSIONActivity programmed in collaboration with the TopARTE program of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. Can the obsession with art make us forget love? The show attempts to answer this question by exploring the intimate world of one of the world’s most brilliant and tormented artists: Katsushika Hokusai. Hokusai saw himself as the...","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-17571","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/actfestival.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/actfestival.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/actfestival.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actfestival.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actfestival.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17571"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/actfestival.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17909,"href":"https:\/\/actfestival.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17571\/revisions\/17909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/actfestival.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}