Motoi Miura

Director, head of Chiten

Born in 1973, he studied in Paris for two years on an Agency for Cultural Affairs scholarship. On his return to Japan, he founded Chiten in 2001 and moved to Kyoto in 2005. He started staging radical adaptations of the four major Anton Chekhov plays in 2007, of which “The Cherry Orchard” won the National Arts Festival Newcomer Prize. He has won numerous awards and staged his work in London, Moscow, and elsewhere.

kukangendai

Formed in 2006 with Junya Noguchi on guitar and vocals, Keisuke Koyano on bass guitar, and Hideaki Yamada on drums. Performing as a three-piece, its tracks are made through a process of editing, replicating, and deliberate error. Alongside its live shows in Tokyo, it also works with other leading artists across a range of genres, including ECD, Norimizu Ameya, and Kakuya Ohashi and Dancers. It released its first album, UNKNOWNMIX, in 2009, produced by HOSE’s Taku Unami. A second album was released in 2012, recorded in a similar way to how the band creates its music. In 2013, it collaborated with Chiten for the first time on the theatre company’s staging of Brecht’s “Fatzer” (2013).
http://kukangendai.com/