So UEDA Dance Company“HILUM”
60 min. Multi Media Dance Performance©2016 So & Co. All rights reserved.

FACT SHEETHILUM
Excerpt video : http://youtu.be/EsUzFvTgq98

SO & CO.
- So Ueda Dance Campany Direction & Choreography : So Ueda
Sound : Satoru Hirashima / Mitsuaki Matsumoto
Visual & Lighting : Toru Higuchi / Kunihiko Matsuo
Costume : Nozomi Inoue
Dance & Choreography : Rieko Hirata / Kanta Sakamoto / Kiyotaka Suzuki/ Junko Toyonaga / Misato Mochizuki / So Ueda
Concept Design, Technical Direction : Kunihiko Matsuo

PREMIERE VENUE AND DATEKawakami junior high school
Kagoshima, JAPAN
5th Oct. 2014

CONTACTSo Ueda
5-2-13-101 Narita-higashi, Suginami-ku,
Tokyo 166-0015 Japan
mobile : +81-80-3388-1070
e-mail : socoofficial@gmail.com
Facebook : socoofficial
Twitter : soco_official©2016 So & Co. All rights reserved.

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THE PIECE
A multimedia dance performance that connects memories of the past, present, and future- Notes for the world premiere of HILUM HILUM :1. Botany - the mark or scar on a seed produced by separation from its funicle or placenta.
the nucleus of a granule of starch.
2. Mycology - a mark or scar on a spore at the point of attachment to the spore-bearing
structure.
3. Anatomy - the region at which the vessels, nerves, etc., enter or emerge from a part.
This production is a live performance to share a new memory in the present moment and toconnect past and future memories about the land.
In the playground of the abandoned Kawakami junior high school, there suddenly appears a
stark-white hexagonal pillar which is alien to the surroundings of Kawakamiʼ s deep nature.
The object looks like the earthʼ s navel or a window to another dimension. Various images,some of them alien to the land while others awake memories of the land, are projected onto
the object. There, six performers dance as if they are laying a trail of new memories and then,as if they are reeling in old memories.
Electronic sounds, buzzing airwaves, and sounds from a distant land meld with the ambient
sounds on the stage until they become indistinguishable from each other. There emerges asoundscape that has never been heard there before or since. The next moment, drums arebeaten as if to drive the dancers.
Through the experience of this setting called performance, the audience will perceive the past,present, and future not as ʻupper case historyʼ but as a calm and incessant ﬂow of time andwill realize that he/she exists to constitute the memory of this time and this place.
Following the resident production and premiere in Kawakami, the piece will then be performed
without any alteration, at special places in and out of Japan that are ﬁlled with history andmemories as deep and still as those of the old Kawakami junior high school are.
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IMPRESSIONS

premiere in Kagoshima 2014©2016 So & Co. All rights reserved.

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IMPRESSIONS

premiere in Kagoshima 2014©2016 So & Co. All rights reserved.

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IMPRESSIONS

From India tour 2015 Photo by Yota Kataoka©2016 So & Co. All rights reserved.

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SO & CO.
SO & CO. is an artist collective launched in February 2014 to explore the possibilitiesof alternative bodily expression and live performance. Dancers and artists from avariety of ﬁelds have gathered around the Artistic Director So Ueda. We will continueto work on productions, listening to our open-minded ideas, without sticking to aparticular form of expression or a ﬁeld.

So UedaArtistic Director / Choreographer

photo : yow takahashi

Originally from Tokyo, So Ueda has participated in productions with Butoh Factory
YAN-SHU, Daizuko Farm, and in particular, with the performance unit Sal Vanilla since1996. He has performed in productions by Yuzo lshiyama / A. P. I. as a choreographer
and dancer since 2006, and has been active both in Japan and abroad. With his
improv-inﬂuenced style based on martial arts and Butoh, he has collaborated withvarious artists, while continuing to explore and develop his own style. He produced hisﬁrst work on his own in 2001, and has since presented a number of pieces. Lately heproduces collaborative live productions with musicians and has established areputation for his straightforward and delicate perspective. In 2014, he founded So &Co. as Artistic Director. His production HILUM premiered to great acclaim in Kimotsuki,
Kagoshima Pref.

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THE TEAM
Satoru HIRASHIMA Composer / Cajón and Percussions
Percussion player.
Flamenco, Jazz, Improvised music, Japanese classical music,Chanson,,,Contemporary Dance,Contemporary theater, and Poetry readings,,,etc,,,,,, stages and recording, play in a variety of fields.

Mitsuaki MATSUMOTO Composer / Live Electronics and Percussions
Mitsuaki MATSUMOTO is a "audio-visualist", composer, sound performer, improviser based in
Kagoshima, plays in different countries.

Kunihiko MATSUO Concept / Visuals and Lighting / Stage Design / Technical Director
MATSUO Kunihiko is a multimedia artist based in Tokyo and specializes in interactive technology,
audio-visual design and contemporary dance.
More information: http://www.cmprocess.com

Toru HIGUCHI Visuals and Lighting
Nozomi INOUE Costume Design
Rieko HIRATA Dance / Co-choreographer

Kanta SAKAMOTO Dance / Co-choreographer

Misato MOCHIZUKI Dance / Co-choreographer

Kiyotaka SUZUKI Dance / Co-choreographer

Junko TOYONAGA Dance / Co-choreographer©2016 So & Co. All rights reserved.

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TECHNICAL RIDERCONTACT
Technical director : MATSUO kunihiko
7-7-301 Shin-ogawa-machi, Shinjuku-ku,
Tokyo 162-0814 Japan
phone : +81-80-3388-1070
E-mail : matsuo@cmprocess.com

DURATION
60 min. (exact length)

People on tour11 person (1 Director, 5 Dancers, 2 Musicians, 1 Video Artist,
1 Technical Director, 1 Costume Designer)

FIT UP
6h (Strike / Get out: 2h)

STAGE / PERFORMANCE AREA
at least 10m x 10m flat stage
we do not need dance mat.
but the stage should be keep clean and safe.
preferably, turfy or earthen “outdoor” stage. (negotiable)
6 pieces of white painted wooden boxies “Monolith” (180 cm x 90 cm x 30 cm)
dancers will dance on it. (must be stable)

TECH TABLE
Video, Sound and Lighting operators, Musicians on one side of the stage area
at least 2 Laptops and 16ch sub mixier would be placed on it.

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SOUND
4 speakers & stand2 sub woofer
2 stage monitor speakers*4 microphones
1 stereo XLR (for Sub Console)
Main Console*Sub Console : 8ch
Outboad unit :Sampling Reverb, Graphic EQ, Parametric EQ, Limiter/Compressorand Cables

VIDEO
2 Projectors : at least 6000 ANSI lms DLP
2 LCD monitors | at least 15” | Black frame | VGA Input
2 VGA cables (from tech table to 2 projectors)
2 VGA cables (from tech table to 2 LCD monitors)
2 scaffolds (h:300cm) for upholding projectors for each side

LIGHT
*1 computer with software + ENTEC DNX USB PRO
DMX dimmer
ETC S4 36deg x 6
ETC S4 50deg x 6(6 stands are needed)

Fresnell spot 500w x 1and Cables
appropriate amount of house lighting for audience area

* provided by us©2016 So & Co. All rights reserved.

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SETUP DIAGRAM
scaffolds for upholding

Projector

Speaker

Speaker
12Audience

50

L281
50

34L281

LCD monitor for Time Count

L281

50

123636Tech Table

11stage area
minimum 10m* 10m

13Musiciansmonolith

Monitor50

56L281

L281

50

93636

10LCD monitor for Time Count

L281
36Speaker

Speaker

50Audience
78ETC S4 50deg
50

ETC S4 36deg
36500w Fresnel with barndoors

Projector©2016 So & Co. All rights reserved.

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MONOLITH
6 white wooden boxies
dancers will dance on these(must be stable)
180 cm x 90 cm x 30 cm©2016 So & Co. All rights reserved.

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