enra

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The Tokyo-based, Japanese performing arts company enra infuses video art with live performance. It is an art form that depicts how the human body blends with computer graphics. Established on March 1, 2012, enra is composed of video artist Nobuyuki Hanabusa and six performers: Tsuyoshi Kaseda, Maki Yokoyama, Saya Watatani, Tachun, Yusaku Mochizuki, and Kazunori Ishide.[1]

The name "enra" is stylized in lowercase Latin letters.[2]

enra
Formation March 1, 2012
Type Theatre group
Location
  • Tokyo, Japan
Membership
Tsuyoshi Kaseda, Maki Yokoyama, Saya Watatani, Tachun, Yusaku Mochizuki, Kazunori Ishide
Artistic director(s)
 Nobuyuki Hanabusa
Website http://enra.jp/

Tradition and origin

The Tokyo-based performance and production company seeks to create the ultimate union between motion graphics and live performance. Its concept is to synchronize on-screen images with dance and other forms of live expression. Made up of six individual performers, enra incorporates martial arts (especially wushu), rhythmic gymnastics, ballet, animation dance, juggling (especially with the diabolo), and club dance into its performances.[3]

Performances by enra consist of a synchronized fusion of motion graphics (video art) and live performance (contemporary dance in a variety of genres) in front of a screen. The group regularly performs all over the world, and has received high praise not only in its native Japan, but also in Europe, North America, East and Southeast Asia, and the Middle East.

In Japan, enra performed as a guest of the Prime Minister of Japan at the official welcoming dinner for the International Olympic Committee (IOC) during its evaluation of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics plan, an event that also served to commemorate the 50-year anniversary of the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.[4]

“FILMS”, an homage to movies, was performed by enra to open the award ceremony at the 68th Festival de Cannes.[5]

In March 2016, enra kicked off its 2016 Japan tour with a public performance at Kitazawa Town Hall in Shimokitazawa, Tokyo.

Name origin

According to the Mainichi Shimbun, "The group's name is derived from the smoke-like shape-shifting Japanese yōkai spirit, Enenra".【グループ名は、煙のようにさまざまな形に姿を変える日本の妖怪「煙々羅」にちなんだ。】[6]

Performance history

2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

References

  1. ↑ "MEMBER". enra.jp. Retrieved 2016-04-21.
  2. ↑ "Empire Entertainment: enra". www.empireartists.jp. Retrieved 2016-04-21.
  3. ↑ "about". enra.jp. Retrieved 2016-04-21.
  4. ↑ http://business.nikkeibp.co.jp/article/topics/20130908/253131/?rt=nocnt
  5. ↑ "enra". enra.jp. Retrieved 2016-04-21.
  6. ↑ "ｅｎｒａ：国内初ツアー　言葉や文化の壁超えるストーリー - 毎日新聞". 毎日新聞 (in Japanese). Retrieved 2016-04-21.
  7. ↑ "エンラ -enra- - enra " PROXIMA " JAPAN tour 2016 スケジュール... | Facebook". www.facebook.com. Retrieved 2016-04-21.

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