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Rope

Written and Directed by Shingo KIMURA

	July, 2000 Rope	Performers Chie Hayashizaki　　Takeshi Mashino Chika Ise　 Shigeki Sakuma Wakako Hoshino　et al.
	Nov, 2000 Rope　 At OPEN THEATER, Seoul, Korea	Performers Chie Hayashizaki　　Takeshi Mashino Chika Ise　 Shigeki Sakuma Wakako Hoshino　 Yukari Kakiuchi Souichi Tanimura
	Nov, 2000 Rope A nominated work at the Millennium Culture and Art Festival	Performers Chie Hayashizaki　　Takeshi Mashino Chika Ise　 Shigeki Sakuma Wakako Hoshino　 Yukari Kakiuchi Souichi Tanimura
	April 2001 Rope Moscow, St. Peterburg, Russia	Performers Chie Hayashizaki　　Takeshi Mashino Shigeki Sakuma Wakako Hoshino Yukari Kakiuchi
	July 2001 Rope Ⅱ	Performers Chie Hayashizaki　　Takeshi Mashino Shigeki Sakuma Wakako Hoshino Yukari Kakiuchi

You can see photos of each performances when youclick the title.(Photo:Masaru Miyauchi）

From Rope Direction Note

1. Rope pillar

Walker
Walker
Human "walks"
Walker
Human who keep walking
Forming "line"
"Procession"
"Procession"
"Procession"
Separated "line"
Gathering "line"
Human who standing on
"Human"
"Human"?
What is "human"?
Drooping "rope"
Discovery of "rope"
Discovery of "rope"
What is "rope"?
Pillar of "rope"
"Rope" of "pillar"
Touch
Be touched
Into the "rope"

Into the "rope"

Going into
Making inroads into
Making my way

Dragging
Hauling
Ripping from

2. Sea of rope

Spreading
Spreading
Mass of rope
Loosen, wriggle rope, rope, rope.
Sea of rope
膿(pus)
ｳﾐ
生み(produce)
産み(bear)
熟み(ripen)
うみ
績み(twist)
倦み(bored)
海！(sea!)

Go into the sea
Faraway memory

When I was a fish yet
Before I become a fish yet
When you are still sea anemone
When you are still soft seaweed or kelp
When sea urchin or salmon roe were not food

Far faraway memory
As if yesterday
As if tomorrow

Going into the sea

3. Borderline

Mass of rope
Mass rope
A line ripping from the inside
Or curve
Discovery of the window
Who is, looking into
Who is, being looked into in the world
The window separating me and you
The window separating you and me
The window separating me and world
The window separating world and me
What is the world?
What it me?
A line separating me and you
Or a curve
A line separating you and me
Or a curve
A line forming me and world
Or a curve
A line forming world and me. Or a curve

Going through
Running through
Passing through
What getting through?
Get through
Going through
Pass through

Is this line entrance or exit, which one?

4. Circle

円(Circle)
縁(Chance)
園(garden)
炎(flame)
艶(glamorous)
淵(depth)
垣(hedge)
怨(malice)
えん(round)
エン(ring)
円(circle)
To the other side
To the other side
Twist, tangle, grind
Ring
Round
Circle

In the circle

Active amoeba

Active

Ameoba

たち('s)

太刀(sword)

断ち(cutting)

性質(character)

絶ち(dying out)

5. Face

Morning glory

Convolvulus

Moonf lower

Morning face
Daylight face
Night face

Six dolls keeping walking
Six dolls
Rope, rope, rope climbing and crawling up in dolls' face
Being hurt face
Bloody, gory
Face
Face
Face
Hidden face
Erased face
Invisible face

Face which was robbed
Face which rip off

Shattered
Broken into pieces

Face
Face
Face

６．Net

Putting Rope
Stretched Rope
Crisscross
Freely
Where is here?
Hears someone's voice
Who is someone?
Without notice
In the net
Caught
Being Caught
I who was caught
You who was caught
We who were caught
You who were caught
Hears someone's voice
A lot of a lot of
Hear
Hear
Voice
Voice
Voice
Dolls which are dragged
Dolls which were caught
Dolls which are carried
Who caught them?
Who were caught?

７．Rope Dolls

Into the shirt
Into the trousers
Crawling
Rope starts to move
Being line
Makes line
Divide and string
Crouch dolls
Carried doll
Keep walking dolls
Who is carrying?
Who is been carried?

Wherever

Am I

Going to?

Whoever am I?
What carried is me
It is Doll
What makes me carry is me as doll

Content of doll is ropes

Ropes form
A shape of doll
A shape of me

What be shaped is me
It is Rope