Ceremony/Store House Company Theatre (Japan)

All performances were written and directed by Shingo Kimura (born in 1957).

December 1984
As leader of the theater group Shichitensha, opened a studio in Nerima-ku, Tokyo. For the next ten years, was active as a scenarist and director.
August 1994
Disbanded his theater group, Shichitensha. Established the theater EKODA STORE HOUSE; the Store House Theater research Institute; and the group Store House Company.

August 1995
Established the limited company Store House.
Continues his work in theater management, actor training, production of
works by Store House Company, production of works for in cooperation
with other groups.
[Representative work]
 “Boxes” “Wanderers”  “Rope”  “Territory”  “Remains”  “Sanctuary”  “Ceremony”
Served as chairman of the executive committee of the Physical Theater
Festival, featuring six theater groups from foreign counties and Japan from 1999 until now.
History of the theatre
All performances were written and directed by Shingo Kimura
Took part in festivals:
Festival Asia Meets - Asia ’98 (1998, BOXES)
Hwasong International Theater Festival (1999, Suwan, Korea, WANDERERS)
Physical Theater Festival in Ekoda Store House (1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006)( WANDERERS, TERRITORY, REMAINS, SANCTURY, CEREMONY)
Korean Physical Theater Festival (2000, Seoul, Korea, ROPES)
Millennium Culture and Art Festival (2000, Tokyo, ROPES)
Sergey Kureokhin International Festival (SKIF) (2001, St. Petersburg, ROPES)
Festival Sergey Kureokhin (FSK) (2001, Moscow, ROPES)
Cairo International Theatre Festival  (2002, Cairo, Egypt ROPES)
Seoul Marginal Festival (2002, 2005 Seoul, Korea, TERRITORY SANCTURY)
New World Physical Theater Festival (2004, Osaka, Japan, TERRITORY)
Kua Chang International Theater Festival (2004, Korea, REMAINS)
Surabaya Dance Festival (2007, Surabaya, Malaysia, REMAINS)

Performed in Japan and foreign countries:  Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia, Russia, Germany and Switzerland.
The performance on the festival
Ceremony
KIMURA Shingo - script writer directed
HOSHINO Wakako  performer actress
MASHINO Takeshi  performer actor
OHSAWA Tomoki  performer actor
MOTEGI Natsuko  performer actress
YUINAWA Hisatoshi  performer actor
KANAMARU Mizuki  performer actor
IZAWA Chie Piano
CHIDA Minoru Lighting

Fanfares ring out loudly in the absence of bride and groom at weddings.
There are we who look like some archaeologists peek into the footprints that left on the virgin road.
Funeral hall changes its title to ceremony hall, but funeral is still repeated without the dead again and again.
Even bones are not remained in the crematory.
Innumerable fossils are still being produced at the factories here and there.
Fossils carry fabricate memories, neither being buried nor able to hide themselves in the darkness, just drifting about for the drifting sake.  
Therefore, graves need to be dug up.
Yes, certainly, graves need to be dug up.
There are we, who are here to dig up the graves.
There are we, who are here being buried in the graves.
There are we, who are here to see it.
Our eyes are repeated back and forth.
“WE” need to be buried again.