Shattering Gods

On 11 March 2011 took place with the earthquake and tsunami hit the coast of Japan is one of the most devastating natural disasters of our time. The force of nature apparently broke into the man-dominated world. It is still in the disaster areas not to speak of normality. In commemoration of the victims of the disaster that leads originating in Japan, in Munich-based artist collective around the dance director Otone Sato Shinsai - Shattering of Gods, it's a charity event in aid of those affected.
The performances of 23 to 25 March with elements of dance, drama and German and Japanese texts address the massive changes of mind and soul that has caused this catastrophe.

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"The Japanese dancer Mariko Yamada, who comes from the 2011 earthquake and tsunami affected region, the cultural side of Japan's unique dance dar. means of Japanese aesthetics and tradition this side of the country is presented. By Masako Ogura Japanese actress and Japanese hip-hop dancers Masahiro Nagano, the spiritual, mental and emotional condition of the people before, during and after the disaster of 11th March 2011 in German and Japanese implemented.
"Shinsai - 震灾" literally means "earthquake". In "Shinsai - Shattering Gods" connotation is used, however, the gods of the murder - a further possible significance of these characters. "Gods" in the sense of nature and the sense of a soul that is inherent in the people of Japan. "Shinsai - Shattering Gods" is a charity event. The proceeds are to the charity, The Ishinomaki Disaster Recovery Assistance Council, Inc. donated 'to coordinate the operations of some 300 NGOs / NPOs in Ishinomaki. / Japan

The National Police Force (Tokyo) on 22 December 2011 formally announced that corpses recovered 15.846, 5.890 injured in hospitals and are counted 3.469 people by the earthquake and tsunami as missing. The impact of the earthquake and tsunami were enormous and had an impact not only on the people of Japan, but manifested itself in the world. Especially with the progressive problems in nuclear power plants in Fukushima straighten the European countries, especially Germany, in memory of the Chernobyl disaster, their attention to the disaster area. In this country the attention of the situation was compounded by the 150th Anniversary of diplomatic relations between the two countries increased, which was celebrated in 2011 in Munich by various events.

The highly connected nature of the Japanese tradition is broken up by the artificial, mechanized world of modernity, which is so advanced that they can no longer control. The result is the destruction of nature and the self-destruction, murder and suicide. The traditional and the modern part of Japanese culture moves and evolves both in the spirit of the Japanese. The conflict, however, between the delusions of safety, promoted before and during the earthquake and tsunami disaster and the disaster in the nuclear power plant in Fukushima-Daichii and was also believed, and that occurred reality that leaves no faith and no trust is ultimately unstoppable .
The mixture of all these contradictory aspects is at "Shinsai - Shattering Gods" shows traversed by the harmony between dance and acting. The stage action is accompanied by projections, music and sound by Japanese artists. The living in Germany, Japanese-born artist collective watching and still observed the rapidly changing situation in Japan and the growing depression of local people and places in "Shinsai - 震灾" focus on the changes in people before and after the disaster. They tell of the chaos of feelings that Japanese people locally and around the world since the 11th March 2011 by penetrating. The Japanese government, people receive only sparse, sometimes confusing and misleading information, which the trust is struck in the government and leaders. "