Mixing theater, dance, Japanese tradition (with a Noh actor, a Japanese traditional Buyoh dancer and Japanese shakuhachi flute) and urban culture (including a Parkour artist and a rapper/percussionist), Journey to world nostalgia has all the features of a total spectacle and performance. Performed in multiple languages – remember Drive my car ? – and pushed by action and performance, the spectacle can be fully enjoyed by non Japanese speakers.
Director, writer, and choreographer Hiroshi Koike (小池博史) presents the world premiere of his new dance-theater
work, (世界望郷の旅), at The Suzunari in Shimokitazawa from 18 to 24 June 2026. Reinterpreting the Japanese folk tale of the Snow Woman (Yuki-onna) through a near-future lens, the work follows artificial humans engineered with implanted artificial memories and a built-in mechanism to die by 25. The moment they discover love, awaken to death and cry out for a life of their own, the
system begins to glitch. What follows is an epic of crime, punishment, and a nostalgia for a world they have never truly known.
For tickets, go here.