“Into the Rice Fields” by Yulya Dukhovny
Date: Sunday, September 10, 2017 Noon and 2:00 pm
Location: Shoin Building
Participants: 50 per show (30 minutes per show) Seating is limited due to the miniature performing artform.
Fee: Free with admission
Into the Rice Fields
A 30-minute piece, on the big mystery Tsunami, and the life of a Japanese peasant and artist. Conceived and performed by Yulya Duchovny. The performer animates metaphorical paper sets-drawings, objects, dioramas and movable pictures, while becoming a part of the visual. The entire piece is performed on a toy wooden stage.
Yulya Dukhovt, a multidisciplinary artist, centers on a contemporary interpretation of the traditional pnper theater, that was popular in the 19th Century Europe.
“Chanting the Harvest” represents a scene from the paper diorama theatre piece “Into the Rice Fields.”
Art Form: Tatebanko is the Japanese art of making scenic paper dioramas. Originally, they pictured landscapes, Kabuki theater and historical scenes. Tatebanko began in the Edo period (1603 – 1868) and was popular for quite a while as a form of assemblage. Afterwards, it fell out of fashion and was nearly forgotten. The construction pieces were originally multicolored woodblock prints. There could be as many as ten sheets of paper in a single kit. The individual pieces are cut from the sheets. They may be folded and then glued to a paper base to form the scene.
Traditionally, Tatebanko paper diorama has its background (drawing of the furthest scene in the composition). Instead, “Chanting the Harvest” diorama offers an open space, which gives the viewer freedom to ponder, placing the box in any environment. If you put this box on your own working desk, you’ll see a bunch of objects you are familiar with, but the context of what you see through the “Harvest” composition will change your normal perception.
Is this puppetry? Yes and no. It seems that this form of visual theater inspired by means of a miniature art and a process of stage model design, used by set designers in creating life-size scenography. Six-inches paper figures turn into voyagers wading through the metaphorical landscapes and faraway lands on a tiny wooden stage…
Artist: Yulya Dukhovny, a multidisciplinary artist, often defines her live shows as a paper animation performed in a vertical 2D scenic space.
“Into the Rice Fields” will be performed on September 10th at noon and 2pm. The show is 30 minutes and FREE with Garden admission. Good for audiences 10 and older.
General Admission: $5.00
Children (12 and under): $3.00
Seniors (62 and up): $3.00
The Japanese Garden
6100 Woodley Ave., Van Nuys, CA 91406
(Between Victory & Burbank)
INFORMATION: 818-756-8166
thejapanesegarden.com
