 ISH ってアムステルダムの演劇集団を知ってますか。安床兄弟がマッスルミュージカルでパフォーマンスしたようなミュージカル仕立ての公演がオランダで２６日に予定されているようです。ビデオを見ると、舞台上にハーフパイプ・・・素人の私には演出家の意図が判りませんが、アメリカ、カナダ、中国などでも公演したみたいです、そのうち日本に上陸するかも知れません。
Don’t blink! You don’t want to miss one zoom, whoosh, flip, leap and twist of this internationally acclaimed dance and skate spectacular created by the world’s leading skaters, deejays and hip-hop dancers. Amsterdam’s hottest young troupe, ISH, brings unparalled talent, explosive energy and fearless skill to a performance filled with humor, inline skating, acrobatics and martial arts. So eyes on the halfpipes. Sit tight. This is going to be one wild and theatrical ride! "The name ISH comes from the suffix, ‘-ish', which is used to describe the indefinable," and after watching the video clip attached to the theatre's website, I'd have to agree.
Metromix Hampton Roads Events: 4-ISH
4-ISH in USA & CanadaFeb. 12, 2008  The ISH masters are currently performing their main stage theatre production 4-ISH at different locations in The United States and Canada. 4-ISH is a unique, multi-disciplinary dance performance staged by 13 outstanding artists, all masters at their own disciplines. Bringing a half pipe on stage gives this performance the magic that makes it outstand other urban dance shows. Besides half pipe skating this energetic and highly entertaining performance contains other typical ISH disciplines like acrobatic stunts, in-line skating, break dance, video art, dj turn table performance, martial arts, rap and beat box.
ISH: 4-ISH
4-ISH offers a high-energy party onstageBy Jan Gaillard (February 26, 2008) Correspondent
The energy of the streets comes to the stage in 4-ISH, a show that combines inline skating, street dance, break dancing, bungee jumping, acrobatics and martial arts.
As if that weren’t enough, it also puts a half-pipe onstage for skating stunts, and a DJ to spin tunes.
Marco Gerris, a Filipino-Belgian skater and dancer, created this frenzied mashup, putting the “ish” in the name to emphasize his multidisciplinary approach.
Gerris, 32, built up this show from an original company, called ISH, that he founded in 1999 with seven cast members. The U.S. tour stops tonight at Ferguson Center for the Arts in Newport News.
Raised for three years in a Philippines orphanage before adoption by a Belgian couple, Gerris lived in Antwerp until he completed one year at the Antwerp School of Theatre and Dance.
“I was 12 when I started figure skating on roller skates,” Gerris said in a phone interview. “When I was about 19, I bought inline skates and fell in love with them.”
He won the Netherlands 1999 freestyle skating championship and used that as a springboard to pursue his dream of becoming an actor.
“After a year taking dance, I decided to do musicals. I was in 'Endless’ and had a solo, so I asked the director if I could do it on skates, and he said yes.”
After that, it was an easy-ish glide to fame.
“The producer came to me after that and said we should make a show of my own,” Gerris said.
“I wanted to show that there was so much more you could do on the stage if you make it a little arty. I wanted to be free, with an open mind, and help them respect what’s on the street.”
There is a loose plot to the 4-ISH show, Gerris said, of a boy trying to “find” himself.
“People are really blown away by the energy on the stage, but there’s a lot of humor in it, too,” he said. “It’s a universal thing, and everybody loves it. There’s a DJ in the background, and it feels like a party onstage.”
That’s important to Gerris, as the dozen or so cast members are friends in real life who explore different cultures together on international tours.
“I learn new things every day, and the show changes and is fresh every year,” Gerris said. “It doesn’t have to be perfect, but we just try it out. I’m a skater, and I’m not afraid to fall.” Jan Gaillard, jangaillard007@yahoo.com
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