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...DENPA SHONEN (Japan) Contestants humiliated--left, say, naked in a room until they earn [yen]1 million in magazine sweepstakes, unaware they...
...magazine competitions. When he wins a million yens' worth, or $8,300, he will be set free. (He wins some dog food, for a while his only nourishment. And finally, after months--toilet paper!) He may not even know that the Japanese TV variety show sponsoring him, Susunu Denpa Shonen (Don't Go for It, Electric Boy!), is airing his solitary confinement in 15-minute segments each Sunday night. That's awful! That's sadistic! And, you admit with a grimace, that's entertainment...
...free a powerful melody and let it work its magic. Their sophomore production and first full-length record, Mass Teen Fainting, is a blend of potent songs, merging a fifties surf-garage feel with the driving energy of power pop. Their concoction is a Beach-Boys-meets-Shonen-Knife puree, and cocktail leaves the listener with a smile and a tune...
Arms flailing, body cavorting, he seemed to slice and move like a Shonen Knife song. He did twists, he did turns, he did a bunch of spinaround thingies, performing flawlessly--with the exception of one misstep (which was met with an obnoxious groan by the announcer)--for a five-minute period which seemed like an hour...
These, respectively, are the opening images of two dance theater pieces by Sankai Juku, Jomon Sho (Homage to Prehistory) and Kinkan Shonen (The Kumquat Seed), which have the clear, smooth grace of a rock in a Japanese garden and the impact, simultaneously, of the same rock hurled. Each piece has a rather spindly framework that is part narrative, part philosophical speculation and part rendering of the collective unconscious poised perpetually between rigor and hysteria. Jomon Sho is a plunge into the mythic past and is the more literal of the two pieces Sankai Juku presented last week at New York...