2025

• Handstand/ Contortion

• Solo Works

• 20 minutes

I've been reconsidering the meaning of 'touching the ground' for myself.

Which offers greater freedom – minimizing or maximizing the contact area with the earth?

I'm keen to explore the gap between my childhood memories of moving on all fours and my present physical reality.

This is the focus of my research.

• Credits:
  Choreography, performance: Hisashi Watanabe
  Music: JanMah

• Juggling / Contortion / Handstand

• Solo Works

• Approximately 20 minutes

If a creature didn't know how to move its body, how would it move?
Humans can walk, run, stand on one leg, swim, jump, do handstands, crawl, and perform a variety of other movements.

The potential of many different living creatures is hidden within humans.
Exploring the path from the tip to the root of the great tree of evolution.

The performance will incorporate improvisation and adapt to the environment in which it will be performed.

• Credits:
  Choreography, performance, music: Hisashi Watanabe
  Costume: Sakurako Gibo
  Lighting: Tomohiko Watarikawa
  Ball: Radfactor
  Music (improvisation version): Toru Yamanaka

• Contemporary Circus / Juggling / Headstand / Non-verbal

• Trio Works (Cie Defracto x ATAMA TO KUCHI)

• From 2020 to 2023

• 50 minutes

A collaborative work with the French contemporary circus company, Cie Defracto.

Like a Tsukumogami spirit that dwells in objects, or an unknown phenomenon lurking in nature... this is the story of the juggling Yokai Kemame. Amid countless fireball-like lights, mysterious beings play with mysterious objects scattered all around. Their bodies wriggle, and their movements are woven freely. Dialogue turns to play, play turns to ritual, and gradually you are drawn into their world...

• Credits
  Performed by: HISASHI WATANABE, GUILLAUME MARTINET, SAKURAKO GIBO, TANGUY LE HIR, MAKOTO NOMURA (Japan premiere only)
  Administration: LAURE CAILLAT
  Production: ANNE-AGATHE PRIN
  Music: SYLVAIN QUÉMENT
  Lighting design: ALRICK LENOU
  Technical operation: TANGUY LE HIR
  Dramaturg: JOHAN SWARTVAGHER
  Crochet objects: SAKURAKO GIBO
  Costume: EVE RAGON
  Publicity photo: PIERRE MOREL

• Juggling/Contemporary Circus

• Duo Work (Watanabe Hisashi and Yamamura Yuri)

• Showed in 2016.

• 50 minutes

Juggling company Atama to Kuchi's public theater debut.
Like a dog chasing a ball, a bird aiming for prey from the sky, or a fish leaping out of the water to eat insects, the body is mobilized for a single purpose. It is used to communicate as a living thing before it was invaded by language. Drawing on the principles of human form, we attempt to turn humans into animals, and furthermore, to wipe all of the human habits that inhabit the body.

• Credits:
  Organized by: KAAT Kanagawa Arts Theatre
  Cooperation: fifoo-Bühnenkunstverein, PONTE, a juggling magazine, Kyoto Art Center Production Support Project Stage Director & Lighting: Tomohiko Watarigawa Music: Toru Yamanaka
  Costumes: Utae Minamino Prop Production: RADFACTOR
  Advertising art: Watanabe Hisashi
  Flyer design: Sakurako Gibo
  Production: Toko Uehara Sakurako Gibo Production
  Manager: Takeshi Yasuda
  Producer: Osamu Suzuki Technical
  Director: Masato Horiuchi
  Production Supervisor: Atsuhiko Sakiyama
  Artistic Director: Akira Shirai

• 2025 / Tokyo (Shinjuku Kabukicho Noh Stage)

• Performed in the role of Izanagi .

Details of the work (theater website)

"Yomotsuhirasaka: Exclusion and Play" is a play set on the hill of Yomotsuhirasaka, a hill overflowing with peaches, where a goddess and a god confront each other. ... Yasuda Noboru, a master of the Shimogakari Hosho school of waki, will play the male god Izanagi, while Kanazawa Kasumi, a biwa player who has previously played Izanami, and Watanabe Hisashi, a performer with a unique physical talent, will play the goddess Izanami."

Photo from the above website.

• 2023 / Tokyo (Theater MILANO-ZA)

• Performed as a dancer.

Details of the work (theater website)

" A new entertainment production based on 'Evangelion', conceived, composed, directed and choreographed by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and starring Masataka Kubota, will be performed in May as the opening performance of the new theater 'THEATER MILANO-Za', opening in Tokyu Kabukicho Tower! "

• 2023 / Hiroshima (JML Aster Plaza)

• Performed as a dancer and handstand performer.

Work details (Moriyama Kaiji website)

"Contemporary dance, ballet, rhythmic gymnastics... elite dancers from a wide range of genres come together to perform a dazzling, magical performance."