AFTER DARK
Selected by Don Crispy
The Word Is SEX
Team Amadera
"This is intended for
people in their late twenties and older," cautions Team Amadera, the
performance group behind the upcoming spectacle The Word Is SEX. OK, you' got
my attention now, but what exactly is it anyways?
"The main performance is a genuine song and dance show that reminds you of Las
Vegas," explains Amadera. "It's a really sexy performance show for adults."
Formed in early 1999, Amadera is a group of professional Japanese singers, actors and
dancers who offer "a new form of entertainment" about one theme and one theme
only - sex.
The show grew out of the experiences of Amadera leader Satomi. "Lately a lot of sexy
shows are imported from overseas and performed at topless bars or male striptease joints.
But the skills and techniques of the dancers are not very good," she says. "How
I can express sex as sexy and cool as possible on stage without showing one's genitals is
my personal goal. I want to create the ultimate sexy entertainment created and performed
by Japanese."
With this perhaps unusual ambition, Satomi - a veteran of musicals such as the Rocky
Horror Picture Show and Rent-formed a team of like-minded professionals,
dubbing themselves Team Amadera. "Assembling the best singers and dancers, I want to
express love and sex, which any human being is interested in and experiences, as coolly as
possible," she says.
What The Word Is SEX will actually consist of, it seems, is stage routines set to
contemporary black and Latin sounds. Numbers will include a "Latin Medley" with
three female dancers; D'Angelo's "Untitled" featuring a male dancer but which
"men also can enjoy"; a "Pole Dance" in which, says Amadera, "We
show you the many skills in using the pole"; "Japanese Hip Hop" composed
with Japanese instruments in which male dancers will dance with kimonos; and even a
"Private Dance" in which one lucky customer will be invited up on stage for a
private lesson.
Does that make things any clearer? Well, if not, you'll just have to show up and check out
The Word Is SEX for yourself.
Roppongi Core, 10/26,
9pm, JY3000. Tel: 03-3470-5944. |
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