ARTISTS
Busstrio
photo by Ralph spieler
Busstrio
Japan／Performing Arts Collective
A collective that produces live performance pieces. While documenting the vivid moments individuals encounter in life, members create unique ecosystems using all senses. They weave together phenomena arising from water, sound, light, objects, voice, gestures, reality, and fiction to establish stage expressions that evoke one-of-a-kind experiences. Performances where multiple actions, events, and motifs remain fragmented yet coalesce into a layered, seamless whole, and depict a “life impossible to give a name” with a musical groove. This celebratory space-time, affirming existence itself awakens the audience's imagination and adds depth to their perspective on the world. Busstrio won the Grand Prix, Audience Award, Director's Award, and Actor's Award at the 14th Sengawa Theatre Drama Competition.
2026 project
Musical drama “One Plus One”
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Illustration by Moeno Otsu
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photo by comuramai
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photo by comuramai
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photo by manami tanaka
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Sound, light, body, language, props, and video… Numerous fragmented scenes emerge from a variety of media. A musical drama that depicts life in the present and creates a unique groove!
Performing arts collective Busstrio creates a musical drama that reexamines the relationship between sound and humans, and between theatre and the world in the performing arts. Inspired by the editing techniques of film director Jean-Luc Godard, the project explores "performance as new music" that emerges from the overlapping of sound, image, language, and movement. Forming a unique ecosystem with collaborating musicians and performers, the project weaves together diverse performances and acting, thereby reconstructing fragmented time and space. Simultaneously individual and collective, music and theatre, the project explores new possibilities for theatrical expression that emerge from this interplay.
Performing arts collective Busstrio creates a musical drama that reexamines the relationship between sound and humans, and between theatre and the world in the performing arts. Inspired by the editing techniques of film director Jean-Luc Godard, the project explores "performance as new music" that emerges from the overlapping of sound, image, language, and movement. Forming a unique ecosystem with collaborating musicians and performers, the project weaves together diverse performances and acting, thereby reconstructing fragmented time and space. Simultaneously individual and collective, music and theatre, the project explores new possibilities for theatrical expression that emerge from this interplay.