Jannette Cheong

BIOGRAPHIE

Jannette Cheong. Author of Between the Stones, Pagoda and Opposites-InVerse. Poet, writer, designer, curator and producer and Theatre Nohgaku affiliated artist. Born in London, she has worked nationally and internationally in higher education and creative arts collaborations for over 25 years. She was the first British person to write an English language noh play using traditional noh techniques. Pagoda premiered in 2009 at the Southbank Centre, London, her first collaboration with Richard Emmert, the Oshima Theatre and Theatre Nohgaku, toured to Dublin, Oxford and Paris. In 2011, Pagoda toured again to the National Noh Theatre in Tokyo, then to Kyoto, Beijing and Hong Kong. Both tours included other activities with theatres, universities, schools, museums and festivals. In 2017, she co-produced with Unanico ‘Noh time like the present...’ a tribute to professional noh actor Akira Matsui at LSO St Luke’s, London. The programme included her cross-cultural collaboration work Opposites-InVerse composed by Richard Emmert and featuring Akira Matsui with dancer Peter Leung, opera singers Li Meili and Piran Legg, and noh musicians Eitaro Okura, Kayu Omura and Emmert. https://www.betweenthestones.com/noh-time-like-the-present Between the Stones, completed its European tour in early 2020, after its world premiere at the Southbank Centre, travels to Ireland and finishing in Paris at the National Museum for Asian Arts, just before the COVID-19 lockdown. It was her third collaboration with Emmert and had by far the most extensive education and outreach programme over two years working with five Coventry Primary Schools on three peace projects drawn from three Japanese iconic cultural forms and the story of Between the Stones.

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