The
Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (Tokyo 2020)
announced today details of the new creative team which will design and deliver
the programme for next year’s Opening and Closing Ceremonies.
Following
the postponement of the Games in the wake of the spread of COVID-19 and the
accompanying disruptions, we are working to deliver Opening and Closing
Ceremonies that will be in tune with the situation next summer. The ceremonies
will still be a great celebration to be enjoyed by the athletes and watching
world but will likely take a simpler and more restrained approach designed to
reflect the overall simplification of the Games and the potential need to still
consider COVID-19 countermeasures.
We have
therefore decided to create a new team organisation that will allow us to
prepare for these ceremonies more quickly and efficiently in the limited time
available. The previous seven-member planning team will be replaced with a new
structure. Since our announcement on 30 July 2018, they have been dedicated to
a very challenging mission of preparing the ceremonies, they are Chief
Executive Creative Director NOMURA Mansai, Executive Creative Director for the
Olympic Games YAMAZAKI Takashi, Executive Creative Director for the Paralympic
Games SASAKI Hiroshi, Creative Director KAWAMURA Genki, Creative Director
KURISU Yoshie, Creative Director MIKIKO and Creative Director SHEENA Ringo.
Until
the decision to postpone the Games this March, this whole team was charged with
formulating the concept, the ideas and the production plans that would ensure
the success of the Opening and Closing Ceremonies, and they contributed various
ideas and production plans to help realise this. President MORI and the entire
Organising Committee would like to express our heartfelt gratitude and utmost
respect for their great efforts.
The
COVID-19 situation is constantly evolving and the time remaining until the
Games is limited. In view of the revised concept of the Games, it is
appropriate to make ceremonial events and programmes simpler and have them in
some way reflect and respect the world’s experience of the COVID-19 pandemic.
One such attempt was the "One Step Forward - +1 Message - TOKYO2020”
programme which was held in July. The programme was produced by SASAKI Hiroshi.
We have re-appointed him as an Executive Creative Director.
With
Mr. Sasaki’s support, we will stage Opening and Closing Ceremonies that will be
remembered for many years to come as symbols of the unity and symbiosis of
humankind in its overcoming of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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