Siro-A is going where no Japanese performing artists have gone before, as the all-action troupe this month launched into not its first, or second — but its third three-month West End run since its "Technodelic Visual Show" in 2013.
With a name derived from shiroi, the Japanese word for "white" or "colorless," combined with an "A" representing "anonymous," the company tries to avoid creating any preconceptions of its shows' high-tech, all-action melange of mime, dance and optical wizardry backed by thrilling electro sounds.
"Since I and the other four original members, from the same high school in Sendai (Miyagi Prefecture), started Siro-A in 2002, we've always tried to create performances like nothing seen before," its 35-year-old director, Cocoona, told this writer in a recent Tokyo interview.