Performing Arts Meeting in Yokohama February 9 (Sat) - 17 (Sun)

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International Showcase

TPAMは設立以来、国内外の公共/民間の芸術文化団体、見本市、フェスティバル、プラットフォーム、NPO、劇場、インディペンデントの制作者などとの長期的パートナーシップを構築してきました。彼らが舞台芸術を通して描く未来を示す多様なプロジェクトが、「インターナショナル・ショーケース」あるいは「TPAMディレクションPlus」として横浜に集結します。

TPAM has built long-term partnership with national and international, public and private arts organizations, arts markets, festivals, platforms, non-profit organizations, theaters and independent presenters since its establishment. Diverse projects that exhibit the future they draw through performing arts gather in Yokohama as “International Showcase” and “TPAM Direction Plus.”

Aydin Teker × Jun Kawasaki

Performance in Istanbul (2012)
Photo: Cagil Ozdemir

 

db-ll-bass — sound, body, and instrument

 

Feb 12 (Tue) 18:00
Yokohama Creativecity Center 3F
Admission included in TPAM Pass
Ticket: Door ¥2,000

 


db-ll-bass is an attempt to construct a new creative sphere of performance, by reexamining the historical relationship between the body and a musical instrument — the contrabass — and extending both performance possibilities to the other. Through the one-year joint collaboration between Aydin Teker, a Turkish choreographer who sees the body of the player as dance, and Jun Kawasaki, a Japanese contrabassist who seeks the source of music in the body, the piece was premiered in Istanbul, Turkey, in October 2012.


 

Concept and choreography: Aydin Teker
Music and performance: Jun Kawasaki
Lighting: Yasumasa Hatanaka
Stage Manager: Kiri Shirosawa
Sound: Kazuki Kunihiro
Producer: Yuki Hata

Organized by: Kiki Arts Project, Performing Arts Meeting in Yokohama 2013 Executive Committee
Supported by: The Saison Foundation, Asahi Group Arts Foundation
Contact: Kiki Arts Project
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Aydin Teker (concept and choreography)
A pioneering Turkish contemporary dance choreographer whose methodology involves a long and precise process in close relationship with dancers, guiding them to gain freedom and a new creativity of their bodies. A lot of her works including aKabi (premiered in 2005 in Haus der Berliner Festspielenit and harS (premiered in 2008 in Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Brussels) have been presented internationally. Her latest work is Three Phases which was premiered in the 18th Istanbul Theatre Festival in 2012.


Jun Kawasaki (music and performance)
A Japanese contrabass player and composer, Kawasaki is highly esteemed especially in his improvisational performance which is seemingly scooped out of his inner self. He has performed both solo and with many distinguished musicians in and out of Japan. Kawasaki has also composed and performed extensively for theater and dance pieces including music for About 1hr. 20min. on Oct. 1 & 2 in Brecht Festival by Port B and Hamlet Machine by Adults and Children produced by SPAC Shizuoka Performing Arts Center. With a deep interest in words, Kawasaki has also been engaging in workshops involving poetry readings and music.

Seinendan International Collaboration 2012
Philippe Quesne Project / Vivarium Studio

 

Anamorphosis アナモルフォーシス

 

Feb 13 (Wed) 12:30/18:45
Kanagawa Arts Theatre, Middle Studio
Admission included in TPAM Pass
Ticket: Adv (Ticket Kanagawa) / Door ¥2,000

 


The director Philippe Quesne, who impressed Japanese audience with his unique sense of humor and worldview in L’Effet de Serge in TPAM in Yokohama 2012, returns with the Seinendan International Collaboration Project. He resides at Atelier Shunpusha, the laboratory of Seinendan that has produced a lot of talents, and creates this piece with four actresses of Seinendan. Don’t miss the new work by Philippe Quesne inspired by the encounter with them!


 

Performed in Japanese with English subtitles

Concept, direction and stage design: Philippe Quesne
Performers: Makiko Murata, Yuko Kibiki, Ami Chong, Mao Nakamura

Organized by: Agora Planning LTD, Komaba Agora Theater, Vivarium Studio, Performing Arts Meeting in Yokohama 2013 Executive Committee
Co-produced by: Agora Planning LTD, Komaba Agora Theater, Théâtre de Gennevilliers, l’Institut français du Japon – Tokyo, HAU – Berlin
Supported by: Programme Théâtre Export de l’Institut français – Ministère des Affaires étrangères et européennes
Contact: Seinendan 03-3469-9107 (12:00–20:00)
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©Victor Tonelli

Philippe Quesne
Born in 1970. Based in Paris. He studied the plastic arts in Paris, and designed stages for theatre and opera works as well as venues for contemporary art exhibitions. In 2003, he established his own company “Vivarium Studio,” of which members are performers, plastic artists, musicians, dancers and a dog, and writes, creates concepts and directs for the company. He has been creating and presenting works internationally since 2004, and Anamorphosis アナモルフォーシス will also tour five countries.

Forest Fringe at TPAM

Hear a Pin Drop Here by Holly Ramble
Photo: John Boursnell

 

 

“Playing with Cities”

 

Feb 14 (Thu) 18:00–22:00
15 (Fri) – 17 (Sun) 12:00–22:00
*See the timetable at the upper right for detailed schedule
BankART Studio NYK 3F
Admission free
Talk events on 15 (Fri) and 17 (Sun)
More info⇒Official website

Reservation invited for these two shows:

OK OK by Ant Hampton
Feb 14 (Thu) 18:00/19:00/20:00
15 (Fri) – 16 (Sat) 16:00/17:00
17 (Sun) 13:00/14:00
*Other times might also be available each day. Please request when booking.
About 45 minutes, for 4 audience / participants at a time. Performed by the audience themselves in English or Japanese.
Book a performance in English⇒Send an email: include your name, date and time, number of attendance, your email address, and your phone number (optional).
Book a performance in Japanese⇒Booking website

Still Night by BERLIN, NEVADA
Feb 16 (Sat) 21:00–21:45 (door opens at 20:45)
*All reservations are full.
*On-the-day participation is available. Please come to the venue or call for inquiry at 080-4299-2830 (+81-80-4299-2830).

 


So many of us live our lives in the midst of busy cities, moving through crowds of people and monumental buildings, surrounded by shops, cars, cameras and noise. How can art, and in particular live performance, engage with this overwhelming environment? How can we find new ways of thinking about our relationship with these busy metropolises, and new ways of navigating our way through them? This project aims both to show how artists are already playing with cities, and to experiment with new ways in which they might do so. As part of TPAM 2013, The British Council and Forest Fringe have invited a range of the most exciting and unconventional theatre artists from the UK to come to Yokohama to explore the city, working with local artists to present a range of finished work and new ideas created in response to this unique environment.

What is Forest Fringe?
Founded in 2007, Forest Fringe is an artist-led organisation making space for risk and experimentation at the Edinburgh Festival and beyond.


 

Organized by: British Council, Steep Slope Studio, Yokohama Creativecity Center (Yokohama Arts Foundation), Performing Arts Meeting in Yokohama 2013 Executive Committee
Cooperated by: The Museum of Art, Kochi
Contact: British Council

 


Photo: Briony Campbell

Andy Field (Co-founder of Forest Fringe)
Andy Field is an artist, writer, part-time curator, sometime academic and very occasional performer who lives in Bristol in the UK but works all over the place. He is interested in adventurous and unusual work whether it calls itself theatre, live art, performance, installation, sound art or anything else. His own work is diverse, slipping between disciplines as a means of exploring a preoccupation with cities, everyday performance, trashy films, radical politics and what it feels like to be around at this strange moment in time. He is also Co-Director of Forest Fringe with Deborah Pearson. Forest Fringe is an artist-led organisation whose innovative community-led approach to supporting and collaborating with artists has allowed it to become a home to some of the country’s most exciting and radical new performance work.


Ant Hampton “OK OK”
Ant Hampton founded Rotozaza in 1998, a project which explored the use of instructions given to unrehearsed ‘guest’ performers, both on stage and, subsequently, within more intimate structures sustained and played out by the audience themselves. The Autoteatro project continues via collaborations with artists including Gert-Jan Stam, Glen Neath, Tim Etchells, Britt Hatzius and Jessica Huber. OK OK is a work by Ant Hampton in collaboration with Gert Jan Stam. It is a minimalist comedy performed by the audience themselves: four seated participants simply read, out loud, the words hi-lighted on the scripts they hold. The text seems to anticipate the readers’ thoughts at any given moment: the doubt, curiosity and anxiety that could be expected of anyone asked to read out loud, in a group, without preparation. The result is an often very funny sense of the script acting as an uncannily ‘live’ object; a text, perhaps, being written at the same time as being read.
*Performed by the audience themselves in English or Japanese


Brian Lobel “Carpe Minuta Prima”
Brian Lobel creates performances about bodies and how they are watched, policed, poked, prodded, and loved by others. The New York-born, London-based Lobel has shown work internationally in a range of contexts, from medical schools to galleries, cabarets to museums, marketplaces to forests, blending provocative humour with insightful reflection. For Carpe Minuta Prima, Brian Lobel adds a devilish twist to the age-old question “Can I have a minute of your time?” In Yokohama women offer passersby 100 Yen, in exchange for 1 minute of their life. After 60 minutes from Yokohama are bought, and signed over to Brian Lobel for ownership, all minutes are then sold on to others for the price of 100 Yen. Carpe Minuta Prima (meaning Seize the Minute) playfully explores themes of economy, the value of our time and our work, the over-documenting of our lives and what it means to sign away your soul.
*Special Performance with Yoko Ishiguro and Eiji Takeda (Shigeki Nakano + Frankens) held


Tim Etchells “Give Up On Your Dreams”
Tim Etchells (1962) is an artist and a writer based in the UK whose work shifts between performance, visual art and fiction. He has worked in a wide variety of contexts, notably as the leader of the world-renowned performance group Forced Entertainment. Since 2008 Tim has produced a series of text works in the context of Forest Fringe as subversive posters and pamphlets, exploring performative approaches to language and creating a set of virtual events — darkly comical performances, debates, fights and other spectacles which are summoned or created in text alone.
*Installation


BERLIN, NEVADA “Still Night”
How is it that you know of this city? It is only now i have dreamt of it… Still Night, inspired by Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities, casts Yokohama as its main actor. The show begins as a lecture on the city, seen through the eyes of a foreigner, and delivered in a hybrid language. It is the city of Yokohama, but seen through a myriad of lenses, mixing real places with mythical perspectives until something shifts and the room disappears. Teetering between two worlds, Yokohama becomes more elusive until both lecturer and audience start to question which world is real. BERLIN, NEVADA is the collaboration between Gemma Brockis, a founder member of Shunt, and Silvia Mercuriali, a founder member of Rotozaza, Il Pixel Rosso and Inconvenient Spoof. Its mission is to view public spaces through a theatrical lens, creating works to fuse fiction and reality and complicate both.
*Performance in English with Japanese translation


Holly Rumble “One Minute Birdwatching” “Hear the pin drop here”
Holly Rumble is an artist working with sound and live public intervention. Her work aims to engage audiences in playful group activities to encourage exploration of specific locations. She has performed at ANTI Contemporary Art Festival (Kuopio, Finland), SPILL National Platform (London, UK), FIRSTS (Royal Opera House 2, London, UK), Edinburgh Festival Fringe (UK), and PULSE Fringe Festival (Ipswich, UK). She is also the co-founder of Other/Other/Other, a collective for artists making site-specific live art.
*“One Minute Birdwatching”: performed in English
*“Hear the pin drop here”: performed in English and Japanese


plan b “A Day in the Life, the Walkers of Birmingham”
plan b are the artists Sophia New and Daniel Belasco Rogers. They make performance work, durational work, participatory projects, locative media and audio projects and exhibit the outcomes of their data collection activities (including our GPS traces over a number of years). A Day in the Life, the Walkers of Birmingham, is a plan b project giving the people of Birmingham a chance to see their city as a moving, growing network of lines made by the people who move through its streets, parks, tow paths and waste grounds.
*Installation


Creative Lab
Japanese and British artists-in-residence in Yokohama develop the city with a new approach. The ideas and creation processes of the artists will be broadcast interactively.


Ella Good and Nicki Kent
Ella Good and Nicki Kent are Bristol based live artists. They are members of artist-led community Residence. Their practice is centered around conversation, intimacy and participation. They tend to present performance with a conversational style, relying on the relationship between them as a duo to create an atmosphere of togetherness and partnership, where generous audience participation feels possible. They are often concerned with finding ways to communicate bigger concepts and contexts through smaller, more delicate, personal detail and truth – to explore the relationship between the epic and the personal, the juxtaposition of the mundane and the sublime that exists simultaneously in our lives.


Richard DeDomenici
Richard DeDomenici makes use of conceptual art tactics in combination with an irreverent pop sensibility to critique and intervene in public behaviour and rhetoric. His work disturbs perceptions through humour and confrontation outside of normal spaces. DeDomenici weaves unexpected connections between different states of ideas, happenstance and current affairs all around the world. In 2011 he performed in Tokyo, New York, Amsterdam and Berlin. He was shortlisted for the Arts Foundation Fellowship, nominated for the Jerwood Trust Moving Image Prize, and was an Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust Award finalist. Embarrassingly he lost all three. His 2012 show is called Popaganda.


Deborah Pearson
Deborah Pearson is best known as founder and co-director of artist led Edinburgh initiative Forest Fringe, winner of two Herald Angels, a Peter Brook Empty Space Award as well as a Fringe First and a spot for herself and her co-director in 2009 on the Stage 100 list. In her own practice she works predominantly as a writer and solo performer. She most recently wrote the libretto for a site specific opera at the Gladstone Hotel with Volcano Productions, and created an immersive audio dance piece called “The Queen West Project” with choreographer Allison Cummings and street youth from Eva’s Phoenix, both in Toronto, Canada. Her work is often preoccupied with the strangeness of being conscious and in March she collaborated with novelist and neuropsychologist Paul Broks on an audio piece about the brain for Fuel’s bodypods series. She has made intimate work for Rules and Regs, BAC’s one-on-one festival, Latitude, the Arches and Shunt.


Tania El Khoury
Tania El Khoury is a live artist based in London and Beirut. She creates immersive and challenging performances in which the audience is an active collaborator. Tania has performed in spaces ranging from the British Museum to a cable car and an old church once used as a military base during the Lebanese civil war. Her solo work has toured several international festivals. She is co-founder of Dictaphone Group, a collective using urban research and live art in order to reclaim public space.


©Reiji Saito

Shun Sasa
Born in 1986 in Miyagi, Japan. Based in Tokyo. Sasa utilizes complex layers of sound, structure, and text in his installation work to create a site where audience can feel and be a part of a world of overlapping fiction, reality, and distinct space-time, creating fictitious moments that may come true in the future. One of his recent works, The Desk and The Monitor, looks at the possibilities of the wood from the desk being made into other objects, such as a violin, a baseball bat, or a spectacle frame.


Mihoko Watanabe
Born in 1987. Founder of the Watanabe Mihoko Company. Graduated the School of Theatre’s production course at the College of Art, Nihon University, in 2010 and joined the production section of the Seinendan theatre company in the same year. Watanabe established “Nijyu-nikai” with fellow artist and performer Mai Endo in 2013. By the use of drama in which humans look at other humans, Watanabe’s productions explore why humans are perceived as humans and the phenomena that accompany this perception. Her style of performance is characterized by the closeness between the performer and the audience to whom she often reaches out. Watanabe depicts what is not present while being present.

Evan Webber & Frank Cox-O’Connell

Little Iliad
Photo: Trevor Schwellnus

 

Little Iliad

 

Feb 16 (Sat) 16:00/17:00* | 17 (Sun) 13:30/14:30*
*With video screening of a related piece Ajax (ticket of the previous show is valid)
Yokohama Creativecity Center 3F
Admission included in TPAM Pass
Ticket: Door ¥2,000

 


Childhood friends, a writer and a soldier en route to Afghanistan, reconnect on Skype over a little-known story of Trojan War. One actor is live and the other is a recorded projection on a blank, clay figurine. The audience listens on headphones to an intimate cinema-play, as Little Iliad explores the shared territory of contemporary artists and soldiers and reveals the reasons people go to war.


 

Performed in English with Japanese subtitles / Screening and conversation with English–Japanese consecutive interpretation

Created and performed by Evan Webber and Frank Cox-O’Connell, in collaboration with Trevor Schwellnus, Christopher Stanton, Pierre-Antoine Lafon Simard, Bojana Stancic.
Management and representation by Kris Nelson / Antonym.
Produced by EW&FCO and Harbourfront Centre, in association with The Cork Midsummer Festival and The Banff Centre.
Developed and presented with the support of the Ontario Arts Council, Toronto Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts.

Organized by: EW&FCO, Antonym Productions, Performing Arts Meeting in Yokohama 2013 Executive Committee
Supported by: Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council
Contact: Performing Arts Meeting in Yokohama Secretariat

 


Photo: Trevor Schwellnus

Evan Webber & Frank Cox-O’Connell
Evan Webber & Frank Cox-O’Connell make theatre in conversation with each other in Toronto Canada. Frank is an actor and director in theatre, and a rock drummer in music. Evan is a writer and performance maker who writes about theatre and visual art. Together they have authored, co-created or facilitated over a dozen performance works in Canada, the US and Europe. Their performance work brings formal rigour to the casual, participatory and spontaneous; it documents their ongoing conversation about how performance changes reality.

Maud Le Pladec

©Caroline Ablain

Professor

 

Feb 16 (Sat) 19:30
Kanagawa Arts Theatre, Hall
Admission included in TPAM Pass
Ticket: Adv (Ticket Kanagawa) / Door ¥2,000

 


Maud Le Pladec is one of the most important figures of the new generation of French choreographers. She makes dance as one dreams of seeing it: embracing the music, blending with it and opening up to unbridled imagination. The rock n’roll energy, the brio and electronic acid boost of Fausto Romitelli’s score, is embodied on stage in an expressionist dance, haunted by hallucinatory visions, perpetually on the edge of disaster.


 

Conception et chorégraphie: Maud Le Pladec
Musique: Fausto Romitelli (Professor Bad Trip)
Interprété par: Julien Gallée-Ferré, Felix Ott, Tom Pauwels

Organized by: Institut français du Japon – Yokohama, Performing Arts Meeting in Yokohama 2013 Executive Committee
Supported by: Institut français
Contact: Institut français du Japon – Yokohama 045-201-1514
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Maud Le Pladec
Maud Le Pladec studied contemporary dance in 1999 at Centre Chorégraphique National of Montpellier, and worked as a dancer with such choreographers as Takiko Iwabuchi, Mathilde Monnier, Herman Diephuis, Boris Charmatz and Mette Ingvartsen. She created her first project Professor in 2010 and second project Poetry the year after, which forms a diptych around the composer Fausto Romitelli. In 2013, she is an artist-in-residence in New York for her next project with Bang on a Can All-Stars.

Daniel Kok

Photo: Jason Tong

 

Q&A

 

Feb 17 (Sun) 19:00
Kanagawa Arts Theatre, Large Studio
Admission included in TPAM Pass
Ticket: Adv (Ticket Kanagawa) / Door ¥2,000

 


Q&A explores the economy of performance — the social contract and politics of desire between artist and audience in a consumerist context. The performer begins with a survey by asking the audience: “What would you like to see?” This question replaces the assumption that the spectator is a passive member in a performance. The audience will now clarify why they are in the theatre and what they expect from the performer.


 

*Regardless of TPAM registration or tickets, people residing in Japan can contribute to the piece through the pre-performance questionnaire (deadline: February 8).

Performed in English with Japanese interpretation

Research, Choreography, Performance: Daniel Kok
Dramaturge: Lim How Ngean
Consultant 1 (Economist): Chris Ho
Consultant 2 (Sociologist): Eddie Koh
Graphic Designer: Jason Tong
Production Stage Manager / Design Execution: Yap Seok Hui
Translator: Darryl Wee
Producer: Tang Fu Kuen
Commissioned by: Singapore Arts Festival 2009

Organized by: Tang Fu Kuen, Performing Arts Meeting in Yokohama 2013 Executive Committee
Supported by: National Arts Council Singapore
Contact: Performing Arts Meeting in Yokohama Secretariat

 

 


Photo: Jason Tong

Daniel Kok
Daniel Kok received the Young Artist Award from National Arts Council (Singapore) in 2008. The creation Q&A, commissioned by Singapore Arts Festival in 2009, has toured Edinburgh, Lisbon, Hong Kong, Berlin, Bangkok and Vienna. At Festival/Tokyo 2012, his production The Gay Romeo was in the top 3 shows by jury nomination at the Emerging Artist platform. Hokkaido (2010) and The Cheerleader (2012) were commissioned by the Esplanade in Singapore. He presented a contemporary pole dance creation as part of X-Choreografen in Tanz Im August/Tanznacht Berlin in 2012. Daniel has a BA (Honours) in fine arts (Goldsmiths College, London), a certificate in choreography (Laban Centre), and an MA (Distinction) from the Inter-University Centre for Dance (HZT, Berlin).