TPAM Showcase

TPAM期間中に横浜・東京エリアで行なわれる公演を公募し、TPAM参加者にご紹介します。

We have performances that are shown in the Yokohama and Tokyo areas during the TPAM period register and introduce them to TPAM participants.

Q

Photo: Satoko Ichihara

inochinochiQ

The company Q has recently emerged and drawn attention by the novelty of its verbal expression and direction that deactivate preexisting values, while being based on the feeling, sensitivity and vulnerability of the new generation. The works have always involved “animals,” and in inochinochiQ “dogs” are featured to reexamine the distorted human world with the notion of “lineage” as the clue. This piece is the first theatre performance shown at “sakuraWORKS” that has newly opened in Kannai, Yokohama.

Subtitled in English

Official website
Contact: Q 090-8224-3565 ✉

Satoko Ichihara
Born in 1988. She presented mushimushiQ, the first play that she wrote and directed, when she was a student at J. F. Oberlin University, and after graduating she established her company Q, for which she has written and directed all the pieces. Her play mushi, based on mushimushiQ, won the 11th Best Play Award of Aichi Arts Foundation. Her works often involve animals and food such as pets and ham, since she is interested in existences that are not able to be perfectly tamed as worldly “forms” but are excessive and self-consuming.

The Busstrio

Photo: Toshiyuki Matsushita

Flashing, a luminous body, free

Feb 7 (Thu) 20:00 | 8 (Fri) 20:00 | 9 (Sat) 14:30/19:30 | 10 (Sun) 14:30/19:30 | 11 (Mon) 13:30/17:30
nitehi works 3F
Reservation ¥2,800 | Door ¥3,000
TPAM Pass benefit⇒¥2,500

I feel my body being filled.
It’s like a dream. Just full of energy. Though I don’t know anything.
It was Linda who saw the clown in the station square on the way home from the funeral.
There were two suns.
The letter is in the desk, but this thread should connect to him through time.
It’s a story of night becoming morning. Then a story of morning becoming night as well. And Linda never lies.

Subtitled in English on February 11 (Mon) 13:30/17:30

Official website
Contact: The Busstrio 090-9984-6635 ✉

The Busstrio
A unit led by Yuichiro Konno (director / filmmaker) that started its activities in 2010. Creates works that freely suggest plural intense stories by connecting sequences and using the method of collage. Has been broadening the possibility of its unique expression through performances at live houses and galleries as well as co-productions with musicians. The live performance in collaboration with KUKIKODAN in 2012 was well received.

tokatsusports

dogville

Feb 7 (Thu) 19:30 | 8 (Fri) 19:30 | 9 (Sat) 19:30 | 10 (Sun) 19:30 | 11 (Mon) 19:30
3331 Arts Chiyoda 1F Community Space
¥2,000
TPAM Pass benefit⇒¥1,500

“A beautiful fugitive appeared, and a town disappeared.”
At the hot venue 3331, tokatsusports scratches “dogville.”

Official website
Contact: tokatsusports 090-3084-8947 ✉

tokatsusports
Importing various props by which they have been influenced such as AM radio, TV Tokyo, TOKYO-SPORTS, Danshi Tatekawa and Beat Takeshi into the sampler, the theatre unit led by Sugatsu Kanayama outputs them in a hip-hop style.

MOMOIROZOUSAN

MOMOIROZOUSAN Lunch Show 2013

Feb 10 (Sun) and 16 (Sat)
11:50 Open / 12:30 Start / 14:30 Close (running time: 30 min.)
(please come by 12:00 to have us serve lunch before the show starts)
AFR Yokohama
Admission: table charge (¥1,000) + tips
(this is a lunch show, so please order one food and one drink)
TPAM Pass benefit⇒no table charge

A simple story told through light theatre and an artistic approach to space. A happy show-style piece perfect for lunch. Enjoyable even for people who have never seen a theatre performance.

Official website
Contact: MOMOIROZOUSAN 080-6679-7917 ✉

MOMOIROZOUSAN
“Surrealistic and coquettish performance that transforms space.” Employing theatrical or street performance vocabularies, they create extraordinary artistic spaces, tell simple stories with a unique point of view, and perform to change a space into colorful and strange place.

Company Derashinera

Photo: Katsumi Kajiyama

The Stranger (L’Étranger)

An ambitious piece of work that expressed the world of Camus through smooth and fluent movements and was highly regarded as a performance transcending the boundary between theatre and dance. After the premiere at Theatre Tram in 2010, the piece is newly presented at Setagaya Public Theatre. With the unique original cast including Hairi Katagiri, the director Shuji Onodera stimulates audience’s imagination with this special stage.

Official website
Contact: Gorch Brothers 03-6809-8783 | Setagaya Public Theatre 03-5432-1522 | ✉

Shuji Onodera
Director. After working with Japan Mime Studio, he established Performance Theater Mizuto-Abura. In 2005, he suspended the activity of the company and moved to France. After the first work since his coming back to Japan, A Man Fallen into a Void, he formed Company Derashinera and drew a wide range of audience by the unique direction style that fuses mime and spoken words. In addition to the creations of his own company, he has also been actively choreographing for other drama and music theatre productions. He received the Best Staff award at the 18th Yomiuri Theater Awards.

Mikuni Yanaihara Project

a quiet day

The newest piece of Mikuni Yanaihara Project, of which unique verbal drive, vividness and positivity has been highly acknowledged and won the 56th Kishida Kunio Drama Award. Yanaihara has presented six pieces, faithfully to her unique method and creating sensations in the theatre world. Since receiving the Award, she has been reexamining speeches and direction of theatre, and aims to enter on a new phase with this piece.

English synopsis provided

Official website
Contact: precog 03-3423-8669 ✉

Mikuni Yanaihara Project
A solo project launched by Mikuni Yanaihara, who has worked as leader / choreographer of the dance company “Nibroll,” to create “theatre pieces.” Boldly framing and sketching daily life that is apparently trivial to create stories, and fusing them with nostalgic homages to old Japanese animations and adolescent love songs with her own lyrics, she has been drawing attention by her method that is consciously “theatrical” while being free from the styles. Her Hey Timon, Let’s Think Positive! received the 56th Kishida Kunio Drama Award.

Tatsuya Nakamura

Playback Scenery

Feb 14 (Thu) 20:00 | 15 (Fri) 20:00
ST Spot
Adv ¥2,000 | Student Adv ¥ 1,800 | Door ¥2,300
TPAM Pass benefit⇒ ¥1,500

“Yokohama Performing Arts Laboratory plus” of ST Spot is an extension and development of YOKO-LAB 2010 and 2011 for which Tatsuya Nakamura served as observer. In the framework, now fully prepared for his own choreography, Nakamura presents this piece. With the lighting designer Noriyuki Mori, he tries to reposition dancing bodies in a landscape.

Official website
Contact: ST Spot 045-325-0411 | voids ✉

Tatsuya Nakamura
A member of a dance company “idevian crew” since 1998. He has also performed in works by Mizu to Abura and Zan Yamashita, and collaborated with musicians and fine artists. Course leader and observer for the collective creation course of YOKO-LAB, a program of ST Spot in 2010 and 2011.

gekidan shika564

Photo: Sakiko Wada

BONE SONGS

Feb 15 (Fri) – Mar 3 (Sun)
*Weekdays and Feb 16 (Sat) 19:00 | Feb 17 (Sun), 23 (Sat) and Mar 2 (Sat) 14:00/19:00 | Feb 24 (Sun), Mar 3 (Sun) 14:00 | No performances on Feb 18 (Mon) and 19 (Tue)
Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre, Theatre East
Adv, Door ¥4,500 | Student ¥3,200 (ID required, reservation only)
TPAM Pass benefit⇒A sticker

The leader Chobi Natsuki directs and plays the leading role for this play. The return of the “legendary music theatre” that fully recited the life of an invulnerable woman, with gorgeous guest performers and the sound of trumpets! Making full use of “music” of gekidan shika564, the piece delivers musical expression that only theatre is capable of and a story that only music can tell.

Official website
Contact: gekidan shika564 090-3690-0967 ✉

gekidan shika564
Established in 2000. To “strike the hearts of the young and old, men and women hard and embrace them tightly,” the company has been telling rustic and emotional stories that express lovable human nature, and has fascinated audiences by the direction that focuses on physical performance. An active company since its establishment in diverse fields including the streets, live houses and outdoor festivals, their Super Star was nominated as a finalist for the 55th Kishida Kunio Drama Award.

nmatu-posu

WATAGATA ART FESTIVAL 2012

nmatu-posu + University of Miyazaki [The circumstances to the time it’s going to happen vol.1]

Feb 16 (Sat) 19:00 | 17 (Sun) 13:00/17:00
ST Spot
Adult ¥2,000 | Student ¥1,000
TPAM Pass benefit⇒Adult ¥1,500 | Student ¥500

The situation: firstly, we have always been told, “You are still dependent on your university. You should become independent.” But there isn’t any other place where you can find so many cutting-edge and interesting things as a university. We stay there intentionally, as a positive choice. Secondly, we have also been told, “You should create an one-hour piece.” But we insist on pieces that are from four- to six-minute long. These kinds of short pieces are common in concours for students. A summary in academic writing. A poem or tanka in literature. We think it’s not bad to focus on this short format.

Official website
Contact: NPO MIYAZAKI C-DANCE CENTER 090-5487-1239 ✉

nmatu-posu
A creative dance unit based in the University of Miyazaki. Their field is on the boundary between sports and arts. Members specialize in pedagogy and dance study. A finalist of Yokohama Dance Collection EX 2012, and a delegate of a program for children by Agency for Cultural Affairs. They plan “JAPAN TOUR 2014” (Alios Iwaki Performing Arts Center, Komaba Agora Theater, Aster Plaza in Hiroshima and other venues).

86B210

Photo: Stéphane Hervé

Through The Keyhole

Feb 16 (Sat) 20:00 | 17 (Sun) 14:00/18:00
Video screening from 12:00 to 21:00 on both days (admission free, except during the performances and rehearsals)
BankART Studio NYK, NYK Hall
Adv ¥3,000 | Door ¥3,500
TPAM Pass benefit⇒¥1,500

For 86B210’s performance at TPAM, we will be performing a new work that has grown out of last year’s bi-monthly improvisation series. Our performance will be set within a large-scale installation by the artist Tadashi Kawamata. We hope to share with everyone the world seen through a keyhole.

Official website
Contact: 86B210 090-2303-6664 ✉

86B210
Internationally active avant-garde dance duo; Fumie Suzuki & Keiko Iguchi. Theirs is a dance of strong contrasts, in which opposed or contradictory images are married. They compose their works by laying one image on another, as in photo collage, using all kinds of music and collaborative projects with artists in other fields. 97’ Paris–Tokyo Festival (Paris), Avignon Festival Off (France), Dance Box (France), Lundis de la danse (France), Rencontres Chorégraphiques Japon — 5e édition (France), an international residency program in Czech Republic, etc. In 2007, 86B210 were featured artists in “Danser” (France) and “ballettanz” (Germany) magazines, Paris Performing Arts News and the Paris branch of Kyodo News.

Okazaki Art Theatre

Photo: Yuta Fukitsuka

the Absence of Neighbor Jimmy

Yamao and Umiko are finally blessed with a child! The happy two. However, the wife is obsessed with ballroom dance. And there is a rumor that she’s an item with her partner, Iketani. Perhaps the baby is his. Yamao is in torment. Even a dog won’t get itself involved in an argument between husband and wife. Umiko says she’s not cheating, but can Yamao believe her? Watching Umiko dance in heels with her bump, Yamao is caught in anxiety. Even death passes his mind — the baby is born. A “road-theatre” where a useless event follows another. Foolish but dear. Crazy but grand.

Performed in Japanese with English and Korean subtitles

Official website
Contact: Okazaki Art Theatre 090-6476-9799 ✉

Yudai Kamisato
Director, Playwright / Leader of Okazaki Art Theatre. Born in 1982 in Lima, Peru. Founded “Okazaki Art Theatre” in 2003 and was awarded Best Director at the Toga directors’ competition in 2006. In the works, he unfolds a directorial style that employs both the dynamism and frank colloquial and physical approach of Latin America and the neuroticism of Japanese bed towns residents.