Consisting of “TPAM Direction,” “International Showcase” and “TPAM Showcase,” the Showing Programs offer opportunities for discovering experimental concepts, emerging talents and international trends among professionals of performing arts!
TPAM Direction
Young directors, whose activities are unique, are appointed by TPAM as the directors of this program. They freely propose concepts and new points of view in their directions, through which we can share contemporary ideas and issues to contemplate on the possibilities of performing arts.
Masashi Nomura Direction
The experience of the earthquake disaster and nuclear accident overturned all our trust in society. By “trust” I mean “calculability” or “controllability.” Not only capitalism and radioactivity but also our lives and relationships are uncontrollable… We realized that we are passive existences from birth. From subjective activity to objective passivity. From calculated construction to indefinite development. How can we, born alone and passively, connect to others and get along to survive? How can we develop community in the uncertain society where catastrophe remains latent? I selected performances that should respond to these questions about passivity toward “life” and “relationship,” and on this premise, the direction that “life” takes, “division” and “community.”
Photo: Hideto Maezawa
Masashi Nomura
(Producer, Komaba Agora Theater)
Born in Nagano in 1978. After working at a public hall, he joined Komaba Agora Theater and Seinendan. Meanwhile, he took part in activities of young artists in various ways. Our Planet (2009) by mamagoto and The Treasured Son (2010) by Sample, for which he worked as dramaturge, won the Kishida Kunio Drama Award. He has also produced black coffee (not for drink) by Okazaki Art Theatre (2013) and Time by Shuta Hasunuma and Ryota Yamada (TPAM2012).
Composition: New Philharmonic Kanagawa Arts Theatre, Hall 2.11 Tue 17:00 Ticket available prior to other programs! Sales starts on: 1.15 Wed 10:00 Available at: eplus *Available at Ticket Kanagawa from 1.25 Sat. Shuta Hasunuma, who started as a solo electronica musician, started to form a community called “Philharmonic” by reversing and opening the private time...
Girl X Kanagawa Arts Theatre, Middle Studio 2.12 Wed 16:00 2.13 Thu 14:30/20:00 Fortunately for some and unfortunately for others, so far, this small country, which had been said to be a “big power,” seems to have only buried the experience of the unprecedented accident deep under the surface. Girl X is a middle-length play...
Fumi Yokobori Direction
Where does “dance” emerge from? What is its basis? When does it begin and end? For whom does it exist? What kind of forms does it show or does not show? In this direction I would like to focus on the three following points of view. Firstly, “dance” is expression that is generated in close relation to local contexts: climate, location, history, education, religion, family life, etc. Secondly, it goes back and forth between “necessity in daily life,” “what loosely connects people, roots and community” and “act of showing something at some kind of venue.” Thirdly, “dance” is expression with a structure that is open to endless processes, where it transforms again and again as daily life continues endlessly.
Fumi Yokobori
(Program Director, NPO DANCE BOX)
Born in Nara in 1978. She has been engaging in DANCE BOX since 1999. A trainee under the study program for upcoming artists of the Agency for Cultural Affairs in 2006. Researched the situation of performing arts in six Asian countries and New York as a fellow of the Asian Cultural Council from 2008 to 2009. Based at Art Theater dB Kobe, she has been experimenting on programs that connect “dance,” “local communities” and “theater” and aiming to build network with a focus on Asia.
About Dances in Shin-Nagata Kanagawa Arts Theatre, Large Studio 2.13 Thu 16:30 2.14 Fri 16:30 The concept of the project “About Dances in Shin-Nagata” is to “meet people who dance in Shin-Nagata.” It is a long-term project that was launched in April 2009. Based on studio visits and interviews and involving a number of events,...
Aomori, Aomori Kanagawa Arts Theatre, Large Studio 2.13 Thu 16:30 2.14 Fri 16:30 Aomori Project is a long-term work-in-progress project since 2008 in which the Welsh choreographer / dancer Sioned Huws and dancers and musicians of Aomori, the northernmost prefecture on the main island of Japan, have been working together. Based on residence and creation...
Katsuhiro Ohira Direction
I tried to do what I thought was impossible at ST Spot in the past two TPAM Direction programs of mine, but this time I would like to reconsider what is possible at my home ground. ST Spot is a tiny “theatre” with the minimum space and facilities. Artists have to thoroughly look into themselves and learn how to control and make use of the space in order to set off for a journey to the world of their pieces. They sometimes return to the space and confirm where they stand. This circulation becomes mental food, a place for training and the value of the space for the artists. We witness that process everyday and watch the changes that occur every moment, without too much intervention, but not ignoring either, basically affirming everything as it is, because it is impossible to judge the values instantly. However, we try to present a direction in programming as much as we can. I think the judgements are not based on experience or information; they involve both intuitions and what betrays the intuitions.
Katsuhiro Ohira
(Director, ST Spot)
Born in Osaka in 1971. After working as a reader and lecturer at a university and professional school, he started to work at ST Spot in 2006 and engaged in the establishment of Steep Slope Studio. The director of ST Spot since 2008, he has been programming with a focus on contemporary dance and organizing training programs for young artists and workshops for audience development. Recently he has also been working on international exchange projects including artist-in-residence.
ST Spot 2.11 Tue 19:00 2.12 Wed 16:00/20:00* 2.13 Thu 15:00/19:00 *Only for TPAM registrants Kim Itoh led the Japanese dance scene since the 1990s, and after traveling across the world as a backpacker from 2005 to 2006, he suddenly declared that he would stop creating his own works. Zan Yamashita, based in the Kansai...
Stick & uS!! ST Spot 2.15 Sat 17:00/20:00* 2.16 Sun 14:00/18:00 *Reserved for TPAM registrants By making the team composition and technical specification as simple as possible, we improved the mobility of the pieces and aimed to have audience and the creators enjoy dance itself. The contents are based on an idea that the motivations...
Takuo Miyanaga Direction
In 2013, “play” that I encountered was in “daily life.” “Story” and “play” lie in the fact that people live there. It was a visit to and life on Shodo Island — I went there to participate in Setouchi Triennale — that reminded me of the simple truth. Light, sound, the sea, winds, ports, islands, people, space and time. Encounters with plays are often in “quotidian” moments: embarrassment at taking a picture with a friend that you meet for the first time in a long time, excitement at wearing your favorite clothes for a date, or finding a word flowing in Twitter comforting on a crowded train. These emotions are all coming from having a “relationship” with the world. In 2014, the “play” that I want to encounter is in “relationship.” This time I would like to produce a “play” that is born from “relationship” through photography, clothes and words.
Takuo Miyanaga
(Presenter / Producer)
Born in Tokyo in 1981. The representative of “ZuQnz,” a planning and producing unit. He was involved in the production of performances and related projects of Seinendan from 2007 to 2011, and founded a theatre company “mamagoto” with Yukio Shiba in 2009 as its executive producer. Other works that he has engaged in include the producing of “toi,” a unit with Miyuki Kurokawa (InnocentSphere) and live performances of a music unit “kuchiroro.”
An Exhibition Called “Play” Yokohama Creativecity Center 1F 2.11 Tue 10:30–19:00* 2.12 Wed – 2.16 Sun 09:30–19:00 Exhibition, admission free, reservation not required *Admission only for TPAM registrants from 15:00 to 16:00 (during the reception). *Opening live music performance by OK?NO!! at 12:00 and 16:00 Photographs are gifts to the future. There is someone in...
International Showcase
A program that introduces works by artists drawing attentions in the world, in cooperation with cultural organizations that have international networks, not only to “Creators” who are interested in international programming but also “Audiences” who want to witness international trends.
Chorale (Japanese version) Kanagawa Arts Theatre, Atrium 2.13 Thu 16:00 2.14 Fri 16:00 Kanagawa Arts Theatre, Hall Buffet 2.13 Thu 19:30 2.14 Fri 19:30 Admission free, reservation not required A poetic, transformative, and living ode to the diversity of oral forms — “La chorale de l’Encyclopédie de la parole” (The choir of the Encyclopedia of...
We apologize to inform you In Kanagawa Arts Theatre, BankART Studio NYK 2F “We apologize to inform you: It is a mistake.” Kanagawa Arts Theatre, the lobby of Large Studio 2.13 Thu, around 17:30* “We apologize to inform you: It should be forgotten.” BankART Studio NYK 2F 2.14 Fri 11:30–16:00 (free to enter / exit,...
(Off) Stage / Masterclass Kanagawa Arts Theatre, Hall 2.15 Sat 17:30 Yeosung Gukgeuk that started at the end of the 1940s is a similar type of the Korean traditional operas that declined after its popularity peaking during the 1950s through 1960s. It is a genre where singing and dancing are combined and contains remade stories...
Japan: Japan Contemporary Dance Network (JCDN)/ Finland (ZODIAK) ー Contemporary DanceResidence Exchange and Co-Production Program KITE HAIGAFURU — Ash is falling Kanagawa Arts Theatre, Large Studio 2.16 Sun 15:30 Dance artists from Finland and Japan developed their creativity through working with dancers from each country and exchanged residence creations. A co-production by an innovative...
TPAM Showcase
A unique showcase where artists / companies that have shows during the TPAM period in Yokohama and Tokyo areas get together. Diverse and unpredictable performances broaden the programs of TPAM! Benefits and discounts are offered to TPAM registrants.
Contemporary Noh Plays VII “About Hanako” Theatre Tram 2.5 Wed 19:00 2.6 Thu 14:00/19:00 2.7 Fri 19:00 2.8 Sat 14:00 2.9 Sun 14:00 2.11 Tue 14:00 2.12 Wed 19:00 2.13 Thu 14:00/19:00 2.14 Fri 19:00 2.15 Sat 13:00/18:00 2.16 Sun 14:00 Adv ¥5,500 Under 18 ¥2,750 and other prices TPAM Registrant Benefit: ¥5,000 “Creation of...
Hikaru Hayashi Opera Theater Opera “I am a Cat” Opera “Gauche the Cellist” Haiyuza Theater 2.6 Thu 18:30w 2.7 Fri 18:30g 2.8 Sat 13:00w 2.9 Sun 13:00g 2.10 Mon 13:00w 2.11 Tue 13:00g/17:00g 2.12 Wed 13:00w 2.13 Thu 13:00g 2.14 Fri 18:30w 2.15 Sat 13:00g 2.16 Sun 13:00w *I Am a cat = w, Gauche...
Hitobito [humans] ST Spot 2.6 Thu 19:30 2.7 Fri 13:00/17:00 2.8 Sat 13:00/17:00 2.9 Sun 11:00/15:00 Adv ¥3,000 Door ¥3,500 TPAM Registrant Benefit: ¥2,500 A piece choreographed and composed with the backdrops for the ballet Aleko by Chagall as its motif. Involving humans as “scenographic elements,” this dance performance draws effects from the differences between...
low flying, if possible studio KUDOH 2.6 Thu 20:00 2.7 Fri 13:00/20:00 2.8 Sat 13:00/18:00 2.9 Sun 13:00/18:00 Adv ¥2,500 Student Adv ¥2,000 Door ¥3,000 Student Door ¥2,500 TPAM Registrant Benefit: ¥1,000 (not available on the days)‘ BUILDING’s fourth full performance, low flying, if possible, is a new dance performance of the sports-minded dance company....
Shizuka BankART Studio NYK, 3C Gallery 2.7 Fri 21:30 2.8 Sat 20:00 Adult ¥3,000 Student ¥2,500 (reservation and ID required) TPAM Registrant Benefit: ¥2,500 “Shizuka” is named after the most famous of the Shirabyoshi, female dancers dressed as males, whose tradition dates back to the 12th century. Shirabyoshi dancing was religious in subject and performed...
Million Times Fujimigaoka Church 2.7 Fri 19:00 2.8 Sat 15:00/19:00 Adv ¥3,000 Door ¥3,300 TPAM Registrant Benefit: ¥2,500 The one-night live performance in Matsudai, Niigata by minamo and The Busstrio, who have been attracting attentions in different scenes, finally comes to Tokyo. Sound, gestures and styles that are woven by situations are placed sometimes quietly...
A melancholic fugue and… Kagurazaka Session House 2.8 Sat 19:00 2.9 Sun 14:00/18:00 Adv ¥3,000 Student Adv ¥2,500 Pair Adv ¥5,500 Door ¥3,500 TPAM Registrant Benefit: ¥2,500 This piece was created to visually express the emotional lives of women today, in particular those who live in “memory” and the “now.” These two spaces — the...
Nuages Art Space co-oh 2.8 Sat 20:00 2.9 Sun 15:00 2.14 Fri 20:00 2.15 Sat 15:00/20:00 Adv ¥3,000 Door ¥3,500 *One drink after the performance included TPAM Registrant Benefit: ¥1,500 The performance begins on an unknown planet, with a beautiful desert — human figure and silence. In it we can see fear, of earthquake and...
R and weightless surges Noge Schale (Yokohama Nigiwai-za) 2.10 Mon 19:30 2.11 Tue 13:00/17:30 2.12 Wed 19:30 2.13 Thu 19:30 2.14 Fri 19:30 2.15 Sat 14:00/18:30 2.16 Sun 14:00 Adv ¥3,000 Door ¥3,500 TPAM Registrant Benefit: ¥200 discount In Hello School, Bye-Bye, mum & gypsy meticulously depicted the daily lives of girls who are members...
THE DOOR AFR Yokohama 2.11 Tue 13:00 2.15 Sat 13:00 Table charge ¥1,000 + Tips *Door opens at 12:15 (45 miniutes before the show). As it is a lunch show, please order one food and one drink. Please come early to let us serve lunch before the show starts. TPAM Registrant Benefit: No table charge...
air or fart Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse Number 1, 3F Hall 2.11 Tue 19:00 Adv ¥3,000 Student Adv ¥2,000 Door ¥3,500 Student Door ¥2,500 TPAM Registrant Benefit: ¥500 discount from the standard prices A new work by Pijin Neji, who won the Jury Prize in Yokohama Dance Collection EX 2011 Competition I, is presented at...
ARCHITANZ 2014 February New National Theatre, Tokyo, PLAYHOUSE 2.11 Tue 19:15 2.12 Wed 19:15 S Seat¥7,800 A Seat¥6,800 Pair (S seats only) ¥14,000 TPAM Registrant Benefit: ¥7,000 • Superb duets by Robert Tewsley and Hana Sakai “Bedroom pas de deux” from Manon, Act1, Scene 2 Choreographed by Kenneth MacMillan, music by Jules Massenet “Firebird pas de...
Kawaii Nippon — 77 scenes where Godotty is — Gallery LE DECO 2.11 Tue 20:00 (Preview) 2.12 Wed 20:00 2.13 Thu 20:00 2.14 Fri 20:30 2.15 Sat 13:00/17:00 2.16 Sun 14:00 Adv ¥3,000 Door ¥3,200 Student Adv ¥2,500 Student Door ¥2,700 Preview Adv ¥2,700 Preview Door ¥3,000 TPAM Registrant Benefit: ¥500 discount from the standard...
Goat of the seabed SakuraWORKS 2.13 Thu 19:30 2.14 Fri 14:00 2.15 Sat 15:00/19:00 2.16 Sun 15:00 2.17 Mon 19:00 Adv ¥2,800 Door ¥3,300 Student Adv ¥2,500 Student Door ¥3,000 TPAM Registrant Benefit: ¥2,500 I am standing still in a vast field, and where did the goat that crosses in front of me? — Sometimes...
Clown Show Parasympathetic Nerve System Vol.2 Akaikutsu Theatre 2.13 Thu 20:00 2.14 Fri 15:00/20:00 Adv ¥2,500 Door ¥2,800 Under 18 ¥1,000 Preschool Children: Free of Charge Valentine’s Day Discount (reservation required, for two, regardless of genders): ¥4,500 TPAM Registrant Benefit: ¥2,000 The sympathetic nerve system slips stepping on a banana peel, and the adrenaline gets...
Junnosuke Tada RE/PLAY (DANCE Edit.) Steep Slope Studio 2.14 Fri 15:00 2.15 Sat 15:00 2.16 Sun 17:00 *A Bar Lounge will be open before and after the performances *Artist’s Talk after the performance on Feb.16 (English interpretation provided) Adv ¥2,500 Student Adv ¥2,000 Door ¥3,000 Student Door ¥2,500 TPAM Registrant Benefit: Advance ¥2,000, Door ¥2,500...
Noise and Darkness Sotetsu Honda Theater 2.14 Fri 16:00/20:00 2.15 Sat 12:00/16:00/20:00 2.16 Sun 13:00 Adv ¥2,900 Door ¥3,300 TPAM Registrant Benefit: ¥2,800 (not available on the days) This will be our Japan premiere performance under the name of Miss Revolutionary Idol Berserker. The onstage image of a huge crowd dancing continuously from beginning to...
Happy Days Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse Number 1, 3F Hall 2.14 Fri 19:30 2.15 Sat 15:00 2.16 Sun 15:00 Adv ¥4,000 Door ¥4,500 Student ¥2,500 Under 18 ¥1,000 TPAM Registrant Benefit: ¥3,000 Happy Days is one of Samuel Beckett’s best-known plays. Artist Teppei Kaneuji designed this scenic art which looks like a mountain, where the...
Seize the Day Face to Face 2014 version ZOU-NO-HANA TERRACE 2.14 Fri 19:00s 2.15 Sat 19:00s/20:00f *Seize the Day = s, Face to Face = f Adv ¥1,500 Student Adv ¥1,000 Door ¥2,000 Student Door ¥1,500 *The prices are for one piece TPAM Registrant Benefit: ¥500 discount from the standard prices A project where two...
WHAT WE FORGOT BankART Studio NYK, NYK Hall 2.14 Fri 20:00 2.15 Sat 15:00/18:00 2.16 Sun 12:00/15:00 Adv ¥2,500 Door ¥3,000 Student Adv ¥2,000 Student Door ¥2,500 TPAM Registrant Benefit: ¥2,000 (not available on the days) The past, times, records, what we don’t care about anymore. The members of AAPA, who have been working at...
SAI NO KAWARA Kanagawa Arts Theatre, Atrium 2.14 Fri 20:00 2.15 Sat 16:30 2.16 Sun 18:00 Admission free, reservation not required The ogre’s job at Sai no Kawara (the dry riverbed of the Sanzu River, which divides this and the other world) is to pull down towers of stones that children who died before their...
Vanish Hammer-Head Studio Shin-Minatoku 2.14 Fri 20:00 2.15 Sat 15:00/20:00 2.16 Sun 15:00/20:00 Adv ¥3,000 Student ¥2,500 Door ¥3,300 TPAM Registrant Benefit: ¥500 discount A new piece by MOKK, a dance project that invites viewers to a unique aesthetics not only by physicality but also the spatial scenography. A collective that has lost language, limbs...
Dance × APRICO × Yamada Un Nightingale APRICO Hall 2.15 Sat 15:00 Regular Ticket ¥2,500 U22 Seat ¥1,000 (for those who are younger than 22. Available if there are vacant seats on the day. Please bring an ID) TPAM Registrant Benefit: ¥2,000 A double bill of new works — a piece that Un Yamada (choreographer...
A Louer Setagaya Public Theatre 2.17 Mon 19:30 2.18 Tue 19:30 2.19 Wed 19:30 Adv ¥4,800 Pair Adv ¥8,000 Under 18 ¥2,000 and other prices TPAM Registrant Benefit: ¥4,000 or an invitation to the dress rehearsal (on 2.16 Sun, availability limited, by lot) *Details will be informed to TPAM registrants The stage appears to be...
Fumi Yokobori
Katsuhiro Ohira
Takuo Miyanaga
