* All programs are as of July 20. Information may be subject to change. • 13th [Tue.] 10:00-12:00 / Tokyo International Forum, G502 Lecturer: FUKUI Kensaku [Attorney (Tokyo, Japan) · Attorney and counselor at law (New York, USA)] Copyright is a pain in the neck for those who are involved in the performing arts business. It seems too complicated because the right differs depending on whether it is music, theater or dance. FUKUI Kensaku, a legal counsel with experience in producing performance productions, will give a comprehensive lecture on the basic idea of copyright and its recent trends, from the perspective of performing arts producer and artist. ● FUKUI Kensaku Born in 1965, FUKUI is an attorney member of Daini Tokyo Bar Association and an attorney and counselor at law, state of New York. He has graduated Faculty of Law, University of Tokyo, completed a master’s course at Columbia Law School in the United States, and founded Kotto Dori Law Office, For the Arts in 2003. Specializes in arts and cultural law and copyright law. Books written include “What is Copyright? The Future of Culture and Creation” (Shueisha Shinsho), “Performing Arts and the Law Handbook” (written and edited by FUKUI, Japan Council of Performers’ Organizations Publishing Department). He serves as a part-time lecturer at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, and Shizuoka University of Art and Culture Graduate School. • 14th [Wed.] 10:00-11:30 / Tokyo International Forum, G508 Speakers: Tonny Prabowo [Founder of New Jakarta Ensemble] Sapto Raharjo [Member of the Association of Indonesian Composers] In 2008, Japan and Indonesia will celebrate the 50th anniversary since establishment of the diplomatic relations. More and more exchanges in cultural aspects are also expected. The Japan Foundation invites performing arts specialists from Indonesia to TPAM 2005 in order to advance mutual understanding and cultural exchange between those two countries. Through this lecture delivered by some of the invitees, we can see the present situation of the performing arts in Indonesia. ● Tonny Prabowo Composer. He was born in 1956. He has found a way of creating unique contemporary sounds with traditional musicians from West Sumatra. He established the New Jakarta Ensemble in 1996 and this group has performed in Indonesia, England, and the USA. He has received important grants such as from the Ford Foundation and the Asian Cultural Council. His works have been premiered and performed in many countries. ● Sapto Raharjo Composer, gamelan musician, broadcaster.　As a composer he produced several music based on Javanese tradition of　gamelan, played with gamelan instruments or/and computer.　Since 1995, he has organized Yogyakarta Gamelan Festival, an international gathering of gamelan players and gamelan lovers, held annually in July. As a broadcaster, he organized a network of radio stations which broadcast a program of traditional music and new music. • 14th [Wed.] 10:00-12:00 / Tokyo International Forum, G502 Coordinator: YOSHIMOTO Mitsuhiro [Director, Arts and Cultural Projects, NLI Research Institute] Panelists: NAKAGAWA Ikuro [Professor, Tezukayama University] FUJII Yasuo [Deputy Director, Asago City Wadayama Jupiter Hall] TAKAHASHI Yasuo [Creative City of Culture & Art Promotion Headquarters Culture Policy and Planning Division City of Yokohama] Since the “special law on the merger of municipalities” has been partially amended in July 1999, the number of local authorities across the country which numbered 3,232, is expected to fall to 1,822 by March 31, 2006. Having the “appointed administrator system” planned to be introduced, the appropriate role of public theaters and halls after the municipal merger, and the suggested way of networking among them will be interactively discussed (this is a co-hosted symposium presented by the Japan Foundation for Regional Art-Activities and the Association of Public Theaters and Halls in Japan). • 14th [Wed.] 19:00-21:00 / Tokyo International Forum, G510 Part 1 (19:00-19:55) The Historical Background and Current Status of the Community Dance in UK Speaker: Christopher THOMSON [Director of Learning and Access, The Place] Part 2 (20:05-21:00) Japanese regions: the situation today, envisionoing the future Panelists: IWASAKI Kouji [General Manager, Toyooka Citizen’s Plaza] SANO Riken [Planning Division, Ezuko Hall, Sennan Cultural Foundation] MIURA Masako [Program Planning Sec. Director, Fukuoka City Foundation for Arts and Cultural Promotion] Christopher THOMSON Moderator: SATO Norikazu [Director, Japan Contemporary Dance Network] This symposium, presented in co-operation with the British Council, will examine how cultural programmes can help realise the vision for a region’s growth and development, using community dance programmes in the UK as an example. Truly successful cultural programmes cannot be established overnight. Long term planning as well as the right conditions are needed to help them take root. Therefore, envisioning a region’s future is vital when planning a cultural programme. In the UK over 75,000 community dance programmes are held each year. Mr. Christopher Thomson of The Place will describe how these programmes have developed over the years. Mr. Thomson together with Mr. Iwasaki and Mr. Sano, of the Japan Foundation of Regional Art-Activities, and Ms. Miura, who has participated in Stage Labs Dance Master Course, will look at the future development of the regions in Japan. ● Christopher THOMSON Christopher Thomson founded Ludus Dance in 1976 and was instrumental in establishing dance as part of the school curriculum. After being Dean of Community Dance course of the Laban Centre, Christopher has been Director of Learning and Access Department of The Place since 1991. In his capacity at the Place, he has initiated a wide range of projects for schools and communities including an action research project with homeless and formerly homeless people and the development of a CD-ROM to encourage teachers to use movement in the teaching of science to primary school children. ● SATO Norikazu From 1980 to 1994, Norikazu Sato was a performer and manager with the Butoh company Byakkosha, In 1996, he studied arts management at Dance Theater Workshop (DTW) in New York City for one year. After three-year preparation period, he established an arts NPO, the Japan Contemporary Dance Network (JCDN), in 2001. The NPO networks individuals and organizations such as artists, presenters, critics, and foundations related to dance, and has helped develop a variety of activities to bring dance with into the community. www.jcdn.org • 15th [Thu.] 10:00-11:30 / Tokyo International Forum, G508 Speakers: TRAN Kien [Manager of film division, Ho Chi Minh Television] NGO Van Thanh [Deputy Rector of Hanoi National Conservatory of Music] Japan and Viet Nam are on the way of making efforts to strengthen relations between each other. The Japan Foundation invites performing arts specialists from Viet Nam to TPAM 2005 in order to advance mutual understanding and cultural exchange between those two countries. Through this lecture delivered by some of the invitees, we can see the present situation of the performing arts in Viet Nam. ● TRAN Kien Tran Kien was born in December 1952, in Ninh Binh Province, Viet Nam. From 1981 up to now, he has been vigorously working as a television director at Ho Chi Minh City Television. He has MA of Linguistics from College of Social Sciences and Humanities, Ho Chi Minh City and Degree of Television Director from College of Television and Radio, Hanoi. He was honorably awarded the “Certificate of Eminent Artist” by national president of Vietnam. So far, he has won the “Excellent Director Award” of national festival and twelve gold medals for television programs in many national television festivals. ● NGO Van Thanh Graduated from the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory and subsequently earned a degree in　violin performance in 1982. Deputy Rector of the Hanoi National Conservatory of Music since 1996. • 15th [Thu.] 10:00-12:00 / Tokyo International Forum, G502 Lecturer: HIRATA Oriza [Playwright · Theater director] HIRATA Oriza, artistic director of his own Komaba Agora Theater and theater company Seinendan, will talk about the function and role of a theater. Citing the example of Fujimi Culture Hall ‘KIRARI FUJIMI’ for which he serves as an artistic director, Hirata will explain how the notion of ‘medium term missions’ or ‘yearly missions’ has been applied to KIRARI FUJIMI, along with discussing his insightful experience of managing Komaba Agora Theater. © AOKI Tsukasa ● HIRATA Oriza Born in Tokyo in 1962, HIRATA is a playwright and theater director of Seinendan theatre company. Based at Komaba Agora Theater where he is also responsible for its management, he has established the ‘contemporary colloquial theater theory’. His 39th Kishida Kunio Drama Award winning play “Tokyo Notes” has been translated into 6 languages and received highly favorable responses outside Japan as well. Recently, he has been active in joint projects with international theater practitioners, conducting workshops both at home and abroad. • 15th [Thu.] 11 :00-12 :00 / Tokyo International Forum, D1 Speakers: Sue SPENCE [Project coordinator, International Market Development, Community Partnerships and Market Development, Australia Council for the Arts] Daryl BUCKLEY [Artistic Director of ELISION Ensemble] Oren AMBARCHI [Sound Artist and co-director of the ‘What is Music?’ Festival] Distinctive, dynamic and vibrant, Australia’s contemporary arts are as unique as the country they come from. The Australia Council for the Arts, the Australian Government’s arts funding and advisory body, will profile some of Australia’s leading contemporary musicians at this year’s Tokyo Performing Arts Market. ● Sue SPENCE Sue is responsible for project and event management, communication and marketing, research and evaluation. As part of the international team, Sue works on programs which promote and showcase contemporary Australian art internationally and which build market development opportunities for Australian artists. She brings to this position, her extensive experience as Manager of the Contemporary Music Development Program, a three year Australian Government initiative supporting export, business and market development for Australian contemporary music. ● Daryl BUCKLEY As the Artistic Director for the 21 members of ELISION, Daryl has developed a broad experience of national and international cultural infrastructure, the handling of international collaborations involving participants from several different countries, concert and recording negotiations, and inter-arts collaborations in the practice of contemporary arts companies. He has organized sixteen international tours with highlights including performances at the Hebbel Theater of Berlin, the Berlin Philharmon and Konzerthaus, Wien Modern, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Saitama Arts Theatre, IRCAM as part of the Agora festival in Paris and the Ultima Festival of Oslo. Currently, he is advising Robyn Archer, the Artistic Director of Liverpool capital of Culture 2008 Programme. ● Oren AMBARCHI Oren Ambarchi is an Australian sound artist with longstanding interests in transcending conventional instrumental approaches. His work focuses mainly on the exploration of the guitar, “re-routing the instrument into a zone of alien abstraction where it’s no longer easily identifiable as itself. Instead, it’s a laboratory for extended sonic investigation”. (The Wire). He released solo album “Grapes From The Estate”, “Suspension” and “Insulation” for UK label Touch and has performed and recorded with Fennesz, Sunn 0))), Otomo Yoshihide, Pimmon, John Zorn, Voice Crack, Damo Suzuki, Keith Rowe, Phill Niblock, Evan Parker, Toshimaru Nakamura and many more. Ambarchi is also co-director of the ‘What Is Music?’ Festival, Australia’s premier annual showcase of local and international experimental music, now in its 11th year. www.orenambarchi.com • 15th [Thu.] 15:00-16:00 / Tokyo International Forum, Hall D1 Speaker: Carole McFADDEN [Drama & Dance Projects manager, British Council] British Council presents a seminar giving an overview of British contemporary dance highlighting companies and choreographers who are currently active both in the UK and on the international circuit. Details of the bi-annual British dance showcase, British Dance Edition 2006, held in Leeds in February 2006 will also be announced. ● Carole McFADDEN Carole McFadden has been working in the Arts at the British Council for just under twenty years. She first worked in Films, Television and Video Department where she was responsible for selecting British short films for competition on the international film festival circuit. Based in the Performing Arts Department of the British Council in London, Carole is currently Projects Manager for the Middle East, South Asia and East Asia. The role involves identifying British companies for international touring, workshop programmes and collaborative opportunities between artists in the drama and dance art-forms. • 15th [Thu.] 15:00-16:30 / Tokyo International Forum, G508 Speakers: OKAMOTO Yoshie [Curator, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art] KONDO Yasuyo [Chief program coordinator, The 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa] ShII Kei [Chief Engineer, Aomori Contemporary Art Centre] NIWA Harumi [Curator, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography] Moderator: AZUMAYA Takashi [Independent Curator] While crossing borders and genres, some art has become incapable of expressing itself within the “white cube”. Following this trend, art museums have begun to be equipped with facilities to enable workshops, concerts, and performances. Art museum officials who are engaged in the realization of various, non-established, expressive possibilities will gather to discuss related issues. ● OKAMOTO Yoshie Being a curator at the Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art since 1991, OKAMOTO plans and carries out exhibitions, workshops, education programs, and performance productions. She tries to support and allow the dancers and artists to experiment their expression in the space, especially when presenting performances. ● KONDO Yasuyo She has produced concerts of classical, Japanese traditional and contemporary music and collaborations with fine arts and dance. After being the musical director of Kanagawa Kenritsu Ongakudo (Kanagawa Music Hall) from 1996 to 2000, she coordinated events related to various art genres as a freelance producer. Since April 2004, she has been the chief program coordinator of 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa and has been producing civic participation programs based on Theater 21 at the basement of the museum. She has graduated from University of California, San Diego. ● SHII Kei SHII serves as the Chief Engineer at the Aomori Contemporary Art Centre. He has studied fine art under AKASEGAWA Genpei, and music under KOSUGI Takehisa. After founding and performing in an improvisation music performance group “East Bionic Symphonia”, he encounters HAMADA Goji, with whom he has performed together, while creating music for dance and theater, and also being a sound operator. He has belonged to the Aomori Contemporary Art Centre as a technical staff since its opening in 2002. ● NIWA Harumi She has been a curator of Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography since 1990. She specializes in media study, focusing on photography. She has held exhibitions such as “Another Europe” (1994), “Homage for Horses” (2000), “Sebastião Salgado” (2003). Her new exhibition, “Contemporary Dance Media” is going to be held this autumn. • 15th [Thu.] 16:30-17:30 / Tokyo International Forum, G508 Speaker: Enric PALAU[Co-director of Advanced Music / Moderator: TAKAMUKU Toshiharu [third ear] Sónar festival has been taking up the advanced sounds mainly in electronic music and multimedia art. The festival celebrated its 11th anniversary this year. Since it was started by three young men in 1994, it has grown in size to attain a participation of more than 600 artist groups from 19 countries and 890,000 audiences. Mr. Enric Palau, one of the three founders and a director of the festival, will discuss their program’s unshaken spirits, its transition during these 10 years including the launching of “sonarsound tokyo”, and the friendship with various Japanese artists. ● Enric PALAU Born in Manlleu, Spain in 1964. Co-director of Advanced Music / Sónar and head of the programming area of the festival. A musician closely involved in technology and the experimental. Together with Sergio Caballero he has collaborated in the studio and on stage alongside Barcelona artists such as Sol Pico, Los Rinos, Zush, Victor Nubla and Peanut Pie, to name but a few. He was also a member of the music groups Hidraulics and Jumo with whom he brought out two albums and a number of tracks on various compilations.