Since the Museum of Art, Kochi was established in 1993, we’ve held excellent arts works by both domestic and foreign artists. The Museum Hall, with a seating capacity of 399, holds approximately 10 shows a year, including dance performances, theatrical plays, and concerts at any genres of performing arts. In recent years, we have produced...
The performing arts section of “Aichi Triennale 2013” plans to feature around 15 works from Japan and the globe including a new work by Jiří Kylián, who has worked for a long time as artistic director of Nederlands Dans Theater, and a performance and installation by Tomoko Mukaiyama and Jean Kalman, as well as...
Founded in 2008 by Kuik Swee Boon, our works expose different dimensions of the human condition and highlight the minute, intricate details that go unnoticed in this contemporary age. We embody a distinctly personal movement aesthetic that harmonises both the spiritual and corporeal amid a cosmopolitan setting. Contact Contemporary Dance Festival is organised annually by...
Founded in 2006, the KAMS concentrates on provision of supports and services related to international exchange, and on enhancement of the competitiveness of the Korean performing arts. Especially, the KAMS offers diverse research, consulting and educational programs for those in the field to boost the industrial competitiveness of the Korean arts, forming various exchange strategies...
Launched in February 2009, F/T is based mainly in the area of Ikebukuro in northwest Tokyo. Over its previous four festivals it has staged 104 productions and 780 performances, achieving audiences of over 260,000 people. It is held annually as an international arts festival representing not only Tokyo and Japan but also the whole...
Onda and Institut français du Japon aim together at the development of the France–Japan artistic exchanges, and selected a group of artists belonging to the dynamic French contemporary scene in theater, dance and circus, for TPAM. Onda — French Office for Contemporary Performing Arts Circulation / Institut français du Japon Onda — French Office...
Playing Landscape This performance presents an in-between expression of traditional drama and dance, integrating with Cindy Ng’s multimedia ink art. The messages it delivers are of oriental humanistic spirit concerned with modern societies and the relationship of urban living to nature. This work originates in Macau through joint efforts of artists from Macau, Taiwan,...
As we are the only ward-run theater in the “theater town, Ikebukuro,” and also, as a place to create, transmit and develop performing arts, we provide performance programs mainly comprised by self-producing or co-hosting stage shows, and training programs such as workshops and lectures. We aim to be a theater where “people meet the arts.”...
Race Horse Company was born in 2008 out of Petri Tuominen’s, Rauli Kosonen’s and Kalle Lehto’s need to create uncompromising, personal and completely new kind of contemporary circus. Race Horse Company’s rough-and-ready performances are based on aesthetics of chaos, humour and surprise. The company approaches circus without questioning, leaving philosophy and thinking to the spectators....
• Research and study on theatre and dance, publication, lectures and symposia, information exchange, personnel exchange and training (publication of “THEATRE YEAR-BOOK,” organization of series of lectures, etc.) • Creation, presentation and support (These Children’s Summer — 1945, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, etc.) • Promotion of mutual exchange between the head office and national centres in cooperation...
Not only programming existing excellent works, we produce and present original works with our own producing section YCAM InterLab as its base, in order to create new artistic expression that involves media technologies and the body. We also develop unique educational projects to raise and enhance awareness and literacy about the information society, planning and...
We aim to repeatedly present our “repertoire,” performing arts works created by our artistic director and associate artists, at the theater and other public venues across Japan. However, the repertoire of KIRARI FUJIMI is not simply created by experts. We develop programs for creation of performing arts works by citizens in collaboration with artists. ...
Equipped with the Setagaya Public Theatre and Theatre Tram that focus on contemporary theatre and dance as well as facilities for performing arts creations such as studios and rehearsal spaces, we consistently pursue new possibility of performing arts. Manned by the artistic director and staff that specialize in production, academics and technique, we present excellent...
The Yokohama Triennale is an international exhibition of contemporary art that is held in Yokohama once every three years. Launched in 2001 and held four times in the past, the triennale, based on a theme that embodies the specific issues and topics of the era, presents a wide range of works by artists who are...
Constanza Macras | DorkyPark based in Germany is an incomparably extraordinary performing company in Europe. The unimaginable conflicts and combinations in all the elements of their works that involve not only dance but also theatre, songs, costume and stage design, as well as the frequent usage of texts, directly reflect the condition of contemporary...
A dance company founded by Un Yamada in 2002 that stimulates spectators’ intelligence and sensitivity by witty and unique choreography, precise structure and the dancers’ vivid physicality. The company has performed in 27 cities in Japan as well as 20 cities in 12 other countries, and in recent years performs not only in theaters but...
Creating as a collective, FAIFAI are presenting artwork that is new, amusing, powerful and touching for any audience in the world. Our style gives equality and freedom to our members’ vast array of ideas, values and expressive talents. We believe that not only theatrical pieces but everything that surrounds them are part of FAIFAI,...
We offer a variety of services such as, 1) Reduce the efforts of performing arts managers in public relations of their productions to help them focus more on producing — flyer preparation and distribution services, 2) Publication for expanding performing arts audience — a free theatre information newspaper / web magazine “Choice!,” 3) Skill development...
Consists of a framework for inviting applications by arts organizations across Japan and special frameworks for Japan–Korea international exchange and support for East Japan. All the organizations carry out both a performance program for spectators and a communication program for exchange with citizens. The programs that invite participants regardless of generations, sexes and ability /...
— Discovering Choreographic Leader for the Next Generation — SELECTION PROCESS: From the applicants, the jury chose six finalists. At the final selection “Nextage”, each of the finalists perform and the jury and guest judges award to select one winner of the “Next Generation Choreographer Award”, while the audience vote to decide one winner...
The Japan Foundation is Japan’s public institution dedicated to sharing Japanese culture and language with people throughout the world. By presenting diverse aspects of Japanese culture, we create platforms of communication and understanding between the peoples of the world and Japan. It manages Performing Arts Network Japan, an website dedicated to disseminating information about the...
Managing cultural facilities of the prefecture including Kanagawa Kenmin Hall, Kanagawa Arts Theatre and Kanagawa Prefectural Music Hall, we create and disseminate new artistic and cultural activities from Kanagawa. Kanagawa Arts Foundation Established in: October 1993 President: Itaru Koeda Artistic Director: Toshi Ichiyanagi Kanagawa Arts Theatre Artistic Director: Amon Miyamoto Managing facilities: Kanagawa...
“Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse Number 1,” a cultural facility that we manage, organizes “Yokohama Dance Collection EX,” a contemporary dance festival that disseminates talents and creations of choreographers of next generation. In order to build Asian dance market, to discover / disseminate talented Japanese and international choreographers and to contribute to the global dance scene,...
PARC’s objectives are to organize basic data regarding performing arts, to build information and human network related to the arts, and to disseminate unique works of art in the world aiming to create and enhance artistic expression, in order to promote international exchange and regional activities with a focus on performing arts, to widely...
