Tpam Showcase | TPAM in Yokohama 2014

Setagaya Public Theatre Production
Written and Directed by Yutaka Kuramochi

Photo: Hiroshi Manaka

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 repertoires,” “dissemination of performing arts to the world” and “fusion of traditional performing arts and contemporary theatre” are the three objectives of the “Contemporary Noh Collection” series produced and supervised by Mansai Nomura, the artistic director of Setagaya Public Theatre. The 7th project in the series invites Yutaka Kuramochi, who leads Penguin Pull Pale Piles and directs a number of other productions, as the playwright / director. An omnibus show with three plays which are based on the noh play Aoi no Ue, kyogen play Hanako, and Yukio Mishima’s Modern Noh Play “Hanjo.”

Contact: Setagaya Public Theatre 03-5432-1515

http://setagaya-pt.jp/

Yutaka Kuramochi

Playwright / director. Born in Kanagawa and graduated from the Department of Economics, Gakushuin University. Founded the theatre company Penguin Pull Pale Piles in 2000, and has written and directed all the pieces of the company. Cynical points of view, firm storylines, gripping dialogues and tempo are the characteristics of his direction. His One Man Show won the 48th Kishida Kunio Drama Award, and he has been writing for and directing a number of productions. This is his second appearance in the Contemporary Noh Collection, following the fifth project Shuntokumaru, Shunkan-san, Ai no Kodo (2010).

Opera Theater Konnyakuza

Gauche the Cellist (2007)
Photo: Tsukasa Aoki

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 the Cellist = g

Adv ¥5,500
Pair Adv ¥10,000
Two Pieces Adv ¥10,000

Student & Child Adv ¥3,000
Adult & Child Pair Adv ¥8,000
Door ¥500+ / person

TPAM Registrant Benefit：¥500 discount / an adult from the prices above

Two operas by Hikaru Hayashi, who composed for and directed Konnyakuza for a long period and passed away in 2012. The opera I am a Cat (based on the novel by Soseki Natsume) was premiered in 1998 as a memorial performance for the establishment of New National Theatre. In the same year, Hikaru Hayashi was given the 30th Suntory Music Award for his composition for the piece. The opera Gauche the Cellist (based on the novel by Kenji Miyazawa) was premiered in 1986 and has been performed more than 1,000 times and drawn 600,000 audiences. The piece toured in France in 1999 and in Asia in 2003.

Contact: Opera Theater Konnyakuza 044-930-1720 / Email

http://www.konnyakuza.com

Photo: Ran Himeda

Opera Theater Konnyakuza

Established in 1971 as an opera company with Japanese repertoires to “create and promote new Japanese opera.” The words are clearly delivered in the company’s operas, which are highly regarded in terms of both musical and theatrical quality. The company has also been actively performing overseas, accumulating experiences of international exchange. Currently consisting of the musical director Kyoko Hagi, 38 singers / actors and seven managers, the company produces its own pieces and nationwide tours performing approximately 200 times a year.

Momonga Complex

Photo: Momo Kitagawa

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 the qualities of movements of dancers and scenographic humans as well as their interactions. A reconsideration of the idea after going through scenographic human workshops and collaborations with other performance makers since the premiere in March 2012.

Contact: Momonga Complex 070-6562-7469 / Email

http://www.momongacomplex.info/

Photo: Momo Kitagawa

Momonga Complex

Launched in 2005. A dance performance group led by Momoko Shiraga. It was a resident company at KIRARI☆FUJIMI Cultural Centre of Fujimi City from 2008 to 2011. Focusing on small matters that tend to be overlooked and the tragicomic presence of what exists on the margins of the world, the group has been creating dance performance pieces that humorously capture individuals’ daily lives, interests and even inferiority complexes.

BUILDING

Photo: Shuhei Fuchino

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. Moving the body seriously, we show energetic, ridiculous and real dance of young people who live the present. Rather than see it as in the theatre, we want you to feel it physically. Animally and humanly, closely and distantly. If possible. It is OK to fly low — we affirm it.

English synopsis provided

Contact: BUILDING 080-3066-8739 / Email

http://studiokudoh.blogspot.jp

Photo: Shun Furusawa

BUILDING

The sports-minded dance company BUILDING dance in knickerbockers (that construction workers wear in Japan) with a motto “All one’s energies and overwhelming force!” led by Saki Kato. All the member dancers and actors are taller than 170 centimeters, and they dance energetically beyond genders. Their performances are full of words of oath that are cried out, physical movements in full force and high-speed dance.

Saiko Kino

Photo: Mark.E.Rapapport

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 on behalf of nobility in order to entertain friendly generals as well as seduce neutral or enemy clans into their cause. Although it is a lost art, Shirabyoshi is known to have influenced Noh and Kabuki. In collaboration with koto player Michiyo Yagi, we will expand upon Shizu (premiered at KAAT in 2012) and present Shizuka as a full-length attempt to resurrect Shirabyoshi as a contemporary dance piece.

Contact: Saiko Kino 080-4096-0610 / Email

http://saikino.blogspot.jp

Photo: 内藤久義

Saiko Kino

After winning the Foundation Award at the Yokohama Dance Collection 2003 Solo x Duo <Compétition>, Saiko Kino studied in France under a Japanese government fellowship, then worked with the Russell Maliphant Company in the UK. During her European residence she created the commissioned works Ichi and The Three Cornered World which were performed at The Place (Place Prize ’08, Spring Loaded ’08, ’09), Dance Triennale Tokyo, etc. Returning to Japan in 2009 she began teaching and became involved in community dance projects. Since 2010 Saiko Kino and Michiyo Yagi have been pursuing a Japanese aesthetic that incorporates choreography, composition, and improvisation.

minamo × The Busstrio

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 and sometimes roughly. There is neither beginning nor end — they just happen to be together and stare at what are recklessly accumulated there. However, there is a purpose: examination of questions regarding continuity and soul. A 75-minute show full of overwhelming music and performance at a church.

Subtitled in English on 2.8 Sat 19:00

Contact: The Busstrio 090-9984-6635 / Email

http://1000000.cubicmusic.com/

minamo

minamo

Formed by Keiichi Sugimoto and Tetsuro Yasunaga in 1999. In addition to live performances mainly in Tokyo, they have also frequently been touring in cities in the U.S., Europe and Australia. Aside from the activities of minamo, Sugimoto works solo as FourColor, FilFla and Vegpher and composes for theatre and advertisement. Yasunaga manages Tetsuro Yasunaga Jimushitsu that invites overseas artists and organizes events and works as HELLL, VOIMA and Cat Sand.

Yuichiro Konno

The Busstrio

A unit led by Yuichiro Konno, which has genrelessly presented a number of theatre, performance and film works since 2010. Their works are characterized by the flatness of approaches between fiction and documentary toward objects, the originality and richness achieved by getting them back into practicality through the technique of collage, and the worldview of which motifs are life and death, animals and still life, and allegories. Films directed by Konno are highly appraised by such critics, filmmakers and musicians as Atsushi Sasaki, Satoko Yokohama and Kazuyoshi Nakamura. His new film Hello, supernova is going to be released at Cinema Rosa in Ikebukuro in February 2014.

Mademoiselle Cinema

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 past and the present — can never join together in time; instead they create a distance (a “gap”) in the consciousness between people, and thus, sorrow. The visual power of this piece is enhanced by simultaneously incorporating the fine arts into an abstract dance performance. In addition, brief encounters between men and women are narrated in a dance form similar to the musical structure of the fugue. Although their destination is uncertain and their sorrow may be forever lost in time, the dancers continue to dance…

Contact: Mademoiselle Cinema 03-3266-0461 / Email

http://www.mademoisellecinema.net/mc/j_01_news.html

Mademoiselle Cinema

Mademoiselle Cinema, the resident dance company of Session House (based in Kagurazaka, Tokyo), was formed in 1993. The dance company is under the creative leadership of choreographer Naoko Ito. Since 1998, they have performed as “Travelling Dance” in several cities in Japan, as well as in several foreign countries. In 2008, Naoko Ito received the New Artist Prize at the Art Festival sponsored by the Agency for Cultural Affairs in Japan. The dance ensemble was awarded the Audience Prize at the Gryfino International Festival (Szutukowanie) in Poland in 2011. They have also participated in the Sibiu International Theatre Festival in Rumania (2008), and most recently, at the Avignon Theatre Festival in France (2013).

86B210

Photo: Stuart Beraha

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 radiation, doubt, of how to live and what the future holds, and determination to live today. In our lives, our families, our loves, all around and inside us, is chaos. This is a message from the unknown planet for the future.

English synopsis provided

Contact: 86B210 090-2303-6664 / Email

http://www.cooh-studio.com/#!nuages/c17kf

Photo: Stéphane Hervé

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.

mum & gypsy

Photo: Kouichi Iida

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 of a volleyball team, building on a special match situation. This new production is going to be the second sport theatre piece of the company! The theme will be “boxing.” Don’t miss it!

English synopsis provided

Contact: mum & gypsy 090-9137-8647 / Email

http://mum-gypsy.com

Photo: Tomofumi Hashimoto

mum & gypsy

A theatre group formed in 2007, for which Takahiro Fujita writes and directs all the pieces. He won the 56th Kishida Kunio Drama Award with The World to Throw Salt on that was premiered in June–August 2011, and the company successfully presented the first oversea performance Dots, lines and the cube. A world and the others in the cube that shines in 2013.

momoirozousan

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 for reservations in advance

A defining characteristic of this performance is that it exhibits a new idea of theatre where a strange world that the protagonist gets lost in is depicted through physical expression and visual effects. It is a theatre piece that can be interpreted in many ways as contemporary art, and audience can enjoy the performance and delicious lunch at once in a relaxed atmosphere. A three-dimensional picture book that children and people who are new to theatre can appreciate. Please enjoy the show laughing, heckling and sometimes imagining “the world of the other side of the door.” Infants welcome.

English synopsis and lyrics provided

Contact: 080-6679-7917 (momoirozousan) / Email
*On the days of performances, inquire at 045-262-3927 (AFR Yokohama)

http://momoiro-zousan.com/

momoirozousan

A unit formed by three unique actresses that pursue a peculiar worldview and visual entertainment. One of the few groups in Japan that perform in non-theatre spaces; they regularly perform outdoor in the street. They have been exploring outdoor theatre and roving performance (walking-out) that involve audience and communicate with space. Currently based in Tokyo, but are interested in performing in various places in Japan and overseas.

Yokohama Dance Collection EX2014
Performance by Former Prizewinner: Pijin Neji

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 Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse again. It is a group work in which Neji himself performs too. Don’t miss his new work after a two-year interval!

Contact: Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse Number 1
045-211-1515 / Email

http://www.yokohama-dance-collection-r.jp/

Photo: Kento Kanno

Pijin Neji

Born in Akita in 1980. A member of the butoh company Dairakudakan, directed by Akaji Maro, until 2004. After leaving the company, he began to create solo works that microscopically approach his own body and choreographic works that use bodies in materialistic ways. He performed and took part in such projects as ASOBU by Josef Nadj, “Experimental Unit” with Megumi Kamimura, Natsuko Tezuka, Kuri Suzuki and Shinichi Takashima, or “Blackout Expo” in the CREAM International Festival for Arts and Media Yokohama 2009. His the acting motivation won the F/T Award in Festival/Tokyo 2011.

Robert Tewsley, Hana Sakai, Kaiji Moriyama, Reijiro Tsumura,
Dewa Ketut Alit, Alessio Silvestrin

Kaiji Moriyama
Photo: Sadato Ishizuka

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 deux”
choreographed by Marco Goecke, music by Igor Stravinsky

• Kaiji Moriyama’s new achievement between Noh and Gamelan!
HAGOROMO
Choreographed and scenographed by Kaiji Moriyama, performed by Kaiji Moriyama and Reijiro Tsumura, music by Dewa Ketut Alit

• The latest work of Alessio Silvestrin created with auditioned dancers!
Opus 131
Choreographed by Alessio Silvestrin, performed by 17 dancers including Yuichiro Yokozeki, Yi Song, Ayuko Kaneta, Mio Kondo

Contact: ARCHITANZ 03-5730-2732 / Email

http://www.a-tanz.com/dance/architanz2014.html

ARCHITANZ

ARCHITANZ invites world-class teachers and holds ballet classes, and although based on ballet, has been broadening its horizon to contemporary dance and Japanese traditional performing arts aiming to extensively contribute to the development of dance culture. “ARCHITANZ 2014” is a program that cannot be experienced anywhere else and is unique to ARCHITANZ, where a variety of artists gather. You can witness the best works and dancers in the world in a single night.

SYAKE-SPEARE

Photo: Fumiko Tsukada

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 prices

Between today’s “I” and yesterday’s “I”, there is the overwhelming loneliness that is not buried even if I struggle to do. But we can’t be in this world unless we are someone. Therefore yesterday’s “I” wait. Today’s “I” wait, too. By the way, for what? OK, let’s see the funny face of each other when we think about it carelessly. Oh, we can’t endure it! It’s so lovely and sad. Inspired by Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, it is a completely original musical theatre presented by SYAKE-SPEARE.

English synopsis provided

Contact: SYAKE-SPEARE 090-8333-8827 / Email

http://www.syakespeare.com/

Photo: Fumiko Tsukada

SYAKE-SPEARE

We, SYAKE-SPEARE, are creating new style musical theatre from 2010. All performers are female (except musicians). We compose our pieces with live music performance, actresses, dancers, and also singers / narrators called “Utai.” This particular method is inspired by the style of Noh theatre. Focusing on “speaking Japanese on stage,” we aim to present bodies and words as music, and also music as language. We got the prize in Toga concours 2013 with The Cherry Orchard by Chekhov.

Kaeru-P

かえるP Vol.4『The Sun』Photo: bozzo

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 we simply stare at a landscape in front of us for hours; we stare at the sea, or on a mountain at the first sunrise of the year. Sometimes we simply listen to what we hear endlessly. In this obscure space, in order to see the infinite horizon and bottomless darkness, we create “dancescape,” neither landscape nor soundscape.

English information provided

Contact: Kaeru-P 090-9369-3860 / Email

http://kaeruppp.weebly.com/next.html

Photo: Manaho Kaneko

Kaeru-P

A dance unit formed by Koji Ozono and Noriyasu Hashimoto. Their theme is “exploration of the fundamental of dance,” and they create dance with an idea that the physicality of dance lies in what are rooted in daily life. Won the grand prize in the 1st Condors Choreography Competition. In addition to their own creations, they take part in diverse projects including “N.N.N.” (supervised by KENTARO!!) and “ST25D” organized by ST Spot, “Dance Impact” of Kichijoji Theatre and “Dance no Utsuwa” of RAFT.

Clown Show Parasympathetic Nerve System

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 dislocated just like the disjoint knees. The gallant and dignified three clowns — an experienced and skilled veteran clown Mima, a second-to-none natural born clown Riririko and Lovely Onda who offers tastes of human absurdity and loveliness — are resolutely prepared for this clown show! Please come to laugh to your heart’s content.

Contact: Clown Show Parasympathetic Nerve System
080-9702−6480 / Email

http://fukukoukan.info

Clown Show Parasympathetic Nerve System

Mima, an internationally active music clown, encountered with theatre clowns Lovely Onda and Riririko who studied at Ecole Philippe Gaulier in France and formed this company. The first performance in September 2013 won the highest praise for its meaningless and pure absurdity.

Kitamari & Offsite Dance Project

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

Junnosuke Tada first directed Re/Play in 2011 with his theater group, Tokyo Deathlock. It explores the intent and meaning of re-production through bodily repetition of physical movement. As a re-making of a theatrical production, this version replaces the actors with eight leading contemporary dancer-choreographers, many of whom have received multiple awards for their own creations. Using pop music, the performers dance until they collapse in exhaustion – and then they get up and do it again, each choreographer-dancer taking a turn at their own approach to the project. In their collaboration with Tada’s direction, the very foundation and meaning of dance is undermined, theater as a format is subverted, and a truly fresh perspective on dance and performance emerges.
There will be a bar set up on site during the run of performances at Steep Slope Studio so the artists and audience can meet and exchange ideas and impressions after the performance.

Contact: Steep Slope Studio 045-250-5388 / Email

http://www.wedance.jp/replay/

Junnosuke Tada

Junnosuke Tada

Born in 1976, Tada formed his company “Tokyo Deathlock,” in 2001. His direction focuses on the concept that “manifestation equals phenomenon” and that this manifistation includes a performer’s body, the audience, and the space. With his way of unconventional approach to the framework of established theater, each of his projects generates intriguing discussion both within Japan and abroad. He has been the artistic director of Kirari Fujimi Cultural Centre of Fujimi City since 2010.

Photo: Yujiro Sagami

Kitamari

Born in 1983, Kitamari formed her company “KIKIKIKIKIKI” in 2003. In 2008 she received the Audience Award of the Toyota Choreography Award and the grand prize in the Yokohama Solo X Duo Competition. Kitamari continually crosses boundaries by directing, choreographing and dancing in a range of performances, as well as producing projects that expand the possibilities for performing arts and are vital to the contemporary dance scene.

Miss Revolutionary Idol Berserker

Photo: Jumpei Tainaka

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 end might remind some audience members of a chaotic banquet at first glance; however, sometimes it may remind people of a regulated North Korean mass game. This image of disposable modern society sweeps over the audience in an unforgettable theatre spectacular event.

Partly subtitled in English

Contact: Miss Revolutionary Idol Berserker 080-5198-9741 / Email

http://www.missrevodolbbbbbbbberserker.asia

Toco Nikaido

Born in 1986. Director, Choreographer, Actress. A graduate of J.F. Obilin University’s College of Performing and Visual Arts and founder of the theatre troupe Miss Revolutionary Idol Berserker. The troupe kicked off 2013 with a three country European tour that was enthusiastically received by the company’s first audience abroad. Toco hopes to connect people around the world with Japan’s enticingly spunky and savage youth subculture.

ARICA

Photo: Ryuji Miyamoto

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 lead actress (Tomoko Ando) continues talking earnestly whilst appears as if she were being buried in it. Kaneuji is known for his collage technique by pouring plaster or resin over everyday items after they are dismantled. Why does she keep talking in this condition where she is stuck and cannot move? Why is she buried in the mountain? This masterpiece by Beckett is reborn through a new translation, new interpretation and with a new stage setting.

Subtitled in English

Contact: ARICA 050-2036-2070 / Email

http://www.aricatheatercompany.com

Director: Yasuki Fujita
Photo: Ryuji Miyamoto

ARICA

ARICA was formed in 2001 by artistic director Yasuki Fujita , poet and critic Shino Kuraishi (in charge of textual concepts), and actress Tomoko Ando, former member of the theater company Tenkei Gekijo led by Shogo Ota. Together they have wowed audiences through their collaborations with creative people from all artistic pursuits, in performances that go far beyond theater and dance to incorporate the creativity of all genres, from visual art, music to architecture and design. Ando won the prize of Best Solo Performance at The Cairo International Festival for Experimental Theatre 2005.

Japan–Korea Dance Exchange Project
Yokohama Dance Collection × Seoul Dance Collection
Dance Connection

Memories – Seoul Performing Arts Festival (SPAF)
Photo: Sang Hoon Ok

Face to Face (2013)
Photo: Yoichi TSUKADA

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 choreographers who are given awards by the two prominent contemporary dance festivals in Japan and Korea, “Yokohama Dance Collection” and “Seoul Dance Collection,” co-create a dance piece through residency in Seoul and Yokohama. In the third year, male choreographers took part in it for the first time. Their nationalities, backgrounds and dance styles are different, and it is the first time that they meet, but they look into each other sincerely and enthusiastically discuss in order to create something together. Their Memories, which was presented in Seoul in October and was well-received, is further polished and newly presented as Seize the Day. In addition, Face to Face by Yuriko Suzuki and Hwang Soo Hyun, the piece that the project produced last year, is re-created and presented as “2014 version.” Please enjoy the two pieces, of which choreography, themes and approaches are very contrastive.

Contact: Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse Number 1 045-211-1515 / Email

http://www.yokohama-dance-collection-r.jp/

Photo:
KAWAKAMI Tomoyuki

Tadashi Shimada

Born on June 14, 1986 in Yokohama, Kanagawa. Studied painting in his childhood, acting methods under Yoko Narahashi’s “UPS academy” at the age of 19, and the encounter with physical expression led him to the creation in the next year of a solo piece HIRUGAO. His activities are mainly solo improvisations. Although having experienced the physical elements of ballet and capoeira, he has been pursuing expression that articulates quotidian physicality and emotions and exploring the body in his own way. Studied movement therapy under the late Mutsumi Gunji and choreography under Tomohisa Suzuki. His twilight won the Encouragement Prize in Yokohama Dance Collection EX 2013 Competition I,

Kim Kwang-min

Born on February 17, 1982 in Seoul. His initiation into contemporary dance was relatively late; influenced by his brother who was studying ballet, he started to dance at the age of 20. The next year, he started to devote himself into dance at Kookmin University and took part in a variety of works accumulating experience. He began to create his own works to look into himself and presented his first piece Shouting! at the age of 29. Communication is the basis of his themes, and he draws motifs from small gestures in daily life. In 2012, his Person (You&I) won the Choreographer Prize in Seoul Dance Collection.

Photo: MILLA

Yuriko Suzuki

Born in Gunma. Started to study under Kuniko Kisanuki at the age of 16. After graduating from the Western dance course at Nihon University, College of Art, she trained at Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance. Her duo piece BORN/2011 was presented in five countries in Europe, and won the 2011 Best Choreographic Direction at ACT Festival in Spain and Jury Prize at Yokohama Dance Collection EX 2012. Among her recent works are a collaboration with Hwang Soo Hyun in Japan–Korea Dance Exchange Project and a solo piece with thought and the body as its theme Amvibalence, which have been presented internationally. A finalist at Toyota Choreography Award 2012.

Hwang Soo Hyun

Took part in Dance Connection last year too. In 2011, she formed a Co-lab Project Group and created Co-lab: Seoul–Berlin, which was selected for the Rising Star program organized by HanPac (Hankuk Performing Arts Center) and was presented in Festival/Tokyo in 2012. She received a Young Art Frontier Grant from Arts Council Korea in 2008. Her work Timing was nominated for the final selection at Global Dance Contest, sponsored by Sadlerʼs Wells. In 2010, she and Lim Jeeae were invited to Seoul International Dance Festival in 2010 with On the Sound.

AAPA

Photo: Laura Liverani

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 a studio renovated from a space in a housing complex in Kita-Senju since summer 2013, and Celine Marks (Canada), who have been in Japan since then, pursue the images of “WHAT WE FORGOT” that escape the moment we apply by speaking of, touching, listening to and dancing them. Audience who make connections between the exhibition and performance in the venue are also ones that pursue “WHAT WE FORGOT.”

Subtitled in English and interpreted in Japanese and English

Contact: AAPA (Away At Performing Arts) 070-6457-4761 / Email

http://aapa.jp

Photo: Ryu Ohsako

AAPA

Active since 2004 in various places and spaces in Japan as a project for developing performances that are inspired by the living environment of the suburbs of Tokyo and are adjacent to daily life. Centering around physical spatiality that does not specify genres, they have been involved in diverse fields including theatre, dance, juggling, music and fine art to always change the form of expression. They opened a studio in a housing complex in Kita-Senju in summer 2013, and since then have been developing long-term activities that include not only performances but also daily classes and other projects that are connected to the local context.

KATARUSHITSU

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 parents pile up, but his back aches recently. His favorite weapon, the iron rod, is too short and heavy now, so he purchased a titanium golf club so that he can hit and destroy the piles of stones that the deads have made straight away. Does an end come to the sterile game of piling up and destroying again and again? The performance based on the company’s short piece Ghosts that Enthusiastically Dance at Sai no Kawara takes part in TPAM Showcase as a show in a non-theater space.

Contact: KATARUSHITSU 03-6303-0521 / Email

http://www.ikiume.jp

KATARUSHITSU

Another troupe that the theatre company based in Tokyo “ikiume” (consists of the playwright / director Tomohiro Maekawa and seven performers) launched in 2013 to pursue expression exceeding the framework of the company. Its first performance Notes from Underground was an adaptation of Dostoyevsky, in which the blocked-up situation of Czarist Russia and the contemporary situation of Japan overlapped and the prison of self-consciousness was depicted. The performance, while accurately tracing the novel, filled the venue with laughter.

MOKK

Photo: Sho Ohashi

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 and the basis of values goes through layers of impacts in a foggy landscape.

Contact: MOKK 090-4602-1154

http://mokk.cc/

Photo: Sho Ohashi

MOKK

A dance project for “dissemination from spaces that are free from theatrical systemization” launced by Sumire Muramoto and mainly technical crews, which takes multifaceted approaches to spatial scenography making use of the characteristics of a space and aesthetics that takes viewers from the quotidian away to a strange land. Its LAURA was invited to the 2011 Seoul International Choreography Festival, and a video dance piece ooze has been shown in international dance festival in Budapest and Berlin since 2010.

Co. Yamada Un

Photo: Manaho Kaneko

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 / dancer) and her company’s member and musician Ohiro Minato created together with generations of participants through workshops, and a company piece by Co. Yamada Un. We welcome people who work at theaters and are interested in local community dance.

Variation 1
Dance: workshop participants, Co. Yamada Un
Variation 2
Dance: Co. Yamada Un

English document available

Contact: Co. Yamada Un 080-9640-5361 / Email

http://www.ota-bunka.or.jp/event/2013/09/post-93.html

Photo: Yoichi Tsukada

Un Yamada

She studied apparatus gymnastics, ballet and butoh before starting to create her own pieces in 1996. Founded “Co. Yamada Un” in 2002, she has been disseminating witty activities resourced with music, fine art, literature, academism, fashion and diverse physicality. She is also a pioneer of physical movement instructions for opera and theatre, workshops at schools and institutions, as well as community dance. Having toured in 28 cities in Japan and 22 cities in 14 countries, she has been developing a range of projects in Japan, Europe, Asia and the Middle East.

Peeping Tom

Photo: Herman Sorgeloos

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 a palace of an aristocrat that had once prospered, or an old theater. Red curtains are hung on the walls of the hall, and the furniture is covered with white cloth — probably it is going to be put up to auction — as if it is quietly waiting for “the ultimate.” The butler tells the chatelaine that guests have arrived. In the flows of the guests, familiar faces flashback. At that moment, the time that had been suspended starts to move slowly — distorted, and toward the future and the past…

Contact: Setagaya Public Theatre 03-5432-1515

http://setagaya-pt.jp/en/

Peeping Tom

Formed by Gabriela Carrizo and Franck Chartier, who had been the central members of one of the best dance companies in Belgium, Les Ballets C. de la B. Their performances that are created by dancers from different backgrounds, actors and opera singers are said to be the contemporary Pina Bausch. Even the cruelest scenes are full of affection, beauty, humor and acrobatic movements; the company has been a cult and regarded as legendary.