Artists (Planned): Tetsuwari Albatrossket, Akumanoshirushi, contact Gonzo
Born in 1979. She began to be involved in performing arts when she was a student at the Nihon
University College of Art. A program director at ST Spot Yokohama from 2004 to 2008. She
established precog Co., Ltd in 2006 and has been the representative of the company since 2008.
She has produced such projects and artists as Azumabashi Dance Crossing, chelfitsch, Nibroll, and
Masako Yasumoto nationally and internationally. She launched Spectacle in the Farm, a festival
held in Nasu Plateau, in 2009 and has been managing it in the executive committee. Together with
Kao Kanamori (Theater products) and Teppei Fujiwara (architect), she established a NPO Drifters
International in October 2009. In 2010, she took part in the opening of a communication space
SNAC, which aims to create new values in the East Tokyo area, as a joint producing work by Mujin-
to Production and Azumabashi Dance Crossing.
http://precog-jp.net
http://drifters-intl.org
http://snac.in
Liberation from drama/theater. The three groups that I would like to introduce in this showcase are not restricted by the frame of the "place" called "theater" and have a free attitude in their creation of "drama." Tetsuwari Albatrossket composes depiction of people and their lives in marginal areas in Tokyo utilizing their repertoire of more than 1,000 short tragicomedies. akumanoshirushi transforms its director Noriyuki Kiguchi's daily labor into a performance that involves audience. contact Gonzo creates pieces out of daily happening called "contact" as if it is a thrilling fighting sport through various forms such as YouTube, photography or exhibition. Their styles re-question the expression in a place called "theater" and also liberate themselves from the present seat setting, in ways that refresh our gazes. I hope you enjoy their performances that are based on their contemplation on new forms for contemporary theatre/performance to approach the society.
Artists (Planned): Taro Bove、contact Gonzo/the downhill, Zan Yamashita
Born in 1976. Graduated from Kobe College. From 2001 to June 2006, she worked for the AI.HALL/
Itami Culture Foundation in Itami City, Hyogo, and was responsible for the dance programs. She
became a freelance performing arts presenter in 2006 and engaged in various performances and
events mainly of dance but also including theatre and music. She became a director of AI.HALL
in 2008, and has been planning and producing mainly the dance programs and workshops of the
theatre.
I would like to introduce three performing artists/companies based in the Kansai area, who have been steadily working while incessantly renewing their unique artistic expressions. AI.HALL has been co-producing new works with them on a continuous basis through a project called "Take a chance project" (co-production with contact Gonzo is planned to start in 2011): we venture on their new challenges and emerging talents aiming to further their expressions. While pursuing cutting-edge expressions in this process, we and the artists have also been engaging in outreach toward the local people and trying to make the theater more familiar to them, seeking ways cooperation between a theater and artists can be.
Pieces (Planned): Robot-Human Theatre I, Worker, Android-Human Theatre Sayonara
Born in 1978. Studied psychology at Tokyo University, Psychology and Sociology Division. After participating in a theatre company and working at a public hall, he became in 2007 the manager of Seinendan Theatre Company and Komaba Agora Theater. While producing Seinendan’s performances and Oriza Hirata’s Robot-Human Theatre project, he has also been involved in young artists’ work: the dramaturge for all the works by Shu Matsui (Sample) since 2007 and Our Planet by Yukio Shiba (mamagoto) that won the Kishida Drama Award in 2010, and the managing director of a serial performance project with six artists born in the 1980s called “The return of the 14-year- olds that restrained themselves.” A part-time instructor at J. F. Oberlin University.
Is it true that only human beings can make theatre? Are the abilities that we think are unique
to human beings really unique to us? Robot-Human Theatre project directly relates to the idea
of "what human beings are" and urges us to renew it. In addition, a performance is at the same
time, in terms of the robot study, a social experiment of which result will be utilized for the next
praxis. In other words, while at this moment people see this performance from the audience seats,
they are destined to be performers on the stage in the near future.
A program that explore the possibility of the creative environment of performing arts in Japan,
which has been undergoing a significant change, by introducing full performances that theaters or
NPOs have produced through long working processes with artists: theatre, dance, international co-
production and site-specific work. Befenits are offered to TPAM Pass holders.
The Sonic Life of a Giant Tortoise by Toshiki Okada/chelfitsch [website]
Venue: Kanagawa Arts Theatre Large Studio
Dates: February 2 (Wed) - 15 (Tue)
*TPAM Direction Plus period is February 14 (Mon) and 15 (Tue).
Admission: Adult \3,500/Other prices for under 24-year-olds, high school and younger students and
the elderly
TPAM Pass benefit: Limited priority ticket sale for TPAM Pass holders for the performances in the
TPAM Direction Plus period (planned)
In Hot Pepper, Air Conditioner, and the Farewell Speech (2009), chelfitsch had pursued the naturalism, in order to illustrate the daily lives. In this dance work, they had put a focus on the movements of people, using them in an enlarged way. In We Are the Undamaged Others (2010), their method was pushed forward into the next level. Dimensions of time and space became more abstract in this new theater production, and they showed an example that a production can only be completed with the audience’s imagination.
What will chelfitsch present to us in 2011? Please keep an eye on their endeavors.
Inquiry: Kanagawa Arts Theatre /The Secretariat of Performing Arts Meeting in
Yokohama 2011 for the performances in the TPAM Direction Plus period
Organized by: Kanagawa Arts Theatre (Kanagawa Arts Foundation)
Nameless Hands - A Doll’s House by Noism1[website]
Venue: Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse Number 1, 3F Hall
Date: February 16 (Wed) 19:00
Admission: \5,000
TPAM Pass benefit: Limited priority ticket sale for TPAM Pass holders (planned)
The work was honored with the prestigious performing arts award in 2008.
The content is nothing to do with Ibsen. Artistic Director, Jo Kanamori says that he has created the piece to pay homage to his mentor, Maurice Be´jart. The production was re-mounted and performed in 4 cities in Japan in 2010/11 season.
Organized by Niigata City Art & Culture Promotion Foundation, Performing Arts Meeting in
Yokohama 2011 Executive Committee
Co-organized by: Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse Number 1 (Yokohama Arts Foundation)
Melody Cup (Thailand--Japan co-production directed by Tadasu Takamine) [website]
Venue: Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse No.1, 3F Hall
Dates: February 19 (Sat) 15:00/19:30, 20 (Sun) 14:00/18:00
Admission: Advance \3,200/Student and youth \2,200/Door \500 up each
TPAM Pass benefit: Limited priority ticket sale for TPAM Pass holders (planned)
Questions and answers about nothingness, nonsense bodies, exaggeration and distortion of cultures, messy border-crossingness.
A humorous piece by the contemporary artist Tadasu Takamine in collaboration with Thai/Japanese performers. This piece was premiered at AI.HALL in 2009, updated and shown at Patravadi Theatre in Bangkok in 2010, and this presentation at TPAM is the newest and most powerful version, which is also the first presentation of Takamine’s performing arts work in the Yokohama/Tokyo area.
Organized by: Melody Cup Performance Office, Performing Arts Meeting in Yokohama 2011
Executive Committee
Co-organized by: Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse Number 1 (Yokohama Arts Foundation)
In Cooperation with: Koganecho Area Management Center
Field Works-office by Heine Rosdal Avdal & Yukiko Shinozaki (deepblue) [Website]
Meeting point: Yokohama Creativecity Center B1F "We dance 2011" General Reception (The
participants will be guided to the performance venue from the meeting point)
Dates: February 17 (Thu), 18 (Fri) 13:00-19:00 (5 hours with intermission 16:00-17:00 each day)
Admission: \1,000 (Reservation at the TPAM website, first-come-first-served basis, availability
limited)
*The door opens for two participants every 10 minutes. Staying time is up to 30 minutes.
WE TAKE RESERVATION AT YCC(YOKOHAMA CREATIVECITY CENTRE) 1F. OR PLEASE CALL 090-6340-1127.
Field Works - office is a location-based project, which unravels the conventions of non-theatrical spaces. Avdal and Shinozaki collaborate with sound artist Fabrice Moinet and comic book artist/performer Brynjar A°bel Bandlien. Through the use of sound displacements and cartoon-like drawings, they create a dreamy, absurd, in-between world. The Japanese premiere will take place in an architect office during their office hours, inviting Masahiro Kohama and Un Yamada as special guests. The door will open every 10 minutes for 2 spectators. The duration is 30 min.
Organized by: Offsite Dance Project, Performing Arts Meeting in Yokohama 2011 Executive
Committee
Collaboration with: Kaaitheater (Brussels), BUDA Kunstencentrum (Kortrijk)
Supported by: The Saison Foundation, Arts Commission Yokohama, Norsk Kulturra*d,
Fond for lyd og bilde, Fond for Ut?vende Kunstnere, Vlaamse Gemeenschap, Vlaamse
Gemeenschapscommissie
Special thanks: Steep Slope Studio, Contemporaries Co., Ltd., Yumiko Nakamura Structural Design
Atelier, Kazutoshi Amano Design, Ltd.
