THEATER/DANCE
Festival/Tokyo10
Performing Arts Festival launching from Tokyo
“Riesenbutzbach. A Permanent Colony”©Dorothea Wimmer
Outlines
“Festival/Tokyo” is an International Festival of Performing Arts to be held in various cultural locations around Ikebukuro including the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Space. Through international coproduction, the leading-edge creation is introduced to Japan in real time, and the works of the artists who attract people’s attention domestically are produced and presented to the world. The festival will also expand the outreach projects, including the programs in which the citizens can actively participate.
Period
October 30(Sat.) － November 28(Sun.), 2010
Venues
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Space (Theatre, Mini Theatre 1, 2)
Owlspot Theater (Toshima Ward Performing Arts Exchange Center)
Nishi-Sugamo Arts Factory
Theater Green
Jiyu Gakuen Myonichikan and others
Owlspot Theater (Toshima Ward Performing Arts Exchange Center)
Nishi-Sugamo Arts Factory
Theater Green
Jiyu Gakuen Myonichikan and others
Organizers
Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Tokyo Culture Creation Project (Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture)
Festival/Tokyo Executive Committee
※ Festival/Tokyo Executive Committee affiliated bodies: Toshima Ward, Toshima Future Culture Foundation, NPO Arts Network Japan
Festival/Tokyo Executive Committee
※ Festival/Tokyo Executive Committee affiliated bodies: Toshima Ward, Toshima Future Culture Foundation, NPO Arts Network Japan
Contact
Festival/Tokyo Office,
c/o NPO Arts Network Japan (ANJ)
Nishi-Sugamo Arts Factory, Nishi-Sugamo 4-9-1, Toshima-ku, 170-0001 Tokyo,
Tel: 03-5961-5202 Fax: 03-5961-5207
Mail: toiawase@anj.or.jp
http://festival-tokyo.jp/en/
c/o NPO Arts Network Japan (ANJ)
Nishi-Sugamo Arts Factory, Nishi-Sugamo 4-9-1, Toshima-ku, 170-0001 Tokyo,
Tel: 03-5961-5202 Fax: 03-5961-5207
Mail: toiawase@anj.or.jp
http://festival-tokyo.jp/en/
F/T Performance
Public Domain
“Public Domain”©Cristina Fontsaré
Direction: Roger Bernat (Spain)
Date: Oct. 30, Every Sat & Sun in November at 15:00
Venue: Ikebukuro Nishiguchi Park
"Were you born in Tokyo? Move one step forward. Did you sell something last week? Go left." Due to a series of questions and instructions given via headphones, the participants of "Public Domain" move around in the public square of Nishiguchi-Park. Gradually small units start to form among the audience - micro communities exposing underlying social patterns, telling a story carefully orchestrated by Bernat.
Date: Oct. 30, Every Sat & Sun in November at 15:00
Venue: Ikebukuro Nishiguchi Park
"Were you born in Tokyo? Move one step forward. Did you sell something last week? Go left." Due to a series of questions and instructions given via headphones, the participants of "Public Domain" move around in the public square of Nishiguchi-Park. Gradually small units start to form among the audience - micro communities exposing underlying social patterns, telling a story carefully orchestrated by Bernat.
This is how you will disappear
“This is how you will disappear”©Seldon Hunt
Concept/choreography/set design: Gisele Vienne(France)
Video: Shiro Takatani Fog sculpture: Fujiko Nakaya Text: Dennis Cooper
Date: Oct. 30 (Sat) - Nov. 3 (Wed)
Venue: Nishi-Sugamo Arts Factory
Known for exploring the aesthetics of the human body versus the image of the body through the use of dolls, Gisele Vienne's new performance includes collaborators such as video artist Shiro Takatani from Dumb Type, fog artist Fujiko Nakaya and musicians Stephen O'Malley and Peter Rehberg. In the abyss of a fog-infested forest the dichotomy of perfection and ruin unfolds as a drama of desire and death.
Video: Shiro Takatani Fog sculpture: Fujiko Nakaya Text: Dennis Cooper
Date: Oct. 30 (Sat) - Nov. 3 (Wed)
Venue: Nishi-Sugamo Arts Factory
Known for exploring the aesthetics of the human body versus the image of the body through the use of dolls, Gisele Vienne's new performance includes collaborators such as video artist Shiro Takatani from Dumb Type, fog artist Fujiko Nakaya and musicians Stephen O'Malley and Peter Rehberg. In the abyss of a fog-infested forest the dichotomy of perfection and ruin unfolds as a drama of desire and death.
The shape of me
“The shape of me” ©Masanori Ikeda
Concept: Norimizu Ameya
Date: Oct. 30 (Sat) - Nov.28 (Sun)
Venue: Details are announced on the F/T web site upon decision
With "Transfer Student" and 4.48 Psychosis" Ameya added a new chapter to the history of Japanese theatre. This time he leaves text, stage and actors behind to present an installation transcending the boundaries of theatre. What will the audience experience in this exceptional space and time where the relations between presence and absence, self and other, have been reversed?
Date: Oct. 30 (Sat) - Nov.28 (Sun)
Venue: Details are announced on the F/T web site upon decision
With "Transfer Student" and 4.48 Psychosis" Ameya added a new chapter to the history of Japanese theatre. This time he leaves text, stage and actors behind to present an installation transcending the boundaries of theatre. What will the audience experience in this exceptional space and time where the relations between presence and absence, self and other, have been reversed?
The Complete Manual of Evacuation - Tokyo
©Masahiro Hasunuma
Concept / direction: Akira Takayama (PortB)
Date: Oct. 30 (Sat) - Nov. 28 (Sun)
Venue: Details are announced on the F/T web site upon decision
Takayama continues his work on the topic of 'community and individual' in the contemporary city. Nearby every of the 29 Yamanote Line stations, an evacuation area will be set up providing a place for the audience to meet with persons, that are usually invisible in the shape of our present-day cities. The dialogue starts via Internet and then spreads out through various areas in Tokyo.
Date: Oct. 30 (Sat) - Nov. 28 (Sun)
Venue: Details are announced on the F/T web site upon decision
Takayama continues his work on the topic of 'community and individual' in the contemporary city. Nearby every of the 29 Yamanote Line stations, an evacuation area will be set up providing a place for the audience to meet with persons, that are usually invisible in the shape of our present-day cities. The dialogue starts via Internet and then spreads out through various areas in Tokyo.
Going On The Way To Get Lost
Text / direction: Shiro Maeda (GOTANNDADAN)
Date: Nov. 5 (Fri) - 14 (Sun)
Venue: Tokyo Metropolitan Art Space
Shiro Maeda is highly recognized for unfolding stories of unexceptional everyday life sceneries with a broad perspective, and carving out subtle humor and helplessness in human relations. The playwright's acclaimed career takes a new journey with his upcoming production, "Going on the Way to Get Lost," in which the audience will witness a striking new perspective.
Date: Nov. 5 (Fri) - 14 (Sun)
Venue: Tokyo Metropolitan Art Space
Shiro Maeda is highly recognized for unfolding stories of unexceptional everyday life sceneries with a broad perspective, and carving out subtle humor and helplessness in human relations. The playwright's acclaimed career takes a new journey with his upcoming production, "Going on the Way to Get Lost," in which the audience will witness a striking new perspective.
Ray of light, shards of mirror
©Jun Ishikawa
Concept / direction / choreography: Ikuyo Kuroda
Date: Nov. 9 (Tue) - 15 (Mon)
Venue: Nishi-Sugamo Arts Factory
Known as the leader of the all-female dance company BATIK, Ikuyo Kuroda approaches the theme "mother" in collaboration with nine performers of both sexes in her new creation. Known for overwhelming the audience with her intense yet fragile display of the body, "Ray of light, shards of mirror" is a glance beyond the miracle of giving birth and being born.
Date: Nov. 9 (Tue) - 15 (Mon)
Venue: Nishi-Sugamo Arts Factory
Known as the leader of the all-female dance company BATIK, Ikuyo Kuroda approaches the theme "mother" in collaboration with nine performers of both sexes in her new creation. Known for overwhelming the audience with her intense yet fragile display of the body, "Ray of light, shards of mirror" is a glance beyond the miracle of giving birth and being born.
Riesenbutzbach. A Permanent Colony
“Riesenbutzbach. A Permanent Colony”©Dorothea Wimmer
Direction: Christoph Marthaler (Switzerland)
Scenography: Anna Viebrock (Germany)
Date: Nov. 19 (Fri) - 21 (Sun)
Venue: Tokyo Metropolitan Art Space
A waiting room incorporating a family home, a bank, a shopping mall - practically everything a Westerner needs. While social relations are in dilution and assets eroding, the inhabitants of Riesenbutzbach repeat their everyday rituals. But the instant they raise their voices to beautiful choral harmonies, the human beings shine through the system of surveillance cameras in this comical and nostalgic music theatre that looks deeply beyond the surface of time.
Scenography: Anna Viebrock (Germany)
Date: Nov. 19 (Fri) - 21 (Sun)
Venue: Tokyo Metropolitan Art Space
A waiting room incorporating a family home, a bank, a shopping mall - practically everything a Westerner needs. While social relations are in dilution and assets eroding, the inhabitants of Riesenbutzbach repeat their everyday rituals. But the instant they raise their voices to beautiful choral harmonies, the human beings shine through the system of surveillance cameras in this comical and nostalgic music theatre that looks deeply beyond the surface of time.
――And Then Mr. Artaud,
©Toshihiro Shimizu
Direction: Motoi Miura(chiten)
Date: Nov 19 (Fri) - 23 (Tue)
Venue: Tokyo Metropolitan Art Space
Motoi Miura has raised attention with text interpretations in which he re-arranges the words in a bold and dense way seeking new theatrical challenges in non-realistic articulation techniques and elaborately designed scenography. This time he chose Artaud's famous text "Theatre of Cruelty" that deals with the terms of object, flesh, psyche and motion in order to redefine his idea of human existence.
Date: Nov 19 (Fri) - 23 (Tue)
Venue: Tokyo Metropolitan Art Space
Motoi Miura has raised attention with text interpretations in which he re-arranges the words in a bold and dense way seeking new theatrical challenges in non-realistic articulation techniques and elaborately designed scenography. This time he chose Artaud's famous text "Theatre of Cruelty" that deals with the terms of object, flesh, psyche and motion in order to redefine his idea of human existence.
Versus
©Christian Berthelot
Concept / direction : Rodrigo Garcia (Argentina/Spain)
Date: Nov 20 (Sat) - 24 (Wed)
Venue: Nishi-Sugamo Arts Factory
Enfant terrible of contemporary theatre Rodrigo Garcia is known for going to the extreme in his criticism of contemporary materialism and consumerism. Groceries, animals and humans receive the same treatment in this merciless and ironic portrayal of the horrors of alienation set off by consumer society: they are used and abused; they get soiled and ripped apart, leaving no one untouched.
Date: Nov 20 (Sat) - 24 (Wed)
Venue: Nishi-Sugamo Arts Factory
Enfant terrible of contemporary theatre Rodrigo Garcia is known for going to the extreme in his criticism of contemporary materialism and consumerism. Groceries, animals and humans receive the same treatment in this merciless and ironic portrayal of the horrors of alienation set off by consumer society: they are used and abused; they get soiled and ripped apart, leaving no one untouched.
Hiroshima - Hapcheon: Doubled Cities in Exhibition
©Tsukasa Aoki
Direction: Masataka Matsuda
Date: Nov 24 (Wed) - 28 (Sun)
Venue: Jiyu Gakuen Myonichikan, Auditorium
The Korean city Hapcheon - called "another Hiroshima" since it became a new home to most of the Korean A-bomb victims who had been living in Hiroshima during the second world war - makes the focal point of Marebito's new work. Voices of people interviewed on location, documentary videos, the dramatic text and the live-performance of the actors are put into an exhibition setting to form an artificial cityscape where fragments of history are floating around.
Date: Nov 24 (Wed) - 28 (Sun)
Venue: Jiyu Gakuen Myonichikan, Auditorium
The Korean city Hapcheon - called "another Hiroshima" since it became a new home to most of the Korean A-bomb victims who had been living in Hiroshima during the second world war - makes the focal point of Marebito's new work. Voices of people interviewed on location, documentary videos, the dramatic text and the live-performance of the actors are put into an exhibition setting to form an artificial cityscape where fragments of history are floating around.
DRAMATHOLOGY
©Takashi Horikawa
Concept / direction: Yujiro Sagami
Date: Nov. 26 (Fri) - 28 （Sun）
Venue: Tokyo Metropolitan Art Space
A 27-year old director and citizens aged over 70 from a provincial town. In "DRAMATHOLOGY", premiered 2009 in Hyogo, seven elderly people tell their stories, while moving around the spiritless body of a girl on stage. "I was born in Itami. I like dancing". By in a serial way gathering the personal information of every single performer, the picture of a generation and its history emerges.
Date: Nov. 26 (Fri) - 28 （Sun）
Venue: Tokyo Metropolitan Art Space
A 27-year old director and citizens aged over 70 from a provincial town. In "DRAMATHOLOGY", premiered 2009 in Hyogo, seven elderly people tell their stories, while moving around the spiritless body of a girl on stage. "I was born in Itami. I like dancing". By in a serial way gathering the personal information of every single performer, the picture of a generation and its history emerges.
Memory
“Memory”©Ricky Wong
Choreography: Wen Hui (China)
Dramaturgy / video: Wu Wenguang(China)
Date: Nov. 26 (Fri) - 28 (Sun)
Venue: Nishi-Sugamo Arts Factory
While Wu Wenguang's documentary film "1966: My Time in the Red Guards" is projected, a sewing machine seems to spin fragments of memories on stage... Employing personal experiences and monologues together with video testimony, two pioneers of the Chinese independent art scene tell the story of the Cultural Revolution, still a political taboo in Mainland China.
Dramaturgy / video: Wu Wenguang(China)
Date: Nov. 26 (Fri) - 28 (Sun)
Venue: Nishi-Sugamo Arts Factory
While Wu Wenguang's documentary film "1966: My Time in the Red Guards" is projected, a sewing machine seems to spin fragments of memories on stage... Employing personal experiences and monologues together with video testimony, two pioneers of the Chinese independent art scene tell the story of the Cultural Revolution, still a political taboo in Mainland China.
SKINNERS－Dedicated to Evaporating Things
©Saburo Teshigawara
Direction / choreography / set design / lighting design: Saburo Teshigawara
Date: Nov. 27（Sat）- 28 (Sun)
Venue: Tokyo Metropolitan Art Space
Saburo Teshigawara has been continuously searching for a unique expression through his exceptional aesthetics and philosophy. In this new creation, a dance of extreme sharpness unfolds in a specific dimension created from the music of Gyorgy Ligeti, noise sound, installation and light.
Date: Nov. 27（Sat）- 28 (Sun)
Venue: Tokyo Metropolitan Art Space
Saburo Teshigawara has been continuously searching for a unique expression through his exceptional aesthetics and philosophy. In this new creation, a dance of extreme sharpness unfolds in a specific dimension created from the music of Gyorgy Ligeti, noise sound, installation and light.
F/T Station
©Youta Kataoka
Dates: Oct. 30（Sat） - Nov. 28（Sun） (TBC)
Venue: In front of Tokyo Metropolitan Art Space
The F/T Station is a casual place open to everyone to meet and exchange opinions. In addition to ticket sales, information center and archive facilities, talks and related events will be held in the F/T Station, contributing to bridging the artists to the audiences, and the festival to the city.
Venue: In front of Tokyo Metropolitan Art Space
The F/T Station is a casual place open to everyone to meet and exchange opinions. In addition to ticket sales, information center and archive facilities, talks and related events will be held in the F/T Station, contributing to bridging the artists to the audiences, and the festival to the city.
F/T Symposium & F/T Theatrotheque
Dates： Nov 4（Thu） - 13（Sat）
Owlspot Theater ※ The symposiums are conducted in Japanese
A platform to discuss the creation of a "theatre-yet-to-come," the F/T Symposium series centers around four themes questioning the possibilities of contemporary theatre in a political, economical and social context. Related videos are screened in the frame of the F/T Theatrotheque.
Owlspot Theater ※ The symposiums are conducted in Japanese
A platform to discuss the creation of a "theatre-yet-to-come," the F/T Symposium series centers around four themes questioning the possibilities of contemporary theatre in a political, economical and social context. Related videos are screened in the frame of the F/T Theatrotheque.
F/T Emerging Artists Program
F/T Emerging Artists was launched with the aim of providing a platform for young artists and theatre companies to present their independent works. Developing from the Theatre/University series of F/T 09 Spring and Autumn, the participants are openly recruited, and selected by F/T. Providing for several aspects such as rehearsal space and venue, we encourage the artists to challenge the new creation of outstanding works reflecting varying values and understandings.
For more details, please see Festival/Tokyo10 official website
For more details, please see Festival/Tokyo10 official website
F/T Ticket Information
Tickets are on sale from September 5 (Sun), 2010. For more details, please see Festival/Tokyo10 official website
