Festival/Tokyo
Performing Arts Festival Launching from Tokyo
Outline
“Festival/Tokyo” is an International Festival of Performing Arts to be held in various cultural locations around Ikebukuro including the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Space. The first Festival/Tokyo got off to a favorable start as an international festival of performing arts in reality and in name, which represents Japan. The audience of more than 60 thousand experienced and shared the festival.
The venues for this occasion will be the same three places around Ikebukuro as the first time (Tokyo Metropolitan Art Space, Owl Spot and Nishi-sugamo Arts Factory). This time, a private theater, Theater Green at the east entrance to Ikebukuro station will be added. Thus, we will continue to make an effort to gain recognition and act in cooperation as a festival rooted in the community.
We aim to improve the program further by inheriting the trend of the first festival. 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. We will expand the outreach projects, including the programs in which the citizens can actively participate, workshops and lectures and will improve the system where the real appeal of the performing arts is expressed.
Through this festival, with artists of the same age and all the citizens who will participate in, we will pursue the creation of new value, which opens the way to the next period, and promote the creation and presentation to the world from the international city of Tokyo.
Time
October 23 (Fri) ? December 21 (Mon), 2009
Venues
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Space (Medium Hall and Small Hall 1 & 2)
Owl Spot (Toshima Ward Performing Arts Exchange Center)
Nishi-sugamo Arts Factory
Theater Green And others
Organizers
Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Tokyo Culture Creation Project (Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture), Festival/Tokyo Executive Committee; Toshima ward, Toshima Mirai Cultural Foundation and NPO Arts Network Japan（ANJ）
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/
F/T Performance
Rojishiki *This program has ended.
Text・ Direction：Yukichi Matsumoto (Ishinha)
Date：October 23 (Friday)-November 3 (Tuesday, National holiday)
Venue：Nishi-sugamo Arts Factory
A theatrical group, Ishinha, which has renewed the legend of dramas, will take over the Nishi-sugamo Arts Factory with a new play using indoor and outdoor theaters.
Cargo Tokyo - Yokohama
Concept：Stefan Kaegi（Rimini Protokoll） [Switzerland]
Direction：Jorg Karrenbauer [Germany]
Date：Undecided
Venue：Undecided
* Details will be announced on our website and other media as soon as they become available.
Audience seats are on a loading platform. Is the truck driver real? Audience-moving-type drama around the distribution base in the bay area.
That Man’s World *This program has ended.
Text / Direction：Shu Matsui (Sample)
Date：November 6 (Friday)-15 (Sunday)
Venue：Tokyo Metropolitan Art Space, Small Hall 1
We still believe in stories. A portrait of modern times by an enthusiastic dramatist.
H3 *This program has ended.
Choreography：Bruno Beltrao (Grupo de Rua) [Brazil]
Date：November 7 (Saturday)-11 (Wednesday)
Venue：Nishi-sugamo Arts Factory
Blending of hip-hop and contemporary dance? A talent produced in street dance in Brazil will break new ground in the field of dance.
Dead Cat Bounce *This program has ended.
Direction：Chris Kondek [USA/ Germany]
Date：November 23 (Monday./N.H.)-27 (Friday)
Venue：Nishi-sugamo Arts Factory
You will feel the thrill of stock-trading in the theater. The ultimate financial documentary drama.
4.48 Psychosis *This program has ended.
Text：Sarah Kane [UK]
Direction：Norimizu Ameya
Date：November 16 (Monday)-23 (Monday,/N.H.)
Venue：Owl Spot
A legendary artist will challenge a legendary drama, a posthumous work of Sarah Kane.
Flowers flow, time congeals *This program has ended.
Choreography：Ikuyo Kuroda (BATIK)
Date：November 15 (Sunday)-20 (Friday)
Venue：Nishi-sugamo Arts Factory
This sensational drama, which makes the present moment bare and overwhelms the audience, comes again with increased power.
Photo-Romance *This program has ended.
Direction：Rabih Mroue and Lina Saneh [Lebanon]
Date：November 26 (Thursday)-29 (Sunday)
Venue：Tokyo Metropolitan Art Space, Small Hall 1
What happens when the famous Italian movie “A Special Day” is set in present-day Beirut? The Lebanese wizard comes again with a new drama, which was first staged at the Festival d'Avignon.
UNETSU - The Egg Stands out of Curiosity *This program has ended.
Direction・Choreography・Design：Ushio Amagatsu (Sankai Juku)
Date：December 4 (Friday)-6 (Sunday)
Venue：Tokyo Metropolitan Art Space, Medium Hall
This is a requiem for life, which unfolds solemnly. The representative work of Sankai Juku will be staged again in Tokyo for the first time in eight years.
The Town where the Sun and Underwear are seen *This program has ended.
Text・Direction：Kuro Tanino (Niwa Gekidan Penino)
Date：December 5 (Saturday)-13 (Sunday)
Venue：Nishi-sugamo Arts Factory
The theater will turn into a town, and the audience will become visitors. It’s a “play of images” that you will experience through all five senses.
Trilogy of La Divina Commedia: Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso, serial performance *This program has ended.
Direction：Romeo Castellucci (Societas Raffaello Sanzio)[Italy]
La Divina Commedia - Inferno
Date：December 11 (Friday)-13 (Sunday)
Venue：Tokyo Metropolitan Art Space, Medium Hall
La Divina Commedia - Purgatorio
Date：December 19 (Saturday)-21 (Monday)
Venue：Setagaya Public Theatre
La Divina Commedia - Paradiso
Date：December 17 (Thursday)-21 (Monday)
Venue：Nishi-sugamo Arts Factory
The world’s hottest drama by Castellucci, inspired by Dante's "La Divina Commedia", will at last be on stage with serial performances in Tokyo.
Theatre/University 09 Autumn *This program has ended.
Date：December 1 (Tuesday)-December 6 (Sunday)
Venue：Tokyo Metropolitan Art Space, Small Hall 1, Theater Green
The future of drama starts from here ? the project which aroused fresh interest at F/T 09 Spring. You must see the second play!
Compartment City-Tokyo *This program has ended.
Concept / Direction : Akira Takayama （Port B）
Date：November 15 (Sunday)-22 (Sunday)
Venue：Ikebukuro Nishiguchi Park * Open 24 hours (planned)
There will be a private video installation room in Ikebukuro Nishiguchi Park. Maybe you can stay overnight.
F/T Station
Date：November 13 (Friday)-December 20 (Sunday)
Venue：In front of Tokyo Metropolitan Art Space
This is an open space of F/T, where the popular “Oyaji Cafe” produced by Kim Itoh will open again. Various events and talk shows are held by faifai, a rising drama group, and people can watch past dramas and see the file folders of participating writers.
Oyaji Cafe Staff wanted!! Application deadline: September 13 (Sunday)
* For more information
Performances co-presented by F/T
Nogyou-Shojyo (Girl of the soil)
Text：Hideki Noda
Direction：Nikom Saetang [Thailand]
Cast：Thai cast
Date：November 20 (Friday)-23 (Monday, National holiday)
Venue：Tokyo Metropolitan Art Space, Small Hall 1
Present of Thailand that knows through the work of Hideki Noda.
Akaoni (Red Demon)
Text：Hideki Noda
Direction：Pradit Prasarthong [Thailand]
Cast：Thai cast
Date：November 19 (Thursday)-22 (Sunday)
Venue：Tokyo Metropolitan Art Space, Small Hall 2
Hideki Noda’s masterpiece about heterogeneous elements and other people, presented as a popular Thai drama version.
No One Alive Here?
Text / direction：Shiro Maeda (GOTANNDADAN)
Date：Saturday, October 17 ? Sunday, November 1. “No One Alive Here?” and “Who is living?” will be staged simultaneously.
Venue：Tokyo Metropolitan Art Space, Small Hall 1
Death comes to us all. The long-awaited return of the Kishida Kunio Drama Award-winning work.
Who is living?
Text / direction：Shiro Maeda (GOTANNDADAN)
Date：Saturday, October 17 ? Sunday, November 1 “No One Alive Here?” and “Who is living?” will be staged simultaneously.
Venue：Tokyo Metropolitan Art Space, Small Hall 1
Again, Shiro Maeda considers this world from the viewpoint of death.
F/T Partner Project
Asian Performing Arts Festival 2009 Tokyo
Date：November 25 (Wednesday)-29 (Sunday)
Venue：Tokyo Metropolitan Art Space, Medium Hall & Small Hall 2
“Asian castle” will appear in the underground hall of Tokyo Metropolitan Art Space.
Tickets Information
Ticket sales on September 5, 2009
* Only the Trilogy of La Divina Commedia: Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso, serial performance: Trilogy set ticket sales on Thuesday, Octorber 8, 2009. Single ticket sales on Sunday, Octorber 18, 2009.
* The F/T performance are off the subject.
■F/T Ticket center
Tel: 03-5961-5209 （Hours: 12:00 - 19:00 No holiday）
■F/T Online Ticket
http://festival-tokyo.jp
■F/T Online Ticket Mobile
http://festival-tokyo.jp/m/
* Establishment schedule of Website for mobile in September
■F/T Station（In front of Tokyo Metropolitan Art Space）
* Sales schedule in the latter half of October
■@TICKET PIA
TEL 0570-02-9999 [P-Code Reserve]
http://pia.jp/t/
■e-PLUS
http://eplus.jp/ft09/
*It is possible to apply only for the F/T performance. The Performances co-presented by F/T is off the subject.
