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	TOP PAGE >> Programs >> Japan(1)

<As of August 2008> N.B. The program below is subject to additions and alterations.

Photography Photography Project: "European Eyes on Japan/Japan Today vol. 10" John Davis in Shizuoka Photo:Y.Unno Prefecture Photographer Dates Shizuoka John Davies/United Kingdom March 13 - April 2 Nagasaki Mette Tronvoll/Norway   Cary Markerink/the Netherlands March 23 - April 28 April 14 - May 9 Ibaraki Marco Bohr/Germany March 14 - April 2 ※Click here for the details of “European Eyes on Japan / Japan Today”. This is the tenth round of photography in the EU-Japan Fest Japan Committee photography project. Five up-and-coming European photographers will be turning their lenses on Shizuoka, Nagasaki and Ibaraki prefectures to depict their contemporary aspect. Plans are for the work that emerges from this round of shooting to feature in another collection of photography and in an exhibit touring Japan and Europe beginning next year. We look forward to what might draw their gaze and how they will depict these three prefectures.

Performing Arts & Music Seven Piazzollas Chie-no-wa Trio Japan tour Performance at Osaka Nozaki-kannon on April 5 ※Program details are here. Date： March 20 - April 12 Places： Iriya, Shizuoka, Nakanofujimicho, Shibuya,Ageo, Higashinakano, Fukaya, Den-enchofu, Fukuoka, Hiroshima, Kyoto, Osaka, Hikone, Nagoya, Nagano, Kyobashi, Yugawara Performers： Tetsu SAITOH (double bass), Jean-Lauren SASPORTES (dance), Olivier MANOURY(French Bandoneon), Kazuo IMAI (guitar), Masami TAKABA (guitar & MC), Marie MINE(singer), Toru IWASHITA (dance), Trio los Fandangos, Yuji KOBAYASHI (live painting), Yoshiko SEBE (Sculptor) ※The website of Seven Piazzollas: Chie-no-wa Trio is here. This project was started by the celebration of publish of Chie Inui’s drawings and essay book “SEVEN PIAZZOLLAS” (IWANAMI Publish company). Tetsu SAITOH (Japanese double bassist) Olivier Manoury (French Bandoneon player) and Jean-Laurent Sasportes (French guest solo dancer from Pina Bausch company) formed CHIE-NO-WA Trio. They played mainly Astor Piazzolla’s tangos with some guest artists in various fields like live-painting, contemporary dance, music at 17 venues all over Japan.

People-to-People Exchange Sibiu International Theater Festival Volunteer Coordinator Visits Japan for Final Volunteer Staff Selection Ms. Lavinia Alexe Dates： April 1-12 Visitor： Lavinia Alexe, general coordinator for volunteer staff, Sibiu International Theater Festival ※The festival website is here. Ms. Lavinia Alexe, general coordinator for volunteer staff at the Sibiu International Theater Festival, visited Japan this April. She held interviews at the EU-Japan Fest Japan Committee secretariat with applicants for these positions to make her final selections for Japanese volunteer staff at the festival and decided on 15 candidates. During her visit she also held meetings with performing arts groups that will participate in the festival this year. In facilitating efforts to put the festival together in Sibiu, Alexe's visit was an excellent opportunity for participants from both Japan and Europe to understand each other better.

Performing Arts Session House (Tokyo) Ryohei Kondo, Artistic Director of "Ringo project" Dates： April 2008 to March 2009 ※Program details are here. ※The Session House website is here. Over the years Session House has played a dynamic role in the development of contemporary dance in Japan. Its wide-ranging program this year extends from the participation in the Sibiu International Theater Festival by artist in residence Mademoiselle Cinema, bringing overseas artists to Japan and the ongoing “Apple Project” and residence artist project“ Bringing Up, Sending Out”, helping to uncover and develop young dancers and attract a new following in Tokyo. As last year, the EU-Japan Fest Japan Committee continues to support Session House activities throughout the year.

Performing Arts EU-Japan Fest Japan Committee + Saison Foundation Contemporary Theatre and Dance: International Project Support Program Theater Company RINKOGUN “Southern Islands” flyer (Click here for detail) Dates： April 2008 to March 2009 Sponsored Groups Projects Japan Contemporary Dance Network (JCDN) 3rd U.S. / Japan Choreography Exchange Residency project Pappa Tarahumara Performing Arts Links 2008-10 "Gulliver & Swift" Kunstenfestivaldesarts(Brussels, Belgium) Arranging Japanese artist participation in the kunstenfestivaldesarts international performing arts festival residency program Theater Company RINKOGUN "Southern Islands" Philippine international exchange program Beagle Inc. "A page out of order, M to R" (artistic director: Yoshiko Chuma) Ko & Edge Co. Ko Murobushi, Bernard Monter and Josef Nadj, 2007-10 R PRODUCTION 21st century Japan-China performing arts exchange project ※ The Saison Foundation website is here. Our joint project with the Saison Foundation for the further development of the Japanese performing arts started up last year. Taking a medium- and long-range view, we are sponsoring continuous projects lasting two years or more with international activities in contemporary theater and dance that seem to be of especially great significance. In addition to the four groups for which assistance began last year, this year we have added the Japan Contemporary Dance Network, Pappa Tarahumara and the kunstenfestivaldesarts project in Brussels, Belgium.

Photography Photograph Exhibition: "European Eyes on Japan/Japan Today vol. 9" (Kagoshima city) Exhibision Brochure(Click here for detail) Dates： April 8-20 2008 Place： Kagoshima City Museum of Art Photographer： Stephen Gill（Photographed in Kagoshima-city, Shibushi-city/United Kingdom） Nicu Ilfoveanu（Photographed in Kagoshima-city, Kirishima-city, Satsunan/Romania） Cuny Janssen (Photographed in Amami Oshima/the Netherlands） ※Click here for the details of photography project "European Eyes on Japan / Japan Today". This traveling exhibit is the ninth in the European Eyes on Japan/Japan Today photography project. Photographers Stephen Gill and Nicu Ilfoveanu, who did their photography in Kagoshima city, will visit Japan for the opening of the exhibit and offer gallery talks and workshops in connection with it, as well as taking part in symposia and other related events. We hope this opportunity to interact with the actual photographers directly will provide the occasion for reflecting on their perspectives.

Photography "European Eyes on Japan/Japan Today vol. 9" Essay Contest Exhibition-affiliated program Brochure of Essay Contest(Click here for detail) Submission period： April 8 ‐ May 7 2008 Contemporary Kagoshima as depicted by up-and-coming European photographers. What impression did the photographers' sentiments and the images of their own native towns make on the people who came into touch with their work? This volume collects the unpretentious, open essays contributed by visitors to the "European Eyes on Japan/Japan Today vol. 9" photography exhibition at the Kagoshima City Art Museum. Conceptual theme: "Thoughts on viewing a photograph" * Instructions for ordering are here. (Available only in Japanese.)

Photography Talk and Presentation by Photographer Stephen Gill He explained his works with slide show Date： April 27 Location： Book246(Tokyo) ※Details on the European Eyes on Japan/Japan Today photography project are here. Visiting Japan for the "European Eyes on Japan/Japan Today vol. 9" Photography Exhibition in Kagoshima City,Stephen Gill offered a talk featuring slides of his work from projects conducted to date and discussed his own photography activity. Following the presentation, enthusiastic participants gathered around Gill for an exchange of opinions.

People-to-People Exchange Stavanger 2008 Cultural Capital of Europe: Stavanger Culture and Arts Institution Personnel Visit Japan for Research and Discussions Meeting with Meiwa Denki, Japanese artist Dates： May 8-11 Visitors： Hege Tapio (Managing Director, i/o/lab) Daniela Arriado ※The i/o/lab website is here. Ms. Hege Tapio and Ms. Daniela Arriado from i/o/lab, the Stavanger arts body active in in the field of digital/media art, visited Japan this May to tour the Japanese digital/media art scene and met with many curators and artists to gather information. Their visit led them to consider invitations to Japanese artists to the biennale scheduled for this November.

Performing Arts Japan-Europe Cultural Exchange Day 2008 「DANCE FEVER European Urban Dance Meets Osaka」 Performance by BRODAS Date： May 9 Venue： International House, Osaka Main Hall（Osaka） Performer groups： Bal Moderne (Belgium) Compagnie Thomas Duchatelet (France) E-Motion (German) BRODAS (Spain) This project launched with the objective that Japan and EU countries should deepen mutual respect at grass-roots level and this year marks the 7th in the series. This year taking up contemporary dance as a topic, attempting to share empathy for contemporaneousness and accept each other’s differences in identities through performances from different countries. This programme was popular among participants from the younger generation more than ever before.

Activity in Local Community NPO Wakayama Arts and Culture Support Society (wacss) Artist-residence program"Power of the forest" in March 2008 (this program is connected the "Art School in the Forest" in September 2008) Date Programs May 15 Jyakusaburo & Jyakujyakukai Rakugo Talk show June 12 Voice workshop by mezzo-soprano Sonya Keogh at Shinnan Elementary School July 20 ”Big Chorus Concert in Summer 2008” July 24 Nanko Katsura Solo Rakugo Talk Show September - the end of November “Mori no Naka no Geijutugakkou (Art School in the Forest)” Artist: Atsuko Arai (visual artist) Tsukasa Izuhara (lithographe artist) Ryuzo Fukuhara (dancer,choreographer) Martina Stirn (painter,dancer,psychologist) October 10 Zakoba Katsura Solo Rakugo Talk Show October 29 - November 2 “Doki-Doki” Youth Photo Crew: Exhibition “Eyes to Watch Tomorrow” Venue:Waka no ura ART CUBE - CUBE D1 *The works from 1st workshop(2004) to 7th(2007) will be exhibited. November 1-2 The 8th “Doki-Doki” Youth Photo Crew workshop Venue:Waka no ura ART CUBE - Atelier A/C1 Navigator:Yoshi Itokawa (photographer) December 14 The 35th Beethoven's Ninth Symphony Concert December 20 The 3rd International Exchange Festival “Wakuwaku-mura” March 14, 2009 The 9th workshop of “Doki-Doki” Youth Photo Crew in Kata ※For the wacss website, click here Based in the city of Wakayama, the non-profit organization wacss (Wakayama Art and Culture Support Society) maintains a record of intimate involvement with local communities, enhancing human bonds through art, creating opportunities for self-expression among children and thereby working for the greater vitalization of local communities. Eschewing top-down programming, the organization crafts opportunities for participants to experience art in familiar settings and together with artists grounded in the concept that "art lends vitality to people and towns". With hopes for the further development of the group's activities, the EU-Japan Fest Japan Committee provides support for wacss year-round.

Performing Arts CAN,Inc: Yamada Un Performance 2008 Un Yamada (Photo: Yoichi Tsukada) ※Program details are here ※For Co. Yamada Un website, click here ※For the CAN website, click here ※For JunJunSCIENCE “Alice” produced by CAN, click here ※For the Dance Variation vol.1 “Uta-Andon” produced by CAN, click here ※For the performance of KENTARO!!, click here Working from the principle of arts management as a space for coupling the arts to society, CAN is engaged in arts production and management, primarily of dance and other performing arts and extending throughout all the forms of fine art. For the further development of Japanese performing arts, the EU-Japan Fest Japan Committee is supporting CAN's performing arts program this year. Author of many works rich in humor and wit, Yamada Un is an exponent of wide-ranging styles of expression that span genres from dance to theater and music. In recent years she has also been actively involved in workshops, and her great adaptability to collaborators and audiences has won high acclaim.

Performing Arts Dance Company Nomade〜s 2008 Performance “Toki no Hana-Flowers and Time-“ flyer Date Performance June 6-22 “DanceSeed 2008” Venue：Brick-one(Tokyo) August 1-3 “Toki no Hana-Flowers and Time-“ Venue：Spiral Hall(Tokyo) November - December “DanceSeed 2008 Second Season” Venue：Brick-one(Tokyo) March 4-7, 2009 Dance Company Nomade〜s TPAM2009 Showcase Venue：to be confirmed (Tokyo) Related Program April 29-June 19 Dance Seed 2008 First Season Workshop Venue：Brick-one(Tokyo) the latter half of August - November Dance Seed 2008 Second Season Workshop Venue：Brick-one(Tokyo) January 2009 - Dance Seed 2009 Workshop Venue：Brick-one(Tokyo) ※For the Nomade〜s website, click here ※For the Nomade〜s blog, click here Dance company Nomade〜s maintains an active performance schedule both in Japan and overseas. Maximizing the latent capabilities of the dancers and their performance space, the group vividly portrays contemporary society and the human condition. The company also offers workshops for a wide range of people, and participants in the Dance Seed project are able to experience the complete dance undertaking from conceptualization through lighting, acoustics, production, performance and review of a work. With hopes for the further development of the group's activities, the EU-Japan Fest Japan Committee provides support for Nomade〜s year-round.

Youth & Music Voice Workshops by Mezzo-soprano Sonya Keogh Workshop at Kodaira-city 11th Elementary School on June 9 ※Schedule and venue details are here. Dates： June 9 - July 8 Places： Tokyo, Wakayama city (Wakayama prefecture), Shibushi city (Kagoshima prefecture), Miyazaki city and Miyakonojo city (Miyazaki prefecture), other ※Sonya Keogh's website is here. ※The Cork Children's Chorus website is here. ※Details on the International Music Festival of Youth and its artist program are here. This June and July Irish mezzo-soprano Sonya Keogh offered a voice workshop for young people in Japan. The city of Shibushi in Kagoshima prefecture was the focus of this long stay on her fifth visit to Japan. Living as a member of the local community, she spent time with people from all over and provided musical direction to children and musicians. Besides her stage performances as a vocalist, Keogh is vigorously active in the education of children through music, organizing children's choirs and orchestras, including the Cork Children's Chorus in her hometown of Cork, Ireland, which participated in the 3rd International Music Festival for Youth. We look forward to seeing what will come of her workshops during her extended Japan stay.

Performing Arts Kyogen Project 2008 by SHIGEYAMA Sengoro Family & Hybl Ondrej Kyogen Workshop for American high school students in Kyoto Performance by Nagomi Kyogenkai Czech (in 2007) ●Program of Kyogen Introduction for American high school students Date： June 9 - August 15 Venue： Iori(Kyoto-city) Program： Explanation of Kyogen, workshop by Kyogen actors, demonstration of performance “Bo-shibari” ※This program is a part of Japanese traditional arts experience program “ORIGIN Arts Program” produced byIori. Participant： 2200 students of high schools in United States, who visit Japan for a People to People Ambassadors program ●Kyogen Theater group Nagomi Kyogenkai Czech: Training & rehearsal in Kyoto / Bilingual Kyogen performance ＜Training & rehearsal＞   Date: August 7 - September 2   Place: Shigeyama Sengoro Family training space, Otsu City Traditional Arts Hall , Iori training space ＜Bilingual Kyogen performance＞ Date Venue August 22 Kyoto International Community House Event Hall(Kyoto-city) August 24 Otsu City Traditional Arts Hall(Otsu-city, Shiga pref.) August 26 Cerulean Tower Noh Theatre(2 performances) (Tokyo) ※Click here for the website of Nagomi Kyogenkai Czech ※For the performance in France, click here This kyogen project is coordinated by Czech kyogen performer Hyble Ondrej, who studied with Shigeyama Shime of the Ogura school. The Czech kyogen troupe Nagomi Kyogenkai Czech led by Ondrej was founded on the occasion of a workshop offered by Shigeyama in the Czech Republic in 2000 and has since performed numerous Czech-language productions within the republic. The troupe is now to visit Japan for a course of intense training with Shigeyama in Kyoto, to be followed by performances in both Czech and Japanese in Kyoto, Ozu and Tokyo. Marking the tenth anniversary of a kyogen workshop held in France, Shigeyama Shime and Ippei will together offer kyogen workshops and performances at various locations around France. Their forthcoming activities further include a kyogen workshop for 2,200 high school students visiting Japan on an American scholarship program.

Youth & Music Young Irish String Orchestra at the 5th International Music Festival for Youth Young Irish String Orchestra ※Schedule details are here. Dates： July 2-13 Places： Shibushi city and Minami-kyushu city (Kagoshima prefecture), Miyakonojo city (Miyazaki prefecture) Organized by： 5th International Music Festival for Youth executive committee and Minami-Nippon Shimbun , Shibushi city, Shibushi city education committee, Yacchiku Matsuyama Han, Movingwaves, NPO SNS ※For the Young Irish String Orchestra, click here. ※Details on the International Music Festival for Youth are here. Among the participants this year in the 5th International Music Festival for Youth is the 20-strong Young Irish String Orchestra. The members are outstanding musicians aged 14 to 21 and selected for their talent, age and aptitude from the Royal Irish Academy of Music in Dublin. Visiting various parts of Japan, they will engage in homestays, hold joint performances with local groups, visit schools and take part in other activities. We hope that music will prove a channel to nurture new friendships and networks.

Performing Arts CHITEN Chekhov Series 2008 Chiten “The Cherry Orchard” Date Performance July 5-13 Chiten Vol.14 “Three Sisters” Venue：Geijutu Souzou Kan (Art Creative Center) (Osaka) October 11-22 Chiten Vol.15 “Three Sisters & The Cherry Orchard” Venue：Kichijoji Theatre(Tokyo) November 8-9 Chiten Vol.16 “Uncle Vanya” Venue：Kanazawa Citizen’s Art Center(Kanazawa-city, Ishikawa) November 14 Chiten Vol.16 “Uncle Vanya” Venue：Fukui City Culture Hall(Fukui) November 22-24 Chiten Vol.16 “Uncle Vanya” Venue：Pon Plaza Hall(Fukuoka) November 28-29 Chiten Vol.16 “Uncle Vanya” Venue：Medikit Arts Center(Miyazaki) ※For the Chiten website, click here "Why do Chekhov? The project of performing all four major works over the course of two years would seem to be a major undertaking. My faint hope that we might transcend the modern period and experience the contemporaneity of theater amplifies the effort. I felt that we could not move forward without doing this." -- Motoi Miura (from a troupe flyer) In 2006 the theater troupe Chiten launched a long-term project to perform and incorporate into its repertory the four major Chekhov plays: The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, The Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard. In this, the third year of their effort, the company finally takes on the road the series of works originally crafted in Kyoto. We look forward to a resounding reception wherever they perform.

Performing Arts CAN,Inc: JunJunSCIENCE “Alice” “Alice” photography： Kentaro Kanbe Date： July 10-12 Venue： Kichijoji Theatre (Tokyo) Performer： Kim Ito, Mayu Takagi, Hirokazu Morikawa, JunJun ※For the CAN website, click here ※For the JunJunSCIENCE website, click here ※For the Dance Variation vol.1 “Uta-Andon” produced by CAN, click here ※For the performance of KENTARO!!, click here ※For the performance & workshop of YAMADA UN produced by CAN, click here Working from the principle of arts management as a space for coupling the arts to society, CAN is engaged in arts production and management, primarily of dance and other performing arts and extending throughout all the forms of fine art. For the further development of Japanese performing arts, the EU-Japan Fest Japan Committee is supporting CAN's performing arts program this year. Featuring JunJun from the Performance Theater Mizuto Abura company, Kim Ito of the Glorious Future [Kagayaku Mirai] and solo dancers Mayu Takagi and Hirokazu Morikawa, this piece takes its title from Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland".

Fine Arts Artist Minoru Sato “instrumentalize08 at gift_lab” flyer ●Live performance “instrumentalize08 at gift_lab” Date：12 July, 2008 Venue：gift_lab(Tokyo) Name of the performance：NRF Amplification (sound performance) Performer：Minoru Sato, ASUNA(Naoyuki Arashi) ●Exhibition “Andepontan Art Week in Wako'08” (guest artist) Date：September 24 - October 2 Venue：Wako University ※For the website of this exhibition, click here ※Click here for Minoru Sato Website ※Click here for Minoru Sato’s activities in Europe Artist Minoru Sato works in music under the name S.A.S.W. and produces sound installations, performances, writings and publications. He has produced a range of work both in Japan and overseas this year, in addition to participating in Happy New Ears 2008, a festival in Kortrijk, Belgium, for the development of new musics that bridge genres of fine art and music. To the end of the further development of his work, the EU-Japan Fest Japan Committee supports Sato's activities throughout the year.

Performing Arts Giles Jobin “Text to Speech” ©Dorothee Thebert Date： 21st July, 2008 Venue： Studio A, Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media [YCAM] Name of the performance： Gilles Jobin “Text to Speech” Performe： Cie Gilles Jpbin Date： 25th, 26th July, 2008 Venue： Spiral Hall (Spiral 3F) Name of the performance： Gilles Jobin “Text to Speech” Performe： Cie Gilles Jpbin Giles Jobin, one of the choreographers constructing a new era in contemporary dance in Switzerland, offered performances of "Text to Speech" in Yamaguchi and Tokyo in the first presentations of a Jobin work in Japan. "Text to Speech" was the sixth in a series of works of Jobin's generation of globally prominent dramatists, performers and choreographers presented at the Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media. Taking up the theme of conflict breaking out around the world, this piece portrays the relationship between people and information through the dancers' physical forms, video, text and audio. The audience participates in the work not by seeking answers, but thinking through the world viewed on the stage. The performance creates opportunities for each person in the audience to examine the question "Just what is the world?"

Performing Arts CAN,Inc: KENTARO!! Performance 2008 KENTARO!! ©Yoichi Tsukada Date Performance July 25 -27 “Kanatakara Sekai de Hitotsu” Venue：Kichijoji Theatre (Tokyo) August 22-23 “Kanatakara Sekai de Hitotsu” Venue：Pom Plaza (Fukuoka) August 29-30 “Kanatakara Sekai de Hitotsu” Venue：ASTER PLAZA (Hiroshima) December 25-27 TOKYO ELECTROCK STAIRS “W piece ni Yuki ga Furu” Venue：Kichijoji Theatre (Tokyo) ※For the CAN website, click here ※For the KENTARO!! website, click here ※For the Dance Variation vol.1 “Uta-Andon” produced by CAN, click here ※For the JunJunSCIENCE “Alice” produced by CAN, click here ※For the performance & workshop of YAMADA UN produced by CAN, click here Working from the principle of arts management as a space for coupling the arts to society, CAN is engaged in arts production and management, primarily of dance and other performing arts and extending throughout all the forms of fine art. For the further development of Japanese performing arts, the EU-Japan Fest Japan Committee is supporting CAN's performing arts program this year. His art grounded in hip-hop and influenced by contemporary dance, the theater and the music scene, KENTARO!! is an up-and-coming young dancer producing his work through free expression. Awarded the prize of the French Ambassador to Japan for young choreographers at this year's Yokohama Dance Collection R and doubling up at the Toyota Choreography Awards 2008 with the audience's prize and the Nextage prize, he offers great promise for the future.

Performing Arts The Tokyo Acting Troupe Kaze 20th Anniversary Production Serial performance of three Bertolt Brecht works, other ”Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny” Date Performance June 28〜August 3 “The Beggar” Venue：Repertory Theater KAZE (Tokyo) August 8-10 “Mother Courage and Her Children” Venue：Repertory Theater KAZE (Tokyo) August 22-27 ”Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny” Venue：Repertory Theater KAZE (Tokyo) September 4-7 “APOCALYPTICA” Venue：Repertory Theater KAZE (Tokyo) ※For the website of Tokyo Acting Troupe KAZE, click here ※For the performance in Sibiu, Romania, click here Brecht the poet who live the struggles of the 20th century, Brecht the reinventer of 20th-century theater. Celebrating its 20th anniversary and entering on a second stage of creation, repertory theater Kaze explores Brecht's zeitgeist and examines the contemporary theater through the physical expression touched off by Brecht. For the further development of its activities, the EU-Japan Fest Japan Committee supports the activities of The Tokyo Acting Troupe Kaze throughout the year.

Performing Arts CAN, Inc: Dance Variation vol.1 “Uta-Andon” Micari & Akira Kasai “Uta-Andon” Date： August 5-6 Venue： OWL SPOT(Tokyo) Performer： Micari, Akira Kasai, Mitsutake Kasai, Eiji Saito ※For the CAN website, click here ※For the performance of KENTARO!! produced by CAN, click here ※For the JunJunSCIENCE “Alice” produced by CAN, click here ※For the performance & workshop of YAMADA UN produced by CAN, click here Working from the principle of arts management as a space for coupling the arts to society, CAN is engaged in arts production and management, primarily of dance and other performing arts and extending throughout all the forms of fine art. For the further development of Japanese performing arts, the EU-Japan Fest Japan Committee is supporting CAN's performing arts program this year. A rendition in dance of Kyoka Izumi's "A Song by Lantern-light", one of the great works of early 20th-century Japanese literature, this is the first time that the very different Mikari, who has pursued a versatile solo career while also working in Japan and overseas as a leading member of the Ku Na'uka Theater Company led by Satoshi Miyagi, and the dancer Akira Kasai, who together with Kazuo Ono and Tatsumi Hijikata fashioned a phase of butoh creation in the 1960s, have performed opposite each other.

Performing Arts Dance ga mitai (I want to see a dance)10〜international〜 Batarita Dance Company Date： August 5-13 Venue： Kagurazaka Die platze(Tokyo) Performer： Mile Zero Dance (Canada)、Ra*Kan Butoh (USA)、 AKA Dance (Canada)、Miki Sato&Livio Panieri (Japan), En’Ryu (Peru)& Begona Castoro(Spain)、 Batarita Dance Company (Hungary)、Wan girl (Japan), Gregor Weber&Gwendlin (Germany)、Camille Mutel (France)、 Animal Love Project (Peru)、Mirei Yamagata (Japan)、 Daniela Cross(Austria)、Kinya ‘ZULU’Tsuruyama 4(Japan) *3 performances at 1night ※For the website of the festival “Dance ga mitai10〜international〜”, click here An international dance festival featuring dancers and butoh performers from Japan and overseas, this event is primarily made up of dance performances, joint productions and collaborations. Participants are dancers from all over the world, including the United States, Canada, Hungary and Germany. Fourth in the international series called "Dance ga Mitai!" Performers of all dance genres, including young artists, congregate at die pratze. We hope corporeal expression and joint productions from the various countries participating will provide opportunities to discover new creativity, to gain greater understanding of other cultures and to explore models of co-existence.

Activity in Local Community Cosmo Yume Butai Date Content (Place:Toyomi, Aga-cho, Higashikanbara-gun, NIIGATA) August 16-21 Artist in residence: Portuguese artists participates October 12 Satoyama Art Reception Japanese Drum Performance October 12 - November 13 The 5th Satoyama Art Exhibition October 13 Art Workshop Satoyama Art Symposium Concert October 25 Music concert in nature 1: workshop of making and playing music instruments November 2 Symposium About Cosmo Yume Butai November 3 Music concert in nature 2: performance workshop with sound of nature ※For the website of Kentaro Sato & Cosmo Yume butai, click here Stone sculptor Kentaro Sato is at the center of the artistic activity underway in Toyomi, Agamachi, Higashikanbara-gun, Niigata prefecture. Mr. Sato has devoted his own property and resources to the development of seven cultural facilities, including an art gallery, lodgings and an exchange center. With the objectives of individual dynamism and community vitalization, Sato is engaged across a variety of fronts in nature-rich Toyomi, including food, art, education, agriculture, history and culture. For the further development of its activities, the EU-Japan Fest Japan Committee supports the Cosmo Yume Butai throughout the year.

Performing Arts Directed by Peter Goessner: The open-air theater “Marebito Ebisu〜Murasaki river Tales” “Marebito Ebisu〜Murasaki river Tales” flyer Date： August 20 - 24 Venue： Murasaki river stage (Kitakyushu-city, Fukuoka-pref.) Performers： Fernandez Naoyuki, Nanba Shiho, etc. ※For the Uzume Theater website, click here ※For the Uzume Theater performance “Rats hunting” directed by Peter Goessner, click here ※For the Uzume Theater performance “The open couple” directed by Peter Goessner, click here An outdoor performance of "Marebito Ebisu: Murasaki river Tales", based on the folk tales passed down in the Murasakigawa area of Kita-ku in Fukuoka prefecture's Kitakyushu city. The performance is overseen by Peter Goessner, who leads the Uzume Theater company based in Kitakyushu. This piece is an effort in whole-community collaboration in which performers, stage hands and operational volunteers are all drawn from the local community and the script and musical accompaniment were also written by people with deep connections to the city. This constructive collaboration surely contains possibilities for further community output.

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