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Perfoming Arts in Japan 日本の舞台芸術
Artist Interview アーティストインタビュー
現実と往復する新たな演劇にアプローチ
デジタルネイティブ世代の池田亮
Approaching a new type of theater that reciprocates with reality
Ryo Ikeda of the digital-native generation
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Ryo Ikeda (born 1992) is the playwright and director of “Yumei,” who originally majored in sculpture at an art university and also works on stage design. He has presented works such as Ototoi (premiere: 2017), which is based on his own experience of bullying, and Aka (premiere: 2018), which is a dramatization of his own family story in which his own father appeared as an actor. What is Ikeda’s desire to use his own experiences and the voices of people around him who want to talk about himself as a starting point, and to explore a new type of theater creation that reciprocates with reality?
「モノと身体」の関係から生まれるダンスで
社会を照射する田村興一郎
Dance that born of the relationship between “object and the body”
Irradiating society, the choreographic art of Koichiro Tamura
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Koichiro Tamura (born 1992) commanded the attention of the dance world by winning consecutive awards at the 2016 and 2018 Yokohama Dance Collection. Born in Niigata Pref., where Noism is based, Tamura went from dance club activities in high school to beginning artistic activities in Kyoto, with its culture rich in opportunities for genre-crossing exchange. As in his representative work “F/BRIDGE” which has male dancers pacing with concrete blocks on their backs, Tamura presents works born of the relationship between “object and the body.” In this interview we seek to unveil Tamura’s reality, which is also seen in his other face as an after-school instructor for children, giving them daily opportunities to interact through dance.
オリジナル義太夫とダンスの融合
古典と現代を繋ぐやまみちやえ
Fusion of Original Gidayu and Dance
Yae Yamamichi connects classic and modern
Yae Yamamichi (born in 1995) became familiar with Kabuki and Bunraku in childhood, she learned the Gidayu shamisen (the 3-stringed Japanese lute) from the age of six and traditional Japanese shamisen from the age of 10, and she is currently active as a composer and Futozao shamisen performer. Yamamichi has collaborated with contemporary dancers of her generation to present original Gidayu performances based on traditional Japanese works. She is attracting attention as an artist who connects the traditional and the modern with her young sensibilities.
International Presenter 世界のプレゼンター
Presenter Interview プレゼンターインタビュー
マティアス・ペース
ベルリン芸術祭新総裁に聞く
Interview with Matthias Pees, the new Director of the Berliner Festspiele
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Matthias Pees started out as a journalist, and after working as a dramaturg at the Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin and the Schauspiel Hannover, he started a production company in Brazil. After coming back to Germany then he worked as leading dramaturg at the Wiener Festwochen. From 2013 Pees has served as the artistic and managing director of the Künstlerhaus Mousonturm in Frankfurt/Main until 2022. In September 2022, he was appointed Director of the Berliner Festspiele, which brings together several festivals, including the Theatertreffen, and other projects and the exhibition hall Gropius Bau. We asked Pees about his views on his new team structure and reform of the festivals.
先住民や移民のコミュニティとの対話を促進する
フッツクレイ・コミュニティ・アーツ
Pursuing dialogue between the Indigenous and Immigrant communities
Footscray Community Arts
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Located in the suburbs of Melbourne, Footscray Community Arts (established 1974) seeks to use art as a medium for promoting dialogue between the Indigenous community and Immigrant communities, through means such as appointing Indigenous Advisory Group members. This interview includes messages from the Indigenous Culture Program’s Senior Producer, Dan Mitchell, extending to measures for an arts and culture organization in today’s multicultural society that reflects Aboriginal concepts such as “Songline” and “Dreamtime.”
「劇作家のための劇場」を掲げる
ロイヤルコート劇場のインターナショナル・プログラム
Aim of the International Program at the Royal Court — London’s renowned “writers’ theatre”
The Royal Court is dedicated to cultivating rising talents and consistently presenting the best contemporary plays. In this interview Sam Pritchard, the RC’s Associate Director (International), talks about the theatre’s policy and practices that have turned out great playwrights such as John Osborne, Caryl Churchill, Sarah Kane and Martin McDonagh. He also discusses the RC’s playwrights’ workshop held in Japan as a joint project with the New National Theatre, Tokyo.
New Plays 日本の新作戯曲
イミグレ怪談
神里雄大
Immigrant Ghost Stories
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Yudai Kamisato
Yudai Kamisato (playwright and director of the Okazaki Art Theatre), who continues to create works on the theme of people moving and crossing borders, co-produced and released this new play with Naha Cultural Arts Theater Nahart in October 2022. Asking the question, “What happens when ghosts and yokai who lurk in our daily lives move and cross borders,” this omnibus-style horror comedy develops from the idea of Immigre, as seen in the title, which stands as an abbreviation for immigration.
カタブイ、1972
内藤裕子
KATABUI, 1972
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Yuko Naito
Written by Yuko Naito (playwright and director of the theater group EN), this play was produced as a project to mark the 50th anniversary of the return of Okinawa to Japan co-produced by ACO (Art Community Organization) Okinawa and Theater Office Natori. The first in the Katabui (Squall) trilogy series tells the story of three generations of the Namihira family who are sugar cane farmers. Kataboui is a squall unique to Okinawa in summer, where it rains heavily overhead while it is still sunny in the distance. The play depicts the day of the Okinawa Return Commemorative Ceremony held simultaneously in Tokyo and Okinawa on May 15, 1972, as well as the daily life of the Namihira family for the six months leading up to it (and performances of Katabui, 1995 and Katabui, 2025 are planned for the future).
ライカムで待っとく 蓬莱竜太 Backyard in RyCom Takuya Kaneshima
This play was written by the Okinawa-based playwright Takuya Kaneshima (born 1989) and produced by KAAT (Kanagawa Arts Theatre) to debut in 2022, the 50th anniversary of the return of Okinawa to Japanese sovereignty following a period of U.S. occupation after WWII. The play was inspired by the nonfiction book Gyakuten (Reversal) about the trial of four Okinawan youths involved in a brawl that resulted in the death of one U.S. soldier and the wounding of another in 1964, during the U.S. occupation. The author, Chihiro Isa, had been involved as a juror in the subsequent trial of the four offenders. The play follows the findings of a magazine reporter living in Yokohama in 2022 who goes to Okinawa to report on the 1964 incident. And in time, the distinction between past and present becomes blurred, as we are drawn into an Okinawa story that cannot be ignored.
Arts Organizations 世界の支援団体
アイス・ホット・ノルディック・ダンス・プラットフォーム
Ice Hot Nordic Dance Platform
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Ice Hot Nordic Dance Platform
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This Platform is an event dedicated to the development and promotion of contemporary dance in the five Nordic countries (Finland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Iceland). The first pilot project was held in Stockholm, Sweden, in 2010. Since then, the partner organizations in the five participating countries have taken turns holding the event every other year.
アートエンジェル
Artangel
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Artangel
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Founded in 1985, Artangel is an independent art organization based in London, UK. Known primarily for commissioning site-specific visual arts works that overturn conventional notions of art, it has long been one of London’s most influential curatorial organisations. By raising funds from supporters called “Angels,” we ensure independence in curation and support artists’ creative activities.
QDance Center QDance Center QDance Center
The QDance Center A dance center, based in the Nigerian capital of Lagos, was founded in 2014 by Qudus Onikeku, a Nigerian graduate of a French circus school who went on to work as a choreographer and dancer in Europe, and Alli Hajarat, a Human Resources expert with experience in HR departments at multinational corporations, who studied human resource management in France.
Japan Topics
- Mar. 27, 2023 New!
- 22nd AAF Drama Award Grand Prize goes to Toride by Yutaro Murakoso
- Mar. 27, 2023 New!
- KYOTO CHOREOGRAPHY AWARD 2022 held, winners decided
- Mar. 27, 2023
- The 67th Kishida Kunio Drama Award, Finalists Decided
Presenter Topics
