Presenter Interview プレゼンターインタビュー

国際舞台芸術交流のオーガナイザー
PARCの歩み
Japan
PARC and its record of achievement organizing
international performing arts exchange
Hiromi Maruoka
PARC - Japan Center, Pacific Basin Arts Communication, is an NPO that works along with the Japan Foundation and other organizations on the organizing committee and serves as the administrative office for the TPAM in Yokohama 2014 (held this year from February 8 to 16), the annual performing arts market gathering professionals in the performing arts field from around the world. PARC was conceived as a non-profit organization for promoting international exchange in the performing arts by Tadao Nakane, the producer for director Yukio Ninagawa for 20 years and the man responsible for the success of Ninagawa’s first overseas production of Medea in 1983. PARC was launched in the wake of the Meeting for Pacific Basin Arts Communication organized by Nakane in Tokyo in 1990, and as an organization it received NPO status in 2002. In addition to holding informative seminars about international exchange in the performing arts, PARC was instrumental in planning the first TPAM (Tokyo Performing Arts Market) in 1995 in conjunction with the Tokyo International Performing Arts Festival (TIF). Through the various changes of the times, PARC has continued to serve as the primary administrative office functioning as the outlet and point of contact for international exchange. Now 30 years after the first overseas production of Medea , we speak with PARC’s President, Hiromi Maruoka, about its history as an organizer of international performing arts exchange in Japan and the present status of TPAM (now the Performing Arts Meeting in Yokohama) with its transition from an arts “market” to a “meeting.” Interviewers: Matsue Okazaki and Eiko Tsuboike