Organization
Description
Tour |
Bang on a Japan
North Adams (MA), Toronto (ON, Canada), Washington DC, Carlsbad (CA) |
Jul. 2013 - Oct. 2013 |
Bang on a Can |
Music: A six-city North American tour of Bang on a Can All-Stars, featuring works commissioned from Japanese composers, including Ryuichi Sakamoto, Mamoru Fujieda and Somei Satoh, with video art by Nobuyuki Hanabusa. |
Tour |
The Great Edo Art of Light and Shadow: Minwa-za Utsushi-e Performances
Washington DC, New York (NY), New Bedford (MA), Cambridge (MA), New Haven (CT), Chicago (IL), Berkeley (CA) |
May 2014 - Jun. 2014 |
Film Society of Lincoln Center |
Theater: A seven-city U.S. tour of
The Great Edo Art of Light
and
Shadow
, a series of traditional Japanese magic lantern performances and workshops featuring the Minwa-za company and their revived art of Utsushi-e, a spectacular Edo-era entertainment with projections, music and storytellers. |
Tour |
Niwa Gekidan Penino:
The Room, Nobody Knows
New York (NY), Minneapolis (MN), Columbus (OH), Philadelphia (PA), Seattle (WA) |
Jan. 4, 2014 - Feb. 11, 2014 |
Japan Society |
Theater: A five-city U.S. tour of Niwa Gekidan Penino's
The Room, Nobody Knows
, a dreamlike, enigmatic tale of two brothers and their secret desires, staged within a set divided into upper and lower platforms and filled with a variety of elaborate sculptural furniture. |
Tour |
Tour of Faifai's Anton,
Neko, Kuri
Cedar Rapids (IA), Houston (TX), New Orleans (LA) |
Nov. 23, 2013 - Dec. 15, 2013 |
Legion Arts |
Theater: A three-city U.S. tour of Faifai's
Anton, Neko, Kuri
, which incorporates three simultaneous texts: a spoken one in Japanese, a movement score, and projected English translation which work together in very different and exciting ways. |
Tour |
AINU SHADOW THEATRE PROJECT
San Francisco (CA), Hanover (NH) |
Oct. 1, 2013 - Jan. 31, 2014 |
ShadowLight Productions |
Theater: A two-city U.S. tour of a new multidisciplinary shadow theatre work created by Larry Reed in collaboration with Ainu musicians, OKI and Marewrew, as well as a Tokyo-based masked theater ensemble, Urotsutenoyako Bayangans. |
Collaboration |
Theatre for the Very Young Production:
Little Songs About Raindrops
Atlanta (GA) |
Jul. 2013 - May 2014 |
Robert W. Woodruff Arts Center |
Theater: Alliance Theatre will work collaboratively with puppeteer Michael Haverty and Lullatone, a Nagoya-based musical duo, on developing a new play for the Alliance's Theatre for the Very Young. |
Collaboration |
Linked Verse
Stanford (CA) |
Jul. 2013 - Jun. 2014 |
Stanford University |
Music: Stanford Live will commission an evening-length multimedia work by composer Jaroslaw Kapuscinski, digital media collective OpenEndedGroup, sho player Ko Ishikawa and cellist Maya Beiser. |
Collaboration |
TAIKOPROJECT + Ryutaro Kaneko:
LifeRhythm
Los Angeles (CA) |
Oct. 2013 - Jun. 2014 |
TAIKOPROJECT |
Music: Los Angeles-based TAIKOPROJECT will collaborate with taiko drummer Ryutaro Kaneko to create an innovative full-length taiko concert program entitled
LifeRhythm
. |
Collaboration |
Our Planet
New York (NY) |
Jul. 1, 2013 - Dec. 9, 2013 |
Theatre Arts Japan |
Theater: New York-based OBIE award-winning actor, Alec Duffy, together with Japanese motion graphic designer Nobuyuki Hanamasa, will develop Japanese playwright Yukio Shibata's
Our Planet
into a multidisciplinary theatrical production. | | | | | | | | | | |