投稿 “Amplified Routines” は Toyooka Theater Festival 2024 に最初に表示されました。

Age: 3-24months

投稿 “WONDER” は Toyooka Theater Festival 2024 に最初に表示されました。

James collaborates with Masashi Nukata to give sound and music in this piece. James and Masashi worked together in Fure Fure Ostrich!! Hayupang Die-Bow-Ken! in 2020 and 20221 for the Tokyo Festival. Working together for two years in a project they created a bond of care in their works. The two then explore this bond of care through the body and musicality.

Intertwining the Filipino culture of care with James Harvey Estrada and the Japanese musical sensibilities of Masashi Nukata we will witness a caring performance work crafted in friendship and togetherness.

投稿 “Pagkalinga : Vibrations and Rituals of Care“ は Toyooka Theater Festival 2024 に最初に表示されました。

Jacopo Tealdi (Turin, 1986) is an actor, mime, writer, director and researcher. He has developed manual theatre with shows that have toured the world, acting with great simplicity with his bare hands.

投稿 “HUMANITY – 人類” は Toyooka Theater Festival 2024 に最初に表示されました。

We live with shoes.

Footsteps, stride length, walking speed.
Shoes are eloquent, conveying the personality, circumstances, and life of the wearer. This production focuses on the intimate relationship between shoes and humans, and by placing shoes in ordinary living spaces, it highlights the lives of the people living there.

For example, in front of benches, vending machines, and bulletin boards.
What kind of urban life emerges when shoes are placed in these spots? It might vary depending on the viewer. However, the scenery likely reflects the impressions that the audience unconsciously holds of the town and the people living there.

An object theater piece by the Ghost_company Ashimoto, rethinking the lives and impressions of the town through shoes.

投稿 “Lives are” は Toyooka Theater Festival 2024 に最初に表示されました。

Their previous work, Unseen Beauty, presented as part of Toyooka Theater Festival 2022 Fringe Selection, explored the theme of “journey.” This work centers on the theme of “island,” shifting perspective from a position of movement to one of living in a specific place. While drawing on their own experiences, Mi-Mi-Bi present dance that is inspired by the struggles and relentlessness that come with life within the natural world, as well as within new encounters with others; the resilience to confront such difficulties; wisdom; ways of carrying oneself with humor; and the unwavering belief that lies at the foundation of all of these elements.

Alongside Mi-Mi-Bi members led by co-directors Kazuyo Morita and Yuka Uchida, this work features music by Takako Minekawa, dramaturgy by Jun Tsutsui, and costumes by Manami Fukuoka.
While continuing the explorations of the company’s vibrant debut work Unseen Beauty, which not only captured audiences but also garnered wide-ranging media attention, this work brims with even more multi-layered and enigmatic implications.

投稿 “Dance Dance Dance Islands” は Toyooka Theater Festival 2024 に最初に表示されました。

投稿 “Tanto Sai Sai” は Toyooka Theater Festival 2024 に最初に表示されました。

At the Henteko Factory, the manager and some eccentric friends combine dreams and passion to produce various henteko creations.
Onstage are an array of boxes with vibrant drawings on them. What can you see if we put the boxes together? Let’s shout with joy and surprise, to make our hearts race and our bodies dance with excitement.

Premiered in 2020 by the internationally renowned performance company to R mansion, this family theater experience has become a major hit, touring 15 cities nationwide.
This interactive theater creation has everyone do the Henteko Exercise, uncover hidden maps with light, and engage with cast members—stimulating the audience’s five senses, imaginations, and bodies.

投稿 “Hentekōjō” は Toyooka Theater Festival 2024 に最初に表示されました。

Actor Hiroshi Kosuge says, “What on Earth makes us human? What basis do we have to believe we are not simply beasts? When considered in this way, the questions and insights from The Moon Over the Mountain become lessons that illuminate our present times and offer a glimpse into our future.”

Previously performed in various locations, this iteration of The Moon Over the Mountain for the Toyooka Theater Festival will be presented in Kami Town and Takarazuka City.

投稿 “The Moon Over the Mountain” は Toyooka Theater Festival 2024 に最初に表示されました。

The only props onstage are a case of beer and a guitar.
This performance has been staged at various indoor and outdoor venues in Japan, including Tokyo, Miyagi, and Mie Prefectures. This one-person play by Kanami Kikuchi was previously presented as part of the Toyooka Theater Festival in 2019 at the studio in Kinosaki International Arts Center and in 2020 at the event square in front of Ebara Station.

投稿 “Golden Bat” は Toyooka Theater Festival 2024 に最初に表示されました。

“I had such a dream…” Once you hop off the train at Kinosaki Onsen Station, an entrance to the dreamworld with song, mystery, and dance awaits. The weather in the Tajima area may be unpredictable, but we welcome you to join us on this mysterious train ride as we journey through Toyooka in Autumn, relishing the fantastical realm that unfolds at each stop.

This immersive theater experience is brought to you by the JR-West Sightseeing Train “Umi Yama Musubi” and the Professional College of Arts and Tourism. Stop by if you feel a bit lonely, and we promise you won’t regret it!

投稿 “Ten Nights Dreaming. in Umiyamamusubi Returns. With the journey I had a such Dream.” は Toyooka Theater Festival 2024 に最初に表示されました。

Participants of the “Asian Producers’ Platform Camp (APP Camp) 2024 Malaysia”  hold a report session with an opportunity for networking. APP Camp is a cross-border platform formed by producers in Asian performing arts, and aims to increase the number of producers and creators who can serve as a bridge for intercultural exchange.

Panelists are participants from Japan, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, and  Hong Kong. Through their presentations, the session will provide an opportunity to learn about the practices of international platforms, as well as to directly interact and network with a variety of producers active in Asia.

[Moderator] 

Tatsuya Kawamura
Tatsuya Kawamura is an art producer, art manager, and actor, lives in Toyooka. From 2005 to 2022, participated as an actor in the theater company “Seinendan,” performing in domestic and international productions, international co-productions, and festivals. In 2014, founded the theater company Whales (Hoei) as a producer. Since 2020, has served as the producer of the Toyooka Theater Festival and, since 2021, as an assistant professor at the Professional University of Arts and Tourism.

[Panelists]

Sekar Alit (Indonesia)
Sekar Alit or called Alit, lives in Surabaya, Indonesia. works as a producer and production manager, choreographer and lecturer for dance and drama arts. Established Sawung Dance Studio as a dance company engaged in traditional and contemporary dance, working on laboratory dance, young choreographer residency, dance performances, workshops, seminar speakers and working on government events. Over the past 10 years has produced more than 20 traditional and contemporary dance works. Her work has received a grant for women’s From Yayasan Kelola and women inspiring TVRi East Java. Alit founded the Sawung Dance festival since 2015 as the only contemporary dance festival in her city that has consistently taken place until now.

Imran Syafiq Mohd Affandi (Malaysia)
Imran Syafiq Mohd Affandi was born in Kuala Lumpur and graduated with a Diploma in Dance (Best Dance Graduate 2012), and subsequently obtained his Bachelor of Dance (Performance) with First Class Honours and was honored as Valedictorian 2015 from the Faculty of Dance ASWARA. He joined ASK Dance Company (ADC) and has performed extensively with the company. Recently, he was awarded The Arts Practitioner Award by the Department of Arts and Culture Kuala Lumpur. In 2016, he became the Director of ADC managing the flagship outreach program called Building Bridges, Get Malaysia Dancing, Connecting Communities and Forging Traditions. With the company, he has taken the role as Creative Producer producing some of the company’s artistic production.

Cui Yin Mok (Singapore)
Cui (pronounced ‘tsuei’) is an in(ter)dependent arts producer and facilitator, interested in cultivating spaces and conditions for good art to happen in better ways. Since 2008, she has been producing across disciplines including contemporary performance, dance, music, theatre, visual arts, literary arts, socially-engaged practice, experimental and process-based work, as well as in arts and design festival production.

Ian Leung (Hong Kong)
Ian is managing the Outreach Department of the HKAF and is a producer focusing on in-depth, all-rounded audience development as well as interdisciplinary collaboration. Prior to rejoining the HKAF, Ian spent 9 years at the Hong Kong Arts Centre (HKAC), running programmes that integrated performing art, public art as well as audience development since 2013.

Fuyuko Mezawa (Japan)
Fuyuko Mezawa was born in Tokyo and has lived in The Netherlands and Luxembourg for 10 years in childhood. She practiced several dance such as Classical ballet, Jazz dance and Hip hop then. In Oberlin University, She started to learn Contemporary dance and became a member of Dance Company Baobab. Since 2016, Baobab organizes dance festival “DANCExScrum!!!” biennially. As her career, She joined theater drama company and work as an artist management agent. She became independent manager and producer in 2017 and starts to join the dance project of theater and festivals domestics and overseas. She has join several international community such as Asia Producers Platforms Camp, European Festival Academy and others. From 2023, she join Program Development Department of new art center open in 2026 in Tokyo run by East Japan Railway Foundation For Cultural Innovations.

Yuko Takeda (Japan)
Yuko Takeda is a Japan-based performing arts producer with experience in festivals and mixed-genre projects. She holds an MA in Fine Arts from Tokyo University of Fine Arts and Music and worked as a coordinator for Festival/Tokyo (2016-2019), West Kowloon Cultural District (Hong Kong, 2020-2021, as a fellow on the Program of Overseas Study for Upcoming Artists sponsored by the Japanese Government Agency for Cultural Affairs), and Tokyo Festival (2022-2023). Yuko started working as a freelancer in 2023, which included being the coordinator for chelfitsch, YPAM exchange, and Kyoto Experiment. She is also a member of the artist duo Transfield Studio, which creates research-based touring performances and presented works in several international cities. 

Hanabi Takemiya (Japan)
Born in Ehime, Japan currently based in Kyoto. Hanabi Takemiya graduated from the stage design course with the Department of Performing Arts at the Kyoto University of Art and Design. She had currently a member of the Kyoto Performing Arts Center (KPAC) at the Kyoto University of Art and Design from 2015 until 2022, where she was management the secretariat of the “Joint Use/Research Centre” which provides a space for artists and researcher to share their processes and collaboratively develop new work. After work at KPAC, she has started independent performing arts producer/manager/ coordinator. She has worked with Hokuto Kodama, Yasuko Yokoshi, KyotoExperiment, Toyooka Theater Festival, Kinosaki International Arts Center, Saison Foundation. She studied Mandarin in Taiwan in 2022-2023. She has joined Asia Producers Platform for 2018,2019.

Yukio NItta (Taiwan)
Born in Tokyo, Japan, and graduated with an MA from Graduate Institute of Arts Administration and Management, Taipei National University of the Arts. He is a prolific independent producer in performing arts, dedicated to co-productions that transcend domains and borders, and works on a regular basis with the Shakespeare’s Wild Sisters Group and Huang Yi Studio. With production and marketing experiences for Kuandu Arts Festival, Taipei Fringe Festival and Taipei Arts Festival, he is also responsible for TPAM Exchange project in Performing Arts Meeting in Yokohama, Japan. In recent years, he works as director, creator director and consultant for concerts, major events and award ceremonies in Asia. In addition to envisaging ways to combine different resources on a daily basis, he initiated many culture and information exchange projects between Taiwan and Japan, hoping to continue engaging the world in different ways. Occasionally, he writes, translates and dances, insisting on traveling between Tokyo and Taipei at his own pace.

投稿 [Special Talk Program]<br>APP CAMP 2024 Reporting Session は Toyooka Theater Festival 2024 に最初に表示されました。

投稿 “Chair／IL POSTO” は Toyooka Theater Festival 2024 に最初に表示されました。

The story unfolds as just five actors move from Konotori Stadium’s parking lot to broadcast control room to field. A 60-minute comedy that connects the love for baseball to all forms of love.

投稿 “RIVERSIDE GOLDEN PLAYERS CLUB” は Toyooka Theater Festival 2024 に最初に表示されました。

投稿 “Empty house” は Toyooka Theater Festival 2024 に最初に表示されました。

投稿 “Mali Bucha: Dance Offering” は Toyooka Theater Festival 2024 に最初に表示されました。

In 1989, Toru Iwashita received this vibrant and positive voicemail, which sounded as if Tanikawa were giving a reading. Ever since, he has been using Mr.Tanikawa’s poem title to present silent, improvised solo dances in non-theater spaces and the outdoors. For the Toyooka Theater Festival, Iwashita stages a special edition of this performance in collaboration with musician Kazutoki Umezu. In an unadorned location without a stage or seats, audience members are invited to freely stand, sit, or move around in this improvisational space. There is no set plan between the dance and music. The two elements and the audience interact with the various things there, such as the site itself, the surrounding sounds, passersby, dogs, crows, and weave time together. What exactly do we “Be all ears” to there?

投稿 “Be all ears (From the poem of the same title by Shuntaro Tanikawa)” は Toyooka Theater Festival 2024 に最初に表示されました。

投稿 “Transfer Student” は Toyooka Theater Festival 2024 に最初に表示されました。

This performance vividly adapts Kenji Miyazawa’s classic children’s tale by focusing on the simple structure of telling a coming-of-age story about a young boy’s growth as he comes to terms with his friend’s death. Aimed towards children, a French version of this piece was created in 2011, which was followed by a Japanese version. The work also inspired the novel, The Curtain Rises.

The piece, which has toured widely at home and abroad and is enjoyed by adults and children alike, will be presented for the first time with Japanese sign language interpretation.

*How does sign language interpretation work in theaters?
It is a form of simultaneous interpretation in which the interpreter communicates in real time the dialogue and scenes using sign language. Unlike conventional sign language interpretation, the director gives instructions and the interpreter stands onstage as one of the performers to communicate the dialogue and scenes to audience members.

投稿 “Night on the Milky Way Train” with Sign Language Interpretation は Toyooka Theater Festival 2024 に最初に表示されました。

Burdened by the pressures of studying, high-school student Masaki listens to the jazz standard Bugle Call Rag, and is suddenly overcome with drowsiness. When he awakens, he finds himself in a jazz cafe in the year 1940, 84 years before his time. He meets Aiko, who is the same age as him, before holding a jazz concert for her father, Takao Saito. Before he knows it, he becomes swept up in the vortex of history.

This work is written and directed by Yomiuri TV’s Koichi Okamoto, with Eiji Minoda, also from Yomiuri TV serving as producer, and Oriza Hirata as co-director.
The principal roles are played by Yasunari Fujibayashi, who is currently appearing in Kamen Rider Gotchard (TV Asahi), and Sae Sakimoto who appeared in Super Invincible Class (Nippon Television). Yomiuri TV newscaster Kyozo Tatsuta plays the role of the cafe owner, while Tomomi Maruyama, who appeared in Laughing Matryoshka (TBS), takes on the role of Takao Saito. Ayumi Unno provides the live saxophone performances within the play.

投稿 “Moonlight Serenade 1940”　 は Toyooka Theater Festival 2024 に最初に表示されました。

As he looks back on his past and recalls the truth, he gradually turns insane. Based on an ordinary man’s shocking experience of war, this story by Shohei Ooka questions the nature of murder, cannibalism, faith, and war, illustrating the consciousness and madness of humanity.

This representative work of war literature is directed by Honoh Horikawa and stars Hideki Nagai, who has captivated many with his powerful presence in numerous productions.
Together, they create a remarkable one-person show.

投稿 “Fires on the Plain” は Toyooka Theater Festival 2024 に最初に表示されました。

In the fable, which stresses the importance of preparing for the future, the grasshopper is told by the ant to dance through the winter, since it sang through the summer. However, Namstrops is a dance company that emphasizes thinking about things from an upside-down perspective. In this work, they reinterpret the fable as The Grasshopper and the Ants, with the hope of rediscovering how to live a joyful and blissful life, much like the cricket.

Namstrops (sportsman spelled backwards) is joined by Hong Kong-based dance company Unlock Dancing Plaza, to present a dance performance that can be enjoyed by adults and children alike.

投稿 “The Grasshopper and the Ants” は Toyooka Theater Festival 2024 に最初に表示されました。