Learn about international platform practices together with Asian producers.
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.
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Credits
Cooperation: Asian Producers' Platform
Co-presented by Toyooka Theater Festival, The Japan Foundation
Presented by Producers Connect Japan
THE ASIAN PRODUCERS' PLATFORM (APP)
The Asian Producers Platform (APP) is a peer-to-peer network that was originally initiated by a small group of independent producers working across Asia with the goal of creating a strongly linked network of producers who could work effectively and respectfully across the Asian region. APP has an informal structure, sustained by a volunteer Planning Team consisting of APP members from across Asia.
Since 2014, APP has produced APP Camp, which has brought together over 100 emerging and established performing arts producers through a series of intensive camps in Seoul (2014), Taipei and Yilan (2015), Tokyo and Shizuoka (2016), Melbourne (2017), Yogyakarta and Jakarta (2018), the Greater Bay Area (Hong Kong, Guangzhou, and Macau, 2019) and Bangkok and Chiang Mai (2023).
Taking place over 1 week, participants have the opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of the local arts and cultural scenes, cultural policy and the social and political landscape artists practice in, and to meet, exchange and learn from fellow producers from across Asia. The camp allows participants to develop industry networks across Asia, explore producing as a creative practice, develop intercultural practice and develop arts leadership.
