{"id":17261,"date":"2026-09-15T19:05:52","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T10:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toyooka-theaterfestival.jp\/en\/?post_type=program&p=17261"},"modified":"2026-09-19T00:39:04","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T15:39:04","slug":"international-exchange-programintersecting-peripheries-2","status":"publish","type":"program","link":"https:\/\/toyooka-theaterfestival.jp\/en\/program\/17261\/","title":{"rendered":"International Exchange Program<\/small>
Intersecting Peripheries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

At last year\u2019s inaugural edition of Intersecting Peripheries, we welcomed ten participants from eight countries and regions across Asia. Through performances, field research, and other activities in Toyooka, they exchanged perspectives and developed new connections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Population decline and aging, climate change and natural disasters, the transformation of local cultures through tourism, and the reconfiguration of communities amid rapid social change\u2014these challenges are shared by regions around the world. Yet responses to them vary from place to place, and each locality is home to its own distinctive knowledge and practices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Toyooka Theater Festival believes that these locally rooted cultural practices offer vital clues for reimagining the future of society and the performing arts. Places described as rural, remote, or peripheral are by no means marginal. Rather, they are crucial sites of practice from which new futures can be envisioned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This year, Intersecting Peripheries places particular emphasis on our relationships with nature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead of regarding nature simply as an environment or resource, the program approaches it as a network of relationships woven among human beings and other forms of existence. It turns its attention to performing traditions, rituals, bodies, memories embedded in the land, care, and community practices. Bringing together ten participants from East and Southeast Asia, this year\u2019s program will explore how the performing arts can reconnect the local and the global through the diverse cultural practices that continue to thrive across Asia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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WU,HSIA-NING<\/strong> (Taiwan \/ Based in Taipei)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A member of HousePeace, working primarily with light as a medium to explore the relationships between light, space, and perception, as well as how light shapes narrative. Active across theatre, exhibitions, and interdisciplinary art. Recipient of the Bronze Award in the Emerging Lighting Designers category at World Stage Design in 2017 and shortlisted in the Professional Lighting Design category in 2025.
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Putu Ardi<\/strong><\/strong> (Indonesia \/ Based in Singaraja, Bali)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I Putu Ardiyasa is an Indonesian performing artist and lecturer whose practice explores the transformation of ancient texts into contemporary performances in Lemah Tulis Bali. Working across traditional theater, wayang, and community-based arts, he develops artistic programs that advocate for Subak farmers and create spaces for cultural growth in rural villages. His work has been presented through festivals and cultural initiatives in Bali and internationally. He is a member Jejaring Produser Seni Pertunjukan Indonesia (JPPI) tobe explores new possibilities for artistic exchange and collaboration.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Riki Benedicto<\/strong><\/strong> (Philippines \/ Based in General Trias, Cavite)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Riki Benedicto is a Filipino theatre director, actor, educator, and cultural leader whose practice is grounded in directing, performance, pedagogy, and artistic research. He served for ten years as Artistic Director of Dulaang Filipino at De La Salle\u2013College of Saint Benilde and is the Producing Artistic Director and co-founder of BOGT Philippines, advancing the professionalization and international visibility of Philippine independent theatre. His works and international engagements have reached the Czech Republic, Spain, Belarus, Canada, Germany, and Monaco.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Yustiawan Umar<\/strong> (Indonesia \/ Based in Sleman)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yustiawan Umar is an Indonesian performer and composer. His practice grows from Javanese karawitan and explores how ways of playing are shaped and transformed through listening, bodily action, material contact, and space. Working primarily with rebab and gamelan instruments, his work moves across composition, improvisation, performance, and collaboration. He is a co-founder and performer with Sandikala Ensemble and co-founder of the duo Catu Daya.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Tola<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong> (Cambodia \/ Based in Phnom Penh)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SAY Tola is a writer, arts researcher, and practitioner based in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. She currently works as a Grants Coordinator at Cambodian Living Arts, supporting artists and the development of Cambodia\u2019s performing arts sector. She also co-coordinates tiSamjort, a collective arts space fostering artistic exchange and community engagement. Her experience spans arts research, writing, and festival production, including research projects exploring Cambodia\u2019s cultural landscape. From 2017 – 2019, she wrote about Cambodia\u2019s arts scene for Khmer Times.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Jopin<\/strong> (Taiwan \/ Based in Taichung)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ping Chou is a theatre artist, performer, and producer from Taiwan, and the Artistic Director of 20% Experimental Theatre. Her practice explores the relationship between theatre, everyday life, and local communities, often working with non-traditional spaces, puppetry, objects, and physical performance. She is interested in bringing theatre beyond conventional venues and creating accessible, intimate experiences that connect with people and their everyday surroundings.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Mack<\/strong> (Thailand \/ Based in Bangkok)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thongchai Pimapunsri (Mack) is a Bangkok-based performing artist, director, and producer addressing social and political normativity. As a performer, he has collaborated with artists including Toshiki Okada and Thanapol Virulhakul. He directs the ‘PainKiller’ collective, exploring participatory performance and political self-anesthesia. As a producer of Miss Theatre, Mack enables Patipon (Miss Oat) in challenging normativity through queer practices and founded the Morasum Network to foster Southeast Asian resource sharing and decolonized production. He also serves as festival producer for H0M0HAUS.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Trina Acacia<\/strong> (Indonesia \/ Based in Badung, Bali)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trina Acacia is a dancer, choreographer, and diver based in Bali, Indonesia. Her practice engages with grief and interspecies relations through dance, diving, and embodied methods drawn from breath, pressure, and orientation underwater. Her work is rooted in coastal life along Jimbaran\u2013Uluwatu, informed by marine life, local mythologies, and the impacts of overtourism. Her artistic trajectory spans choreographic programs, artistic engagements, residencies, and exhibitions across Indonesia, Malaysia, Cambodia, Lithuania, and T\u00fcrkiye. Alongside Kallola Project, she works across choreography, artistic research, and coastal community practice.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Nanami Endo<\/strong> (Japan \/ Based in Tokyo)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nanami Endo is a Tokyo-based artist working across dance and performance.
Her practice focuses on the \u201calready-choreographed body\u201d embedded in everyday life. In recent years, she has developed performances that incorporate cooking and shared eating, exploring how daily rituals and social behaviors shape the body and relationships between people.
Alongside her artistic work, she is also active in performing arts production and project planning.
Through these practices, she explores how art and food can bring people together.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Belle Khunapinya<\/strong> (Thailand \/ Based in Bangkok) <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Belle Khunapinya is an independent producer and theatre manager based in Bangkok, Thailand. Her producing work spans text-based theatre, site-specific performance, and sound-based works. Alongside her own projects, she also works with Bangkok-based international performing arts festivals, including BIPAM (Bangkok International Performing Arts Meeting), H0M0HAUS (Performing Arts Festival for Diversity), and BICT Fest (Bangkok International Children\u2019s Theatre Festival). She’s currently managing three Bangkok-based collectives: one of sound designers, one of Thai playwrights, and one of emerging theatre practitioners.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Tatsuya Kawamura<\/strong> (Toyooka \/ Japan)
Executive Producer <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tatsuya Kawamura is a theatre producer, actor, and stage manager based in Toyooka, Japan. As Executive Producer of the Toyooka Theater Festival, he oversees its overall planning and operations. His practice connects local contexts with global artistic practices, exploring the relationships between the performing arts, nature, and communities, while seeking new possibilities for performing arts networks across Asia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alongside his work as a producer, he has participated in numerous international co-productions as an actor and stage manager. As a faculty member at the Professional College of Arts and Tourism, he works across the performing arts, local communities, tourism, and social issues to foster the next generation of cultural practitioners. His recent interests include long-term international collaboration and the possibilities of performing arts developed together with local communities.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Yukio Nitta<\/strong> (Tokyo \/ Japan)
Producer \/ Coodinator<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Tokyo, Yukio Nitta is an independent performing arts producer working across Japan, Taiwan, and Asia. He holds an MA in Arts Administration and Management from Taipei National University of the Arts. His practice spans international collaboration, cross-disciplinary production, cultural exchange, and festival programming. He also works as a creative director, consultant, translator, and writer, developing projects that connect artists and organizations across borders while traveling between Tokyo and Taipei.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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