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Performing Arts AiR Meeting 2024

This meeting aims to create opportunities to meet, network, and exchange information with performing arts professionals from Japan and abroad. Artists and producers of artist-in-residence programs in Japan will be invited as guests to introduce cases of works and projects developed from the residencies.

Date: Saturday, December 14, 2024, 11:00-11:40
Place: Yokohama Port Opening Memorial Hall (1-6-6 Honmachi, Naka-ku, Yokohama)
*YPAM registration (professional) is required to attend the above event.

Presentation 1
The Setagaya Art Museum×Arts Network Japan「Performance Residence in Museum 」
The residence artist in 2023-24, Kana Fujiwara
The Body of XX : Reconfiguring Fiction About Women’s Bodies

A theatrical collective project organized by Matsu no Niwa, led by Kana Fujiwara.
This initiative involves diverse, cross-disciplinary collaborators, including puppeteers, actors,
mental health social workers, biological researchers, stage designers, and dancers.
The project examines the fictional narratives that historically shaped our perceptions of women’s bodies, by creating a space for conversations and discussions in each collaborator’s local community. Over the course of three years, it aims to reinterpret and reconstruct these narratives, culminating in a public performance.

Speakers: Kana Fujiwara (Playwright, Director), Akiko Yonehara (Director, NPO Arts Network Japan)

Presentation 2
India-Japan International Co-Production Hagoromo Project by Sahyande Theatre & Sai no Tsuno

This is a three-year project for the creation of stage productions that started from the 2023.”Sai no Tsuno” , a private cultural facility in Ueda City, Nagano Prefecture, and Sahiyande Theatre, which is located in the jungles of Kerala, South India, collaborate on a production based on Swan Maiden (Hagoromo) that remain in various parts of the world. With ‘beauty’ as a cornerstone, the two non-urban-based organizations aim to create a work that overcomes social issues such as climate change, war and post-Covid fragmentation, and finds new values for living in the world of the future.

Speaker: Hirofumi Arai (Representative and Producer, Theatre & Arts UEDA)

Moderator: Taro Inamura (Program Director, The Saison Foundation)
Organized by The Saison Foundation

Check out The Saison Foundation’s Annual Report for 2023:

https://www.saison.or.jp/en/library#p02

Check out The Saison Foundation’s Annual Report for 2023.

Saison Artist in Residence Visiting Fellow aims to build up an international network for contemporary performing arts and to enhance mutual understanding, and gives opportunities for international artists and arts managers to research the contemporary performing arts scene in Japan. The program supports research visits to Japan for those who are expected to play an important role in the international performing arts scene.

Saison Artist in Residence Visiting Fellow offers the following support:
– Research Residency for Artists
– Research Residency for Arts Managers

Residency period: November 28 until December 24, 2024 and January 23 to March 25, 2025

Grant: one round-trip Economy-class ticket and/or living expenses (5,000 yen per day excluding the days of arrival and departure) and/or research & activities costs (up to 5,000 yen per day excluding the days of arrival and departure), with the total upper limit, 500,000 yen for each artist and arts manager as applicants who meet the requirements outlined in the application guidelines

Residents: one international artist and one international arts manager will be selected for Visiting Fellows 2024

Please see the following link regarding the past fellows,
https://www.saison.or.jp/en/air

Application deadlines: Thursday, July 4 2024
* Please download an application form by Monday, July 1 2024.

For details, please see the following program guidelines.
https://www.saison.or.jp/2024_VF_ApplicationGuidelines

Check out The Saison Foundation’s Annual Report for 2022:

https://www.saison.or.jp/en/library#p02

Check out The Saison Foundation’s Annual Report for 2022.

The open call for the 2024 International Program, which supports projects and activities related to contemporary performing arts, has been announced.

Ⅰ International Project Support Program (for medium to long term collaboration projects)

Deadline for requesting an application form: September 21, 2023

→Application

Saison Artist in Residence Visiting Fellow aims to build up an international network for contemporary performing arts and to enhance mutual understanding, and gives opportunities for international artists and arts managers to research the contemporary performing arts scene in Japan. The program supports research visits to Japan for those who are expected to play an important role in the international performing arts scene.

Saison Artist in Residence Visiting Fellow offers the following support:
– Research Residency for Artists
– Research Residency for Arts Managers

Residency period: October 5 to December 28, 2023 and January 24 to February 29, 2024

Grant: one round-trip Economy-class ticket up to 275,000 yen and/or living expenses (5,000 yen per day excluding the days of arrival and departure) and/or research & activities costs (up to 5,000 yen per day excluding the days of arrival and departure) for each artist and arts managers as applicants who meet the requirements outlined in the application guidelines

Residents: one international artists and one international arts manager will be selected for Visiting Fellows 2023

Application deadlines: Thursday, July 13 2023
* Please download an application form by Monday, July 10 2023.

For details, please see the following program guidelines.
https://www.saison.or.jp/2023_VF_ApplicationGuidelines

Check out The Saison Foundation’s Annual Report for 2021:

https://www.saison.or.jp/en/library#p02

Check out The Saison Foundation’s Annual Report for 2021.

The open call for the 2023 International Program, which supports projects and activities related to contemporary performing arts, has been announced.

Ⅰ International Project Support Program (for medium to long term collaboration projects)

Deadline for requesting an application form: October 20, 2022

→Application

Saison Artist in Residence Visiting Fellow aims to build up an international network for contemporary performing arts and to enhance mutual understanding, and gives opportunities for artists and arts managers to research the contemporary performing arts scene in Japan. The program supports research visits to Japan for those who are expected to play an important role in the international performing arts scene.

Saison Artist in Residence Visiting Fellow offers the following support:
– Research Residency for Artists
– Research Residency for Arts Managers

Residency period: October 3 to December 28, 2022, and January 6 to February 19, 2023

Grant: one round-trip Economy-class ticket up to 200,000 yen and/or living expenses (4,000 yen per day excluding the days of arrival and departure) and/or research & activities costs (up to 5,000 yen per day excluding the days of arrival and departure) for each artist and arts managers as applicants who meet the requirements outlined in the application guidelines

Residents: two artists and one arts manager will be selected for Visiting Fellows 2022

Application deadlines: Thursday, 30 June 2022
* Please download an application form by Monday, 27 June 2022.

For details, please see the following program guidelines.
https://www.saison.or.jp/2022_vf_applicationguidelines

The English version of the Saison Foundation’s press release on its 2022 grantees and Independently Organized and Co-Organized Programs can be downloaded from the following link:

https://www.saison.or.jp/en/library#p01