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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