Could Japan Have Its Own Cirque Du Soleil?
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Kyoto As A Stage For World Theatre – An Interview With Kyoto Experiment Program Director Yusuke Hashimoto
Kyoto Experiment is one of Japan’s major international theatre festivals, along with...
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Drum Tao Aims For Blockbuster Grandeur In Its Latest Production
Based in mountainous Oita Prefecture in northeastern Kyushu, the privately owned and run Drum Tao...
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Keiko Miyata To Mark Departure From The New National Theatre, Tokyo, With Piece By Up-And-Coming Playwright
After eight years as artistic director for drama at the New National Theatre, Tokyo, Keiko Miyata,...
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Kamishibai: How The Magical Art Of Japanese Storytelling Is Being Revived And Promoting Bilingualism
In a world where technological advancement seems to be at the forefront of almost everything, it...
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K-Ballet Brings “Cleopatra” Back For Another Dance
Tetsuya Kumakawa speaks about his most recent project, Cleopatra, in a way that’s as grand as the...
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Keishi Nagatsuka Navigates Cultural Differences In Bringing Play About Capital Punishment To Japan
For casual fans of film, the name Martin McDonagh only became familiar after the movie he wrote,...
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World Theatre Festival Shizuoka 2018–Listening To The Other To Rediscover Yourself
World Theatre Festival Shizuoka is one of Japan’s three major annual performing arts festivals,...
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Three Dancers Seek To Redefine The Contemporary Form Of Their Art In “Dan-su Series 3”
Contemporary dance seemed to enter the wider arts consciousness in Japan around the turn of the...
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World Theatre Festival Shizuoka 2018: Reaching Out To The World Through Theatre
World Theatre Festival Shizuoka 2018 Shizuoka Performing Arts Center (SPAC) will hold its annual...
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Shizuoka Stage Festival Aims To Engage Its Audiences The Old-Fashioned Way
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“Ballyturk” Delivers A Surreal Yet Exciting Challenge
When Akira Shirai first read the script for Ballyturk, he quickly understood why its creator,...
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Force And Fragility Meet And Merge In “Dunas”
There are mutual squeals of delight when Belgian dance artist, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Spanish...
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Musical Futures: Japanese Vocaloid Opera Arrives In Spain
Hatsune Miku, the most famous non-human pop singer in the world, will visit Spain for the first...
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Living And Breathing History, Through Noh
Noh performer Hisa Uzawa has spent her life devoted to an art form that—with its slow and steady...
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Dairakudakan’s “Unearthly” Butoh Meets A Tortured Russian tale
Following a January press conference in which the New National Theatre, Tokyo, announced that...
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The Gaze Of The Robot: Oriza Hirata’s Robot Theatre
Ten Years of Robot Theatre Directed by Oriza Hirata In Japan, the development of humanoid robots...
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Chiaki Soma puts on a Not-So-Common Theater Festival
In the world of Japanese contemporary drama, the action often takes place offstage as well as on....
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TPAM’s Magic Happens In Front Of And Behind The Curtain
Back in 1995, some of the movers and shakers of the domestic theater scene got together at various...
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Change Is In The Air For New National Theater Tokyo In 2018
At the start of each year, the New National Theatre Tokyo holds a media event at which the...
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