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
This hasn’t been a great year for social media. Internet addiction has been a hot topic, as...
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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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Satoshi Miyagi Returns To The Japan Society With “Mugen Noh Othello”
New York City’s Japan Society closed out its 2017-18 Noh-Now series this past January with...
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Dramatist Oriza Hirata Has A Vision For Theatre
Travel around 150 km northwest from the hustle and bustle of Kyoto, and another, far more peaceful...
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Jerome Bel and His Amateurs Test the Limits of Contemporary Dance in Saitama Show
Is the French choreographer Jerome Bel a trailblazer or an enfant terrible of the contemporary...
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A Year Filled With Standing Ovations
While 2017 featured many great stage productions and performances, these were among the standouts:...
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How Butoh, The Japanese Dance Of Darkness, Helps Us Experience Compassion In A Suffering World
Butoh is now being taught to Zen students, prisoners, and others as a way to acknowledge difficult...
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Japan’s Theater World Increasingly Shed Its Insularities In 2017
Never mind those North Korean missiles that provide politicians with heaven-sent pretexts to...
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Ibsen’s “Peer Gynt” Gets A Cultural Twist When Director Yang Jung-ung Teams Up With Actor Kenji Urai
South Korean director Yang Jung-ung’s career has spanned several continents. From his theater...
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Junpei Mizobata Plunges Headfirst Into The Absurdist World Of Harold Pinter
As the saying goes, “You can’t judge a book by its cover.” In the same way, if you thought the...
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