News Release
November 18, 2019

An international platform for professionals who explore the possibility of contemporary performing arts

TPAM ‒ Performing Arts Meeting in Yokohama 2020 will focus on Asiandance and physical expression
February 8–16, 2020
KAAT Kanagawa Arts Theatre, Kosha33 (Kanagawa Prefectural Housing Supply Corporation), Yokohama Port Opening
Memorial Hall, Yokohama Boat Theatre, Cliff Side, Kannai Arai Hall, Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse No. 1, Amazon
Club and other venues in Yokohama and Tokyo

Seksyen 19 – A dance ritual in the neighbourhood
Photo by Lee Ren Xin

About TPAM
TPAM – Performing Arts Meeting in Yokohama is the only international platform in Japan for performing arts
professionals comprising a 1) performance program that promptly reflects the currents of contemporary performing arts
in Asia and the world, 2) meeting program where hundreds of professionals from festivals, venues and arts
organizations across the world get together, and 3) open-call program for which emerging, as well as experienced,artists that look for opportunities register. This is the 24th edition of TPAM since its establishment as “Tokyo PerformingArts Market” in 1995, and the 10th edition since changing its name from “Market” to “Meeting” and moving to Yokohama.
Having reinforced its Asian focus and started to be involved in Asian international co-production, the previous edition ofTPAM (February 2019) hosted about 400 professionals from 41 countries/regions and 480 from across Japan, and it isvirtually impossible to calculate how many actual and potential audience these participants are connected to. Most of theprograms are open also to the public (26,883 people in total participated in the previous edition).

Contact
Performing Arts Meeting in Yokohama Secretariat (PARC – Japan Center, Pacific Basin Arts Communication)
Tel +81-3-5724-4660 | Fax +81-3-5724-4661 | info@tpam.or.jp

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November 18, 20191) Performance Program: TPAM Direction
As an international platform for professionals, TPAM seeks to introduce artists and works that promptly reflect thecurrents of performing arts in Asia and the world. The lineup of TPAM Direction, selected in cooperation with directors
from diverse backgrounds in order to multilaterally explore the possibility of contemporary performing arts, is offered also
to non-professional audience. In the concluding year of its five-year Asian focus, TPAM Direction revisits and requestions
the “nucleus” of the performing arts: physical expression. Please visit the website for more information about eachperformance and the guest directors’ concepts.

Lineup (in the order of performance dates)
1）

Seksyen 19 – A dance ritual in the neighbourhood by Lee Ren Xin [Malaysia] Feb 8–15
Lee has been carrying out her “ritual” in a neighbourhood near Kuala Lumpur to explore how much space can be offered to her tomove about for 18 months. It will be experimentally carried out in Yokohama, and the experience will be shared on the final day.

2）

nothing’s for something by fieldworks / Heine Avdal & Yukiko Shinozaki [Belgium/Norway/Japan] Feb 9
Having developed unique site-specific works with non-hierarchical approach to objects, environment and performers that havebeen co-produced by experimental festivals and venues in Europe, fieldworks revisits the proscenium theatre with this piece.

3）

Sandbox Bento by Performance Troupe TAIHEN [Japan] Feb 9–11
Founded in Osaka by Manri Kim in 1983, TAIHEN has pursued art that can transform disabilities into the power of expression.
The exceptionally humorous second piece of their “Wandering Love” trilogy is about a journey of thrown-away food in a bento box.

4）

Philosophical Enactment 1&2 by Padmini Chettur [India] Feb 10–11
Having studied with Chandralekha (1928–2006), who modernized the Indian classical dance “Bharatanatyam,” Chettur hasbrought it to an extremely abstract and precise form. A solo in interaction with poetic/academic texts on her dance by two writers.

5）

IBUIBU BELU: Bodies of Borders by Eko Supriyanto [Indonesia] Feb 12
A new TPAM co-production that reinterprets the traditional dance that has spread to villages across the border between Indonesia
and East Timor with local dancers (world premiere).

6）

The Retreat by Thanapol Virulhakul [Thailand] Feb 12–15
A methodology/project that draws choreography from the forms of “retreat” from the unsettled and unknown in daily life. Having
been introduced as open workshop in TPAM2019, it will be presented as a performance with unique dancers based in Japan.

7）

unannounced by fieldworks / Heine Avdal & Yukiko Shinozaki [Belgium/Norway/Japan] Feb 13–15
Using the theatre’s architecture in all directions, fieldworks invites audience to this experience where things happen unannounced.

8）

Freeway Dance by Ayaka Nakama [Japan] Feb 14–15
A four-hour solo performed in a “garden” created in the indoor space of the venue, for which the dancer has collected thememories of non-dancers about their “first dancing” as her material for choreography. One-hour food break offered.

9）

No. 60 by Pichet Klunchun [Thailand] Feb 15–16
Having mastered the 59 poses/movements (Theppanom) of Thai classical dance, Klunchun explores the unknown “No. 60” in thenew work co-produced by TPAM (world premiere).

10） unwritten conversation by fieldworks / Heine Avdal & Yukiko Shinozaki + Sara Jansen [Belgium/Norway/Japan] Feb 16
Sara Jansen, a dramaturge / dance scholar who specializes in performance theory and Japan studies, discusses the work offieldworks in this performative lecture.
11） More Jimin & Akira the Hustler / Pijin Neji [Korea/Japan] (title to be announced) Feb 16
An only-one-night Korea-Japan collaboration in a dance hall “Cliff Side” that opened in 1946 in Yokohama (world premiere).

Directors
1)

June Tan (Producer, Five Arts Centre) [Malaysia]

3)

Yukako Ogura (Project Manager, ROHM Theatre Kyoto) [Japan]

4)

Helly Minarti (Independent Scholar/Curator) [Indonesia]

8)

Fumi Yokobori (Program Director, DANCE BOX) [Japan]

11)

Jooyoung Koh (Independent Producer) [Korea]

Contact
Performing Arts Meeting in Yokohama Secretariat (PARC – Japan Center, Pacific Basin Arts Communication)
Tel +81-3-5724-4660 | Fax +81-3-5724-4661 | info@tpam.or.jp

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November 18, 20192) Meeting Program: TPAM Exchange
Promote your productions and projects, propose a theme
and host a meeting to discuss it with participants of TPAM,
or take part in discussions on issues around the situationsof performing arts—TPAM Exchange constitutes thebasis of TPAM offering opportunities for information sharing
and networking through different types of programs.
TPAM Exchange will have a variety of programs including asymposium inviting the Liaison Council of Theaters andPhoto by Yuri Yamada (TPAM2019)

Halls in Japan; an introduction to new projects in Toyooka,
Hyogo of TPAM advisor Oriza Hirata; “Performing Arts AiR Meeting” that explores the possibility of Artist-in-Residence(AiR) programs in performing arts; discussions by Open Network for Performing Arts Management (ON-PAM) and Asia
Network for Dance (AND+); “Group Meeting” where TPAM participants propose themes to host intimate meetings; oneon-one, 10-minute “Speed Networking” meetings with festival directors and venue programmers, and receptions bysuch international delegations as CAPACOA / Canadian Arts Presenting Association, CINARS [Canada/Quebec],
Australia Council for the Arts, PAHN / Performing Arts Hub Norway and ARTWAVE / NCAF [Taiwan]. Most of theprograms except ones that are specifically designed for professionals are open to the public. Please visit the website forthe latest information.

3) Open-Call Program: TPAM Fringe
TPAM Fringe is an all-genre open-call program that invites registrations ofperformances and projects carried out in Yokohama and Tokyo during the periodof TPAM. The program is for artists/companies/organizers that register to look foropportunities for international touring and new audience, and for TPAM
participants and the public to discover emerging talents and new works.
The joint project Yokohama Dance Collection will organize “HOTPOT: East Asia
Dance Platform” that it has established in cooperation with dance festivals ofHong Kong and Seoul for the first time in Japan. In conjunction with TPAM Direction, a number of diverse Asian
contemporary dance works will be introduced in Yokohama in a short period of time.

Lineup (in the order of performance dates)
Tokyo Tambourine Wa no Wa, KPR / Kaimaku Pennant Race, Chiharu Kuronuma, Haruka.from.Toyama, lolo, Seinendan, Yokohama Dance Collection 2020 (AosoraDance, Competition I, Kurosu Ikumi, Giuseppe Chico & Barbara Matijević, Tamura Koichiro, HOPOT), BRDG, SCOOL Selection 2020 (Hirotaka Fukui, Masamitsu Araki),
ST Spot Selection vol.3 (Nuthmique, Tomoyo Okada × Yoshio Otani), MODERN CLASSICISM, FURUTAMARU., Tomoko Sato, Co. Ruri Mito, SYAKE-SPEARE, Belloo
Creative × Idiot Savant theater company, ARICA, *birdname, Kim Itoh, EPOCH MAN, Showcase of Young Choreographers (Wataru Kitao (Baobab) / Yo Nakamura /Koichiro Tamura, Asami Ida / Yu Okamoto x Taro Okada / Taiko + Dance Unit<MADAKOBAYASHI>, Akiyoshi Nita), Taipei Performing Arts Center (TPAC) × orangcosong,Shadow Play Theatre KAKASHIZA, N₂, ARTWAVE / Hiroaki Umeda / Movers (Dancers), WONG, Pik Kei, Blue Ka Wing, Abraxas, gekidan awai, Co-existence and Cocreation Program (OiBokkeShi, Integrated Dance Company Kyo), Made in Macau (Point View Art & Music Picnic, Macau Experimental Theatre, Point View Art Association,
BOK × Helen Ko × Fukushima Akitsugu, BOK × Choi-Buttinger）, Theatre Qfun Theater & Theatre Company shelf, QUEBEC FOCUS (ANDREA PEÑA & ARTISTS,SIMON GRENIER-POIRIER & DORIAN NUSKIND-ODER), FujiyamaAnnette, TEITA IWABUCHI / TEITA IWABUCHI BODY MAP, few phew pur, mooncuproof, y/n,Annachan, ZEROKO, HarapekoFullmoon, JDS ARTWORKS & Kawasaki Alice, Otemon-Gakuin Highschool Expression-Communication Course, Dramatic company
Chojugiga, OM-2 × Emi Shibata, iedeinu, nanado, kusida yoshimitsu / Dance company Lasta, gallop, NIWA GEKIDAN PENINO, M.M.S.T, shikichi osamu, SANPIN,Karasuma Stroke RockContact
Performing Arts Meeting in Yokohama Secretariat (PARC – Japan Center, Pacific Basin Arts Communication)
Tel +81-3-5724-4660 | Fax +81-3-5724-4661 | info@tpam.or.jp

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November 18, 2019

Registration/Tickets
ProfessionalRegistration

TPAMDirection

Online registration at the official website
Registration fee: 5,000 JPY
Deadline: 18:00 on February 3, 2020 (JapanStandard Time)

Audience

Not applicable

Online reservation at professional rates
Ticket sales start on January 12, 2019 at Ticket(admission to multiple programs is offered at a Kanagawa (only shows at KAAT Kanagawa Arts
flat rate of 5,000 JPY)
Theatre) and Peatix*Some programs are admission free and do not require reservation

TPAM
Exchange

Admission free (Group Meeting hostregistration fee: 5,000–24,000 JPY)

Admission free or from 500 JPY at door (someprograms are not open to the public)

TPAM Fringe

Online reservation and benefits available

Prices and sellers varyProject Outline
Project title

Performing Arts Meeting in Yokohama 2020 (TPAM2020)

PeriodSaturday February 8 – Sunday February 16, 2020

VenuesKAAT Kanagawa Arts Theatre, Kosha33 (Kanagawa Prefectural Housing Supply Corporation),
Yokohama Port Opening Memorial Hall, Yokohama Boat Theatre, Cliff Side, Kannai Arai Hall,
Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse No. 1, Amazon Club and other venues in Yokohama and Tokyo

Organizers

Performing Arts Meeting in Yokohama 2019 Executive Committee (The Japan Foundation Asia Center/ Kanagawa Arts Foundation / Yokohama Arts Foundation / PARC – Japan Center, Pacific Basin ArtsCommunication)

Subsidized by

Yokohama Convention & Visitors Bureau, Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Insurance Inc. “SOMPO ART
FUND” (Association for Corporate Support of the Arts, Japan: 2021 Fund for Creation of Society by theArts and Culture) and Asian Cultural Council

Endorsed by

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan, Agency for Cultural Affairs of Japan, Kanagawa Prefectural
Government and City of Yokohama

Joint projects

Yokohama Dance Collection 2020, Open Network for Performing Arts Management (ON-PAM), Artsite
Lounge vol. 25Website

https://www.tpam.or.jp

Photo by Yuri Yamada

KAAT Kanagawa Arts TheatreKosha33

Yokohama Port Opening Memorial Hall

Contact
Performing Arts Meeting in Yokohama Secretariat (PARC – Japan Center, Pacific Basin Arts Communication)
Tel +81-3-5724-4660 | Fax +81-3-5724-4661 | info@tpam.or.jp

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