News Release (November 29, 2017)
Updated on December 28, 2017

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

TPAM – Performing Arts Meeting in Yokohama 2018
February 10–18, 2018

at KAAT Kanagawa Arts Theatre, BankART Studio NYK, Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse No.1, YCC Yokohama Creativecity
Center, Bayani’s Kitchen, Steep Slope Studio, Amazon Club and other multiple venues in Yokohama and Tokyo① What is TPAM?
TPAM (Performing Arts Meeting in Yokohama) is the only international platform in Japan for performing arts comprising aperformance program that promptly reflects the currents of contemporary performing arts in Asia and the world; meeting
program where hundreds of professionals from festivals, venues and arts organization across the world get together; and opencall program for which emerging as well as experienced artists who look for opportunities register.
Having reinforced its Asian focus and started to be involved in Asian international co-production, the previous edition of TPAM
hosted 423 professionals from 41 countries/regions and 529 from Japan, and it is virtually impossible to calculate how many
actual and potential audience they are connected to. Most of the programs are open also to the public (more than 20,000 people
in total participated in the previous edition).

② Performance Program (TPAM Direction)
As an international platform for professionals, TPAM seeks to introduce artists and works that promptly reflect the currentsof performing arts in Asia and the world. The lineup of TPAM Direction, curated in cooperation with directors from diverse
backgrounds in order to multilaterally explore the possibility of contemporary performing arts, is offered also to general audience.
©Rody Shimazaki

Courtesy of the artist

One or Several Tigers by Ho Tzu Nyen

“On José Maceda” by Aki Onda and Yuji Takahashi (dialogue)

Anomalous Fantasy_Japan Version by siren eun young jungUnbearable Darkness by Choy Ka Fai

Image by Choy Ka Fai and Brandon Tay

Canon by Samson Young

Courtesy of UP Center for Ethnomusicology

Internship by Tetsuya Umeda

Commissions of performing arts works to artists from different backgrounds have been increasing among new art centers andfestivals in Asia and Europe. This year’s program focuses on conceptual, humorous and profound approaches to performing arts
by visual artist, writer, DJ, band or researcher introducing such works as Canon, a durational performance by sound artist Samson
Young (Hong Kong) involving a “non-lethal” sonic weapon, One or Several Tigers that explores an alternative narrative of thecolonial history through video installation and shadow puppetry by filmmaker Ho Tzu Nyen (Singapore), or a concert / performance
Internship where Tetsuya Umeda (Japan), who works beyond the boundaries between music, art and performance, “plays” themechanism and resources of a theatre in collaboration with the local technical staff. TPAM believes that the lineup tells a lot about
the new types of relationships that have been built between performing arts and society.
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TPAM Direction Lineup
1Canon by Samson Young [Hong Kong]
Durational performance involving a non-lethal sonic weapon LRAD by the sound artist who has been drawing international attention.

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The Sound and Vision of a Crowd (working title) by contact Gonzo featuring Skychurch [Japan / Philippines]
Collaboration between the Osaka-based group exploring “philosophy of pain” and Manila-based metal core band Skychurch.

3	“Politics of Programming: Platforms, Pressures and Participation” [Malaysia, India, Germany, Thailand, Spain] *dialogues
A series of dialogues where six speakers — festival directors, artists and social activists — discuss the three “P”s in the subtitle.

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One or Several Tigers by Ho Tzu Nyen [Singapore]
Automated shadow piece where projections meet puppets, narration meets history, humans meet tigers and the colonizers meet the colonized.

5PASÁ PASÂ by Lightning Studies: Centre for the Translation of Constraints, Conflicts and Contaminations [Philippines] *exhibition & talkExhibition of reconstructed charts that translate the diagnostic reports during American colonization in the Philippines and talks with Ho Tzu Nyen.

6Internship by Tetsuya Umeda [Japan]
Concert / performance where Tetsuya Umeda collaborates with the technical staff of KAAT Kanagawa Arts Theatre to “play” the venue’s mechanism.

7“On José Maceda” with Aki Onda and Yuji Takahashi [U.S. / Japan] *dialogue
Discussion on Filipino composer and ethnomusicologist José Maceda and an interim report of Onda’s research for TPAM2019.

8Unbearable Darkness by Choy Ka Fai [Singapore / Germany] *work-in-progress
An unorthodox approach involving visual art and technology to “Ankoku (darkness) Butoh” and the soul of its founder Tatsumi Hijikata.

9BankART Studio NYK kawamata Hall by Jahye Khoo [Korea]
Literally an one-person play, where the performer does the acting, lighting, sound, video and management. The title has been the venue’s name.

10 “Steep Slope Showcase” with office mountain, Mari Fukutome, Kiyoshi Hashimoto and others to be announced [Japan]
A new form of showcase that requestions the method for “introducing” artists and works and rediscovers artists based in Yokohama.

11 Soulnessless by Terre Thaemlitz [Japan]
Screening-performance composed from an openly non-spiritual perspective traveling between the U.S., Philippines and Japan.

12 Exporting Positive Disposition since 1565: The World Domination Project by Jessica Zafra + Raya Martin [Philippines]
Humorously conceptual lecture-performance and party that defy the stereotypes about Overseas Filipino Workers.

13 Anomalous Fantasy_Japan Version by siren eun young jung [Korea]
Questions about genders and existence revolve around Yeoseong Gukgeuk, a Korean all-female musical theatre form.

14 Asian Artist Interview *exhibition
Exhibition of dialogues with 17 artists / groups in nine cities of six Southeast Asian countries and Kaitaro Tsuno, a Japanese pioneer oftheatre exchange with Asia, collected since 2015.

TPAM Direction Directors
June Tan (Producer, Five Arts Center) [Malaysia] 3

Max-Philip Aschenbrenner (Performing Arts Presenter) [Germany] 4, 5, 12
Aki Onda (Sound Artist / Curator) [U.S.] 7
Jooyoung Koh (Performing Arts Producer) [Korea] 9, 13
Yumina Kato (Director, Steep Slope Studio) [Japan] 10③ Meeting Program (TPAM Exchange)Courtesy of Asian Dramaturgs’ Network

Professional partcipants can make the most of TPAM Exchange as an opportunity
for promoting productions, gaining information and networking, but also generalaudience can participate in it except some specifically professional meetings. AsianDramaturgs’ Network comes to TPAM in continuation of the previous edition to holda meeting entitled “Dramaturgy and the Political,” Open Network for Perfoming
Arts Management (ON-PAM) will organize two symposia, and Yokohama Artsitethat supports regional artistic activities organizes their “Artsite Lounge.” Diverse

Asian Dramaturgs’ Network Meeting (2017)presentations and seminars including proposals by TPAM Direction directors for co-productions, talks on a project for bridging
the academics and festivals as well as a new dancehouse network in Asia, and “History of Japanese Modern Theatre at theSpeed of Light” by Oriza Hirata are planned to be held. Please visit the website or contact us for the latest information.
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④ Open-Call Program (TPAM Fringe)
TPAM Fringe is an all-genre open-call program that invites registrations of performances and projects carried out in Yokohama
and Tokyo during the period of TPAM. The program is for artists / companies / organizers that register to look for opportunities forinternational touring and new audience, and for TPAM participants and the public to discover emerging talents and new works.
Artists / companies / projects that have registered for TPAM Fringe (as of November 29, 2017)
Project OH! YAMA | MOKK | Super Theater Hiroshi Koike Bridge Project | Masako Yasumoto | GRINDERE-MAN | mimimal | Mochinosha Puppet Company | Mari
Fukutome / Yutaro Murakoso | Q | Reiko Takayama | Whales + Kenobi | Zen-go (Shinichi Takashima + No Collective + Megumi Kamimura) | M.M.S.T | GECKO PARADE| FURUTAMARU | Japanese Art Sound Archive | Yokohama Dance Collection 2018 [Japan / France / Korea / Brazil] | SilkRoad Noh Theatre | TremendousCircus | le 9 juin
| Atsushi Heki / Production Koroencyo | Chikara Fujiwara (BricolaQ) | Makoto Oshiro + Takahiro Kawaguchi | Doukyusei. | SYAKE-SPEARE | StageNoMore [China] |FujiyamaAnnette | Hugh Cho / Kenneth Sze / TS Studio [Hong Kong] | ASUNA | In search for new theatre language — Throughout the 20 years of Grzegorz Jarzyna’s TRWarszawa Theatre to its latest — The World Premiere of “G.E.N. VR” [Poland] | Setagaya-Silk | Daniel Belton and Good Company Arts [New Zealand] | office mountain |Mari Fukutome | Kiyoshi Hashimoto | Hiroyuki Ura + Kenichi Kanazawa + Satoko Inoue, Suidobashi Chamber Ensemble | Integrated Dance Company Kyo | ANTIBODIESCollective | Hiroaki Umeda × Tokyo University of the Arts | The Project KATYOFUGETU | N2 | Miss Revolutionary Idol Berserker | Chiharu Shinoda | Gwen Rakotovao +Rafael Alvarez / BODYBUILDERS [France / Portugal] | Futarikko Produce | Shintaro Hirahara / OrganWorks | Co. Un Yamada | KAWASAKI ALICE | MIRA | FumenKaiga| Water Singers & Rolling Puppets Alternative Theatre [Macau] | Tokyo Tanbarin | kouichi murayama / patchworks | Tomoyo Okada | Interational Dance Dialogue Project<Odori-Dawns-Dance> | un-nama | studio ARCHITANZ | Théâtre MUIBO | cigare sisters | Mr’Scot | and more (to be announced on the website)⑤ Participation
Professional
Registration

TPAM Direction

Audience

Registration fee: 5,000 JPY
Register at www.tpam.or.jp/2018/registration/
Deadline: 18:00 on February 5, 2018

N/A

Online reservation at professional rates (admission tomultiple programs is offered at a flat rate of 4,000 JPY)

Ticket sales start on January 13 at Peatix*Some programs are admission free and/or do not require reservation
TPAM Exchange

Admission free (Group Meeting host registration fee:4,000–17,000 JPY)

Admission free or 500 JPY at door (some programs arenot open to the public)

TPAM Fringe

Online reservation (prices vary / TPAM registrant benefitsoffered)Ticket prices and sellers vary

⑥ Project Outline
Project title

Performing Arts Meeting in Yokohama 2018 (TPAM2018 / TPAM in Yokohama 2018)

PeriodFebruary 10 (Sat) – 18 (Sun), 2018Venues

KAAT Kanagawa Arts Theatre, BankART Studio NYK, Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse No.1, YCC Yokohama Creativecity Center,
Bayani’s Kitchen, Steep Slope Studio, Amazon Club and other multiple venues in Yokohama and Tokyo

Organizers	Performing Arts Meeting in Yokohama 2018 Executive Committee (The Japan Foundation Asia Center / Kanagawa Arts Foundation /Yokohama Arts Foundation / PARC – Japan Center, Pacific Basin Arts Communication)

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

Supported byEndorsed 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 2018, Asian Dramaturgs’ Network Satellite Symposium 2018,
Open Network for Performing Arts Management, Yokohama Artsite “Artsite Lounge vol.17,” Ajokai Chronicle Project

Public relations in cooperation with Dance Press Tokyo

Contact: Tomoyuki Arai (Performing Arts Meeting in Yokohama Secretariat)
3-1-2-3F Ebisu-minami, Shibuya, Tokyo 150-0022 | Tel 03-5724-4660 | Fax 03-5724-4661 | arai@tpam.or.jp
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