News Release
November 19, 2018 (updated on December 7, 2018)

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

TPAM – Performing Arts Meeting in Yokohama 2019
February 9 –17, 2019
KAAT Kanagawa Arts Theatre, Kosha33 (Kanagawa Prefectural Housing Supply Corporation), Yokohama
Port Opening Memorial Hall, Zou-no-hana Terrace, BankART Station, Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse
No.1, mass×mass Kannai Future Center, Amazon Club and other venues in Yokohama and Tokyo

José Maceda, Cassettes 100, 1971, Photo by Nathaniel Gutierrez, Courtesy of UP Center for Ethnomusicology and Ringo Bunoan

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 ofcontemporary 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 forwhich emerging, as well as experienced, artists that look for opportunities register. This is the 23rd edition of
TPAM since its establishment as “Tokyo Performing Arts Market” in 1995, and the 9th 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, theprevious edition of TPAM hosted about 400 professionals from 46 countries/regions and 450 from acrossJapan, and it is virtually impossible to calculate how many actual and potential audience these participants
are connected to. Most of the programs are open also to the public (28,203 people in total participated in theprevious 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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1) Performance Program: TPAM Direction
As an international platform for professionals, TPAM seeks to introduce artists and works that promptly and intenselyreflect the currents of performing arts in Asia and the world. This year’s lineup of TPAM Direction, curated in cooperation
with directors from diverse backgrounds, starts with Cassettes 100, a multimedia performance with 100 volunteer
performers composed by José Maceda (Philippines, 1917–2004), and introduces different forms of performances
including works about the histories of decolonization and communism from three Southeast Asian countries, responses
to the Malaysian 2018 General Election that resulted in the first change of the government since the country’sindependence, or a “post capitalistic” contemporary art auction conceived by an artist from Beijing.

Lineup1)

Cassettes 100 (1971), composed by José Maceda [Philippines]
Maceda’s signature piece where 100 performers move throughout the space with a cassette (recently MP3) player in hand,playing recordings of indigenous music. Choreographed by Yoko Higashino and Toshio Kajiwara (ANTIBODIES Collective).

2)

Music for Five Pianos (1993) and Two Pianos and Four Winds (1996), composed by José Maceda [Philippines]
Music for Five Pianos was Maceda’s first piano piece, written at the earnest request of Aki Takahashi, in the 1990s. A special
concert with five highest-spec pianos featuring excellent players including Aki Takahashi and Yuji Takahashi.

3)

The Retreat by Thanapol Virulhakul [Thailand] (work-in-progress open workshop)
A choreographic research process drawing from forms of “retreat” from strangers, things and the unknown practiced in daily life
and the philosophy behind it rooted in the modern sociopolitical history of Thailand, introduced in the form of open workshop.

4)

The Mysterious Lai Teck by Ho Tzu Nyen [Singapore]
Lai Teck, leader of the Malayan Communist Party from 1939 to 1947, is said to have been a triple agent working with the French,
British and Japanese secret service. A monologue/polylogue haunted by ghosts and gaps on this controversial being.

5)

Salt by Eko Supriyanto [Indonesia]
Following the international success of Cry Jailolo and Balabala, both created with young people from the Indonesian province ofNorth Maluku reinterpreting traditional battle dances, Salt concludes the trilogy with the choreographer’s own solo performance.

6)

Post Capitalistic Auction by Jingyi Wang [China/Norway]
An alternative and performative contemporary art auction where audience/bidders are invited to bid not only with money but alsowith “understanding,” “opportunity” or “exchange,” and it is the artists who decide who get the artworks at what “prices.”

7)

Deproduction by Terre Thaemlitz [USA/Japan]
An anti-live AV performance that articulates analyses between LGBT agendas and patriarchy as well as cultural production andbiological reproduction, and presents a cultural defense for those who choose not to reproduce.

8)

GE14 by Fahmi Fadzil and Zan Yamashita [Malaysia/Japan]
In Malaysia’s 14th general election (GE14) in 2018, an artist stood for and became a member of Parliament. A Japanesechoreographer who had long been his collaborator and friend followed his election campaign, and introduces it as a performance.

9)

A Notional History by Five Arts Centre [Malaysia] (tentative title, work-in-progress)
Revisiting an unfinished documentary about Malaya Communist Party, part of which was used in Baling (2015) by Mark Teh, thiswork-in-progress investigates the possible histories for #MalaysiaBaharu (New Malaysia).

10)

Constellation of Violence by Irwan Ahmet [Indonesia]
In Indonesia, in 1965, the “30th of September Movement” triggered the mass killing of communists. A performance that criticallyand imaginarily approaches the obscure historical incident and its dominant narrative.

Directors1, 2) Aki Onda (Sound Artist / Curator) [USA/Japan]
4)

Max-Philip Aschenbrenner (Head Dramaturge, Ruhrtriennale) [Germany]

8)

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

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 19, 2018 (updated on December 7, 2018)2) Meeting Program: TPAM Exchange
Professional partcipants can make the most of TPAM Exchange as an opportunity for promoting productions,
gaining information and networking, but also general audience can participate in it except some specificallyprofessional programs. A variety of programs including an opening symposium where Asian artists and theTPAM advisors Oriza Hirata and Toshiki Okada will reflect on the Asian focus since 2015 at BankART
Station that will newly open after the closure of BankART Studio NYK, “Performing Arts AiR Meeting” for thenetworking of Artist-in-Residence facilities and programs in the sector, public symposia by Open Network for
Performing Arts Management (ON-PAM) and an international training program for Asian creators of the next
generation are to be announced. Please visit the website or contact us for the latest information.

TPAM Exchange: Group Meeting (TPAM2018, photo by Kazuomi Furuya)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 theperiod of TPAM. The program is for artists/companies/organizers thatregister to look for opportunities for international touring and new audience,and for TPAM participants and the public to discover emerging talents andnew works.
LineupTokyo Zokei University Film & Moving Image, Dance and Media Japan, Dance Archive Network, ICU Modern Dance Society, mizhen,blanClass Anthology #4 (Reiko Takayama, Tatsuo Majima), Yokohama Dance Collection 2019 (Aosora Dance, Competition I, Nach/AnneMarie Van, Ryu Suzuki), ofuton, Nibroll, Unit Dance Bookshelf / Atsuko Yoshifuku, FURUTAMARU., ST Spot Selection vol.2 (Tonali-ya,Hydroblast, Aokid), Okazaki Art Theatre, Haruka from Toyama, patchworks, SYAKE-SPEARE, RE/PLAY Dance Edit Committee, RieTashiro / AYATORI, Kamome Machine, TÓPOS, FujiyamaAnnette, BRDG / shitatame, SASAKI Sujin / Hidenori NOGUCHI / Hiroyuki URA,Company Derashinera, KUKANGENDAI, Idiot Savant theater company, Contemporary Dance Showcase of Young Choreographers(Wataru Kitao [Baobab], deltalker, Reisa Shimojima, Minami Nakayashiki, AKUDO, Suichu-megane∞, Mai Kubota), Physical Theatre
Company GERO, Rafael Alvarez | BODYBUILDERS, Cru Cru Cirque DX, ARTWAVE (LIN Chi-Wei, WANG Hong-Kai, CHENG Yin-chen,Lin I-Chin), Yosuke Fujita, ZINKandSILENTLISTEN, Office Fey, ZEITAKU BINBOU, Shadow Play Theatre KAKASHIZA, Gerard Lebik andRyoko Akama, Namdi, Tesshu, N///K (natural killer), 86B210, NPO ARTS WORKS (Kuniko Kato), Dorothy Melander-Dayton, Fumen Kaiga,ARICA, Executive Committee of DANCE LAB, TAKEMOTO Takuya, Mask Theatre OMOTE, kushida yoshimitsu / Dance Company Lasta,N₂, Yoko Ando / ZOU-NO-HANA BALLET PROJECT, Safari P, Setagaya-Silk, Co. Un Yamada
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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Registration/Tickets
ProfessionalRegistration

TPAMDirection

Online registration at the official website
Registration fee: 5,000 JPY
Deadline: 18:00 on February 4, 2019 (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 4,000 JPY)
Theatre) and Peatix*Some programs are admission free and do not require reservation

TPAM
Exchange

Admission free (Group Meeting hostregistration fee: 4,000–20,000 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 2019 (TPAM2019)

PeriodSaturday February 9 – Sunday February 17, 2019

VenuesKAAT Kanagawa Arts Theatre, Kosha33 (Kanagawa Prefectural Housing Supply Corporation),
Yokohama Port Opening Memorial Hall, Zou-no-hana Terrace, BankART Station, Yokohama Red Brick
Warehouse No.1, mass×mass Kannai Future Center, Amazon Club and other multiple venues inYokohama 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

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 2019, Open Network for Performing Arts Management (ON-PAM), Artsite
Lounge “Creation of Space and Engagement in Art”

Websitehttps://www.tpam.or.jp

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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