Performing Arts Japan
List of Awardees 2009-2010
The Japan Foundation is pleased to announce grant awards totaling US$270,000 to 15
organizations in the United States through the PAJ Program for the 2009-2010 fiscal year.
The grant recipients are listed below. (Please contact the Japan Foundation, New York forfurther information and finalized performance dates).
PAJ Touring Grant 2009-2010
Total projects: 8
Total funds allocated: $171,000
Grant amounts: $12,000 – $48,000
Dansology, Inc. (New York, NY) for a three-city tour of Blocks ofContinuality/Movement-Live Cinema, a dance and new media work that tells three stories
taking place in a world created in a 3D space and on stage as one environment where a system
is installed to detect the location and motion of the dancers on stage, which will allow them tointeract with the 3D space, virtual word, in real-time.
Tour Dates: February – March, 2010
Tour Locations: Dance Theater Workshop (New York, NY); The Dance Center of Columbia
College Chicago (Chicago, IL); Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography(Tallahassee, FL)
Japan America Society of Iowa, Inc. (Des Moines, IA) for a fourteen-city tour of English
Rakugo & Hanjotei (Japanese traditional comic story telling & Japanese variety hall) by aprofessional Rakugo performer, Kaishi Katsura.
Tour Dates: September 1 - October 30, 2009 & April 2010
Tour Locations: Missouri Botanical Garden (St. Louis, MO); Greenwich Library Auditorium(Greenwich, CT); University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA); University of Nevada (LasVegas, NV); University of New Mexico (Albuquerque, NM); Colorado State University(Denver, CO); Houston Community College (Houston, TX); Trammell & Margaret Crow
Collection of Asian Arts (Dallas, TX); Vanderbilt University (Nashville, TN); New Orleans
Museum of Arts (New Orleans, LA); National Cherry Blossom Festival (Washington, DC);The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (Washington, DC); Indian Hills JuniorHigh School (Des Moines, IA); Carmel High School ( Camel, IN)
Japan Society, Inc. (New York, NY) for a three-city tour for the Manga Project (workingtitle) created by choreographer/dancer Jeremy Wade commissioned by Japan Society. Mr.
Wade will assemble an international team of artists including Japanese manga artist Hiroshi
Otsuka, musician and sound designer Brendan Dougherty from Berlin and video artist Rob
Roth from New York.
Tour Dates: December 2009 & January 10-23, 2010
Tour Locations: Japan Society (New York, NY); Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (SanFrancisco, CA); University of Missouri - St. Louis (St. Louis, MO)

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Repertory Dance Theatre (RDT) (Salt Lake City, UT) for a six-city tour of Michio Ito: East
Meets West by Repertory Dance Theatre, including performances and workshops to impart agreat understanding of Michio Ito (1893-1961), who consciously sought to create art blending
elements of east and west as conceived in his era.
Tour Dates: July 1, 2009 – June 30, 2010
Tour Locations: Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center (Salt Lake City, UT); Omark
Performing Arts Center (Omark, WA); Columbia Basin Allied Arts of Moses Lake (MosesLake, WA); University of Oregon (Eugene, OR); Great Basin College (Elko, NV); Desert Arts
Council (Hermiston, OR)
Sweet Jane Productions dba International WOW Company (Brooklyn, NY) for a two-city
tour of AUTO DA FE, adapted from Masataka Matsuda's play and produced by Josh Fox andhis New York based International WOW Company.
Tour Dates: February-March, 2010
Tour Locations: SideMart Theatrical Grocery (Montreal, Canada); Interact Center for the
Visual and Performing Arts (Minneapolis, MN)
University of Hawaii Foundation (Honolulu, HI) for a three-city tour of AURA-J, aprofessional Japanese instrument ensemble founded by Minoru Miki.
Tour Dates: March 1-15, 2010
Tour Locations: University of Hawaii (Honolulu, HI); East West Center Japanese Garden(Honolulu, HI); TBD (Maui, HI); Texas A&M University (College Station, TX)
Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, MN) for a three-city tour of Miroku by Saburo
Teshigawara/KARAS, one of Japan's leading and internationally renowned choreographersand interdisciplinary artists.
Tour Dates: April 12 – May 2, 2010
Tour Locations: Wexner Center for the Arts (Columbus, OH); Walker Art Center(Minneapolis, MN); National Art Center (Ottawa, Canada)World Music Institute (WMI) (New York, NY) for a four-city tour of Khoomei-Taiko
Ensemble Project, designed to be a collaborative partnering of traditional and contemporary
Japanese and Mongolian musical forms with artists from Japan, Mongolia, and the UnitedStates.
Tour Dates: September – October, 2009
Tour Locations: State University of New York at Stony Brook (Stony Brook, NY); WorldMusic Institute (New York, NY); Harlem Stage/Aaron Davis Hall (New York, NY); The John
F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (Washington, DC); Town Hall Seattle (Seattle,WA)

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PAJ Collaboration Grant 2009-2010
Total projects: 7
Total funds allocated: $99,000
Grant amounts: $7,500 – $21,500
7 Loaves, Inc. AKA GOH PRODUCTIONS (New York, NY) The final phrase of A PAGEOUT OF ORDER. Sizzle Ohtaka (singer/narrator), Koichi Makigami (composer/vocalist),
Ryohei Yokoyama (dancer), Nobuko Higuchi (dancer), Soichiro Migita (sound designer)
and Kyoko Hirano (dramaturg) will join Yoshiko Chuma with the School of Hard Knocks
for the production.
Project Period: Fall 2009 – Summer 2010
Asia Society (New York, NY) will develop the final stage of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle,original interdisciplinary theatre production based on Haruki Murakami's novel of the same
name, to premiere under the artistic direction of Stephen Earnhart.
Project Period: July 1 – Fall 2009
Danspace Project (Kota Yamazaki/Fluid hug-hug) (New York, NY) Kota Yamazaki withhis company Fluid hug-hug will create a new dance work, (Personal or Visual Aspects of)
Fishing, in close relation to the interactive environment and visual ideas created by Cecile
Pitois from Paris. Amanda Ringger, a lighting designer and Masahiro Sugaya, a composer
will join this collaboration as well.
Project Period: July 1 – December 12, 2009
Inta, Inc. (Eiko & Koma) (New York, NY) Eiko & Koma will collaborate with a number ofartists and institutions to create a retrospective of their work. Sam Miller (dramaturg),William Johnston (historian and photographer), Doryun Chong (curator), David Ferri(lighting) and Shoko Letton (video archive and installation) will join the collaboration team.
Project Period: July 1, 2009 – June 30, 2010
International House Philadelphia, Inc. (Philadelphia, PA) Two musician-composers, GeneColeman (Philadelphia) and Akikazu Nakamura (Tokyo) will compose a new collaborative
work and live score for the Japanese silent film, A page of Madness.
Project Period: July 2009 – Fall 2010
MAPP International Productions, Inc. (Yasuko Yokoshi) (New York, NY) A postmodernchoreographer Yasuko Yokoshi and master teacher of Kabuki Su-odori dance, Masumi
Seyama from Tokyo will collaborate on a creation of a full-evening dance work Tyler Tyler,that uses traditional, deconstructed and new choreographic material generated from a classic
work of medieval Japanese literature, The tale of the Heike to explore the essence of “dance”
regardless of culture, techniques, and trainings.
Project Period: July 2009 – March 2010
Yara Arts Group (New York, NY) New York based director Tom Lee and Japanesetraditional puppet artist Koryu Nishikawa V of Hachioji Kuruma Ningyo will collaborate on8

work of traditional and contemporary puppetry performed by an English-speaking storyteller
with a cast of international puppeteers.
Project Period: Spring 2010

PAJ Advisory Committee Members (as of December 2008)

Ms. Elizabeth Boone (Artistic and Executive Director, Miami Light Project)
Ms. Rachel Cooper (Director, Cultural Programs and Performing Arts, Asia Society)
Mr. Lane Czaplinski (Artistic Director, On The Boards/Behnke Center for Contemporary
Performance)
Mr. Charles Helm (Director of Performing Arts, Wexner Center for the Arts, The Ohio
State University)
Mr. Arnold Malina (Chief Programming Officer and Artistic Director, Flynn Center for the
Performing Arts)
Mr. Peter Taub (Director of Performance Programs, Museum of Contemporary Art
Chicago)Mr. Sixto Wagan (Co-Executive Director/Performing Arts Curator, DiverseWorks
Artspace)
Ms. MK Wegmann (CEO and President, National Performance Network)
Mr. Martin Wollesen (Director, University Events Office, UC San Diego)9