Performing Arts Japan 2021-2022
List of Awardees
The Japan Foundation is pleased to announce grant awards totaling USD 87,000 to 6 (six) organizations in theUnited States through the Performing Arts Japan (PAJ) Program for the 2021-2022 fiscal year. The grantrecipients are listed below. Please contact the Japan Foundation, New York and the Japan Foundation, Toronto forfurther information and finalized performance dates.

Touring Grant awards
Total projects: 4Total funds allocated: USD 60,000
Grant amounts: USD 10,000 – USD 20,000
Japan Society, Inc. (New York, NY) for Waves Across Time: Traditional Dance and Music of Okinawa, a U.S.
tour of traditional Okinawan performing arts by a group of dancers and musicians selected and led by the Artistic
Director of The National Theatre Okinawa Michihiko Kakazu, which celebrate the 50th anniversary ofOkinawa's return to Japan from the U.S.
Tour Dates: March 14 – March 30, 2022
Tour Locations: Furman University (Greenville, SC), Japan Society, Inc. (New York, NY), The Kennedy Centerof the Performing Arts (Washington, DC), Lafayette College (Easton, PA), University of Chicago–UChicago
Presents (Chicago, IL)
Taiko Arts Center (Honolulu, HI) for Breaking Through Tradition to Innovation: Kenny Endo's 45 Years inTaiko, which celebrates pre-eminent taiko artist Kenny Endo's 45 years of taiko drumming with a performanceand educational component tour.
Tour Dates: March – May 2022
Tour Locations: TBD
TaikoMix (Riverside, CA) for TAIKO: Tradition, Art, Innovation of Katsugi-Okedo and Odaiko. This tour with
Masayuki Sakamoto will share with the North American taiko community the taiko traditions of katsugi-okedoand odaiko.
Tour Dates: TBD
Tour Locations: University of California, Riverside (Riverside, CA), University of La Verne (La Verne, CA),
Simpson United Methodist Church (Arvada, CO), Denver Buddhist Temple (Denver, CO)The Lab SF (San Francisco, CA) for ASUNA 100 Keyboards U.S. Tour, a tour of ASUNA is the first-ever U.S.
presentations of the musician and sound artist’s singular piece for one hundred toy keyboards.
Tour Dates: April 8– April 27, 2022
Tour Locations: The Lab (San Francisco, CA), VOLUME (Los Angeles, CA), Fusebox Festival (Austin, TX),
Bowerbird (Philadelphia, PA), Contemporary Art Center (CAC) (Cincinnati, OH), Non-Event (Boston, BA)

Collaboration Grant awards
Total projects: 2Total funds allocated: USD 27,000
Grant amounts: USD 12,000 – USD 15,000
Piano Spheres (Los Angeles, CA) for Waveforms: New Music for Ondes Martinot, Piano and Shakuhachi, acollaboration between Takashi Harada (Ondes Martenot), Mark Robson (piano), and Kojiri Umezaki(shakuhachi).
Project Period: March 25 – April 7, 2022
Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (Portland, OR) for NOTHINGBEING, a dance performance project byPortland-based Japanese choreographer Takahiro Yamamoto in collaboration with artists Samita Sinha, Anna
Martine Whitehead, and a Portland-based artist (TBD).
Project Period: January – June 2022

PAJ Advisory Committee Members (as of December 2020)
Members from North America• Mr. Ron Berry (Executive & Artistic Director, Fusebox)• Ms. Sherrie Johnson (Executive Director, Crow's Theatre)• Mr. Drew Klein (Performing Arts Director, Center for Contemporary Art)
• Mr. Edgar Miramontes (Deputy Executive Director & Curator, REDCAT)• Ms. Shanta Thake (Senior Director of Artistic Programs, The Public Theater)
Members from Japan• Mr. KONUMA Jun-ichi (Professor, Faculty of Letters, Arts and Sciences, Waseda University)• Ms. TACHIKI Akiko (Dance critic)