Performing Arts Japan 2011-2012
List of Awardees
The Japan Foundation is pleased to announce grant awards totaling US$267,299 to 11
organizations in the United States and Canada through the PAJ Program for the 2011-2012
fiscal year. The grant recipients are listed below. (Please contact the Japan Foundation, NewYork for further information and finalized performance dates).

PAJ Touring Grant awards
Total projects: 3
Total funds allocated: $87,299
Grant amounts: $17,299 – $50,000
 New York Foundation for the Arts (Brooklyn, NY) for a tour of the ancient Japanese
harp called Kugo, by Tomoko Sugawara, introducing the Kugo and its repertoire to theUS and Canadian audiences.
Tour Dates: July 2011 – March 2012
Tour Locations: World Harp Congress (Vancouver, BC); Somerset Harp Festival(Parsippany, NJ); Asia Society and Symphony Space (New York, NY); Performing Arts
Society of Acadiana (Lafayette, LA); McNeese State University (Lake Charles, LA)
 San Francisco International Arts Festival (San Francisco, CA) for an American tour ofThe Crazy Cloud Collection by Ko Murobushi and the inkBoat ensemble.
Tour Dates: April - May 2012
Tour Locations: inkaround (Petrolia, CA); Highway Performance Gallery (Santa Monica,CA); San Francisco International Arts Festival (San Francisco, CA); The Painted Bride
Arts Center (Philadelphia, PA)
 Walker Arts Center (Minneapolis, MN) for a North American tour of chelfitch'saward-winning production of Hot Pepper, Air Conditioner, and the Farewell Speech,
written and directed by Toshiki Okada. The performance will be presented as part of theWalker Arts Center's OUT THERE Festival, PuSH Festival (Vancouver, Canada), andUnder the Radar Festival (New York, NY).
Tour Date: January 2012
Tour Locations: McGuire Theater (Minneapolis, MN), Performance Works (Vancouver,Canada), Japan Society (New York, NY)

PAJ Collaboration Grant awards
Total projects: 8
Total funds allocated: $180,000
Grant amounts: $15,000 – $35,000 Bang on a Can, Inc. (Brooklyn, NY) for collaboration between Tatsuya Yoshida andBang on a can's ASPHALT ORCHESTRA to create a new composition.
Project Period: July 2011-June 2012 Inta, Inc. (New York, NY) for Dawn: Early Music and Early Dance, collaboration
between Eiko & Koma and Kronos Quartet on a performance work for alternative
spaces. The piece will be half stage work and half living installation in a way thataddresses time and space without a story or an understandable beginning or end.
Project Period: July 2011-June 2012
 Japan Society, Inc. (New York, NY) for multifaceted collaboration with experimental
musician pioneers Otomo Yoshihide and Christine Marclay.
Project Period: November – December 2011
 Kyo-Shin-An Arts, Inc. (Brooklyn, NY) will collaborate with the renowned Lark Quarte+ to create Kammerraku, a classical chamber music program of newly commissioned
works for string quartet with Japanese instruments.
Project Period: July 2011-June 2012
 Phyzical Theatre, Across Ocean Division (Toronto, Canada) for Harajuku Rage, acollaboration between Canadian choreographer/director Maxine Heppner and Japanesedancer Takako Segawa on a new work, that draws from the contemporary harajuku
cos-play culture and their managa influence.
Project Period: July- October 2011
 Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (Portland, OR) for Offsite Dance Creation
Project. The Japan-based Offsite Dance will collaborate with two U.S.-based presenters toprovide creation resources and residency time to develop a new collaborative work
between Japanese choreographers/dancers Yoko Higashino, Mika Arashiki, Yukio
Suzuki, and Mari Fukutome and U.S. based artists Corrie Befort and Wayne Horvitz.
Project Period: July- September 2011 Shadow Light Productions (San Francisco, CA) for AINU SHADOW PROJECT. A new
multidisciplinary shadow theater work created by shadow master Larry Reed andprominent Ainu musician OKI. It will explore the mythology of the Ainu tribe of
Hokkaido, Japan, to illuminate the history, the plight, and the power of this little known
indigenous culture.
Project Period: September – December 2011 The Filed (New York, NY) for Kota Yamazaki's new work (glowing), inspired by thefamous essay In-ei Reisan written by Junichiro Tanizaki, one of the major writers ofmodern Japanese literature, in collaboration with an American architect Robert Kocik (setdesign) and Kathy Kaufmann (lighting). Kohji Setoh (music composer) will be invitedfrom Japan.
Project Period: December 2011

PAJ Advisory Committee Members (as of December 2010)
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Ms. Cathy Edwards (Director of Performance Programs, International Festival of Arts andIdeas)
Mr. Vallejo Gantner (Artistic Director, Performance Space 122)
Mr. Charles Helm (Director of Performing Arts, Wexner Center for the Arts, The OhioState University)
Mr. Arnold Malina (Chief Programming Officer and Artistic Director, Flynn Center for theArts)
Ms. Angela Mattox (Performing Arts Curator, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts)
Mr. Sixto Wagan (Co-Executive Director/Performing Arts Curator, DiverseWorksArtspace)
Ms. MK Wegmann (CEO and President, National Performance Network)
Mr. Martin Wollesen (Director, University Events Office, UC San Diego)