YPAM Fringe

A fringe festival in Yokohama – the place to see and be seen – for discovering new talents of contemporary performing arts.

  • Shuki-Shuki Juicy (pilot version)
    Yokohama Chinatown. A 150-year chronicle loaded into the App.
    orangcosong × Erik Kuong × Jimi Zhang
    12.01 Fri
    App “Chito”
  • Kakiagezareba, toki.
    Troubles around a persimmon tree. This and that lonely speculation about possession.
    Taishu Iizuka + Ryohei Yokota
    12.01 Fri
    Hachibankan
  • prime place
    Pray for our future by offering things that were left behind
    MUL LABEL
    12.01 Fri – 12.02 Sat
    ST Spot
  • iwowatashi
    回吕口
    SHEN XINGZHOU
    12.01 Fri – 12.02 Sat
    ART STUDIO I’M HERE
  • Crito
    Illuminate the contemporary body through shimmering visual effects and encounter Socrates in this very age.
    Mr.DAYDREAMER
    12.02 Sat
    BLEND PARK
  • To know
    An interactive improvisational theater that teaches you the importance of looking hard and getting to know someone
    ASI-PRO
    12.03 Sun
    Yoshinocho Shimin Plaza Gallery
  • zumba relax
    Zumba love! Zumba dancing!
    HYPER TERU.MASTER KEN.ESPAR OMIKO
    12.03 Sun
    Hinodecho Shichoshitsu Sono-3
  • Fear
    Fears experienced by an ordinary woman in her life.These fears are neither scary nor terrifying, they are hidden in everyday life.
    Guo Jing
    12.05 Tue
    ART SPACE nitehinchi
  • 6steps | Dance Born from 6 Steps + Choreographic Note + Direction
    One 6steps, Two directions
    6steps
    12.06 Wed – 12.07 Thu
    ST Spot
  • in, from, within here
    Dance with the sound in, from, within here.
    Mei Yamanaka & Sascia Pellegrini
    12.08 Fri
    ART SPACE nitehinchi
  • Escape to light. White Out.
    Yuu Amemiya
    12.08 Fri
    Nige bar White Out
  • KANCHU-GOZE (Goze in the Mid-Winter)
    The GOZE tradition is extinct now. I will explore it from the point of view of what we can share today in the tradition.
    Eine Feige　Aiko Kimura (dance) × Tomomi Nakamura (scenography)
    12.09 Sat – 12.10 Sun
    Kanagawa Prefectural Youth Center Studio HIKARI
  • Takuya Takemoto Solo Performance “See a Beetle”
    What does it mean for a person to stand in front of a person in performance? Ahead of 2024 European tour, Takemoto Takuya performs this solo piece and presentation through subtle movements and sensations.
    Takuya Takemoto
    12.09 Sat – 12.17 Sun
    Archiship Library&Café
  • JAZZ DAIMYO
    The great Yasutaka Tsutsui’s master novel, adapted for the stage by Director Mitsunori Fukuhara. A frenzy of music and dance, updated for the modern era!
    Produced by KAAT Kanagawa Arts Theatre
    12.09 Sat – 12.24 Sun
    KAAT Kanagawa Arts Theatre Hall
  • Hand Shadows ANDERSEN
    Andersen’s stories spun only by the shadow of hands: “Thumbelina,” “The Little Match Girl,” and “The Ugly Duckling”
    Shadow Play Theatre KAKASHIZA
    12.09 Sat – 12.10 Sun
    Yokohama Doll Museum Akaikutsu (Red Shoes) Theatre
  • Marginal Consort: Kazuo Imai 3 Days
    Marginal Consort is a project for collective improvisation that starts from an impulse to make a sound.
    Kazuo Imai, Tomonao Koshikawa, Kei Shii, Masami Tada
    12.09 Sat
    Former Daiichi Bank Yokohama Branch
  • TRYPTOPHYLIA
    Step into our web of stories. Together we weave.
    Tam Thi Pham, Dong Zhou, elisELIS, Daria Geske
    12.09 Sat – 12.10 Sun
    WAKABACHO WHARF
  • Dance Showcase 2023 of Japan, Macau and Taiwan
    Dance showcase of choreographers which are selected and presented by producers from Japan, Macau and Taiwan.
    Curated by Fuyuko Mezawa, Erik Kuong and Mina H.P. WANG
    12.10 Sun – 12.14 Thu
    KAAT Kanagawa Arts Theatre Medium Studio
  • TRANSHUMANIST
    Lene Boel is a artistic leader and choreographer in NEXT ZONE a Danish based dance company producing performances for public of all ages . The company tours extensively nationally and internationally latest at Festival Suresnes Cities , Düsseldorf Festival, Danse, Festival Quatiers Danses, Théâtre de Nîmes, Festival Les Boreales and Festival Culturel de Mayo in Mexico .
    NEXT ZONE
    12.10 Sun – 12.11 Mon
    BankART KAIKO
  • Kazuo Imai Quartet: Kazuo Imai 3 Days
    This free jazz is an outrage and a cry to the present day, which is even worse than it used to be.
    Kazuo Imai (g), Tsutomu Todo (sax), Nobuyoshi Ino (b), Hiroshi Yamazaki (ds)
    12.11 Mon
    GIGS YOKOHAMA TSURUMI
  • Sorry, I’d like to dance with you
    It’s bliss to wait for someone, living your life not knowing who that person is.
    Yao Theatre
    12.12 Tue – 12.13 Wed
    Yokohama Doll Museum Akaikutsu (Red Shoes) Theatre
  • of a voice, its two shadows
    Phantom will arise in, where a place is rendered by following a trace as a series of memory.
    Minoru Sato -m/s, Ami Yoshida, Asuna
    12.13 Wed – 12.14 Thu
    Forum Minamiota (Gender Equality Center Yokohama South)
  • Stream
    Pandemic and the various “with”s that run parallel to our daily lives
    Pijin Neji
    12.13 Wed – 12.15 Fri
    WAKABACHO WHARF
  • MANUAL
    A one-on-one performance that transforms a public library into a space of sensory encounter and heightened awareness.
    Adam Kinner & Christopher Willes
    12.14 Thu
    A secret location close to the YPAM Fringe Centre
  • intim- 密/隠/現
    A physical performance experimenting with distances to ‘intimacy’ across borders, languages and cultural boundaries.
    Kristy Lai
    12.14 Thu – 12.17 Sun
    Hachibankan
  • Kazuo Imai Trio: Kazuo Imai 3 Days
    Music that barely stays in a static shape that is created by combining instruments and electric instruments.
    Kazuo Imai (g), Atsuhiro Ito (optron), Manabu Suzuki (electronics)
    12.14 Thu
    Yokohama AIREGIN
  • HOLOGRAM
    A double combo performance merging dance and theater by MWMW and VONNOS!!!!!
    MWNOS
    12.14 Thu – 12.17 Sun
    Kanagawa Prefectural Youth Center Studio HIKARI
  • Hitsudankai – From now/here, Silence
    Performance/workshop: written dialogue in complete silence. Free to come and go.
    orangcosong
    12.15 Fri
    Step Plaza
  • Stutter
    It took a pandemic to stop the world for just a moment. How has our internal ‘tempo’ changed since?
    Murasaki Penguin × RAW Moves
    12.15 Fri – 12.17 Sun
    Murasaki Penguin Project Totsuka
  • Giselle or about us
    This is the story of Giselle and all of us, Willi.
    waqu:iraz
    12.15 Fri – 12.17 Sun
    ST Spot
  • Conome Zenitaies : We Are Here, Noge!!!
    YES We might dance contemporary dance maybe
    Conome
    12.15 Fri
    Chat Noir
  • A YPAM Fringe 2023 program〜 Mikikura no Kai experimental performance ​ ​“OTOGI NO HITSUGI”
    We reconsider the relation and history of Asian countries and Japan in terms of a mother and child in a closed village.
    SHIN-ICHIRO MIKI・WATARU HATANO／Mikikura no Kai
    12.16 Sat
    BankART KAIKO
  • SONNET Jazz ver.
    A Romance play adapted from a collection of poems "THE SONNETS" by William Shakespeare with a live piano trio.
    Theatre Company Awai
    12.16 Sat – 12.17 Sun
    Chat Noir
  • Graduate School of Film and New Media, Tokyo University of the Arts Open Theater “Ayakashi no Tsuzumi” by YUMENO Kyusaku
    A mad world created by an up-and-coming alternative theater company and a genius of electronic music.
    PSYCHOSIS with Dowser
    12.17 Sun
    Graduate School of Film and New Media, TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS Bashamichi Building
  • Rap battle of love and transformation
    Original rap play by people with mental illness
    OUTBACK ACTORS SCHOOL
    12.17 Sun
    Tanmachi Regional Care Centre