YPAM Fringe

A fringe festival introducing a wide range of independent performances taking place during YPAM. Diverse artists and companies from Japan and abroad get together and present compelling contemporary performances, alive with raw emotion and creative impulse, to professionals and general audiences. Ticketing arrangements vary.

  • Spaces-In-Between Variations in Body-Writing
    Variations in Body-Writing: An exploration of the narrow field between existence and non-existence.
    Sandie BRISCHLER
    11.28 Fri – 12.11 Thu
    Site-A Gallery Beneath the Railways / Silk Road Dance Hall
  • Furutamaru Kodan “FULL MODEL CHANGE”
    A dark comedy about how we transform to survive in a happiness-obsessed competitive society.
    Furutamaru Theatre Company
    11.28 Fri – 11.30 Sun
    ST Spot
  • Happening Fujisawa
    Site-Specific Art at Fujisawa’s Landmark: The Meiten Building
    Ippei Yonezawa
    11.29 Sat
    391THEATRE
  • Un-Kintsugied
    Break Things Feel Good. A participatory performance set in Koganecho’s backstreets.
    Asami Kiuchi
    11.29 Sat – 12.07 Sun
    Koganecho Mini Residense H-2
  • Sayonakidori
    Sayonakidori − an onomatopoeic soundscape where distant echoes of Japan resonate through a European gaze.
    MMLAB theatre
    11.29 Sat
    Art Center NEW
  • The Marginal History of FREE JAZZ in Japan: Yokohama, a city united by jazz! Yokohama Jazz Promenade Satellite
    Criticism, Audience, Photography, Film, and Advertising: A Jazz Archive Beyond the Record
    KUDO Haruka / HABAYA Kazuma / HOSODA Narushi
    11.29 Sat
    Art Center NEW
  • Shumpei Nemoto | Underway
    A solo performance dancing with sound emerging from the vibrations of movement and focusing on its generative process.
    Shumpei Nemoto
    11.30 Sun – 12.12 Fri
    Step Plaza
  • ATTICHOO
    Two steps, Ten centimeters between shoulders, Eyes drifting apart.
    Leisure Time
    12.02 Tue – 12.03 Wed
    Site-A Gallery Beneath the Railways
  • The GAME
    It’s funny but it makes me sad; it’s sad but it makes me laugh.
    Tokyo Tambourine
    12.03 Wed – 12.07 Sun
    Yokohama Doll Museum Multipurpose Room
  • NANJING PROJECT vol.6 (working title)
    After three years of researching,  how do we speak about the Nanjing Massacre through performance?
    Kamome Machine
    12.04 Thu – 12.08 Mon
    ST Spot
  • ZOU-NO-HANA FUTURESCAPE PROJECT 2025: A Thousand and One Night
    Zou-no-hana Terrace
    12.05 Fri – 12.07 Sun
    ZOU-NO-HANA TERRACE
  • Two Practices Related to the Body: 1. Dance and the Performing Arts in the Age of AI: Past, Present, and Future (Working Title) 2. Interference patterns of birds and humans
    Through engaging with difference, we reflect on the environment around our bodies and our present position within it.
    Minami Nakayashiki / Garage / kiyos Yonesque / Mitsutane Ota
    12.05 Fri – 12.14 Sun
    Yokohama National University
  • whereverever
    “whereverever” combines experimental film and dance,  posing pertinent and playful questions about distance from ancestral places.
    Mardon + Mitsuhashi
    12.05 Fri – 12.06 Sat
    WAKABACHO WHARF
  • “DADDA” A France-Japanese Contemporary Circus Co-Creation: Yokohama 2025 Edition
    Inspired by Akutagawa’s The Spider’s Thread, this circus piece reveals the light and darkness within human nature
    Setouchi Circus Factory
    12.05 Fri – 12.07 Sun
    KAAT Kanagawa Arts Theatre Large Studio
  • Work In Progress for BLINK Vol.2
    The present position of thinking about Two faces “FUTAOMOTE”
    Yo Nakamura（Yo+）
    12.06 Sat
    KAAT Kanagawa Arts Theatre Atrium
  • Poetry Reading: Approaching the place, you converse with the people living in your memories
    This is a poetry reading event featuring poems created by connecting personal memories with local landscapes.
    Poetry Reading: Approaching the place, you converse with the people living in your memories
    12.06 Sat
    Taisei Porch Front
  • It’s OK to be a Shut-in! ~Hello from the Closet~
    A play based on the experience of OUTBACK member who suffers from mental illness and has become a social recluse
    OUTBACK Actors School
    12.06 Sat – 12.07 Sun
    Yokohama Doll Museum Akaikutsu (Red Shoes) Theatre
  • Radiant / Three thousand
    Reflecting on the radiant vanishing of time, inspired by the poetry of Dylan Thomas and Nankichi Niimi.
    Tonali-ya
    12.06 Sat – 12.21 Sun
    391THEATRE
  • [Performance Canceled] AN ORDINARY DAY
    We are ordinary people. We are together.
    Yao Theatre
    12.06 Sat
    THE HALL YOKOHAMA
  • SYAKÉ’s “Richard III”
    天才的な悪人の魂がおどり、うたう。リチャード三世の孤独の祭りへようこそ！
    SYAKÉ
    12.06 Sat
    SZERELEM
  • Mr.daydreamer #10 «Hamletmachine»
    Crossing Borders from Fukuoka: Creating “Square-Style” Theater with Artist Taishi Urakawa
    Mr.daydreamer
    12.07 Sun – 12.09 Tue
    Art Center NEW
  • Shadow, Wall, Light, Dark; I can recall it, and Beer.
    40 years after the war. 80 years after the war. Love & adventure have faded out but the present is still here as something eternal.
    COLLOL
    12.07 Sun
    Chat Noir
  • Movers Platform JP2
    A performance that explores the intrinsic value of movements beyond dance genres
    Hiroaki Umeda
    12.07 Sun
    KAAT Kanagawa Arts Theatre Atrium
  • Push Pull Matters
    Push or pull? No. Push while pulling, and pull while pushing.
    Yohei Hamada / Odorusakana Dan-s
    12.07 Sun
    ZOU-NO-HANA TERRACE / Zou-no-hana Park
  • Accumulation
    Dancing for climate action
    Co.ERASGA
    12.08 Mon – 12.10 Wed
    WAKABACHO WHARF
  • The Ego and His Loss
    The tragedy of a man who fell into isolation and a migrant worker, due to hostility stirred up by the global economy.
    dracom
    12.08 Mon – 12.09 Tue
    THE HALL YOKOHAMA
  • a butterfly swimming in the water
    lap dance
    Osamu Shikichi
    12.08 Mon – 12.11 Thu
    A hotel in Yokohama city
  • [Performance Canceled] Kung Food
    Kung Food – Epic fails, comedy prevails.
    Camille Trébuchet x Astrid Tseng
    12.09 Tue – 12.11 Thu
    Step Plaza
  • Traversing the Mist
    A free-roaming XR experience inside a sensual dreamscape, somewhere between love & loneliness.
    CHOU Tung-Yen/ Very Theatre Company
    12.09 Tue – 12.11 Thu
    Art Center NEW
  • In the Mist
    A dreamlike, poetic VR experience set in a gay sauna, in a dim, mist-filled room where desire unfolds in silence.
    CHOU Tung-Yen/ Very Theatre Company
    12.09 Tue – 12.11 Thu
    Art Center NEW
  • Kengeki Harukoma-za Performance in Yokohama
    Taishu Engeki performance full of joy and beauty to amaze you
    Kengeki Harukoma-za
    12.09 Tue – 12.11 Thu
    Miyoshi Engeijo Theater
  • Bay of Lunik／Sinus Lunicus
    Our footprints visible in the moon. The voices of our friends and loved ones heard from the waves. Our small play.
    snuunuu
    12.09 Tue – 12.13 Sat
    Murasaki Penguin Project Totsuka
  • Mirai Circus Network Showcase – Japan Contemporary Circus Network
    Mirai Circus Network
    12.10 Wed
    KAAT Kanagawa Arts Theatre Atrium
  • 391THEATRE venue tour
    Sixty Years of a Fading District — Turning the Final Days into Theatre
    Landscape THEATRE
    12.10 Wed
    391THEATRE
  • Curtain Call
    mum & gypsy explores theatre as a lived practice— reflecting presence, process, and the now on stage.
    mum & gypsy
    12.10 Wed – 12.11 Thu
    Kanagawa Prefectural Youth Center Studio HIKARI
  • She Swims Away Beyond Reach [Drama Reading]
    How far back is enough for us to make it right…?
    Bird Park
    12.11 Thu – 12.13 Sat
    Hachibankan
  • My Neighbor
    When does a “Japanese” person begin to FEEL Japanese?
    Onoma Riko / Shukou
    12.11 Thu – 12.14 Sun
    ZOU-NO-HANA TERRACE
  • Fabrics of Time
    Digital Arts × Paper Installation × Dance Theatre ──a journey through memories and physical dialogues
    Ieng Chi Dance Association
    12.11 Thu – 12.12 Fri
    THE HALL YOKOHAMA
  • No One’s Rite
    Give the words back, they said, they said,  waited so long, till time has bled.
    Hate to Cheek
    12.11 Thu – 12.14 Sun
    ST Spot
  • a newt is on a stone
    How can we coexist with the space and objects around us?
    Takuya Takemoto
    12.11 Thu – 12.14 Sun
    Waikiki STUDIO
  • Play Golf − YNU
    Encounter the history of the land at YOKOHAMA National University
    IUI Exhibition 2025–2026, Organized by Students of YOKOHAMA National University
    12.12 Fri – 12.14 Sun
    Yokohama National University
  • Silent amusement of a couple in white, inside.: & Echoes of laughter !
    This pair will share some gorgeously funny scenarios with love. Prepare to be intrigued by the unique silent comedy.
    SIVOUPLAIT
    12.12 Fri
    Yokohama Doll Museum Akaikutsu (Red Shoes) Theatre
  • Sending this to a dear friend: Yota’s 5th Performance
    The scenery is always changing. For those living in the present, in the gap between the changing times.
    Yota
    12.12 Fri – 12.14 Sun
    Art Center NEW
  • HALO effect
    音と想像、テクノロジーが織りなす、伝統と実験の交差点。
    Macao Percussion Association
    12.12 Fri
    THE HALL YOKOHAMA
  • The Japanese Rite of Meeting Ghosts
    Would you like to take part in a Japanese-style ghost meeting ritual?
    GENZO
    12.12 Fri – 12.14 Sun
    LIVRIZ
  • Between Resonance and the Body —An Improvisational Hypothesis
    The improvisational nature of Rōkyoku without a score and its intersection with the body’s Margins
    rin tamagawa
    12.12 Fri
    Silk Road Dance Hall
  • 『c/soniferous state』project : Hol a szivem : a singing-music performance ritual by Li Tzumei and Shang Ruofei
    a singing-music performance ritual by Li Tzumei and Shang Ruofei
    Feral-ferous
    12.12 Fri – 12.13 Sat
    Taisei Porch Front
  • Three Dialogues on “the Other” and “Trauma”
    A Public Lecture on “the Performative” and “the Other and Wounds” by a Philosopher, a Psychiatrist, and an Artist
    Yuka Seki, Yukako Hombo, and Rei Nagai / Nodoka Odawara Laboratory, Yokohama National University
    12.13 Sat – 12.14 Sun
    Yokohama National University
  • girls Double Bill "Which Witch" & "MAMA"
    Invitation to “Witch Hunt and Capitalism’s After-party Picnic / Journey to the Otherworld in Search of Mother 2”
    girls
    12.13 Sat – 12.14 Sun
    CHOJA STUDIO
  • ZAZI･ZOO Contemporary Counterfeit Theater
    A new space is born in Yokohama ——“The Cityi” opens its doors, inaugurated by ZAZI・ZOO.
    ZAZI･ZOO
    12.13 Sat
    The Cityi
  • Quarterlife: DAWN
    In Motion with Our Ambiguous Selves — A Physical Response to the QLC
    Keisuke Sugawara
    12.13 Sat – 12.14 Sun
    WAKABACHO WHARF
  • Marginal Consort
    A project for collective improvisation that begins with an impulse to emit sound
    Kazuo Imai, Tomonao Koshikawa, Kei Shii, Masami Tada
    12.13 Sat
    Art Center NEW
  • VISION / TO KNOW
    An improvisational theater work with audience participation  by ASI-PRO Messenger, who has an intellectual disability
    ASI-PRO
    12.14 Sun
    ART STUDIO I’M HERE