Program

YPAM's programs consist of YPAM Direction and YPAM Exchange, which are exclusively for registered professionals, and YPAM Showcase and YPAM Fringe, which are also open to the general public. Among the Joint Projects, we offer professional ticketing and reservations for Yokohama Dance Collection 2027 and DaBY Dance Days 2027.

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  • Twilight Tap [Session Ver.]
    Footsteps and rhythms echo through the city at dusk.
    Masaki Murata
    Bashamichi SPL (outdoor stage by the Yokohama Kannai Hall entrance)
  • Solo Performance by KIGAWA SEI ""Let’s Draw a Crop Circle (SOS!!)""
    Raised knowing a tsunami may one day swallow my hometown, I long to escape it with someone.
    KIGAWA SEI
    Bashamichi SPL (outdoor stage by the Yokohama Kannai Hall entrance)
  • Online Platform (Swapcard)
    11.4 Wed – 2.14 Sun
    Swapcard
  • Yokohama Dance Collection 2027
    01.30 Sat – 02.18 Thu
    Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse No. 1 / Noge Schale
  • DaBY Dance Days 2027
    Dance Base Yokohama
    02.05 Fri – 02.14 Sun
    Dance Base Yokohama 1F / 3F
  • Immersed in the World of Yokohama Mary
    I wear a pale face to conceal the most vivid of wounds
    The Nonsensemakers
    02.05 Fri – 02.14 Sun
  • Contracts in the Performing Arts: Lecture & Workshop for Building Connections
    ON-PAM
    02.05 Fri
    Hatoba Kaikan 4th floor Large Meeting Room
  • Late Night Meeting Point
    Nightly gathering for YPAM Registrants
    2.5 Fri – 2.14 Sun
    YPAM Fringe Center
  • 5:03
    A one-to-one walking performance at dawn. The slow journey unfolds with the sun, exploring the affect of dawn.
    Sangmin Choe
    02.05 Fri – 02.14 Sun
    Yamashita Park
  • SUGOROKU of Memories — Fujisawa Meiten Building: 391THEATRE Project in YPAM Fringe 2027
    Walk the Building Through Memory.
    Riko Onoma／Aoi Ito
    02.05 Fri – 02.14 Sun
    Fujisawa Meiten Building
  • How to Become Einstein in One Hour?: Wakabacho WHARF Fringe 2027
    Be Creative or Die!
    Dimitar Uzunov / Arte Urbana Collectif
    02.05 Fri – 02.07 Sun
    WAKABACHO WHARF
  • Clean, Smart and Temporary
    The highly anticipated second production by KAAT Kanagawa Arts Theatre from Okinawan playwright Takuya Kaneshima and director Maiko Tanaka.
    Written by Takuya Kaneshima and directed by Maiko Tanaka
    02.05 Fri – 02.07 Sun
    KAAT Kanagawa Arts Theatre Medium Studio
  • 28 Hours 01 Minute, Tangerine: Wakabacho WHARF Fringe 2027
    Aoji is pregnant with her first child. A sequence of mysterious events begins in the middle of the night.
    Momeraths
    02.05 Fri – 02.07 Sun
    WAKABACHO WHARF
  • Agnès and Lassina: To a New Garden
    Just as despair engulfs the world, the two meet near the desert.
    Fumio Kakiya
    02.05 Fri – 02.14 Sun
    Studio Site-D Community Space Beneath the Railways
  • The Lesson: 4-City Tour
    Words, sounds, and the lesson run wild!
    Nuthmique
    02.05 Fri – 02.08 Mon
    MURASAKI PENGUIN PROJECT TOTSUKA
  • planetary convalescing
    is it able (to recover) ?
    Hiquoza
    02.05 Fri – 02.08 Mon
    Step Plaza
  • Wakabacho WHARF Fringe 2027: LYRIC DRAGONFLY: Chrysalis in Three Arias
    A crisis could be the perfect moment to discover your wings and FLY!
    MikrÓPERA
    02.05 Fri – 02.07 Sun
    WAKABACHO WHARF
  • 4 of Us
    The essence of theatre. A miraculous performance by four actors—plus one.
    DULL-COLORED POP
    02.05 Fri – 02.11 Thu
    Waikiki STUDIO
  • Not for You
    A lecture-performance in which a violinist herself discusses and embodies the “skin” = costume of a female musician
    Ayako Kato
    02.05 Fri – 02.08 Mon
    ST Spot
  • Play and Play Black: Wakabacho WHARF Fringe 2027
    Art is always the solution.
    Mireille Bergeron and Gérard-Charles Valente / NW International
    02.05 Fri – 02.07 Sun
    WAKABACHO WHARF
  • An Ego Tunnel
    “This is my body”: for a while, that certainty turns translucent—and another’s memory finds a place inside you.
    Yutaro Hirao+Megumi Ishimaru+Ryo Kobayashi
    02.05 Fri – 02.13 Sat
    art gallery OWL / TAISEI Bldg.
  • Puppet Play for A Shell's Diary
    Her difficult days transform into one great joke.
    So Sakurai
    02.06 Sat – 02.07 Sun
    ART STUDIO I’M HERE
  • 6steps | Landscapes with 6steps
    Place 6 steps, gather, gaze, and dance.
    6steps
    02.06 Sat – 02.11 Thu
    In front of the Yokohama Museum of Art, and elsewhere
  • Hirunomi In The Dark
    A former drag king tries to learn how to move “like a woman” in Japan. Meet them at their favorite Yokohama bar
    Louise Bonpaix
    02.06 Sat – 02.07 Sun
    Listening Bar Antibody
  • Marginal Consort
    A project for collective improvisation that begins with an impulse to emit sound
    Marginal Consort
    02.06 Sat
    Art Center NEW
  • The Little Prince: 391THEATRE Project in YPAM Fringe 2027
    BICHAGEI takes its first step under its new structure with a new theater production of *The Little Prince* in Fujisawa.
    BICHAGEI
    02.06 Sat
    391THEATRE
  • Report from AIR Indonesia: Residency in Bandung, Visits to Bali and Jakarta: YNU Program in YPAM Fringe 2027
    Report from AIR Indonesia: Residency in Bandung, with Visits to Bali and Jakarta

    Minami NAKAYASHIKI
    02.06 Sat
    YPAM Fringe Center
  • The 11 hours
    Are memories ours, or does the forest dream them? Dissolve your spirit and awaken inside the quiet sleep of the tree.
    Slow Matters
    02.06 Sat – 02.08 Mon
    Hachibankan
  • Comedy of Darkness
    A story of conspiracy theories, parallel worlds and the pursuit of happiness in a fictional town.
    Gekidan Furosya
    02.06 Sat – 02.07 Sun
    KAAT Kanagawa Arts Theatre Large Studio
  • Odawara Lab Public Lecture Series, Yokohama National University 2027: YNU Program in YPAM Fringe 2027
    A Lecture on Accessibility by Miyuki Tanaka
    Odawara Nodoka
    02.07 Sun
    Yokohama National University
  • YPAM Reception
    2.7 Sun
    KAAT Kanagawa Arts Theatre Atrium
  • parking
    Unroll a picnic blanket and just be. A participatory project for sitting in a space where titles are left at the door.
    Chiniashi : Feet on Ground
    02.07 Sun
    Meeting Spot: Yamashita Park (near the Indian Water Tower)
  • CATCHER
    An international collaborative production by Surreal SoReal Theatre based in Montreal and Co. Un Yamada in Tokyo.
    Co.Un Yamada×Surreal SoReal Theatre
    02.07 Sun
    THE HALL YOKOHAMA
  • The Dig Thief: YNU Program in YPAM Fringe 2027
    Caught up in a fake find!? A Discovery Theatre of Lies and Truth!
    Ivumi
    02.07 Sun – 02.14 Sun
    Yokohama National University
  • Membrane 2 Membrane
    On a stage without curtains, words and bodies fire off back-to-back, pulsing from membrane to membrane.
    Taichi Yamagata + Zo Zhit
    02.07 Sun
    Chat Noir
  • Meeting Point
    A three-day intensive networking program featuring Symposia, as well as Testing Room and Roundtable sessions hosted by YPAM Registrants
    2.8 Mon – 2.10 Wed
    Hyatt Regency Yokohama 20th Floor
  • The Blue Bird Roosts in Night Tree
    Theatre where the actors become poetry itself, beyond meaning and understanding, simply being
    SYAKÉ
    02.09 Tue – 02.12 Fri
    Okurayama Memorial Hall
  • Introduction
    Rama Thaharani and Keni Soeriaatmadja
    02.09 Tue
    KAAT Kanagawa Arts Theatre Medium Studio
  • Fushitsusha
    Fushitsusha, led by 2026 Golden Lion laureate Keiji Haino, brings what has been called the world’s loudest live performance to KAAT’s Hall.
    Keiji Haino, Shingo Naruke, Noriaki Yoshida
    02.09 Tue
    KAAT Kanagawa Arts Theatre Hall
  • Good Burning
    “Loneliness and Money” Eroding Japan: A Modern Tragedy Befalling Live Streamers and Their Fans.
    takibibi
    02.09 Tue – 02.14 Sun
    Site-A Gallery Beneath the Railways
  • 391THEATRE Venue Tour + Backyard Talk: 391THEATRE Project in YPAM Fringe 2027
    Read the Architecture, Speak the Place
    Junpei Kiz/Landscape THEATRE
    02.10 Wed – 02.13 Sat
    391THEATRE
  • Anatomy of Power: Percussion x Taekwondo
    Power is invisible by nature.
    Macao Percussion Association
    02.10 Wed
    THE HALL YOKOHAMA
  • In Search of Nyong Watashi
    Irfanuddien Ghozali
    02.10 Wed
    KAAT Kanagawa Arts Theatre Medium Studio
  • Shapes Of Self
    A solo object theater using everyday objects as metaphors for society to re-examine the “normal” around us.
    Yohei Yamauchi
    02.10 Wed – 02.12 Fri
    Step Plaza
  • WAVEFRONT: 6 emerging choreographers' showcase
    A solo dance showcase by six next-generation choreographers, connecting the dance scenes of eastern and western Japan.
    Nanami Endo / Yoshiki Goto(Super D) / Yoko Takase / Mana Hashimoto / Hino7 / Shoko Fukushima
    02.10 Wed – 02.11 Thu
    ST Spot
  • Bang Bang
    An intense physical score pushing endurance to its edge, turning repetition into reflection on fragility and human connection.
    Manuel Roque
    02.10 Wed – 02.11 Thu
    KAAT Kanagawa Arts Theatre Large Studio
  • Off Orbit
    O／O
    Michiru Shin
    02.10 Wed – 02.14 Sun
  • Tuning: Pumice Radio — Yokohama Signal
    Tune. Until you hear the sound of waves. Seek a place for the resonance, set it there.
    Iris Chun-Tzu Chang
    02.11 Thu – 02.13 Sat
    Yusui Gallery
  • Artist Sharing—The Death of Singapore Theatre as Scripted by the Infocomm Media Development Authority of Singapore
    Alfian Sa’at
    02.11 Thu
    KAAT Kanagawa Arts Theatre Medium Studio
  • Artist Sharing—Pilgrimage to the North
    Irwan Ahmett & Tita Salina
    02.11 Thu
    KAAT Kanagawa Arts Theatre Medium Studio
  • More Often Than Not, We Don't Quite Line Up.
    People rarely understand each other. The conversation goes on.
    YENNUI
    02.11 Thu – 02.14 Sun
    Kanagawa Prefectural Youth Center Studio HIKARI
  • Vanilla Is Not a Tree
    Agnes Christina
    02.11 Thu
    KAAT Kanagawa Arts Theatre Medium Studio
  • FLOAT
    Melting endlessly. Dissipating into the distance.
    Akibako_Shuppan
    02.11 Thu – 02.14 Sun
    Hachibankan
  • Money and Blood: 1. Hemorrhage / 2. Varna Necropolis / 3. Blood Bank
    How many litres of blood would all the banks bleed if they all suffered a haemorrhage at the same time?
    Gaspar Lizano
    02.11 Thu – 02.14 Sun
    Chat Noir / Yusui Gallery / Rokkaku Beneath the Railways
  • Eternal Labor
    “It’s like we’re bugs. That’s right. We are. Laborers are bugs. Once you say it, it becomes real.”
    OLTA
    02.11 Thu – 02.14 Sun
    Art Center NEW
  • Mother: How to Escape Hell
    The dance suggests HOW TO escape from the hell of my family memory.
    Asamicro/Egglife
    02.11 Thu – 02.14 Sun
    PILE A collaborative studio
  • Artist Sharing—Remapping Tradition in Southeast Asia
    Pichet Klunchun
    02.12 Fri
    KAAT Kanagawa Arts Theatre Medium Studio
  • Yokai - yet unknown
    On not (yet) knowing. Dancing anyway.
    Yohei Hamada / Odorusakana Dan-s
    02.12 Fri – 02.13 Sat
    Bashamichi SPL (outdoor stage by the Yokohama Kannai Hall entrance)
  • Artist Sharing—Weapons of Mass Expression: #1 Goody Two Shoes (working title)
    Vicki Van Hout
    02.12 Fri
    KAAT Kanagawa Arts Theatre Medium Studio
  • Steep Slope Studio 20th Anniversary Program “Re: Layer”
    Midway up the slope, living in-between. Opening the rehearsal studio to creation in the making.
    Steep Slope Studio
    02.12 Fri – 02.14 Sun
    Steep Slope Studio
  • Green Theater Workshop 6th
    New Possibilities for the Performing Arts, Inspired by the UK’s "Theatre Green Book"
    KAAT Kanagawa Arts Theatre (Kanagawa Arts Foundation) / Image Nation Green
    02.12 Fri
    KAAT Kanagawa Arts Theatre Atelier
  • Anchoring 1.5
    Music as anchor, one body becomes many—breaking, rising anew.
    Chang Pao Hsin / Hsin Body Theatre
    02.12 Fri
    ART SPACE nitehinchi
  • Decolonial Expo
    Mulawali Institute
    02.12 Fri
    KAAT Kanagawa Arts Theatre Medium Studio
  • Echoes in Dreams (exiled rêverie)
    He was returning much aged, covered in scars, yet immaculate.
    Dirks Theatre Arts Association (Macao)
    02.12 Fri – 02.13 Sat
    THE HALL YOKOHAMA
  • Paiwan Zoo
    Beyond the colonial gaze, Paiwan culture lives, moves and transforms in a visually striking dialogue between ancestral knowledge and contemporary form.
    Tjimur Dance Theatre
    02.12 Fri
    KAAT Kanagawa Arts Theatre Hall
  • imiji パフューム 메이킹 : Wakabacho WHARF Fringe 2027
    image perfume making is an intergenerational render of and by Yooha and Zander exploring cross²-cosplay unbecoming.
    Zander Porter & Yooha Cheon
    02.13 Sat – 02.14 Sun
    WAKABACHO WHARF
  • Wound and Ground
    Hokuto Kodama
    02.13 Sat
    KAAT Kanagawa Arts Theatre Medium Studio
  • Mime Hamlet
    To be or not to be—maybe that’s the question.
    FUKUOKA Physical Theater
    02.13 Sat – 02.14 Sun
    CHOJA STUDIO
  • A Body of "Performing a Hearing Person"
    Questioning the Meaning of Performing Different Physicalities: A Documentary Performance Reframing “Acting Theory”
    Eri Makihara / Deafbird Production
    02.13 Sat – 02.16 Tue
    ST Spot
  • Bukowski
    The Armenian National Puppet Theatre boasts a 90-year history. It is making its first-ever tour to Japan.
    National Puppet Theatre after Hovhannes Toumanian
    02.13 Sat
    Noge Schale
  • YOKOHAMA Yassa-Mossa
    Postwar Yokohama! Chaos at the Orphanage! A High-Energy Comedy Full of Heart!
    Kanack Theater Company
    02.13 Sat – 02.14 Sun
    Kanack Hall
  • The Return of La Argentina
    Remembering, forgetting and ritualizing Kazuo Ohno’s Admiring La Argentina, in honor of Antonia Mercé, aka La Argentina.
    Trajal Harrell
    02.13 Sat – 02.14 Sun
    KAAT Kanagawa Arts Theatre Large Studio
  • Social Death Archive: Wakabacho WHARF Fringe 2027
    An experimental comedy about embarrassment. To hide, or to stay?
    Siming Lu
    02.13 Sat – 02.14 Sun
    WAKABACHO WHARF
  • Mirai Circus Network Contemporary Circus Showcase 2027
    We are presenting a showcase featuring contemporary circus artists from Japan.
    Mirai Circus Network
    02.13 Sat
    KAAT Kanagawa Arts Theatre Atrium
  • Urakai / Pakuri
    WE ARE ASIA Play (excerpt)
    aaa (asia avant-garde association)
    02.13 Sat
    The Cityi
  • About Kazuo Ohno: Season Two
    Takao Kawaguchi traces the “soul” of Butoh legend Kazuo Ohno through “form”, meticulously copying his movements, expressions and voice from archival recordings. The piece has been extensively reworked for this world premiere, incorporating Ohno’s later Butoh performances when standing to dance had become difficult for him.
    Takao Kawaguchi
    02.13 Sat – 02.14 Sun
    KAAT Kanagawa Arts Theatre Large Studio
  • 請翻譯這句話: Please translate this sentence—it is the very core of our work.
    When words fail us, what else can we do?
    LIN JUI-EN / LEE CHIN-LING / GUO YU-WEI
    02.13 Sat – 02.14 Sun
    Step Plaza
  • Miya, you’re a peach.
    A dance responding to the gaze upon the body through self-presentation both reticent and excessive. Hyper-mesmerised.
    Yusuke Miya
    02.13 Sat – 02.14 Sun
    Art Center NEW
  • Silver-Eyed ARAHABAKI: Wakabacho WHARF Fringe 2027
    An archaeology through dance—tracing the primal landscapes embodied in a dancer through the myths of Tohoku.
    Kentaro Kujirai
    02.13 Sat – 02.14 Sun
    WAKABACHO WHARF
  • The Last Gig—of a Japanese Translator Who Feels at Home in English
    English-speaking privilege rears its head as a huge phallus?! A self-translating one-person show in JP and EN
    Haruka Ueda × Ulin Miula
    02.13 Sat – 02.14 Sun
    Chat Noir
  • After the eclipse: A Butoh Duet
    That which always remains.
    Joanna Rosenfeld and Fumihiro Yoshino / Gekka
    02.13 Sat – 02.14 Sun
    ART SPACE nitehinchi
  • In/Outside: Wakabacho WHARF Fringe 2027
    Is calligraphy something to read, to see, or to feel?
    I-O Multimedia Performance Company
    02.13 Sat – 02.14 Sun
    WAKABACHO WHARF
  • STAY TRUE
    An audience-participatory improvisational theatre work with ASI-PRO Messengers, artists with intellectual disabilities.
    ASI-PRO
    02.14 Sun
    ART STUDIO I’M HERE