YPAM Fringe

YPAM Fringe is an open-call fringe festival where artists decide for themselves what to present, how to present it, and whom they hope to reach. During YPAM, artists and companies from Japan and abroad—at different stages of their careers and with diverse backgrounds and artistic approaches—come together in a space free from selection, ranking, or even curation. We invite you to witness works shaped by their individual interests as they meet audiences and open up to criticism and dialogue. Ticketing arrangements vary by performance.

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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)
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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)
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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