YPAM

Program

• SENSE ISLAND／LAND 2024

  Re-opening for the first time in two years, Sense Island will now also encompass areas throughout the city.

  Sense Island Executive Committee,City of Yokosuka

  10.26 Sat – 12.15 Sun

  Sarushima and various locations throughout Yokosuka (Kanagawa Prefecture)

  • YPAM Joint Program
  • Site-Specific
  • Installation/Exhibition
  • Sound/Music
  • Japan
• An inner speech from elsewhere（pilot version）

  Walking-based touring audio performance. Installed in countless cities from pilot productions.

  Ryo Kobayashi

  2024.11.29 Fri – 2024.12.8 Sun

  YPAM Fringe Center

  • YPAM Fringe
  • Theatre
  • Site-Specific
  • Audience Participation
  • World Premiere
  • Japan
• Yokohama Dance Collection 2024

  The annual contemporary dance festival in Yokohama

  11.28 Thu – 12.15 Sun

  Yokohama Nigiwaiza Small Hall / Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse No.1 3F Hall, 2F Space /

  • YPAM Joint Program
  • Dance
  • Butoh
  • Physical
  • Japan
  • Korea
  • China
  • Taiwan
  • Spain
  • France
• Confessions of a Shinagawa Monkey

  A Japanese-Anglo-international collaboration of Haruki Murakami’s unfulfilled love story.

  Japan-UK international co- Production KAAT × Vanishing Point

  11.28 Thu – 12.8 Sun

  KAAT Kanagawa Arts Theater Large Studio

  • YPAM Joint Program
  • Theatre
  • Literature
  • World Premiere
  • Japan
  • United Kingdom
• Kick-off Online Meetings

  11.29 Fri – 12.1 Sun

  Swapcard

  • YPAM Exchange
• Hodasarete～I Could’t Help It

  Funny Suspense

  Tokyo Tambourine

  11.29 Fri – 12.3 Tue

  ST Spot

  • YPAM Fringe
  • Theatre
  • Japan
• 「SEKAI」A moment with the wondering age.

  A journey tale mixing dance and quote on a revolving stage.

  Shintaro Hirahara/OrganWorks

  11.30 Sat – 12.1 Sun

  Kanagawa Prefectural Youth Center Momijizaka Hall

  • YPAM Fringe
  • Theatre
  • Dance
  • Physical
  • World Premiere
  • Japan
• Morning Butoh LABO Special Project “Dandelion on Toad”

  Dance that takes inspiration from butoh and develops it into the future.

  Tomo Mizukoshi, Megumi Hoshino, JUNKO, Azu Minami

  11.30 Sat – 11.30 Sat

  Silk Road Dance Hall

  • YPAM Fringe
  • Dance
  • Butoh
  • Physical
  • World Premiere
  • Japan
• ZAZI・ZOO OF THE NIGHT 〜Look at the stars on a 𝓚𝓘𝓢𝓢𝓘𝓝𝓖 night〜

  A galactic love revolution like no one has ever seen. An unprecedentedly romantic kiss where even the stars fall in love!

  ZAZI・ZOO

  11.30 Sat – 12.15 Sun

  Steep Slope Studio / Chat Noir

  • YPAM Fringe
  • Theatre
  • Sound/Music
  • Site-Specific
  • World Premiere
  • Japan
• Playing the Sounds of Yokohama

  Open Your Ears to the Sounds of Yokohama – Exploring the nature and well-being of the city

  Yokohama Soundscape Project

  11.30 Sat

  Chat Noir

  • YPAM Fringe
  • Sound/Music
  • Site-Specific
  • Workshop/Talk
  • World Premiere
  • Japan
• Silver Mouth

  An eerie gothic tale for 2 voices and synthesizers performed by dynamic vocalists Ryoko Aoki and James Hullick

  Ryoko Aoki + Hullick / JOLT Arts

  11.30 Sat

  BankART Station

  • YPAM Fringe
  • Sound/Music
  • Visual/Film
  • World Premiere
  • Japan
  • Australia
• Dove Lake + Aqua Line

  One work based on a moment and place. Another, a narrow but endless space.

  Murasaki Penguin x Yu-Feng Lai

  11.30 Sat – 12.2 Mon

  Murasaki Penguin Project Totsuka

  • YPAM Fringe
  • Dance
  • Sound/Music
  • Visual/Film
  • World Premiere
  • Australia
  • Taiwan
  • Japan
• SLOW CIRCUS FESTA

  A special day to see and experience the wonderful world of SLOW CIRCUS!

  SLOW CIRCUS / SLOW LABEL

  12.1 Sun

  ZOU-NO-HANA TERRACE

  • YPAM Fringe
  • Physical
  • Street Performance/Circus
  • World Premiere
  • Japan
• 言 Word

  What do you hear when a word touches you?

  Shen Xingzhou｜Sascia Pellegrini

  12.1 Sun

  Hachibankan

  • YPAM Fringe
  • Sound/Music
  • Installation/Exhibition
  • World Premiere
  • Singapore
• The Reimagined Larynx

  3 works for string quartet and an art installation that blend cultural vocal expression to create a 21st Century voice.

  Hullick with Ryoko Aoki / JOLT Arts

  12.1 Sun

  BankART Station

  • YPAM Fringe
  • Sound/Music
  • Visual/Film
  • Installation/Exhibition
  • World Premiere
  • Australia
  • Japan
• YPAM Reception and Keynote Address / Performance

  12.3 Tue

  Kanagawa Prefectural Music Hall

  • YPAM Exchange
• Late Night Meeting Point

  Exchange continues until midnight during YPAM. This year’s late night meeting point is Chat Noir, a chanson bar since 1997.

  12.3 Tue – 12.14 Sat

  Chat Noir

  • YPAM Exchange
• Gaze of the master

  Image, alter ego... A response to the question “Who am I?”

  So Sakurai

  12.3 Tue – 12.4 Wed

  TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS Motomachi-Chukagai Building

  • YPAM Fringe
  • Visual/Film
  • Site-Specific
  • Japan
• Paper

  A Singapore-Japan Theatrical Collaboration: A Dramatic Depiction of the Unbroken Tradition of Washi

  Washi＋

  12.3 Tue – 12.3 Tue

  THE HALL YOKOHAMA

  • YPAM Fringe
  • Theatre
  • Singapore
  • Japan
• What are the drills when we hear a "Screech"? But we haven’t done anything yet.

  If there’s no going back now... what should we do?

  Junha / Almost Mainstream

  12.3 Tue – 12.7 Sat

  CHOJA STUDIO

  • YPAM Fringe
  • Theatre
  • Japan Premiere
  • Korea
• In a square world, cicadas must be sad.

  While actually you were crying out a mournful song...Why have I been hating you so far?

  Park Chanwoo / Almost Mainstream

  12.3 Tue – 12.7 Sat

  CHOJA STUDIO

  • YPAM Fringe
  • Theatre
  • Japan Premiere
  • Korea
• Meeting Point 1

  Symposia, open-call meetings (presentation/roundtable), speed networking, etc.

  12.4 Wed – 12.6 Fri

  Forum Minamiota (Gender Equality Center Yokohama South)

  • YPAM Exchange
• Floating clouds

  Love of the youth, angsty, and drifting relationships.

  ZEZE-projects

  12.4 Wed – 12.7 Sat

  CHOJA STUDIO

  • YPAM Fringe
  • Theatre
  • Japan Premiere
  • Iceland
  • Korea
• HONG KONG CINEMA × JAZZ

  An exciting mash up of modern big band jazz, hip-hop, and signature Hong Kong sounds from classic Hong Kong films.

  FIRST HALF Arts in Concept

  12.4 Wed

  Tsurumi Community Cultural Center Salvia Hall, Music Hall

  • YPAM Fringe
  • Sound/Music
  • Japan Premiere
• ENCORE – mer

  Yuni Hong Charpe

  12.04 Wed – 12.05 Thu

  BankART KAIKO

  • YPAM Direction
  • Dance
  • Visual/Film
  • Other/Unclassifiable
  • France
• 2

  Nam Hwayeon

  12.05 Thu – 12.14 Sat

  KAAT Kanagawa Arts Theatre Atrium

  • YPAM Direction
  • Visual/Film
  • Dance
  • Installation/Exhibition
  • Japan Premiere
  • Korea
• An Introduction to Performing a Hearing Person

  Questioning the meaning of performing different physicalities - A project with a new perspective on acting theory

  ERI MAKIHARA / Deafbird Production

  12.5 Thu – 12.5 Thu

  Site-A Gallery Beneath the Railways

  • YPAM Fringe
  • Theatre
  • Japan
• Showcase of Bridge

  Developing internationality for creation: A program nurturing next generation practitioners in performing arts

  Fumenkaiga, Scrapbook / Yutaro Murakoso

  12.5 Thu – 12.6 Fri

  BankART Station

  • YPAM Fringe
  • Theatre
  • Japan
• The darkest hour is just before the dawn

  Bambi Okumura lives between the univerce and the earth in moments making resonance each ones as a Butoh dancer

  Bambi Okumura

  12.5 Thu – 12.8 Sun

  Silk Road Dance Hall

  • YPAM Fringe
  • Butoh
  • Japan Premiere
  • Japan
• CABARET

  You'll get lost in this town, drinking and lured by the pop music of the Showa era.

  WAKABACHO WHARF

  12.5 Thu – 12.15 Sun

  WAKABACHO WHARF

  • YPAM Fringe
  • Visual/Film
  • Literature
  • Sound/Music
  • Japan
• DIDO AND AENEAS: A show after the opera of the same name (1689) by Henry Purcell

  T:>Works

  12.05 Thu – 12.07 Sat

  KAAT Kanagawa Arts Theatre Medium Studio

  • YPAM Direction
  • Theatre
  • Sound/Music
  • Installation/Exhibition
  • Japan Premiere
  • Singapore
• Nanjing Project vol.4 ── <Re-assembly> Board of Education

  The participants read aloud the minute of the meeting about a historical event.

  Theater Company Kamome Machine

  12.6 Fri – 12.7 Sat

  Studio Site-D Community Space Beneath the Railways

  • YPAM Fringe
  • Visual/Film
  • Audience Participation
  • World Premiere
  • Japan
• ZOU-NO-HANA FUTURESCAPE PROJECT 2024 -Harbor’s Night Dream-

  GUILLAUMIT、Maho Harada　and more

  12.6 Fri – 12.8 Sun

  ZOU-NO-HANA TERRACE / Zou-no-hana Park

  • YPAM Joint Program
  • Children's
  • Audience Participation
  • Installation/Exhibition
  • Workshop/Talk
• UNLOSE ~Where Things That Matter Come and Go~

  Song cycle musical performance where stories cherished by different owners cross their paths

  NAGORI Ensemble

  12.6 Fri – 12.8 Sun

  Murasaki Penguin Project Totsuka

  • YPAM Fringe
  • Theatre
  • Sound/Music
  • Audience Participation
  • World Premiere
  • Japan
• AWASEed : Dialectical Interpretations and Contradictions in the Void

  Void Unfolds: Reconstructing the Self Through Dialectical Contradictions

  Asami Kiuchi

  12.6 Fri – 12.15 Sun

  Site-A Gallery Beneath the Railways

  • YPAM Fringe
  • Site-Specific
  • Audience Participation
  • Workshop/Talk
  • World Premiere
  • Netherlands
  • Japan
• KASPAR the Naked

  Who drew the boundary line? Where does the boderline start? Where are you? What about me?

  Body Diathesis Attitude Troupe

  12.6 Fri – 12.7 Sat

  Silk Road Dance Hall

  • YPAM Fringe
  • Visual/Film
  • Physical
  • Audience Participation
  • Japan
• Methods Employed by the Silirus Asotus

  An inquiry into the epicenter of violence, through the eye of those who live in between languages.

  Allergen Theatre

  12.6 Fri – 12.9 Mon

  ST Spot

  • YPAM Fringe
  • Theatre
  • Japan
• 1001

  The world of a small room where time passes by like revolving lanterns.

  StarMachineProject

  12.6 Fri – 12.8 Sun

  Hachibankan

  • YPAM Fringe
  • Theatre
  • Puppetry
  • Children's
  • World Premiere
  • Japan
• ENCORE – violet

  Yuni Hong Charpe

  12.06 Fri – 12.07 Sat

  BankART KAIKO

  • YPAM Direction
  • Sound/Music
  • Other/Unclassifiable
  • World Premiere
  • France
• Mobile Kitchen

  In a simple kitchen, the artist becomes a chef, crafting homemade dishes and sharing stories with you!

  Point View Art Association × Creative Links × Dynamo Management

  12.7 Sat – 12.9 Mon

  Kogane Studio Kitchen

  • YPAM Fringe
  • Other/Unclassifiable
  • Japan Premiere
  • Taiwan
  • Hong Kong
  • Macau
• The Human Condition

  The Sagamihara stabbings, toward the spirit of this age.

  The Human Condition

  12.7 Sat – 12.8 Sun

  ART STUDIO I’M HERE

  • YPAM Fringe
  • Theatre
  • Japan
• Hand Shadows ANDERSEN

  No limits to our hands

  Shadow Play Theatre KAKASHIZA

  12.7 Sat – 12.8 Sun

  Yokohama Doll Museum Akaikutsu (Red Shoes) Theatre

  • YPAM Fringe
  • Theatre
  • Puppetry
  • Children's
  • Japan
• The Whisperer: A Story of Two along the way

  a story of two along the journey

  Passoverdance

  12.7 Sat – 12.8 Sun

  ZOU-NO-HANA TERRACE

  • YPAM Fringe
  • Dance
  • Site-Specific
  • Japan Premiere
  • Hong Kong
• MarginalConsort

  Experience a moment when sound changes into music.

  MarginalConsort

  12.7 Sat

  BankART Station

  • YPAM Fringe
  • Sound/Music
  • Japan
• Performing Arts Selection 2024+DaBY Reception & Showcase

  Presenting 8 must-see dance performances, including 4 new productions by emerging Japanese artists.

  Toshiki Okada×Hana Sakai, Yasutake Shimaji×DaBY Resident Dancers, Kaho Kogure×Saori Hala, Mariko Kakizaki×Chiaki Horita, Yasutake Shimaji×Tamaki Roy, Ryu Suzuki×Yu Okamoto and more

  12.7 Sat – 12.12 Thu

  KAAT Kanagawa Arts Theater Hall

  • YPAM Joint Program
  • Theatre
  • Dance
  • Physical
  • Japan
• Mirai Circus Network (Japanese contemporary circus network) Showcase

  The first showcase of Japan contemporary circus scene!

  Mirai Circus Network

  12.8 Sun

  KAAT Kanagawa Arts Theatre Atrium

  • YPAM Fringe
  • Physical
  • Site-Specific
  • World Premiere
  • Japan
• Shin-Shin-Shinwa - new cosmo-techno-mythology

  A dance-based outdoor performance of a human and an assembled structure called tensegrity

  Yohei Hamada

  12.8 Sun

  CROSS STREET

  • YPAM Fringe
  • Dance
  • Physical
  • Site-Specific
  • World Premiere
  • Norway
• The 6th HOTPOT East Asia Dance Platform

  The 6th "HOTPOT", a multilateral collaboration between three dance festivals in Yokohama, Hong Kong, and South Korea

  12.11 Wed – 12.15 Sun

  Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse No.1 3F Hall, 2F Space / / Yokohama Nigiwaiza Small Hall / KAAT Kanagawa Arts Theatre Medium Studio

  • YPAM Joint Program
  • Dance
  • Butoh
  • Physical
  • Japan
  • Hong Kong
  • Korea
• I can’t make your anxiety go away, but if you sing into this microphone, it will play over and over again (and dance to it).

  yakushadenai

  12.11 Wed

  Step Plaza

  • YPAM Fringe
  • Dance
  • Sound/Music
  • Audience Participation
  • Japan
• Minami NAKAYASHIKI: Performance + Installation 2024

  Emotions become dance, expanding into space, and touching your senses.

  Minami NAKAYASHIKI

  12.11 Wed

  GALERIE PARIS

  • YPAM Fringe
  • Dance
  • Installation/Exhibition
  • World Premiere
  • Japan
• 100 Years to the sea

  The story takes place just 100 years later.

  Snuunuu

  12.11 Wed – 12.15 Sun

  ZOU-NO-HANA TERRACE

  • YPAM Fringe
  • Theatre
  • World Premiere
  • Japan
• Meeting Point 2

  HOTPOT artists’ presentations and symposium, open-call meetings (roundtable), “Yokohama Artsite Lounge,” etc.

  12.12 Thu – 12.14 Sat

  Yokohama City Port Opening Memorial Hall

  • YPAM Exchange
• the replication

  The pinnacle of absurd theater, the World Theater Company’s rendition of Beckett’s ’Waiting for Godot’!

  World Theater Company

  12.12 Thu – 12.14 Sat

  BankART KAIKO

  • YPAM Fringe
  • Theatre
  • Physical
  • Japan
• Grandma’s Poetic Life

  Is it waiting, or is it disappointing... When companionship becomes silent, can I still embrace you, again?

  Siyao Li ／Yao Theatre

  12.12 Thu – 12.12 Thu

  THE HALL YOKOHAMA

  • YPAM Fringe
  • Theatre
  • Puppetry
  • Children's
  • Japan Premiere
  • China
• TransARTion

  Artists from Macau, Shenzhen, Beijing, Taipei, Pingtung, Fukuoka and Yokohama present 4 cross- disciplinary performances.

  Point View Art X Creative Links X Dynamo Management

  12.12 Thu – 12.15 Sun

  BankART Station

  • YPAM Fringe
  • Physical
  • Sound/Music
  • Visual/Film
  • Japan Premiere
  • Taiwan
  • China
  • Macau
• まよかげ／Mayokage

  Which do you fear more, being alone or having someone watching you all the time?

  Chiharu Shinoda

  12.12 Thu – 12.15 Sun

  Silk Road Dance Hall

  • YPAM Fringe
  • Theatre
  • Sound/Music
  • Puppetry
  • Japan Premiere
  • Indonesia
  • Japan
• Rebirth

  Replay the performance. &ldquo;Rebirth&rdquo; of a 30-minute story, repeated three times, reimagined for the present.

  Ayaka Ono Akira Nakazawa Spacenotblank

  12.12 Thu – 12.14 Sat

  Kanagawa Prefectural Youth Center Studio HIKARI

  • YPAM Fringe
  • Theatre
  • Dance
  • Workshop/Talk
  • World Premiere
  • Japan
• The dancers are fools ,The watchers are fools

  If we’re fools anyway so why not dance? So let’s all “unaru.”

  rin tamagawa

  12.12 Thu – 12.13 Fri

  Hachibankan

  • YPAM Fringe
  • Dance
  • Traditional (Performing Arts)
  • Installation/Exhibition
  • Japan
• SYAKÉ’s Poor Theatre « Tempest »

  Theatre is an extravagant game. Let’s play with Prospero who abandoned his magical power.

  SYAKÉ

  12.13 Fri – 12.15 Sun

  Tofukuji Temple

  • YPAM Fringe
  • Theatre
  • Physical
  • Sound/Music
  • World Premiere
  • Japan
• Ryoji Ikeda | ultratronics [live set]

  Experience a powerful, immersive sound and visual performance

  Ryoji Ikeda Guest: VMO a.k.a Violent Magic Orchestra

  12.13 Fri

  KT Zepp Yokohama

  • YPAM Fringe
  • Sound/Music
  • Japan
  • France
• Gay Monologue

  An Autobiographical Performance on Gay Men’s Lives, Their Narratives and Silences

  y/n

  12.13 Fri – 12.16 Mon

  ST Spot

  • YPAM Fringe
  • Theatre
  • World Premiere
  • Japan
• Shut Up Womb

  A Grand Dance Production Exploring Wombs and Testicles!

  KAAT × KEDAGORO × Korea National Contemporary Dance Company

  12.13 Fri – 12.15 Sun

  KAAT Kanagawa Arts Theater Large Studio

  • YPAM Joint Program
  • Dance
  • Physical
  • Japan Premiere
  • Japan
  • Korea
• Les Chants de Maldoror

  Fictional but more truthful than reality? A surreal and provocative fairy tale that exposes human desires and fears!

  Alice Theatre Laboratory

  12.13 Fri – 12.15 Sun

  Yokohama Doll Museum Akaikutsu (Red Shoes) Theatre

  • YPAM Fringe
  • Theatre
  • Literature
  • Physical
  • Japan Premiere
  • Hong Kong
• Collective Action

  Richard Siegal / Ballet of Difference + Nippon Sport Science University

  12.14 Sat

  KAAT Kanagawa Arts Theater Hall

  • YPAM Direction
  • Dance
  • Installation/Exhibition
  • World Premiere
  • Germany
  • Japan
• an introspection of indignation

  An experimental performance that encourages the audiences’ self-reflection and recognition of the emotion of anger

  Keisuke Sugawara

  12.14 Sat – 12.15 Sun

  BankART Station

  • YPAM Fringe
  • Dance
  • Physical
  • Installation/Exhibition
  • World Premiere
  • Germany
• The Japanese Ideology Chapter 7

  Hear the sound of whistle from the 180.3-meter-long Uraga Dock.

  OLTA

  12.14 Sat – 12.15 Sun

  Uraga Dock (Outdoor venue)

  • YPAM Fringe
  • Theatre
  • Physical
  • Site-Specific
  • World Premiere
  • Japan
• 「VISION」「TO KNOW」

  An improvisational theater work with audience participation by ASI-PRO Messenger, who has an intellectual disability

  ASI-PRO

  12.15 Sun

  ART STUDIO I’M HERE

  • YPAM Fringe
  • Dance
  • Visual/Film
  • Audience Participation
  • Japan
• Closing Party

  This is the last exchange program of YPAM2023. We hope you will have a great time with the friends you have met in Yokohama!

  12.15 Sun

  BankART KAIKO

  • YPAM Exchange