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
  • Interactive/Participatory
  • 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 Theatre Large Studio

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

  11.29 Fri

  Swapcard

  • YPAM Exchange
• Hodasarete～I Couldn’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

  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
• Dove Lake + Aqua Line

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

  Murasaki Penguin × 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
• 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
• 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/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
• 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

  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
• YPAM Reception + Keynote Performance: “T for Time” by Ho Tzu Nyen

  12.03 Tue

  Kanagawa Prefectural Music Hall

  • YPAM Exchange
  • Visual/Film
  • Sound/Music
  • Installation/Exhibition
  • Singapore
  • Japan
• 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
  • Unclassifiable
  • France
• 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

  Site-A Gallery Beneath the Railways

  • YPAM Fringe
  • Theatre
  • Japan
• 2

  Nam Hwayeon

  12.05 Thu – 12.14 Sat

  KAAT Kanagawa Arts Theatre Atrium

  • YPAM Direction
  • Visual/Film
  • Dance
  • Installation/Exhibition
  • Japan Premiere
  • Korea
• 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
  • Dance
  • Japan Premiere
  • Singapore
  • Japan
• 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
  • Interactive/Participatory
  • 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
  • Interactive/Participatory
  • 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
  • Interactive/Participatory
  • 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
  • Interactive/Participatory
  • 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
  • Interactive/Participatory
  • 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
• ENCORE – violet

  Yuni Hong Charpe

  12.06 Fri – 12.07 Sat

  BankART KAIKO

  • YPAM Direction
  • Sound/Music
  • Unclassifiable
  • World Premiere
  • France
• 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
  • World Premiere
  • Japan
• 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
  • 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
  • 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 Theatre 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 be played over and over again (and have a dance to it).

  yakushadenai

  12.11 Wed

  Step Plaza

  • YPAM Fringe
  • Dance
  • Sound/Music
  • Interactive/Participatory
  • Japan
• Minami NAKAYASHIKI: Performance + Installation 2024 'Where Light and Body Meet'

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

  Minami NAKAYASHIKI

  12.11 Wed – 12.15 Sun

  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&apos; presentations and symposium, open-call meetings (roundtable), &apos;Yokohama Artsite Lounge,&apos; 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&apos;s rendition of Beckett&apos;s &apos;Waiting for Godot&apos;!

  World Theater Company

  12.12 Thu – 12.14 Sat

  BankART KAIKO

  • YPAM Fringe
  • Theatre
  • Physical
  • Japan
• 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
• Rebirth

  Replay the performance. ‘Rebirth’ 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
• 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
• 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
  • 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
• 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
• 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 Theatre Large Studio

  • YPAM Joint Program
  • Dance
  • Physical
  • Japan Premiere
  • Japan
  • Korea
• Collective Action

  Richard Siegal / Ballet of Difference + Nippon Sport Science University

  12.14 Sat

  KAAT Kanagawa Arts Theatre 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
• Grandma&apos;s Poetic Life

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

  Siyao Li ／Yao Theatre

  12.14 Sat

  THE HALL YOKOHAMA

  • YPAM Fringe
  • Theatre
  • Puppetry
  • Children
  • Japan Premiere
  • China
• 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
  • Interactive/Participatory
  • 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