YPAM

Travelling Dance Platform – Potential of Trans-national Platform

Auditorium
14:00 – 16:00

The 30th Yokohama Dance Collection is held in conjunction with ‘HOTPOT East Asia Dance Platform' which is a collaboration between three dance festivals in Yokohama, Seoul, and Hong Kong since 2017. This symposium will explore the potential of transnational dance platforms, with a focus on the position of the ‘Ice Hot Nordic Dance Platform' which travels five Nordic countries and is the model for HOTPOT, and the current state of ‘Spring Forward' organized and held in various locations by the European dance network Aerowaves.

Language: Japanese and English

Interpretation: Simultaneous interpretation

• Ása Richardsdóttir Secretary General, IETM International Network for Contemporary Performing Arts / One of the founding members of Ice Hot Nordic Dance Platform
• Roberto Casarotto Codirector, Aerowaves Europe photo Sara Lando
• Karen Cheung Programme Consultant, City Contemporary Dance Company
• Jongho Lee Artistic Director, SIDance & BPAM / President, Seoul Section of the CID-UNESCO
• Shinji Ono Director, Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse No.1

391THEATRE

Room 4 / Roundtable
11:00 – 11:40

Landscape Theater is a “theater” based in Fujisawa City, Kanagawa Prefecture. Since April 2024, it has operated a creative hub for performing artists in a vacant tenant space at Fujisawa Meiten Building. With rehearsal studios and a green room for artist interaction, “391 Theater” supports artistic creation. In this roundtable, we will discuss ways to open 391 Theater further and connect with artists interested in participating.

Language: Japanese

• Junpei Kiz
• Takako Yokoi

When the body meets choreography, how do expressions of emotions and sensations arise?

Room 4 / Roundtable
14:00 – 14:40

Along with an introduction to the works of choreographer Minami Nakayashiki, I would like to reflect together on the potential power dynamics and control inherent in choreography as a form of communication, as well as the ambiguity surrounding the boundaries between care and violence. In recent years, through "non-contact work" utilizing video and the body, I have developed works that explore various forms of interaction, providing an opportunity to reconsider approaches to communication. (*Non-contact work refers to the concept of contact work that does not involve physical touch.)

Language: Japanese and English

• Minami Nakayashiki Choreographer / Dancer

Boreali

Room 4 / Roundtable
12:00 – 12:40

Boreali is a multimedia experience combining dance, immersive sound, projections, and 360° synchronized lighting to recreate the magic of the northern lights over Sweden's winter landscape. Inspired by yoik music and Korean Suwon soldiers, the performance evokes the energetic yet serene beauty of auroras, with colors like pink, green, and blue filling the Arctic sky during solar activity. Audiences can walk, sit, or lie down, fully immersed in a 360° journey that mirrors the ebb and flow of nature's most captivating display, inviting a sensory exploration of the Aurora Borealis.

Language: English

Interpretation: Japanese consecutive interpretation

• Anna Borràs Photo : Carl Thorborg - Dansalliansen

Carl Thorborg - Dansalliansen

Unsilent Mode: Performance making with and for a digital generation / Open call for international collaborators

Room 4 / Roundtable
13:00 – 13:40

The Unsilent Mode trilogy aims to reconstruct the theatrical event for audiences who grew up with digital media. This project utilizes digital connectivity to bring together Gen Z collaborators from multiple locations into a shared physical space with a live audience. This presentation introduces the first volume (having taken place in Japan, Malaysia and the UK this year) and will detail the project's findings, challenges, as well as plans for volumes two and three. At YPAM, we hope to connect with performance makers, spaces, and funders for 2025 and 2026. For more info, visit unsilentmode.com.

Language: Japanese and English

Interpretation: Japanese and English consecutive interpretation

• Kelvin Wong Project Leader / PhD Researcher, Universities of Exeter and Bristol / Malaysia Photo credit: Murasaki Haru
• Neon Sugimoto Project Collaborator / Contemporary Dancer / Japan Photo : Masahiro Sekiya

Photo credits: Anna Kuroda (Japan), Sugein Revindran (Malaysia), Chun Shan (UK)

Yokohama Artsite Lounge vol.42 People with mental health conditions on stage − Mental disabilities and drama in Japan and Korea

Auditorium
12:00 – 13:30

Groups engaged in activities supporting individuals with mental health conditions to express themselves through drama and performances in Japan and Korea are invited to share their thoughts about the importance of providing these individuals with a place to be and an outlet for self-expression, with respect to the social background and cultural context of the two countries. Enabling people with mental disabilities to go on stage and make their own decisions, and ensuring an environment for them to do so – has that become the norm?

*General audiences can participate in it. Please make a reservation from the official website.

Language: Japanese and Korean

Interpretation: Japanese and Korean consecutive interpretation

• Son Soung-yeon Representative of MAD PRESENCE
• Mamiko Nakamura Joint representative of OUTBACK Project
• Ｍaderator : Hana Morisaki Yokohama Artsite Office

Performing Arts and International Exchange — Initiatives by Performing Arts Presenters from Overseas①

Room 6
11:00 – 12:30

Presenters from Germany, Belgium, and Brazil, invited through the Japan Foundation's Invitation Program for Professionals in Performing Arts 2024, will introduce their activities in performing arts festivals, theaters, and cultural institutions. Through presentations by presenters from each country and a discussion with moderator Yurika Kuremiya, we bring you the forefront of the performing arts scene. The second session, featuring presenters from Canada, the United States, Mexico, and Hungary, will take place on December 14.

*General audience can participate. No reservation and payment required.

Language: Japanese and English

Interpretation: Consecutive interpretation

• Maitê Lacerda Dance Assistant at the cultural Action Department, SESC (Social Service of Commerce) photo bio by Marina Zan
• Daniel Blanga Gubbay Artistic co-director, Kunstenfestivaldesarts (C) Bea Borgers
• Melanie Zimmermann Artistic Director, Real Dance Festival (C)Kerstin Schomburg
• Moderator: Yurika Kuremiya Art Coordinator / Dramaturg / Dance Critic Photo by Chihiro Okamoto

Challenges and Future Prospects for the Distribution of Japanese Performing Arts Works: Initiatives by DaBY and Aichi Arts Center

Room 4 / Roundtable
11:00 – 11:40

A multi-year grant from the Agency for Cultural Affairs of Japan to promote Japanese performing arts internationally has begun, and Dance Base Yokohama (DaBY), along with Aichi Prefectural Art Theater, has been selected as one of the grant recipients. To maximize the impact of this grant and fulfill our role as a hub for Japanese contemporary dance, we aim to exchange perspectives with participants from around the world on the challenges and future prospects in the distribution of Japanese performing arts.

Language: English

• Eri Karatsu Photo : Takayuki Abe
• Ryu Suzuki Photo : Takayuki Abe

photo Joseph Marcinsky

3 suggestions for international exchanges as a dance company

Room 4 / Roundtable
12:00 – 12:40

OrganWorks is a contemporary/theatre dance company celebrating its 10th anniversary this year. We will share and present the social issues that can be seen through the dance world, the need for international exchange and our mission for contemporary society.

Language: Japanese and English

Interpretation: English consecutive interpretation

• Shintaro Hirahara Photo : Hajime Kato

Coexistence and Music: Beyond Borders

Room 4 / Roundtable
14:00 – 14:40

We have organized music workshops and participatory concerts with people across a wide range of ages, from infants to the elderly, including individuals with disabilities, in Japan and various parts of Europe. To date, we have delivered approximately 400 preformances, engaging a total of around 30,000 participants. Through music, transcending barriers of age, disability, race, language, religion, coexistence together with all participants.

Language: Japanese and English

• Shiori Sally Sakurai ©TOMOKO HIDAKI

The dance scene in Myanmar

Room 4 / Roundtable
13:00 – 13:40

This session introduces the dance community in Myanmar and the dance studios that attract many young people in the capital Yangon. Sharing with participants the expectations and challenges of Myanmar's dance scene, which has grown rapidly in recent years. The host will also seek opportunities for Myanmar's dance community to make contacts and collaborate with overseas connections.

Language: English

Interpretation: Japanese consecutive interpretation

• Khin Mon Thu CEO-Founder, MD, and Principal (Dancer, Teacher, Choreographer), dwM Dance Academy

Performing Arts and International Exchange — Initiatives by Performing Arts Presenters from Overseas②

Room 6
11:00 – 12:30

Presenters from Canada, the United States, Mexico, and Hungary, invited through the Japan Foundation's Invitation Program for Professionals in Performing Arts 2024, will introduce their activities in performing arts festivals, theaters, and cultural institutions. Through presentations by presenters from each country and a discussion with moderator Yurika Kuremiya, we bring you the forefront of the performing arts scene. The first session, featuring presenters from Germany, Belgium and Brazil, will take place on December 13.

*General audience can participate. No reservation and payment required.

Language: Japanese and English

Interpretation: Consecutive interpretation

• Caroline Ohrt Executive Producer, Dance, National Arts Centre Photo by Rémi Thériault
• Daniel Jones Manager of Artistic Programming, Oz Arts Nashville (C)Kara McLeland
• Gabriela Morales Martínez Programming Director, Festival Internacional Cervantino
• Péter Ertl Executive Director, National Dance Theater Budapest
• Moderator: Yurika Kuremiya Art Coordinator / Dramaturg / Dance Critic Photo by Chihiro Okamoto

The value and challenges of international collaboration across a heated globe ー thinking with IETM and Global Connect

Room 6
13:30 – 15:30

This symposium will consider the value and challenges of diversity, climate, internationality and mobility in international collaboration. IETM - International Network for Contemporary Performing Arts launched Global Connect four years ago, with the aim to make the network more inclusive, diverse, eco-responsible and accessible by welcoming new voices and perspectives not heard enough in the international arts discourse. We invite an Asian based Global Connector and IETM's Europe based director to discuss and digest these important topics.

Language: Japanese and English

Interpretation: Consecutive interpretation

• Ása Richardsdóttir Secretary General, IETM photo Saga Sig
• Ratri Anindyajati Director, Indonesian Dance Festival
• Mariko Tsukaguchi President / Secretary General, ON-PAM