PROGRAM | TOKYO FESTIVAL 2020

Tokyo Festival Farm

A new framework that brings together all development initiatives within Tokyo Festival. It was created by combining Asian Performing Arts Fa...

F/T

Directors’ Lounge

Each session of this talk series sees the F/T directors Kaku Nagashima and Chika Kawai hold informal discussions with invited guests about t...

APAF2020 Young Farmers Camp

A place for artists (under 30s) to experience the cutting edge

The 33rd Toshima Noh Performanc

Noh DAIHANNYA

Xuanzang and the miracle of the Silk Road

Friday, December 18

Tokyo Festival 2020 International Online Meeting (streaming only)

The artistic director who leads the world's performing arts Deliver panel discussion

Tuesday, November 24 - Sunday, December 6

TOSHIMA OYAKO-SCHOOL

Saturday, November 7 – Sunday, November 29

New Bon dance ＮＥＯ　　

Bon Odori dancing online: presenting a new style of Bon Odori!!

Sunday, November 1

The guy,who is Pigtail.

Sunday, November 22 – Sunday, November 29

Thinking About Communication with Interpreters

A workshop with Art Translators that considers the knowledge and mindset necessary in building a better environment for communication betwee...

Sunday, November 15 – Monday, November 16

Divine Daughter Anemone

Fresh from their collaboration at F/T19 with “The Farm,” a South Korean director and Japanese playwright team up again for a new play about ...

Monday,November 2 – Sunday,November 15

fabien prioville dance company

Rendez-Vous Otsuka South & North

A virtual reality video-dance installation that transforms the everyday landscape of the city

Friday, October 16 – Sunday, November 15 (17 sessions)

Sceno-ha

Roaming Shopping Street Festival: Phantom Edition

Friday, October 16 - Sunday, November 15

Hand Saw Press

Pop-up Riso Zine Studio

A zine is a passport! F/T’s creative hub connecting people, the city, and the world

Friday, October 16 - Sunday, November 15

F/T

Symposium: Festival Update

Why hold a performing arts festival “in the city”? (And how to hold it even in a time of pandemic?)

Wednesday, October 21 19:00-21:30

Effective Communication Tools for International Collaboration

A conversation with guest speakers on how to foster communication that better connects people of different backgrounds.

Thursday, November 12, 18:30 – 20:30

How Can We Be Engaged in Performing Arts Now?

Monday, November 9, 19:00-21:00

F/T

Dialogue Next

Watch. Listen. Talk. Learn. One month of encounters with others through the performing arts

Saturday, October 10-Sunday, November 8

(c)Shunsuke Watabe

Tokyo Festival World Competition 2019

东来紫气满函关 (Big Nothing)

Ghost stories and childhood memories, a shadow-puppet theatre piece where dreams and reality intersect… What lies beyond the humor, the madn...

Friday, November 6 – Sunday, November 8

© Maiko Miyagawa

Tokyo Festival World Competition 2019

Tú Amarás (You Shall Love)

Extraterrestrials have arrived… Doctors thinking about “discrimination” in a conversation full of black humor

Friday, November 6 – Sunday, November 8

Jan Versweyveld

Film Festival of ITA productions directed by Ivo Van Hove

Theatrical company ITA led by Ivo van Hove, the world's most watched director. Overwhelming stage video in 3 pieces at once!

Friday, November 6 – Sunday, November 8

Folk Performing Arts in Toshima+plus

Experience the Sounds of the Matsuri

Saturday, November 7

Takuya Murakawa

Moonlight

Searching for what is real: A documentary drama that layers past and present to build a portrait of a life

Saturday, October 31 – Sunday, November 1

Transfield from Asia F/T + BIPAM Exchange Project

The City & The City: Divided Senses

From Bangkok to Tokyo, and back: Interchanging the five senses of cities

Friday,October 30 – Sunday,November 1

Midsummer Night Deam

People don't fall in love with people. The stars, the moon, the sun... we're just in love with words, dressed up in stones.

Thursday, October 15 – Sunday, November 1

W.A.Mozart opera "Le nozze di Figaro"

Five years after its impactful premiere, the Newly opera “Nozze Figaro” will come back to Tokyo!

Friday, October 30 and Sunday, November 1

Sanza Yanagiya: Three nights, three indulgences, three performances

Edo Zanmai (“three dishes from Edo”)

Three stories in one night on the theme of “drinking, gambling and squandering: the essence of Edo”

Wednesday, October 28 – Friday, October 30

Teater Ekamatra

Berak

Exploring the universal through differences: An online screening of a play by Malay theatre pioneers Teater Ekamatra

Friday, October 16 - Thursday, October 29

Kinoshita-Kabuki: Sesshu Gappo ga Tsuji (Itoi Version)

Thursday, October 22 – Monday, October 26

Momonga Complex

We assemble together

"What comes about when we are apart? A “musical-style dance performance” for the new normal"

Saturday, October 24 –
Sunday, October 25

Tokyo Festival 2020 Outdoor Performance

NIPPON・CHA! CHA! CHA!

Sunday, October 18 – Sunday, October 25

APAF2020 Lab

Beyond borders, beyond the body, towards a new future for Asian performing arts

Friday, October 23 – Sunday, October 25

APAF2020 Exhibition “フレフレ Ostrich!! Hayupang Die-Bow-Ken！”

To places you cannot reach alone

Thursday, October 22, 18:00
Friday, October 23, 18:00
Sunday, October 25, 11:00

APAF2020 Panel Discussion "What Will Asian Platforms in the 2030s Look Like?"

The panel discussion will discuss the future – post-coronavirus, beyond 2030 – of Asian performing arts platforms that bring together creato...

Tuesday, October 20, 19:00-21:00

The Dark Master VR

Friday, October 9 –
Sunday, October 18

What Alternative Spaces Are There in Tokyo from 2030?

Sunday, October 11

Aguri Kanda/Hakuzan Kanda perform

“Tenmei Shiranami-den” in its entirety

The story of the great thief Shinto Tokujiro and his gang from the Tenmei Era, a time beset with natural disasters and shaken by political u...

Thursday, October 8 – Saturday, October 10

Nanafuku's my-heart-stealer

People who pursue art talk about other people who pursue art

Wednesday, October 7

Stage reading "The Remains of the Day"

How should people live with dignity and poise in a way true to themselves, no matter how society changes?

Wednesday, September 30 – Sunday, October 4

Why Do We Need Performing Arts Now? ―Closer, Slower, And More Tolerant

Tuesday, September 29

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