Sceno-ha (Scenographers’ Collective) returns to Festival/Tokyo, once again highlighting new images of the city and streets through the ideas and techniques of stage design. After opening the 2019 festival with a vibrant performance and parade of floats created from research into local community shopping streets, the collective this time presents a “roaming” series of events based on the theme of doing things alone. Building on various kinds of research as well as utilizing fictional and both off- and online approaches, the project conjures up “scenes” through the unique eyes of stage designers at a time when the coronavirus has made gathering together so difficult. The results promise to yield fresh encounters with people, things, information, and the city.

Project Design: Sceno-ha (Itaru Sugiyama, Ryo Sakamoto, Ayami Sasaki, Tomomi Nakamura）
Publicity Design: Yui Takada (Allright Graphics)
Presented by Festival/Tokyo

Sceno-ha (Scenographers’ Collective)

Comprising the stage designers Itaru Sugiyama, Ryo Sakamoto, Ayami Sasaki, and Tomomi Nakamura, this collective of scenographers was formed especially for the F/T19 Opening Program. The group aims to work on projects involving the creation of scenes and scenery rooted in stage design, though without presupposing the need for text, actors, or directors. Its name derives from “scenography,” combined with a Japanese word meaning “group” or “school.”

Style of performance: TBA

Schedule: TBA

Ticket fee

Free (no reservation needed)

Release date:

TBA

Special sites, shopping streets in Toshima, F/T remote (available online)

Organizer: Festival/Tokyo Executive Committee (Toshima City, Toshima Mirai Cultural Foundation, NPO Arts Network Japan [NPO-ANJ]),
Tokyo Festival Executive Committee (Toshima City, Toshima Mirai Cultural Foundation, Festival/Tokyo Executive Committee, Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture [Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre & Arts Council Tokyo])

Festival/Tokyo Executive Committee Secretariat
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