PROGRAM
Farm Lab
Directors’ Forum
What knowledge, skills, and qualities are necessary for directors?
A series of forums on what the future director should be.
Speakers:
MIYAGI Satoshi (Director of Tokyo Festival)
TADA Junnosuke (Director of Tokyo Festival Farm)
NAGASHIMA Kaku (Co-Director of Tokyo Festival Farm)
【Lectures (4 in total)】
Guest lecturers:
Lecture 1: OGAWA Nozomu (Director of Art Center Ongoing)
Lecture 2: Martine DENNEWALD (Co-Artistic Director of Festival TransAmériques)
Lecture 3: River LINE (Artist, ADAM Curator)
Lecture 4: KAWASAKI Yoko, TSUKAHARA Yuya, Juliet KNAPP (Co-Directors of KYOTO EXPERIMENT)
What knowledge, skills, and qualities are necessary for directors? A series of forums on what the future director should be.
When considering the future of the performing arts, the immediate issue is the training of people able to take on the direction of theatres and festivals. But what sort of knowledge, skills, and qualities are necessary for these directing roles in the first place? What should people learn and what sort of experience should they build up to aspire to be directors? The answer is by no means obvious.
Directors’ Forum is a program for thinking about the knowledge, skills and qualities required of a director from the ground up. Four sets of guests working as directors at festivals in Japan and overseas will give lectures, and based on these will hold a discussion with participants. What is required of future directors?—We look forward to receiving applications from everyone who is willing to work with us on this question, including those who aspire to become directors in the future.
■Courses
1. Discussion Course: Attend guest lectures and participate in discussions at a venue in Tokyo (there will be a selection of participants).
2. Lecture Course: Watch an archive of lectures by guests online (no selection of participants).
Guest
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OGAWA Nozomu
From 2002 to 2006, Ogawa organized "Ongoing," a large-scale exhibition that publicly recruited young artists, at various locations in Tokyo and Yokohama, on an annual pace. Based on the network of hundreds of young artists formed by its unique open recruitment and mutual selection system, in January 2008 Ogawa established Art Center Ongoing, an art complex in Tokyo’s Kichijoji neighborhood which is designed to be a place for the ongoing practice and dissemination of new cultural experiments unbound by existing values. He currently serves as the Center’s director. Between 2009 and 2020 he was chief director of TERATOTERA, a series of art projects closely connected with the area between the Koenji and Kokubunji stations on the JR Chuo Line. In 2016, Ogawa received a fellowship from the Japan Foundation to conduct research on 83 art spaces in 9 countries across Southeast Asia. In 2021, Ogawa went to Austria for one year under the Agency for Cultural Affairs’ Program of Overseas Study for Upcoming Artists. From 2020 to 2022, he was curator of the Letter / Art / Project,“TODOKU.”
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Martine DENNEWALD
Co-Artistic Director of Festival TransAmériques
After completing studies in dramaturgy (Leipzig, Germany) and arts management (London, UK), Martine Dennewald worked for theatres and theatre festivals in Luxembourg, Germany, the United Kingdom, Hungary, Switzerland and Austria. She then joined Niels Ewerbeck for a few years as dramaturg at Künstlerhaus Mousonturm in Frankfurt. Between 2015 and 2020, she was the artistic director of Festival Theaterformen – an eleven-day performing arts festival which takes place alternately in the cities of Hanover and Braunschweig (Germany). Since mid-June 2021 Martine Dennewald co-directs Festival TransAmériques in Montreal (Canada) together with Jessie Mill.
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River LIN
Artist, ADAM Curator
River Lin is a performance artist working across the contexts of visual art, dance and queer culture through making, researching, and curating. He works collaboratively and collectively with conditions of cultural communities, sites and institutional critiques to stage live works as choreography, durational installations, encounters or situations to investigate heteronormative narratives and settings of art history and contemporary society. His work has been presented by Centre Pompidou, Palais de Tokyo, Lafayette Anticipations, Centre National de la Danse (Paris), KANAL Centre Pompidou (Brussels), and Live Art Development Agency (London) among others. Since 2017 he has directed ADAM (Asia Discovers Asia Meeting for Contemporary) with Taipei Performing Arts Centre to facilitate artists from across the Asia-Pacific region and beyond in exchange.
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KAWASAKI Yoko, TSUKAHARA Yuya, Juliet KNAPP
Co-Directors of KYOTO EXPERIMENT
KAWASAKI Yoko
After working at CAN Inc. and as an art coordinator for Kyoto Art Center from 2011-2014, she was a fellow for the Program of Overseas Study by the Agency for Cultural Affairs of Japan and studied at HAU Hebbel am Ufer in Berlin. In recent years she has planned and produced interdisciplinary performing arts projects. She has been involved as production coordinator at KYOTO EXPERIMENT since 2011 and is co-director since 2020.
TSUKAHARA Yuya
After graduating with a master’s degree in Aesthetics and Art Studies from Kwansei Gakuin University, he joined NPO DANCEBOX as a volunteer and later became a staff member. In 2006, he began activities as an artist as a member of the performance group contact Gonzo. In 2020, he received the Best staff award at the Yomiuri Theater Awards for his scenography and choreography in the theater work Pratthana – A Portrait of Possession. Since 2020 he is also a part-time lecturer at the Department of Sculpture at Kyoto City University of Arts.
Juliet KNAPP
Born in Fukuoka. Graduated Oxford University with a BA in English Literature and Language. From 2015-2017 she worked as communications manager and project manager for music and performance at Ryoji Ikeda Studio. She has been involved as a member of the PR team at KYOTO EXPERIMENT since 2017 and is co-director since 2020.
Schedule
Open call for participants
Discussion Course Registration Deadline: Saturday, September 10, 17:00 (JST) *Please be sure to watch the Introduction (Online Information Session) held on Wednesday, August 24 or its archive before applying.
Lecture Course Registration Deadline: Tuesday, October 25, 17:00 (JST)
Introduction (Online Information Session)
Wednesday, August 24, from 19:00
Speakers: MIYAGI Satoshi (Director of Tokyo Festival), Directors’ Forum facilitators
Lecture 1
Monday, October 31, 17:00 - 20:00
Guest: OGAWA Nozomu (Director of Art Center Ongoing)
Lecture 2
Tuesday, November 1, 18:00 - 21:00
Guest: Martine DENNEWALD (Co-Artistic Director of Festival TransAmérique)
Lecture 3
Thursday (public holiday), November 3, 17:00 – 20:00
Guest: River LIN (Artist, ADAM Curator)
Lecture 4
Friday, November 4, 17:00 - 20:00
Guests: KAWASAKI Yoko, TSUKAHARA Yuya, Juliet KNAPP (Co-Directors of KYOTO EXPERIMENT)
Wrap-up meeting
Saturday, November 5, 17:00 - 20:00
Accessibility/Subtitles
Japanese (English consecutive interpretation will be provided for the 2nd and 3rd sessions)
Application
Fee: Free (Advance registration required)
Application guidelines (in Japanese only)
*Please be sure to check the application guidelines for details on eligibility and other requirements.
Discussion Course
Application Form (in Japanese only)
Lecture Course
Application Form (in Japanese only)
Venues
Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre Symphony Space, etc. / Online streaming
Staff credits
Directors’ Forum
Program Coordinator: EGUCHI Masato
Farm-Lab Office (syuz’gen LLC.)
Chief Manager: UEMATSU Yuko
Program Manager: TANI Akiho
Program Coordinators: FURUKAWA Mao, TERADA Rin, EGUCHI Masato, OKAWA Satoshi, MIYAHARA Kanae, MITO Ayumi
Public Relations: YUKAWA Yuko
Back Office: KAWAMURA Mihoka, SOMEYA Hinako
Communication Design Team (Art Translators Collective)
Team Lead: TAMURA Kanoko
Members: YAMADA Kyle, MIZUNO Hibiki, HARUKAWA Yuki, MORIMOTO Yume, UEDA Haruka
Tokyo Festival Farm Director: TADA Junnosuke
Tokyo Festival Farm Co-Director: NAGASHIMA Kaku
Tokyo Festival Executive Committee
Manager (Farm): MUROUCHI Naomi
Organizer credits
Organized by
Tokyo Festival Executive Committee [Toshima City, Toshima Mirai Cultural Foundation, Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture (Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre & Arts Council Tokyo), Tokyo Metropolitan Government]
Supported by
the Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan in the fiscal 2022
Sponsored by
Asahi Group Japan, Ltd.
Related link
About Tokyo Festival Farm
https://tokyo-festival.jp/en/tf_farm/
Inquiries
Farm-Lab Office
farm@tokyo-festival.jp
+81(0)3-4213-4293 (Open weekdays 10:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m. )