PROGRAM
Directly managed programs F/T label
Online Discussion “Creating in public space 2”
Yuuki Aoki (Dancer/Choreographer), Worry Kinoshita (Theatre Director/Festival Director), Ayami Sasaki (Scenographer)
Moderators:
Kaku Nagashima/Chika Kawai (Tokyo Festival F/T Label Program Directors)
Why purposely take arts out onto the streets?
Familiar features of the city – the square in front of the station you pass by virtually every day, the shopping street where you do your shopping, the park you visit with your family – are transformed into special spaces by the hand of the artist. Community programs that everyone can enjoy, and which offer unexpected encounters, may constitute the true pleasure of a festival. For the artist, however, creating in open public spaces is a completely different experience from creating in a dedicated environment like a theatre, involving everything from the issue of securing a place to variety of external conditions including the weather, and above all the relationship with the people who live and work there. In this discussion, artists and directors who organize community projects are invited to exchange views on the appeal and value of creating in public spaces, and the strategems, adjustments and challenges involved.
Program Director’s comment
This year's F/T label offers a program of works designed to make visitors feel the presence of people again; that there are real flesh-and-blood people on the other side of the screen you look at every day, behind the scenes of manufacturing and logistics, and even in buildings that are being destroyed. This year’s Online Discussion will be held in two sessions with the same theme as last year. We invite experts working on the ground in different disciplines, engaging in practices and research from different standpoints, to exchange information and opinions. We believe we will see emerge from their discussion forms and meanings to activities, as well as an image of creators, which differ from the conventional models.
F/T Label Program Directors, Kaku Nagashima, Chika Kawai
Profile
Yuuki Aoki
Leader of dance group Newcomer H Sokerissa!, dancer and choreographer. After working as a backup dancer for various celebrities, in 2001 while studying abroad in New York he experienced the 9/11 terrorist attacks, which prompted him to explore the inherent wonder of the human being and review his approach to dance. Aoki started the dance group Newcomer H Sokerissa! with people who have lived homeless in 2005, in the search for a form of expression arising from the concept of “bodies having to face daily life.” He won the grand prize in the dance contest NEXTREAM21 in 2004 and received the Grand Prix in the Konica Minolta Social Design Award 2016.
Worry Kinoshita
Founded the theatre company Sekaiichidan (now known as sunday) while a student at Kobe University. The non-verbal performance unit THE ORIGINAL TEMPO produced by Kinoshita won 5 stars in the Fringe program of the Edinburgh Festival. He serves as Festival Director of various theatre festivals including Street Theatre Festival STRANGE SEED SHIZUOKA.
Works in recent years include the direction of the opening ceremony for the 2020 Paralympics, and “Hyper Projection Engeki Haikyu!!” In April 2018 he was appointed Director of the performing arts program for Kobe Art Village Center.
Ayami Sasaki
Born in 1983 in Kagoshima Prefecture. Graduated from the Department of Scenography Design, Drama, and Dance, Faculty of Art and Design at Tama Art University. Sasaki is a scenographer and member of FAIFAI. She engages in a variety of projects as a stage designer and scenographer. She loves giving parties at home.
Schedule
Saturday, Nov. 12 – Sunday, Dec. 11
Language
Japanese
Ticket information
Free (Available to view on the Tokyo Festival YouTube channel during the viewing period only)
Staff credits
Video Recording/Editing: Hibiki Miyazawa (ALLOPOSIDAE LLC), Yui Takahashi
Coordinators: artsknot, Miyoto Okuyama
Organizer credits
Organizers
Toshima Mirai Cultural Foundation, Toshima City, 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]
Subsidy by
Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan in fiscal 2022
Supported by
Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan in fiscal 2022
Sponsored by
Asahi Group Japan, Ltd.
Inquiries
Tokyo Festival Executive Committee Office
050-1746-0996 (Weekdays 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.)