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Will Performers Continue to Travel? Rethinking the Environment and the Global South for International Performing Arts Festivals in a Post-Corona World
(Series - How to Create a Sustainable Environment for Performing Arts)
Tokyo Festival 2022
Symposium
by Ása Richardsdóttir, Martine Dennewald, Natalie Hennedige, Yoshiji Yokoyama, Kaku Nagashima
Ása Richardsdóttir (IETM Secretary General, Chair of Perform Europe)
Martine Dennewald (Director of Festival TransAmériques)
Natalie Hennedige (Festival Director of SIFA - Singapore International Festival of the Arts)
Moderators:
Yoshiji Yokoyama (Chief Dramaturge and Programmer of Tokyo Festival)
Kaku Nagashima (FT Label Program Director and Co-Director of Tokyo Festival Farm)
Are international performing arts festivals and pandemics two sides of the same coin?
Due to the global spread of the Covid-19 pandemic, movement across national borders has become more restricted, while international exchange has flourished in online spaces. In light of this shift, there is an increasingly heated debate over the environmental impacts and risks caused by the movement of people and goods. These issues are also the result of people who previously could not move freely recently gaining the ability to do so, and this very same increased mobility has enabled the globalization of international performing arts festivals. Additionally, restrictions on international mobility are inextricably linked to the entrenched economic inequality between the Global North and the Global South. How should we think about the issue of the performing arts and travel in a post-Corona world? This symposium brings together a panel of speakers who are exploring the new realities of international exchange in the world of the performing arts.
Profile
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Ása Richardsdóttir
Ása Richardsdóttir is the secretary general of IETM – the largest international network in the performing arts. and the chair of the consortium of Perform Europe Ása has led a versatile career in the performing arts, culture, academia, banking, politics and media. She was a television reporter at RÚV Iceland, founder of theatre, Kaffileikhusid, executive director of Iceland Dance Company, president of Performing Arts Iceland, project leader of ICE HOT Reykjavík Nordic Dance Platform and Wilderness dance, founder of keðja dance network and producer and leader of various artistic projects and international collaboration initiatives for the last 25 years.
Ása has been politically active, served as city councillor 2014-2018 for the Icelandic Social Democratic Party and has been member and chair of several boards in politics, finance and arts.
She is co-author of the guide for artists and producers “It Starts With a Conversation”.
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Martine Dennewald
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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Natalie Hennedige
Natalie Hennedige is currently Festival Director of SIFA - Singapore International Festival of the Arts(2022-2024). As a performance director and writer, Natalie is known for her singular artistic language and creative vision exploring contemporary issues through highly constructed heightened worlds with collaborators from diverse artistic disciplines and cultural backgrounds. She served as Artistic Director of Cake, a performance company now in its seventeenth year of presenting progressive new works at the intersection of performance and a variety of other disciplines. Her work has been presented in national and international venues. She is a recipient of the National Arts Council Young Artist Award(2007) and Japanese Chamber of Commerce & Industry JCCI Singapore Foundation Culture Award(2010).
Accessibility/Subtitles
Symposium to be held in English with Japanese subtitles
Staff credits
Planning: Yoshiji Yokoyama (Chief Dramaturge and Programmer of Tokyo Festival)
Visual Design: Kei Uchida
Japanese Subtitle Translation: Yoko Yamaguchi
Production Coordination: Shoko Miyamoto, Masato Eguchi, Yuko Uematsu (syuz'gen LLC)
Direction: Kaku Nagashima (FT Label Program Director and Co-Director of Tokyo Festival Farm), Junnosuke Tada (Tokyo Festival Farm Director)
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 fiscal 2022
Sponsored by:
Asahi Group Japan, Ltd.
Inquiries
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