Dance Base Yokohama×Aichi Prefectural Art Theater×Menicon Theater Aoi Performing Arts Selection 2025 Festival Edition
A festival of six performances in the city of Nagoya
Dance Base Yokohama×Aichi Prefectural Art Theater×Menicon Theatre Aoi
Performing Arts Selection 2025 Festival Edition
Venue: Aichi Prefectural Art Theater/Menicon Theatre Aoi
This festival will feature a series of works created this year by DaBY’s “Dance Base Yokohama International Dance Project “Wings”: International Dance Project by Dance Base Yokohama for Emerging Creators” and Aichi Arts Theatre’s “”Constellation”: Aichi Arts Theatre Dance Project for Emerging Creators”, which will be launched in 2024 using funds provided by the Agency for Cultural Affairs to strengthen the foundations of cultural and artistic activities. and Aichi Prefectural Art Theater’s “‘Constellation’ ~Aichi Prefectural Art Theater Dance Project Connecting the World~”, both of which were launched in 2024 by the Agency for Cultural Affairs of Japan.
Audience members will be able to tour each venue and view the entire program during the International Art Festival “Aichi 2025” to be held this fall.
Performing Arts Selection 2025 Festival Edition
Aichi Prefectural Art Theater, Dance Base Yokohama Artistic Director Eri Karatsu
<Thursday, October 30, 15:15 / 20:00>
SANTO Ruri “Filling”
Venue: Aichi Prefectural Art Theater, Large Rehearsal Room
Price: General ￥3,000 / U25 ￥1,000 All seats unreserved (with serial numbers)
▶︎ Ticket Order https://pas2025festival-mito.peatix.com
<Friday, October 31, 19:00 / Saturday, November 1, 15:00
Program A: Conan Amok “R/evolution(s)” / Ayaka Ono Akira Nakazawa Nakazawa Yo Space Not Blank “Dance Work No. 3: “At the Castle” by Naoya Shiga
Venue: Aichi Prefectural Art Theater, Small Hall
Admission: General ￥4,000 / U25 ￥2,000 All seats unreserved (with a serial number)
▶︎ Ticket application https://pas2025festival-a.peatix.com
<Saturday, November 1, 12:00 / Sunday, November 2, 12:00 >
Mariko Kakizaki “hopee”
Venue: Aichi Prefectural Art Theater, Medium Rehearsal Room
Price: General ¥2,000 / U25 ¥1,000 / Elementary school students and under ¥500 / Children under 3: Free on lap for each adult (fee if seat is required) All seats unreserved (numbered) All seats unreserved (numbered)
▶︎ Ticket applicationhttps://pas2025festival-kakizaki.peatix.com
＜Saturday, November 1, 18:30 / Sunday, November 2, 14:00
Program B: Teita Iwabuchi “The Great Afternoon: the soft machine xxx” / Moeto Takahashi “Imoto
Venue: Menicon Theater Aoi
Admission: General ￥4,000 / U25 ￥2,000 All seats unreserved (with a serial number)
▶︎ Ticket application https://pas2025festival-b.peatix.com
What is Wings
Dance Base Yokohama (DaBY) has launched a new project, “Dance Base Yokohama International Dance Project “Wings” by Dance Base Yokohama for Emerging Creators”.
The project aims to increase the international presence of Japanese creators, nurture leading Japanese artists, producers, dramaturges, and critics, and create opportunities for overseas performances and further revivals of their works.
The project is named “Wings” (read: wings), and the 12 creators will experience the process of planning, creation, first performance, overseas presentation, and re-staging, through a series of training sessions including dialogues with mentors and instructors, overseas visits, and presentations at trade fairs. The 12 creators experience the process of planning, creation, first performance, overseas presentation, and re-staging. Along with this activity, we expressed our desire to develop an environment in which DaBY can take a leap forward internationally, and to broaden the scope of creators’ activities.
This project is one of three projects* selected by the Agency for Cultural Affairs under the Dance Division of the Creator/Artist Development Program of the Fund for Strengthening the Foundations of Cultural and Artistic Activities (*), with flexible and continuous support over three years based on a five-year activity plan.
Fund for Strengthening the Foundations of Cultural and Artistic Activities
The Fund for Strengthening the Foundations of Cultural and Artistic Activities has been established at the Japan Arts Council to implement projects for fostering creators and artists and adding value to cultural facilities through subsidies provided by the Agency for Cultural Affairs in its supplementary budget for fiscal 2023.
The Fund supports the challenge and development of the next generation of creators and artists, and provides flexible, multi-year support for strengthening the functions of cultural facilities that serve as venues for their activities and activities.
*Other selected organizations are the New National Theatre Foundation and the Japan Performing Arts Foundation (Tokyo Ballet Company).
Dance Base Yokohama “Wings” Web page
https://dancebase.yokohama/wings
■ Aichi Prefectural Art Theater “Constellation” Web page
https://aichi-constellation.com/
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＜Outline of work＞
Mito Ruri “Filling” [Constellation]
Ruri Mito, a choreographer who has continued to explore the fundamental movements of the body and the subtle expression of emotions in her numerous works, will present “Filling,” her first creation since becoming a dance artist at Aichi Prefectural Art Theater in April 2025. Focusing on the body and senses in the present, this work quietly accompanies the viewer’s breath and body, and presents the richness of simply “being. Under the live performance of Teru Uchida, who plays the delicate tones of the clavichord, the prototype of the piano, four dancers will attempt to see the invisible, valuing invisible wind, smells, and sensations that touch the skin, among others.
Direction/Choreography：Ruri Mito
Cast：Konami Sakata, Mariko Shibata, Maho Takahashi, Liisa Makino
Music/Performance：Teru Uchida
Conan Amok, “R/evolution(s)” [Wings]
After studying sculpture at an art college and gaining many years of experience with the Dairakudakan butoh company, Ame has been working on the theme of “reinterpretation of physical sensation in the modern age” using his original butoh method “Multi Layered Body” based on phenomenological and sculptural perspectives. In this work, he began his creation with the double meaning of “revolution” as a starting point: “revolution” and “transformation. Focusing on the immediacy of the body, she projects “permanence and rupture,” “replacement,” “movement,” and “transformation” onto the body from the event of “revolution,” and creates solid, well-honed movement. Collaborating with dancers from diverse backgrounds other than butoh, they present new budding possibilities for butoh.
Direction, Choreography, Art: Conan Amok
Performers: Moekatsu Nagata, Kaya Tsurumi, Mano Hatanaka, Yuki Matsukura
Music: Hurleyzone Amida, Kohsetsu Narukami
Ayaka Ono Akira Nakazawa Nakazawa Spacenotblank “Dance Work No. 3: “At the Castle” by Naoya Shiga” [Wings]
Ayaka Ono Akira Nakazawa Nakazawa Spacenotblank is a duo of stage artists who have explored all the values of the performing arts and developed a new movement mechanism for the body called “physical catharsis. This work is the third in a series of dance works that attempt to establish the practices that emerge from this mechanism. For this creation, they used Naoya Shiga’s novel “At Kinosaki” as their original idea, and engaged in research and creation through a residency at the Kinosaki International Art Center. While referring to the content of the novel, the background of writing, and the context of the writer’s act of transforming his experience into creation, we will explore the form of “expression” for those of us living in the present age.
Original idea: Naoya Shiga’s “At the Castle” (1917)
Choreography/Direction: Ayaka Ono Akira Nakazawa Nakazawa Yo
Cast: Hokuto Kodama, Ayako Saito, Sumi Tateyama
Rehearsal Director: Shizuka Yamaguchi
Music: mmm
Art: Kamiike Takuya
Production Support: Space Not Blank
Mariko Kakizaki “hopee” [Wings]
HOPEE” is a pop and stylish work centered on the fun of the body. Kakizaki, who has been involved in a wide range of activities in Japan and abroad based on his experience with the Bat Sheva Ensemble and Sharone Eyal’s L-E-V Dance Company, creates this time with the aim of creating a viewing environment that everyone, children and adults alike, can enjoy without hesitation or anxiety. In a time that is like turning the toy box upside down, he is working to bring people into contact with their own bodies, which they have taken for granted, and with the wonders of life itself.
*Play time will be scheduled after the show.
Direction, Choreography, Performance: Mariko Kakizaki
Choreography Assistant: Haruka Suzuki
Cast: Karim, Nagisa Yoshida, Liel Fibak
Music: ICHI
Art: Maki Nagamine
Costume: Shinya Watanabe
Teita Iwabuchi, The Great Afternoon: the soft machine xxx [Wings].
He began his research with the idea that “this body may be a soft machine with a rich and precise mechanism that cannot yet be reproduced by modern technology. Using the concept of “space technology” proposed by the Hong Kong-born philosopher Yuk Hui, he unraveled “Butoh,” “martial arts,” “ancient relics,” and “art from all ages and cultures” to discover “technological diversity” by considering technology not merely as a tool but as “a way of relating to the world” within a culture, and to move away from the single view of technology that covers the world. We will discover the “diversity of technology” from the single view of technology that covers the world. The “soft machines” that emerge from this body of work (local and localized!), where multiple technologies and sensations are intermingled, are “soft machines”. The dance of “soft machines” created from this body (local and localized!), in which multiple technologies and senses are intermingled, will be created.
Direction, Choreography, Performance：Teita Iwabuchi
Cast：Kaho Kogure, Naoyuki Sakai
Dramaturg：Auto Niwa (Dance Base Yokohama)
Music：Takashi Sugawa
Costume：Kako Fujitani
Understudy：Yu Ohtsuki
Takahashi, Motoi, “Implicit” [Wings].
Exploring a style that fuses hip-hop and classical ballet, Takahashi Motoi toured abroad for the first time in two U.S. cities last year with his dance company MWMW. Inspired by a Japanese ghost story, Takahashi wrote a poetic tale from scratch as the core of this dance work, which is composed through physical expression that transcends words. The space changes its form from moment to moment, and time and space flow with their own breath. Memories that you have shared with someone else, moments that you may have shared with someone else. To touch it without averting the eyes and ears. A touch. The approaching presence tests the extent to which one’s senses are open. This work depicts a ghost story for the sake of a small communion with the things that appear in the world around us.
Direction, Choreography, Performance, Music：Moto Takahashi
Performance：Yuria Onishi, Yuki Nakatani
Performance Pigeon Enabler：Chieko Ito
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◆Venue
Aichi Prefectural Art Theater (1-13-2 Higashisakura, Higashi-ku, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan)
5 minutes on foot from Sakae Station (Higashiyama Subway Line or Meijo Line)
Meitetsu Seto Line “Sakae-cho” station, 5 min. walk (via Oasis 21 underground passageway or 2F connecting bridge)
Menicon Theater Aoi (3-21-19 Aoi, Naka-ku, Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture, Japan)
JR Chikusa Station (Chuo Main Line), approx. 4 min. walk from Exit 5 (underground ticket gate)
Nagoya City Subway Higashiyama Line “Chigusa” station, about 4 minutes walk from Exit 5
Nagoya Municipal Subway Sakuradori Line “Kurumamichi” Station: Exit No. 4 and turn left immediately. Approximately 7 minutes on foot.
◆Application ◎September 12 (Fri.) from 10:00 a.m.
Peatix*All shows are handled by
https://pas2025festival.peatix.com/ *Please register from the application page of each show.
Menicon TheatreAoi *Only available at Menicon Theatre Aoi
Window sales: Menicon Arts Foundation Office (Agora Aoi 1F, 3-20-33 Aoi, Higashi-ku, Nagoya, Aichi)
Phone reservations: 052-938-7185
*Window sales and phone reservations are available from 10:00 to 17:00, except on holidays . except on days when the museum is closed.
Web reservations: https://meniconart.or.jp/aoi/
*Tickets will be issued in numerical order from the time the doors open.
*Once tickets have been purchased, no cancellations, refunds, or changes will be accepted for your convenience.
*Purchasers of tickets under 25 years old are required to bring proof of age at the door.
*No admission for children under 3 years old except for Mariko Kakizaki’s “hopee” (Babysitting services available/application required).
*Please contact Dance Base Yokohama (contact@dancebase.yokohama) in advance for wheelchair seating.
◆Care Information
Aichi Prefectural Art Theater
Performances: 10/30 (Thu) 15:15, 11/1 (Sat) 15:00
［Children over 1 year old and preschool children
［Fee] 1,000 yen (tax included) per person per performance
［Application Deadline: 12:00 one week prior to each performance
［Office Palette Co.
TEL: 0120-353-528 (from cell phone: 052-562-5005)
Mon-Fri 9:00-17:00, Sat 9:00-12:00 (Closed on Sundays and holidays)
Menicon Theater Aoi
Target performance: 11/2 (Sun.) 14:00
Operator: Child Care Service Piyopiyo
［Target] Preschool children 1 year old and up
［Fee] 1,000 yen per child (tax included)
［Application deadline] October 26 (Sun.) 17:00
［Venue］Menicon Theatre Aoi Building (individual information will be provided to those who have made reservations)
［Application] Call Theater Aoi (052-938-7185) after making a ticket reservation.
Organized by: Dance Base Yokohama [Sega Sammy Foundation for Arts and Culture], Aichi Prefectural Art Theater [Aichi Arts Foundation]
Co-organized by: The Menicon Foundation for Arts and Culture
Planning, Production and Co-production by: Dance Base Yokohama, Aichi Prefectural Art Theater
Supported by: Cultural Arts Activities Fund for Strengthening Infrastructure (Support Program for Fostering Creators and Cultural Facilities with High Added Value*)
*Conan Amok “R/evolution(s)”, Ayaka Ono Akira Nakazawa Nakazawa Spacenotblank “Dance Work No. 3: Naoya Shiga’s “At the Castle””, Mariko Kakizaki “hopee”, Teita Iwabuchi “The Great Afternoon: the soft machine xxx”, Motoi Takahashi Implicit”, “Implicit”, “Implicit”, “Implicit”, “Implicit”.
*Support Project for Cultural Facilities with High Added Value: SANTO Ruri “Filling
◆Inquiries
Dance Base Yokohama
E-mail: contact@dancebase.yokohama
