Dance Base Yokohama×Aichi Prefectural Art Theater Performing Arts Selection 2025 Festival Edition

October 30-November 2, Festival style performance!
Dance Base Yokohama×Aichi Prefectural Art Theater
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~”.
Audiences will be able to view the entire program at
, touring each venue in conjunction with the Aichi 2025 International Arts Festival to be held this fall. Details and festival outline will be announced in the summer. Please stay tuned!

Performing Arts Selection 2025 Festival Edition
Direction: Eri Karatsu (Artistic Director, Aichi Prefectural Art Theater / Artistic Director, Dance Base Yokohama)
★…Wings
●…Constellation

<Friday, October 31, 19:00 / Saturday, November 1, 15:00>
◎Aichi Prefectural Art Theater, Small Hall
Conan Amok / Ayaka Ono Akira Nakazawa Nakazawa Yo Nakazawa Space Not Blank (★)

＜ Thursday, October 30, 15:15 / 20:00＞
◎Aichi Prefectural Art Theater, Large Rehearsal Room
Ruri Santo (●)

<Saturday, November 1, 12:00 / Sunday, November 2, 12:00 >
◎Aichi Prefectural Art Theater, Medium Rehearsal Room
Mariko Kakizaki (★)

<Saturday, November 1, 18:30 / Sunday, November 2, 14:00>
◎Menicon Theatre Aoi
Teita Iwabuchi / Motoi Takahashi (★)

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＞

Conan Amok, “R/evolution(s)” [Wings]

Dates: October 31 (Fri) 19:00 / November 1 (Sat) 15:00
Venue: Aichi Prefectural Art Theater, Small Hall

This new work is inspired by the word “Revolution,” which means revolution. Conan Amok, who studied sculpture and has many years of experience with the Butoh company Dairakudakan, will work on a piece based on his original Butoh method “Multi Layered Body,” which is based on phenomenological and sculptural perspectives, with the theme of “reinterpretation of body sensation in the modern age.

Ayaka Ono Akira Nakazawa Nakazawa Spacenotblank “Dance Work No. 3: “At the Castle” by Naoya Shiga” [Wings]

Dates: October 31 (Fri) 19:00 / November 1 (Sat) 15:00
Venue: Aichi Prefectural Art Theater, Small Hall

Based on Naoya Shiga’s novel “At Kinosaki” (1917), the artist conducted research and residency at the Kinosaki International Art Center in the town of Kinosaki, where Shiga actually stayed. Based on his experience in Kinosaki, Shiga is creating his work using his own method of generating movement, “physical catharsis”.

Mito Ruri “Filling” [Constellation]

Date: October 30 (Thu) 15:15 / 20:00
Venue: Aichi Prefectural Art Theater, Large Rehearsal Room

We value such sensations as invisible wind, smell, and touch to the skin, and attempt to see the invisible. Through these features, the artist will project resonance with others and the intersection of memory and time, and challenge new forms of expression.

MARIKO KAKIZAKI [Title of work undecided] [Wings

Dates: November 1 (Sat) 12:00 / November 2 (Sun) 12:00
Venue: Aichi Prefectural Art Theater Naka Rehearsal Room

Following “Can’t-Sleeper” (produced by DaBY and Aichi Prefectural Art Theater), a work dealing with insomnia presented in 2023, this year’s production aims to create a society where children and their parents can go to the theater without hesitation and where seeing a play can be a casual diversion.

Teita Iwabuchi, The Great Afternoon: the soft machine xxx [Wings].

Date: November 1(Sat) 18:30 / November 2(Sun) 14:00
Venue: Menicon Theater Aoi

Based on the hypothesis that the advanced technology of the physical body resides in ancient magic, he references butoh dancers such as Tatsumi Hijikata, Kazuo Ohno, and Ko Murobushi, traditional dances from various Asian countries, possession, ghosts, Nietzsche, and Tamio Hojo’s “The First Night of Life. He plans to create works in which the visible and invisible, the dead and the living, ancient rituals and the contemporary dance floor overlap.

TAKAHASHI Moeto [Title of work undecided] [Wings

Date: November 1(Sat) 18:30 / November 2(Sun) 14:00
Venue: Menicon Theater Aoi

Using the sense of a traditional Japanese ghost story as a starting point, Takahashi constructs a story and creates a world through his body. The combination of the original methods and the blank spaces and pauses in the ghost storytelling weaves together not only fear and anxiety, but also the sadness and nostalgia hidden therein, and a sense that someone once existed. The body living in the present creates a new dialogue between the classical and contemporary worlds.