Performing Arts Selection 2025 ｜ Dance Base Yokohama

Performing Arts Selection 2025

October 30-November 2, all performances in a festival format!
  Aichi Arts Center x Dance Base Yokohama
Performing Arts Selection 2025

Venue: Aichi Arts Center / Menicon Theater Aoi

This festival will present a series of works created this year by DaBY’s “Dance Base Yokohama International Dance Project” Wings “for the next generation of world-bound creators” and Aichi Arts Theatre’s “Constellation: Aichi Arts Theatre Dance Project Connecting the World,” which was launched in 2024 with funds from the Agency for Cultural Affairs to strengthen the foundation for cultural and artistic activities. and Aichi Arts Theatre’s “‘Constellation’ ~Aichi Arts Theatre 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 (Dates / Venues / Creators)
Direction: Eri Karatsu (Artistic Director, Aichi Arts Theatre / Artistic Director, Dance Base Yokohama)
★…Wings
●…Constellation

<Two performances each from Thursday, October 30 to Sunday, November 2>
◎Aichi Arts Theatre, Small Hall
Toranami Ame/Ayaka Ono Yo Nakazawa Space Not Blank (★)

◎Aichi Arts Theater, Large Rehearsal Room
Ruri Santo (●)

◎Aichi Arts Theater, Medium Rehearsal Room
Mariko Kakizaki (★)

<Two performances on November 1 (Sat.) and November 2 (Sun.) >
◎Menicon Theater Aoi
Teita Iwabuchi / Motoi Takahashi (★)

What is Wings?

Dance Base Yokohama (DaBY) has launched a new project, “Dance Base Yokohama International Dance Project “Wings” for the next generation of creators who want to spread their wings to the world.
This project aims to increase the international presence of Japanese creators, nurture leading Japanese artists, producers, dramaturgs 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).

https://dancebase.yokohama/wings (A special website will be released soon)

■Aichi Arts Theatre About
https://www-stage.aac.pref.aichi.jp/

＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝
＜Outline of work＞

Ake Toranan, “R/evolution(s)”

Dates: October 30 (Thursday) – November 2 (Sunday), 2011
Venue: Aichi Arts Center, Small Hall

The theme of this year’s exhibition is “Reinterpretation of the physical senses in the modern age. Through the “Multi Layered Body” butoh method he advocates, the dancers will work on a creation inspired by the word “revolution,” which means revolution. The participating dancers will be selected through workshops and showings to be held at DaBY in March.

Ayaka Ono You Nakazawa Space Not Blank Dance Work No. 3

Dates: October 30 (Thursday) – November 2 (Sunday), 2011
Venue: Aichi Arts Center, Small Hall

Ayaka Ono, You Nakazawa This is the third “dance work” by Space Not Blank. Using “physical catharsis,” a mechanism for creating unique movement and choreography, the group will work on a “dance work” based on Japanese literature.

SANTO Ruri [title of work to be determined].

Dates: October 30 (Thursday) – November 2 (Sunday), 2011
Venue: Aichi Arts Center, 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 to be determined)

Dates: October 30 (Thursday) – November 2 (Sunday), 2011
Venue: Aichi Arts Center Medium Rehearsal Room

Following “Can’t-Sleeper” (produced by DaBY and Aichi Arts Theatre), 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 is a casual diversion.

Teita Iwabuchi, The Great Afternoon: the soft machine XXX

Dates: November 1 (Sat.) & November 2 (Sun.)
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, Motoi [title of work to be determined].

Dates: November 1 (Sat.) & November 2 (Sun.)
Venue: Menicon Theater Aoi

Based on traditional Japanese ghost stories, Takahashi will create a dance piece that combines the contemporary street dance style of HIPHOP. The unique fear, melancholy, and sadness associated with Japanese ghost stories will be reinterpreted through dance and rhythm using Takahashi’s unique method, attempting to create a dialogue between the classic and the contemporary.