As the first time that a Japanese theater company has participated in the festival, this will broaden the horizons of cultural exchange between China and Japan in the world of contemporary theater.
The current"Asia Contemporary Theater Project/ The Future of Collaboration and Networks" program will include performances of this play Mobile as an invited production and an international symposium that will explore the subject of building infrastructure to support talented theater artists of Asia.
When inviting a contemporary theater production, it is important to get a good understanding of what the play is about, and to do that I spend a good amount of time talking to the director; and of course I also have to think about it myself.
It is the masterpiece of Hisashi Inoue with William Shakespeare's all works continuing huge effects to the contemporary theater in the weft and the late Edo period's popular storytelling"Tenpo Suikoden" in the warp since its announcement about 400 years ago.
While of course included in these are contemporary theater-makers from around the U.S., a big role of this festival has been to give the American contemporary theater scene that otherwise tends to be isolated an opportunity to encounter the latest work from the countries of Europe.
This program accepts overseas-base artists and arts manager(producer, program director and curator) who are expected to play a pivotal role in expanding the worldwide network of contemporary theater and dance, and promoting mutual understanding.
As an Asia Center Fellow, Muneshige examined the situation of traditional and contemporary theater while also actively engaging in exchange projects with the locals. We asked him about the new trends he found in Vietnamese theater, the challenges and issues facing joint theater productions between Japan and Vietnam, and future plans and prospects not only in Vietnamese theater but on the entire Indochina peninsula.
Still, even in the case of directors such as Yukio Ninagawa, Kazuyoshi Kushida and Hideki Noda who have been so successful in the contemporary theater world, it would have been very difficult to bring out the stage methods that have been developed within the Kabuki traditional and the physical prowess of the actors without the cooperation of Kanzaburo as a zagashira actor.
In 2005, we gathered traditional dance artists from Japan, S. Korea, Bali and Thailand for a project in which we asked a contemporary theater director to help them create a collaborative work, and what we found is that the individuality and uniqueness of each country's dance traditions is so strong that it is difficult to create a joint collaborative work.
Additionally, this Japan-Vietnam exchange program paves the way for a contemporary theat performance by a Japan-Vietnam joint production scheduled to take place next year. While the introduction of Edo Marionette Theater YOUKIZA as traditional art is pivotal, this exchange program also features a contemporary theater workshop coordinated by the stage director/producer Yoji Sakate ahead of the international coproduction.
The Asian Arts Theater has two halls, one seating 2,000 and the other 500, and is dedicated primarily to presenting Asian contemporary theater, creation of dance works and works of artist collaborations, and each year a festival will be held with a program based on works that deal with the questions of"what Asian arts are,""what are contemporary arts,""what it means to embrace the issues of the future" and"why these questions need to be addressed.
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