The Japan Foundation
Performing Arts Network Japan
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July 8, 2010
A “China Impact in the arts” The performing arts in a privatizing China
Norway’s Ultima Contemporary Music Festival is held annually each autumn. This year the spotlight is on Japan.
The Avignon Festival rebornTalking about subjects like the Festival’s new Associate Artist program.
Three years since the Royal Shakespeare Company, moved to new premises, the Barbican Centre adopts new strategies
LG Arts Center is an emerging theater in Seoul operated but a corporate philanthropic foundation and targeting a middle-to wealthy-class audience
The activities of the Five Arts Center, toward the creation of contemporary Malaysian theater
An organization tuning out world-class actors
Talking with the Director of The National Institute of Dramatic Art of Australia
The “City of London Festival” is an arts festival that has taken route in the international financial center of “the City”
In pursuit of Theater for the Playwright
Talking with Artistic Director Ostermeier of the Schaubuehne
Founder Val Borne talks about the Dance Umbrella festival
A look into the activities of the JCDN, a pioneering arts NPO dedicated to getting out information about the Japanese contemporary dance scene
An organization for the promotion of the arts in the American Midwest, Arts Midwest
Breathing new life into contemporary dance, What is the source of the vitality in Finnish dance today?
This interview explores the actor education system at The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, an institution with a 100-year history
South Africa’s comprehensive culture center   ARTSCAPE and its programs
What is SESC, the Brazilian organizations that runs comprehensive culture and arts facilities in Brazil
A look at the Singapore arts scene, invigorated in recent years by new theaters and festivals
Placing top priority on new writing and nurturing playwrights   Scotland's Traverse Theatre
Bringing Korean performing arts to the world scene
Taiwan's new cultural policy — The Taiwan National Theater now semi-NPO
Egypt’s first private sector arts and culture facility, Cairo's El Sawy Culture Center
One of South America’s oldest and most active theaters, the Municipal Theater of Santiago, approaches its 150th anniversary
Re-established as a stronghold of contemporary theater in Shanghai
Creative efforts of the Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre
Working to build an infrastructure for contemporary dance in Germany
Speaking with the founder of Tanzplattform Deutschland
What lies ahead for the Beijing Modern Dance Company and its international dance festival in today’s Chinese contemporary dance scene?
As the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) celebrates its 60th anniversary, what is the vision of its new artistic director?
As it prepares to reopen with a newly renovated building, Berlin’s House of World Cultures is broadening its vision and role
Organizing a large-scale Japan-themed festival for 2008 The policies behind the Kennedy Center’s international programs
Speaking with the Director of Programming for the grand-scale arts and culture centre Esplanade, the symbol of Singapore’s “Renaissance City” program
Looking at French policy in culture and the arts through the activities of the front-line administrator, Jean Digne
New developments in the Japan Society, a promoter of exchange between Japan and the U.S. for 100 years
Stimulating the Korean performing arts scene The role of Seoul Performing Arts Festival
Connecting the theater people of Asia   The Japan Foundation international collaboration program
The Rolex Mentor and Protege Arts Initiative, fostering encounters between artists across generations
The Kunsten Festival des Arts, making Brussels a center generating new trends in contemporary art
Pioneers of China’s contemporary independent arts scene Caochangdi Work Station
Training arts managers to support the activities of the multi-cultural, multi-ethnic artists of Indonesia   Jakarta’s art NPO Kelola
The Playwrights’ Center of Minneapolis, encouraging US-Japan theater exchange as a resource supporting the development of playwrights
Looking into the heart of the Asian Cultural Council, an organization that has helped support over 5,000 artists
The IETM network, contributing to the promotion of collaborative commissioned works and tours in Europe
Interview with Marie-Hélène Falcon, Director of TransAmeriques, the leading performing arts festival in Canada’s Quebec Province
Oh Tae-sok, a genius of Korean theater and Artistic Director of The National Theater of Korea and The National Drama Company
The Minneapolis-based Walker Art Center, an international hub for cutting-edge performing arts
As the Yokohama Noh Theater ventures into the uncharted field of traditional arts production, attention focuses on its planning expertise
Pioneering the role of the university-based arts center, The Hopkins Center for the Arts in New Hampshire, USA
Striving for regional development, Romania’s Sibiu International Theatre Festival gathers participants from 70 countries
European arts scene leader Frie Leysen talks about the role and activities of arts festivals
Berlin’s HAU as an epicenter of the performing arts — What’s the ideas behind its aim to “Create friction in the world?”
Art bringing hope to Echigo-Tsumari The ongoing journey of Fram Kitagawa
A gateway to recognition for young musicians Looking at Young Concert Artists in today’s music world
Bangkok Theatre Network   An organization sparked by a Thai version of Akaoni
Homeless and Artists Working Together   Streetwise Opera
Another aspect of Japanese theater communicated through posters
Leading South Korea’s dance world   CID-UNESCO Korean Chapter and SIDance
The world of Samuel Miller, a leader in arts management in the U.S.
Serving as the “control tower” for the international outflow of Korean culture, Korea Arts Management Service (KAMS)
CINARS, over a quarter of a century   The vision and accomplishments of founder Alain Pare
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