Grant Category |
Project Title |
Tour location |
opening date |
closing date |
Grantee |
Project summary |
| Tour |
A Flight of songs -Europe Tour May 2008 - |
Ljubljana (Slovenia), Berlin (Germany), Basel, Zurich, Bern (Switzerland) |
May 19, 2008 |
May 26, 2008 |
GMKonzerte |
Music: Concert tour project of the Swiss Composer Walther Giger with reading of famous Japanese poet Shuntaro Tanikawa and Noriko Kawamura (Violin), Fumio Shirato (contrabass) and Sayuri Aramaki (soprano). Tour in three countries. |
| Tour |
Andersens European Tour |
Edinburgh, Greenock, Leeds, Birmingham, London, Brighton, Manchester, Belfast, Glasgow (U.K.), Dublin (Ireland), Stockholm, Gothenburg (Sweden) |
March 28, 2008 |
April 16, 2008 |
Switchico Records |
Music: A 14-date European tour featuring a band, Andersens from Tokyo. The tour takes place in 12 cities in three countries. |
| Tour |
Exchange European Tour, Spring 2008 |
Cardiff, Manchester (U.K.), Gdansk (Poland), Paris (France) |
March 26, 2008 |
April 20, 2008 |
Chapter(Cardiff) Ltd. |
Theatre: Tour of new stage performance work Exchange by Tokyo-based theatre group, Yubiwa Hotel to three countries. In Cardiff, the group will spend 7 days to make a collaboration workshop with local performers and artists. The Japan Foundation supports performances in Cardiff, Manchester and Gdansk. |
| Tour |
Free Time, Air-Conditioner |
Brussels (Belgium), Vienna (Austria), Milan (Italy) |
May 17, 2008 |
June 9, 2008 |
Kunstenfestivaldesarts Associazione med |
Theatre: The festival Kunstenfestivaldesarts and Wiener Festwochen presents Toshiki Okada’s new work Free Time.Associazione med presents Air-conditioner in Uovo performing arts festival in Milan. |
| Tour |
Ohayô! , Japan! 2008 |
Leipzig, Dresden, Bochum (Germany),Graz (Austria) |
July 2008 |
November 2008 |
Lindenfels Westflügel |
Dance: Ohayô!,Japan! 2008, a festival for contemporary Japanese figurative and dance theatre and music presents 8 groups of Japanese danserssuch as Kanazawa-Butohkan, Hyakki Dondorom Gekidan Kaitaisha. More performances at festivals in Dresden and Bochum. |
| Tour |
Sonore Komponent Scandinavian Tour 2008 |
Copenhagem (Denmark), Stockholm (Sweden), Oslo (Norway) |
April 4, 2008 |
April 6, 2008 |
Jaapan Sarl (Sonore) |
Music: Sonore presents for the first time innovative Japanese artists in the range of electronic music and performance, Kazunao Nagata (Organization), Carre,Jon the dog and Busratch to Scandinavian audiences. |
| Collaboration |
The Divers |
London (U.K.) |
October 2007 |
July 2008 |
Soho Theatre |
Theatre: Creation of a new play by Hideki Noda and Colin Teevan using Tales of the Genji as a basis. Public presentation: London in July 2008 and Tokyo in September 2008. |
| Collaboration |
Lady Sarashina |
Lyon, Paris (France), Edinburgh (U.K.) |
March 2008 |
March 2008 |
Opéra National de Lyon |
Theatre: Ushio Amagatsu creates a new opera Lady Sarashina as a stage director and a choreographer with a hugarian composer Peter Eötvös. Public presentations at theatres in Lyon, Paris and at Edinburgh International Festival. |
| Collaboration |
Toujours plus à l'Est (further more to the East) |
Angers (France) |
June, October-December 2008 |
June, October-December 2009 |
Centre National de Danse Contemporaine |
Dance: Buto artists Akira kasai and Ko Murobushi and lead workshops at Centre National de Danse Contemporaine for two months and for three weeks respectively. |
| Collaboration |
Zensor |
Berlin (Germany) |
April 2008 |
April 2008 |
Public Art Lab/weigner et pop GbR |
Mucic: Media performance artists such as Fuyuki Yamakawa, Takayuki Fujimoto, Naoto Iina and Daito Manabe work with European performing artists through a workshop to lead toward the development of a collaborative work in media technology performance. Public presentations in Berlin. |