Category Project Title Venue Location Period Organization Description Tour Some Cats from Japan 2007 NY: New York, IL: Chicago, Canada: Vancouver Sep. 8 - 27, 2007 Haleakala Inc. dba The Kitchen Music: A three-city tour of the audio-visual performance, featuring Fuyuki Yamakawa, Kanta Horio and Atsuhiro Ito, three of the most urgent, inventive performers active in Tokyo's underground electronic art and music scene. Tour Cambodian Dreams NY: New York, Stony Brook, Rhinebeck, NC: Raleigh, MA: Concord, VT: Burlington, CT: Middletown May 1 - July 30, 2007 Inta, Inc. (Eiko & Koma) Dance: Eiko & Koma will collaborate with Cambodian performers Peace and Charian to create and present a half-evening dance quartet, "Cambodian Voices." Tour BUNRAKU - 2007 United States Tour MA: Boston, IL: Urbana, Chicago, CA: Berkeley, Los Angeles Oct. 2 - 17, 2007 The Japan Society of Boston Theater: A six-city tour of the National Bunraku Theater of Japan (Osaka). Tour Music From Japan Festival 2008, US Tour of Percussion and Ancient Flutes NY: New York, Mahopac, AL: Birmingham, SC: Spartanburg February - March 2008 Music From Japan, Inc. Music: A four-city concert tour of percussionist Yasunori Yamaguchi and Takeshi Sasamoto, Japanese ancient flutes, and ensemble, with related educational events. Tour Waters of Immortality NY: New York, Tivoli, MA: Boston, VT: Burlington Apr. 2007 - March 2008 New York Foundation for the Arts (Maureen Fleming Company) Dance: A four-city tour of Maureen Fleming Company's new evening-length inter-disciplinary work, Waters of Immortality, featuring shakuhachi master Akikazu Nakamura. Tour Treasured Tales: Traditional Japanese Narrative Song by Tsuruga Wakasanojo XI and Puppetry by Nishikawa Koryu MO: St. Louis, MA: Amherst, Boston, CA: Hanford Sep. 27 - Oct. 28, 2007 Washington University Music and Puppetry: A four-city tour of Shinnai narrative song master Tsuruga Wakasanojo XI, a Living National Treasure, and Nishikawa Koryu, fifth generation headmaster of the Hachioji Kuruma Ningyo School. Collaboration Saigo No Honou: A Timeless Kaidan NY: Brooklyn Apr. 1 - Oct. 30, 2007 CAVE Organization, Inc. Dance: The Kitsune Ensemble and LEIMAY Dance-Theatre will create a new disciplinary performance piece inspired by traditional Japanese ghost stories (kaidan) and the Edo-era practice of telling these tales by progressively diminishing candlelight (hyaku monogatari). Collaboration HARVESTING BEAUTY IN THE DARK CA: San Francisco April 15 - July 1, 2007 Dancer's Group Dance: Japan-based Butoh master, Katsura Kan, and an emerging nationally-recognized American Butoh artist, Saw Ledoh, will develop a new performance grounded in an exploration of Butoh notation - the literary roots of founder Tatsumi Hijikata's Butoh technique. Collaboration The Blocks of Continuality/Movement, Live Cinema NY: New York, Brooklyn April 2007 - March 2008 Dansology, Inc. Multimedia: Koosil-ja Hwang (choreographer) will collaborate with Geoff Matters (composer) and Casper Stracke (video artist) to create a new work which explores notions of presence, geographic and spatial awareness and the politics of the body. Collaboration Butoh: America NY: New York Aug. 12 - Oct. 27, 2007 Japan Society, Inc. Dance: As one of the featured programs of its 100th Anniversary season, Japan Society will commission Butoh legend Akira Kasai to create a new work in collaboration with five emerging U.S.-based Butoh artists, selected through an audition/workshop session. Collaboration Sound Space: Japan/USA IL: Chicago, DC: Washington, PA: Philadelphia June - November 2007 Links Hall Music and Dance: Eight Japanese and US artists will create a new collaborative work, using movement and sound, responding to different architectural space. Musicians include Ko Ishikawa (sho), Yoko Nishi (koto), Kazuko Takada (shamisen), Kazuhisa Uchihashi (guitar/electronics), and Gene Coleman (bass clarinet). Collaboration "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle" NY: New York, Japan: Tokyo Spring 2007 - Fall 2008 Ma Yi Theater Company Theater: To create an original multi-media theatre production based on Haruki Murakami's novel, "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle," under the direction of Stephen Earnhart. Collaboration Development and national distribution of contemporary Japanese plays MN: Minneapolis July 9, 2007 - March 2008 The Playwrights' Center Theater: To develop and present staged-readings of two contemporary Japanese plays translated in English. Collaboration New Theatre from Japan NY: New York June 2007 - March 2008 Research Foundation CUNY on behalf of the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center Theater: To initiate and foster the development of collaborative relationship between contemporary cutting-edge playwrights from Japan and New York related ensemble theatre companies. Five staged readings and two full productions are planned. Collaboration POOOM NY: New York, Hebron, Japan: Tokyo May 2007 - April 2008 7 Loaves, Inc. AKA GOH PRODUCTIONS Dance: An extension of the first phase of A PAGE OUT OF ORDER: M. Han'nya Teikoku (shakuhachi trio), Omato (sound designer), Sizzle Ohtaka (singer/narrator) and Kyoko Hirano (dramaturg) will join Yoshiko Chuma, Artistic Director of the School of Hard Knocks. Collaboration c(H)ord CA: San Francisco January 2007-April 2008 Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Dance: c(H)ord is a new collaborative performance work that takes its cue from Butoh, Korean traditional music and dance, Rock and Roll, new music composition, Roy Hart vocal training and Physical Theater. Nine international artists will participate the project under Shinichi lova-Koga's artistic direction.