Japan Society Publicizes 2022-23 Acting Arts Season That includes Occasions in Opera, Theater, Dance & Extra
Japan Society has introduced its upcoming season of reside, in-person performances on the Society with systems spanning conventional to fresh, around the disciplines of opera, theater, conventional noh, puppetry, dance and extra, slated for Fall 2022 and Wintry weather/Spring 2023. In Fall 2022, Japan Society kicks off the season with an unique artist dialog targeted at the North American Premiere of Catapult Opera’s reimagining of Yukio Mishima’s fashionable noh play Hanjo (September 14). Subsequent, with 9000 Paper Balloons (October 28 – 30), native ingenious duo Maiko Kikuchi and Spencer Lott deploy their singular puppetry kinds in an enchanting have a look at a secret guns program in Imperial Japan that floated around the Pacific throughout WWII. In November, Japan Society welcomes internationally-known and home-grown puppeteer Basil Twist, for a “in the back of the scenes” speak about his paintings at the Royal Shakespeare Corporate’s staging of the cherished Studio Ghibli animated movie My Neighbour Totoro(November 10). To conclude 2022, Kita Noh Faculty returns to NYC with two hardly carried out noh performs from their conventional repertoire, Kotei and Makura Jido (December 1 – 3).
Launching Wintry weather/Spring 2023, Japan Society items the Global Premiere of its opera fee word to a chum (January 12 – 15), composed by way of David Lang and directed by way of Yoshi Oida, in line with one of the vital closing writings of mythical writer Ryunosuke Akutagawa, who is considered the “father of the Eastern brief tale.” Subsequent up, conventional puppetry grasp Koryu Nishikawa V and New York/Chicago-based puppet artist Tom Lee manner esteemed creator Ryunosuke Akutagawa’s deteriorating psyche via a few of his most renowned stories in AKUTAGAWA (February 23 – 25). The season rounds out with the yearly Play Studying Collection, this yr that includes feminism-focused I am Seeking to Perceive You, However… (March 13), written by way of Yuri Yamada and directed by way of NJ Agwuna (March 13); and a work-in-progress dance piece titled Extinction Rituals by way of Brooklyn-based and butoh-inspired ensemble LEIMAY (June 9 – 10).
The Society’s Inventive Director Yoko Shioya stocks, “We’re proud to introduce this remarkable appearing arts season, stuffed with magical works borne out of an amalgamation of Eastern and American creativeness. Taking in supply subject matter from Japan – similar to literature, historical past and rituals – as a kick off point for advent, Eastern and non-Eastern artists teamed up and similarly contributed their very own originality to each and every demonstrate.”
All occasions happen at Japan Society, situated at 333 East forty seventh Boulevard in Ny. Tickets to be had to Japan Society participants starting Thursday, July 21; Basic tickets to be had starting Thursday, July 28. For tickets and extra element, please consult with www.japansociety.org or name 212-715-1258.
JAPAN SOCIETY PERFORMING ARTS (SEPTEMBER 2022 – JUNE 2023), SCHEDULE & FURTHER DETAILS:
EXCLUSIVE ARTIST CONVERSATION: TALK & LIVE MUSIC Yukio Mishima’s Hanjo, Opera Composed by way of Toshio Hosokawa (September 14, 2022)
Wednesday, September 14 at 6:30pm
Main as much as the North American premiere of the internationally-acclaimed fresh opera Hanjo at NYU Skirball (September 30 & October 2), Japan Society hosts a chat and sneak preview of this haunting opera, written by way of outstanding Eastern composer Toshio Hosokawa, in line with certainly one of Yukio Mishima’s Trendy Noh Performs. New York’s Catapult Opera produces this new manufacturing, and its founder and conductor Neal Goren and director Luca Veggetti expose their inspiration and demanding situations to materialize this hopeless mad-love tale. The night time starts with an creation to Mishima’s unique script by way of Prof. Satoko Naito and culminates with reside making a song of the opera’s centerpiece aria. Tickets: $15/$12 Japan Society participants.
CONTEMPORARY PUPPET THEATER: 9000 Paper Balloons, Co-created by way of Maiko Kikuchi & Spencer Lott, Directed by way of Aya Ogawa (October 28 – 30, 2022)
Friday, October 28 at 7:30pm (Adopted by way of a MetLife Meet-the-Artists Reception)
Saturday, October 29 at 7:30pm (Adopted by way of an artist Q&A)
Sunday, October 30 at 3:00pm
Impressed by way of Imperial Japan’s stranger-than-fiction secret guns that floated over The usa throughout Global Struggle II, 9000 Paper Balloons is a poetic and eerie functionality that examines distance – the gap between two pals, between two enemies, two cultures and two generations. New York-based Eastern artist Maiko Kikuchiand American puppeteer Spencer Lott make use of puppetry, animation and mask as they weave their very own circle of relatives histories right into a surreal and visually surprising collage that speaks to the previous and the longer term. Tickets: $30/$24 Japan Society participants.
EXCLUSIVE ARTIST CONVERSATION: A In the back of-the-Scenes Have a look at the Reside Staging of My Neighbour Totoro, with Basil Twist (November 10, 2022)
Thursday, November 10 at 6:30pm
Puppet artist extraordinaire Basil Twist sits down to speak about his ingenious function within the Royal Shakespeare Corporate’s upcoming staging of the cherished Studio Ghibli animated function movie, My Neighbour Totoro in collaboration with Implausible and Nippon TV. Twist is understood for startling audiences together with his limitless creativity, from 88 magical Eastern display screen doorways (Dogugaeshi) and dancing materials in an on-stage water tank (Symphonie Fantastique) to a big rock creature in his most up-to-date paintings (Ebook of Mountains & Seas). On this tournament, Twist will proportion behind the curtain photographs and describe the method of constructing real-life variations of the movie’s fantastical creatures for the reside staging of My Neighbour Totoro set to premiere at London’s Barbican this autumn. Tickets: $20/$16 Japan Society participants. Sign up for us for a different 35mm screening of this cherished vintage anime on Nov. 4 at 7:00pm, in Eastern with English subtitles.
TRADITIONAL NOH THEATER: Kotei | Makura Jido, Carried out by way of Kita Noh Faculty (December 1 – 3, 2022)
Thursday, December 1 at 7:30pm (Program A; Adopted by way of a MetLife Meet-the Artists Reception)
Friday, December 2 at 7:30pm (Program B; Adopted by way of an artist Q&A)
Saturday, December 3 at 7:30pm (Program A)
Outstanding participants from the Kita Noh Faculty, together with Residing Nationwide Treasure Akiyo Tomoeda, carry out two works from noh theater’s classical repertoire: Kotei (The Emperor) and Makura Jido (Chrysanthemum Boy), two items intended to be a prayer to hasten the tip of the present pandemic. Set in Tang Dynasty in China, Kotei tells the tale of the ghost of the mythical demon slayer and protector in opposition to sickness Shoki, who rescues the sick Empress Yang Guifei and pledges his allegiance to the Emperor Xuanzong. Additionally set in China, Makura Jido is set a boy who has joyfully lived for 700 years by way of ingesting an immortal elixir from the dew of a chrysanthemum leaf. The boy finds that the dew has created a pool within the valley, which has transform the headspring for medicinal water.
Efficiency + Soireé Tickets: $95/$76 Japan Society participants.
Efficiency Most effective Tickets: $72/$58 Japan Society participants.
Program A (December 1 & December 3 at 7:30pm): Kotei
Program B (December 2 at 7:30pm): Makura Jido
*Carried out in Eastern with English surtitles.
>>A pre-performance lecture by way of Princeton College Professor Thomas Hare starts one hour previous to the beginning of each and every functionality (FREE and open to all ticketholders).
>>Similar Match: Workshop / Noh Motion Workshop / Saturday, December 3
Global Premiere | CONTEMPORARY OPERA: word to a chum, commissioned by way of Japan Society, co-produced with Tokyo Bunka Kaikan (January 12, 14 & 15, 2023)
Thursday, January 12 at 7:30pm (Adopted by way of a MetLife Meet-the-Artist Reception)
Saturday, January 14 at 7:30pm (Adopted by way of an artist Q&A)
Sunday, January 15 at 3:00pm
In keeping with Japan Society’s fee for a brand new chamber opera, Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Lang mixed and reimagined 3 texts by way of iconic Eastern novelist Ryunosuke Akutagawa, the writer of In a Grovewhich used to be the root of Akira Kurosawa’s landmark 1950 movie Rashomon. The result’s this surprising and haunting monodrama, word to a chum, addressing our everlasting human fascinations with loss of life, love, circle of relatives and suicide. Theater luminary Yoshi Oida, Paris-based opera director and longtime member of Peter Brook’s world theater corporate, directs this international premiere for the mythical New York vocalist Theo Bleckmann. Tokyo Bunka Kaikan in Japan selects the featured string quartet participants. This co-production from Japan Society and Tokyo Bunka Kaikan, commissioned and offered by way of Japan Society, makes its international premiere as a part of PROTOTYPE Pageant 2023. Tickets: $60/$48 Japan Society participants.
CONTEMPORARY & TRADITIONAL PUPPET THEATER: AKUTAGAWA (February 23-25, 2023)
Thursday, February 23 at 7:30pm (Adopted by way of a MetLife Meet-the-Artists Reception)
Friday, February 24 at 7:30pm (Adopted by way of an artist Q&A)
Saturday, February 25 at 7:30pm
AKUTAGAWA is a degree portrait of the daddy of the fashionable Eastern brief novel, Ryunosuke Akutagawa, who’s very best identified via his unique novel In a Grove, the root of Akira Kurosawa’s landmark 1950 movie Rashomon. Advised in the course of the conventional puppetry taste kuruma ningyo mixed with dynamic video photographs, AKUTAGAWA is an amalgam of 5 of his well-known brief tales – together with Rashomon, Hell Display screen (Jigokuhen), The Dragon, Toshishun and Kappa. The demonstrate explores the writer’s creative perception and fragile emotional state. This new paintings is created via a global collaboration between puppeteers Koryu Nishikawa V (Tokyo) and Tom Lee(Chicago), with reside song by way of Yukio Tsuji (New York). Tickets: $30/$24 Japan Society participants.
>>Similar Match: Kuruma Ningyo Puppetry Masterclass / Friday, February 24
>>Similar Match: Circle of relatives Workshop on Kuruma Ningyo Puppetry / Saturday, February 25
CONTEMPORARY THEATER: sixteenth Installment of Japan Society’s Play Studying Collection: Fresh Eastern Performs in English Translation / I am Seeking to Perceive You, However…; Written by way of Yuri Yamada; Directed by way of NJ Agwuna (March 13, 2023)
Monday, March 13 at 7:30pm (Adopted by way of an artist Q&A)
NYC-based director NJ Agwuna, winner of the 2022 Barbara Whitman Award, tackles Yuri Yamada’s well timed play I am Seeking to Perceive You, However… On this piece, Yamada portrays a dicey dialog between a tender couple that begins as an unintentional being pregnant expose and leads to a gender-swapped dialogue about how the incident took place. Two maids named Libby and Prudie give working remark all over the couple’s heart-to-heart. Two-time Kishida Kunio Drama Award-nominee Yamada joins in a post-show Q&A with the target audience and director. Tickets: $15/$12 Japan Society participants.
Paintings-in-Development Presentation | CONTEMPORARY DANCE: Extinction Rituals (June 9 – 10, 2023)
Friday, June 9 (Adopted by way of a MetLife Meet-the-Artists Reception)
Saturday, June 10 (Adopted by way of an artist Q&A)
Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary artist duo Ximena Garnica & Shige Moriya’s newest venture Extinction Ritualsunfolds as poetic vignettes of motion, gentle, song and tune. Directed, choreographed and designed by way of Garnica and Moriya, Extinction Rituals is encouraged by way of acts of remembrance celebrating the existence and lack of animals, crops and environments from the puts they name domestic – Kyoto, Bogota and NYC. The spell binding tableaux weaves in combination an unique rating by way of Oscar-nominated composer Kaoru Watanabe – artfully merging conventional kinds with western and fresh sounds-the robust voice of Colombian singer Carolina Oliveros, and the butoh-rooted paintings of the LEIMAY Ensemble, together with dancers Masanori Asahara and Krystel Copper. Following this work-in-progress appearing, Garnica, Moriya, Watanabe and collaborators take a seat down for a Q&A with the target audience to elaborate at the world exchanges in the back of this well timed and profoundly collaborative piece. Tickets: $20/$16 Japan Society participants.
About Japan Society Acting Arts Program
For the reason that inception of the Acting Arts Program in 1953, Japan Society has presented just about a 1,000 of Japan’s greatest appearing arts to an intensive American target audience. Systems vary from the normal arts of noh, kyogen, bunraku and kabuki to cutting-Edge Theater, dance and song. The Program additionally commissions new works to non-Eastern artists, produces nationwide excursions, organizes residency systems for American and Eastern artists and develops and distributes instructional systems.
About Japan Society
Japan Society is the premier group connecting Eastern arts, tradition, industry, and society with audiences in NYC and all over the world. In over 100 years of labor, we’ve got encouraged generations by way of setting up ourselves as pioneers in supporting world exchanges in arts and tradition, industry and coverage, in addition to training between Japan and the U.S. This yr, Japan Society is celebrating our heritage in the course of the fiftieth anniversary of our landmark development, designed by way of the past due architect Junzo Yoshimura, with the release of a brand new distinct fashionable emblem and visible id.
For the reason that inception of Japan Society Acting Arts Program, the Program has introduced 1000+ productions of and encouraged by way of Japan to audiences in NYC and past via North American excursions arranged by way of Japan Society. Systems vary from the normal arts to fresh theater, dance and song. For the reason that established order of the Acting Arts Endowment in 2005, the Society additionally commissions non-Eastern artists to create Japan-related new works via fostering cross-cultural collaboration that has transform a part of its vital venture.
