 | Art Director Jo Kanamori (29) talks about the future of Japan's first public dance company |
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| A shamisen player from the rock generation, Hiromitsu Agatsuma talks about taking his shamisen music to Europe |
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| Theater is an experiment in community The world of Yoji Sakate, pioneer in small theater |
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| A meeting of Eastern and Western classics The Noh-staged Shakespeare of Yoshihiro Kurita |
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| Keishi Nagatsuka is a leader of a new generation of contemporary theater artists who finds fantasy in the darker sides of the human character |
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| Talking with Ryohei Kondo, leader of the highly popular all-male dance group Condors |
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| Akaji Maro’s representative butoh work Kaiin no Uma performance in South Korea
He talks about butoh today |
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| A fusion of Japanese drumming and Western music The world of Shuichi Hidano |
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| What is the Kabuki version Twelfth Night? Yukio Ninagawa’s new challenge |
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| Questioning the Body at its Limits What is this world of Ikuyo Kuroda? |
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| The adventurous world of Toshiki Okada, a playwright who write in “super-real” Japanese |
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| Leaders of Japan’s avant-garde theater, The World of Yukichi Matsumoto and Ishinha |
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| From the Noh stage to the contemporary music scene, Talking to innovator Yukihiro Isso |
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| A look into the theater craft of Ai Nagai A leader in the genre of social comedy |
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| Inside the mind of Shigehiro Ide, a unique talent of the contemporary dance world |
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| What is a Kabuki furitsuke-shi? Interviewed Fujima Kanjuro VIII |
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| Desire and Dramaturgy The art of Daisuke Miura, rising star on today’s theater scene |
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| A world of the imagination overflowing from the everyday–Playwright Norihiko Tsukuda |
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| A unique world of koto music connecting points and lines Koto Musician Michiyo Yagi |
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| What reveals the meaning behind the stages in the form of everyday apartment rooms? Interview with stage designer Toshie Tanaka |
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| The unique aesthetic art world of director and choreographer Sakiko Oshima |
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| Kim Itoh, the cross-over dancer who redefined butoh and contemporary dance in the 90s, looks to the future |
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| Kazuki Nakashima's spectacles of manga and Kabuki and romance legends |
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| Greek tragedy that rings true with young Japanese audiences An interview with translator Harue Yamagata |
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| Portraying the places where people with grudges come and go The world of Go Aoki, a playwright shining light on the creases of the soul |
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| Hironori Naito talks about 30 years of theater projects with the mentally challenged |
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| Speaking with Oriza Hirata, a new opinion leader in the world of contemporary theater |
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| Interview with Kojun Arai — Bringing the music of the thousand-year-old shomyo chant tradition to concert hall audiences |
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| Directing through the worlds of Brecht and Kabuki Exploring the world of director Kazuyoshi Kushida |
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| A glimpse of the “total theater” that Mansai Nomura envisions as a Kyogen actor alive in the contemporary world |
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| Exposing his own body as a platform for art – A look at the mixed-media performance art of Takao Kawaguchi |
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| The unending quest of Minoru Betsuyaku, the playwright who has laid the foundation of Japanese drama of the absurd |
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| Playwright Hisashi Inoue puts a prayer for peace in his play Chichi to Kuraseba (The Face of Jizo), now translated into eight languages |
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| Portraying the tough but humor-filled lives of an ethnic minority An interview with the Japan-resident Korean writer Chong Wishing |
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| Pioneering a new realm of creative design The world of costume artist Kodue Hibino |
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| Looking to the future of Noh with Hirotada Kamei, an Otsuzumi (Okawa) artist who calls himself a Noh actor |
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| The world of director, Osamu Matsumoto – Staging Kafka with his unique style with workshops and composition cards |
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| The view from an energy void Playwright Shiro Maeda’s Sense of Wonder |
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| Kanjuro Kiritake III, a leader of the rising generation of puppeteers in Japan’s world renowned puppet theater, Bunraku |
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| A look into the world of performer Noriyuki Sawa With the new form of puppetry known as figure theatre |
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| The continuing expansion of the world of Saburo Teshigawara, an artist who has already left a big footprint in contemporary dance |
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| Meet set creator Yuichiro Kanai, 4th-generation president of a Kabuki set production company and set designer for contemporary theater and new Kabuki |
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| A geeky world born of unique collaborations The dance performance of Yoko Higashino |
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| Weaving a thread of the supernatural into the daily lives of the young generation The world of playwright Tomohiro Maekawa and his theater company Ikiume |
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| The world of Hidetaro Honjoh – pursuing shamisen music as a traditional Japanese folk art, and even venturing into British contemporary theater |
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| The unending challenge of butoh artist Ushio Amagatsu, a leader in the international dance scene for over 30 years |
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| The new realm of contemporary dance pioneered by Yukio Suzuki, an inheritor of the compelling body movement of butoh |
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| The theater world of Seigo Hatasawa, with its unique focus on “communities” and “schools” |
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| Cross-over Kyogen master Sennojo Shigeyama’s quest for a new form of global comedy theater |
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| The world of Takayuki Fujimoto, a lighting artist at the forefront in Japan’s multimedia performance scene |
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| Installations of the body and light The art of Hiroaki Umeda |
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| Yukio Ninagawa’s new theatrical venture Confronting the realities the common people’ history together with the elderly and young people |
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| Norimizu Ameya, an artist who directs stages with a strong degree of reality |
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| Serious postmodern comedy Keralino Sandorovich |
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| Giving expression to dissected texts The new possibilities of compositional theater pioneered by Motoi Miura |
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| Insights from international activities—The latest interview with Toshiki Okada |
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| Playing theater like playing house The new approach of Yukio Shiba |
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| The unique appeal of old playhouses Links to Edo Period theater culture |
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| Another fascination of Bunraku The world of the “tokoyama” hair designer |
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| An archive that sheds light on Tatsumi Hijikata and Butoh |
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| Hymns to the common people’s lives and labors Bringing the appeal of folk song to contemporary audiences |
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| Exploring the relationship between words and the body The imagination of Zan Yamashita |
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| Dramaturge Kaku Nagashima – Bringing collaborative works to the audience |
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| Ikko Tamura of Dairakudakan, at play with the butoh body |
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| Innovating drum music, the spirit of Eitetsu Hayashi |
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| Playing with physical contact – contact Gonzo |
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| Affirmation of the passive life, the realism of Shu Matsui |
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| Creating illusionary spaces – The world of Tanino Kuro |
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| Stay-at-home reclusiveness is the central theme, the mixed up plots and humor in Hideto Iwai’s plays |
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| The body at its physical edge – A solitary presence among Butoh artists, Ko Murobushi |
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| Revealing the inner world of young women With scenes repeated as refrains |
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| Bringing Noh alive in the 21st century The quest of Yoshimasa Kanze |
