Artist Interview Art Director Jo Kanamori (29) talks about the future of Japan's first public dance company   Dec. 2004 A shamisen player from the rock generation,Hiromitsu Agatsuma talks about taking his shamisen music to Europe   Jan. 2005 Theater is an experiment in community The world of Yoji Sakate, pioneer in small theater   Feb. 2005 A meeting of Eastern and Western classicsThe Noh-staged Shakespeare of Yoshihiro Kurita   Mar. 2005 Keishi Nagatsuka is a leader of a new generation of contemporary theater artists who finds fantasy in the darker sides of the human character   Apr. 2005 Talking with Ryohei Kondo, leader of the highly popular all-male dance group Condors   May. 2005 Akaji Maro’s representative butoh work Kaiin no Uma performance in South Korea He talks about butoh today   Jun. 2005 A fusion of Japanese drumming and Western music   The world of Shuichi Hidano   Jul. 2005 What is the Kabuki version Twelfth Night?   Yukio Ninagawa’s new challenge   Aug. 2005 Questioning the Body at its Limits What is this world of Ikuyo Kuroda?   Sep. 2005 The adventurous world of Toshiki Okada, a playwright who write in “super-real” Japanese   Oct. 2005 Leaders of Japan’s avant-garde theater   The World of Yukichi Matsumoto and Ishinha   Nov. 2005 From the Noh stage to the contemporary music scene   Talking to innovator Yukihiro Isso   Dec. 2005 A look into the theater craft of Ai Nagai   A leader in the genre of social comedy   Jan. 2006 Inside the mind of Shigehiro Ide, a unique talent of the contemporary dance world   Feb. 2006 What is a Kabuki furitsuke-shi?   Interviewed Fujima Kanjuro VIII   Mar. 2006 Desire and Dramaturgy   The art of Daisuke Miura, rising star on today’s theater scene   May. 2006 A world of the imagination overflowing from the everyday–Playwright Norihiko Tsukuda   Jun. 2006 A unique world of koto music connecting points and lines   Koto Musician Michiyo Yagi   Jul. 2006 What reveals the meaning behind the stages in the form of everyday apartment rooms? Interview with stage designer Toshie Tanaka   Aug. 2006 The unique aesthetic art world of director and choreographer Sakiko Oshima   Sep. 2006 Kim Itoh, the cross-over dancer who redefined butoh and contemporary dance in the 90s, looks to the future   Oct. 2006 Kazuki Nakashima's spectacles of manga and Kabuki and romance legends   Nov. 2006 Greek tragedy that rings true with young Japanese audiences   An interview with translator Harue Yamagata   Dec. 2006 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   Jan. 2007 Hironori Naito talks about 30 years of theater projects with the mentally challenged   Feb. 2007 Speaking with Oriza Hirata, a new opinion leader in the world of contemporary theater   Mar. 2007 Interview with Kojun Arai — Bringing the music of the thousand-year-old shomyo chant tradition to concert hall audiences   May. 2007 Directing through the worlds of Brecht and Kabuki Exploring the world of director Kazuyoshi Kushida   Jun. 2007 A glimpse of the “total theater” that Mansai Nomura envisions as a Kyogen actor alive in the contemporary world   Jul. 2007 Exposing his own body as a platform for art – A look at the mixed-media performance art of Takao Kawaguchi   Aug. 2007 The unending quest of Minoru Betsuyaku, the playwright who has laid the foundation of Japanese drama of the absurd   Sep. 2007 Playwright Hisashi Inoue puts a prayer for peace in his play Chichi to Kuraseba (The Face of Jizo), now translated into eight languages   Oct. 2007 Portraying the tough but humor-filled lives of an ethnic minority   An interview with the Japan-resident Korean writer Chong Wishing   Dec. 2007 Pioneering a new realm of creative design   The world of costume artist Kodue Hibino   Jan. 2008 Looking to the future of Noh with Hirotada Kamei, an Otsuzumi (Okawa) artist who calls himself a Noh actor   Feb. 2008 The world of director, Osamu Matsumoto – Staging Kafka with his unique style with workshops and composition cards   Mar. 2008 The view from an energy void Playwright Shiro Maeda’s Sense of Wonder   Apr. 2008 Kanjuro Kiritake III, a leader of the rising generation of puppeteers in Japan’s world renowned puppet theater, Bunraku   Jun. 2008 A look into the world of performer Noriyuki Sawa With the new form of puppetry known as figure theatre   Jul. 2008 The continuing expansion of the world of Saburo Teshigawara, an artist who has already left a big footprint in contemporary dance   Aug. 2008 Meet set creator Yuichiro Kanai, 4th-generation president of a Kabuki set production company and set designer for contemporary theater and new Kabuki   Oct. 2008 A geeky world born of unique collaborations   The dance performance of Yoko Higashino   Dec. 2008 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   Dec. 2008 The world of Hidetaro Honjoh – pursuing shamisen music as a traditional Japanese folk art, and even venturing into British contemporary theater   Feb. 2009 The unending challenge of butoh artist Ushio Amagatsu, a leader in the international dance scene for over 30 years   Mar. 2009 The new realm of contemporary dance pioneered by Yukio Suzuki, an inheritor of the compelling body movement of butoh   Apr. 2009 The theater world of Seigo Hatasawa, with its unique focus on “communities” and “schools”   Apr. 2009 Cross-over Kyogen master Sennojo Shigeyama’s quest for a new form of global comedy theater   Jun. 2009 The world of Takayuki Fujimoto, a lighting artist at the forefront in Japan’s multimedia performance scene   Jul. 2009 Installations of the body and light   The art of Hiroaki Umeda   Sep. 2009 Yukio Ninagawa’s new theatrical venture   Confronting the realities the common people’ history together with the elderly and young people   Oct. 2009 Norimizu Ameya, an artist who directs stages with a strong degree of reality   Dec. 2009 Serious postmodern comedy   Keralino Sandorovich   Feb. 2010 Giving expression to dissected texts   The new possibilities of compositional theater pioneered by Motoi Miura   Mar. 2010 Insights from international activities—The latest interview with Toshiki Okada   Mar. 2010 Playing theater like playing house The new approach of Yukio Shiba   Apr. 2010 The unique appeal of old playhouses   Links to Edo Period theater culture   Jun. 2010 An Overview (Japan) Basic Knowledge about Pure Hogaku, Traditional Japanese Music — So Sugiura (Lecturer of Saitama University) Kabuki’s New Wave — Hiroshi Hasebe (theater critic) National Policy on Promoting International Exchange in the Performing Arts — Hiromitsu Yoshimoto (NLI Research Institute) Private-Sector Support for Culture and the Arts — Hiromitsu Yoshimoto (NLI Research Institute) Public Theaters and Concert Halls — Eiko Tsuboike (Institute for the Arts) Performing Arts Presenters and Arts NPOs — Shuji Sota (Professor of Atomi University) Energizing the Performing Arts Through International Exchange — Noriko Tsuchiya, Eiko Tsuboike (Institute for the Arts) Arts Management Education in Universities — Mari Kobayashi (Associate Professor of Tokyo University) Japan’s Performing Arts on the Internet — Eiko Tsuboike (Institute for the Arts) Latest Trends by Genre: Shôgekijô (Small Theater) Movement — Eiko Tsuboike (Institute for the Arts) Latest Trends by Genre: Contemporary Dance — Eiko Tsuboike (Institute for the Arts) Latest Trends by Genre: Kabuki, Nôgaku, and Bunraku — Kazumi Narabe (Journalist) Latest Trends by Genre: Hôgaku: Traditional Japanese Music — Kazumi Narabe (Journalist) Presenter Interview China Impact in the arts" The performing arts in a privatizing China   Dec. 2004 Norway's Ultima Contemporary Music Festival is held annually each autumn. This year the spotlight is on Japan   Jan. 2005 The Avignon Festival rebornTalking about subjects like the Festival's new Associate Artist program   Feb. 2005 Three years since the Royal Shakespeare Company, moved to new premises, the Barbican Centre adopts new strategies   Mar. 2005 LG Arts Center is an emerging theater in Seoul operated but a corporate philanthropic foundation and targeting a middle-to wealthy-class audience   Apr. 2005 The activities of the Five Arts Center, toward the creation of contemporary Malaysian theater   May. 2005 An organization tuning out world-class actors Talking with the Director of The National Institute of Dramatic Art of Australia   Jun. 2005 The “City of London Festival” is an arts festival that has taken route in the international financial center of “the City”   Jul. 2005 In pursuit of Theater for the Playwright Talking with Artistic Director Ostermeier of the Schaubuehne   Aug. 2005 Founder Val Borne talks about the Dance Umbrella festival   Sep. 2005 A look into the activities of the JCDN, a pioneering arts NPO dedicated to getting out information about the Japanese contemporary dance scene   Oct. 2005 An organization for the promotion of the arts in the American Midwest, Arts Midwest   Nov. 2005 Breathing new life into contemporary dance   What is the source of the vitality in Finnish dance today?   Jan. 2006 This interview explores the actor education system at The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, an institution with a 100-year history   Jan. 2006 South Africa’s comprehensive culture center   ARTSCAPE and its programs   Mar. 2006 What is SESC, the Brazilian organizations that runs comprehensive culture and arts facilities in Brazil   May. 2006 A look at the Singapore arts scene, invigorated in recent years by new theaters and festivals   Jun. 2006 Placing top priority on new writing and nurturing playwrights   Scotland's Traverse Theatre   Jul. 2006 Bringing Korean performing arts to the world scene   Aug. 2006 Taiwan’s new cultural policy — The Taiwan National Theater now semi-NPO   Sep. 2006 Egypt’s first private sector arts and culture facility, Cairo's El Sawy Culture Center   Oct. 2006 One of South America’s oldest and most active theaters, the Municipal Theater of Santiago, approaches its 150th anniversary   Nov. 2006 Re-established as a stronghold of contemporary theater in Shanghai   Creative efforts of the Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre   Dec. 2006 Working to build an infrastructure for contemporary dance in Germany Speaking with the founder of Tanzplattform Deutschland   Jan. 2007 What lies ahead for the Beijing Modern Dance Company and its international dance festival in today’s Chinese contemporary dance scene?   Feb. 2007 As the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) celebrates its 60th anniversary, what is the vision of its new artistic director?   Mar. 2007 As it prepares to reopen with a newly renovated building, Berlin’s House of World Cultures is broadening its vision and role   May. 2007 Organizing a large-scale Japan-themed festival for 2008 The policies behind the Kennedy Center’s international programs   Jun. 2007 Speaking with the Director of Programming for the grand-scale arts and culture centre Esplanade, the symbol of Singapore’s “Renaissance City” program   Jul. 2007 Looking at French policy in culture and the arts through the activities of the front-line administrator, Jean Digne   Aug. 2007 New developments in the Japan Society, a promoter of exchange between Japan and the U.S. for 100 years   Sep. 2007 Stimulating the Korean performing arts scene The role of Seoul Performing Arts Festival   Oct. 2007 Connecting the theater people of Asia   The Japan Foundation international collaboration program   Dec. 2007 The Rolex Mentor and Protege Arts Initiative, fostering encounters between artists across generations   Jan. 2008 The Kunsten Festival des Arts, making Brussels a center generating new trends in contemporary art   Feb. 2008 Pioneers of China’s contemporary independent arts scene Caochangdi Work Station   Mar. 2008 Training arts managers to support the activities of the multi-cultural, multi-ethnic artists of Indonesia   Jakarta’s art NPO Kelola   Apr. 2008 The Playwrights’ Center of Minneapolis, encouraging US-Japan theater exchange as a resource supporting the development of playwrights   Jun. 2008 Looking into the heart of the Asian Cultural Council, an organization that has helped support over 5,000 artists   Jul. 2008 The IETM network, contributing to the promotion of collaborative commissioned works and tours in Europe   Aug. 2008 Interview with Marie-Hélène Falcon, Director of TransAmeriques, the leading performing arts festival in Canada’s Quebec Province   Sep. 2008 Oh Tae-sok, a genius of Korean theater and Artistic Director of The National Theater of Korea and The National Drama Company   Nov. 2008 The Minneapolis-based Walker Art Center, an international hub for cutting-edge performing arts   Dec. 2008 As the Yokohama Noh Theater ventures into the uncharted field of traditional arts production, attention focuses on its planning expertise   Feb. 2009 Pioneering the role of the university-based arts center, The Hopkins Center for the Arts in New Hampshire, USA   Feb. 2009 Striving for regional development, Romania’s Sibiu International Theatre Festival gathers participants from 70 countries   Apr. 2009 European arts scene leader Frie Leysen talks about the role and activities of arts festivals   May. 2009 Berlin’s HAU as an epicenter of the performing arts — What’s the ideas behind its aim to “Create friction in the world?”   Jun. 2009 Art bringing hope to Echigo-Tsumari The ongoing journey of Fram Kitagawa   Jul. 2009 A gateway to recognition for young musicians Looking at Young Concert Artists in today’s music world   Sep. 2009 Bangkok Theatre Network   An organization sparked by a Thai version of Akaoni   Nov. 2009 Homeless and Artists Working Together   Streetwise Opera   Dec. 2009 Another aspect of Japanese theater communicated through posters   Jan. 2010 Leading South Korea’s dance world   CID-UNESCO Korean Chapter and SIDance   Feb. 2010 The world of Samuel Miller, a leader in arts management in the U.S.   Mar. 2010 Serving as the “control tower” for the international outflow of Korean culture, Korea Arts Management Service (KAMS)   Apr. 2010 CINARS, over a quarter of a century   The vision and accomplishments of founder Alain Pare   May. 2010 An Overview (Overseas) A new face of China At the forefront of the performing arts in China—Ryoko Kikuchi (Producer, R Production)   Dec. 2004 French cultural policy enters pivotal era—Kuniyuki Tomooka (Sociology, Cultural Policy researcher / Instructor, Takasaki City Unicersity of Economics)   Feb. 2005 Support for the arts by public organizations in Britain—Shinko Suga (Journalist)   Mar. 2005 The recent state of corporate philanthropy in South Korea—Noriko Kimura (Seoul based theater coordinator, Representative for Labo C.J.K.)   Apr. 2005 Finnish Dance Today—Akiko Tachiki (dance critic)   Dec. 2005