- Tour
Enjoy a weekend of programs, talks, conversations, and photo ops!
The Commons Tour is an efficient way to enjoy multiple programs at Theater Commons Tokyo ’24 during an intensive two-day group tour. The tour will be held on both weekends during the festival period and, in addition to tickets to the programs, offers activities only available for participants, including intros and post-performance talks, conversations with the guides and fellow tour goers, mixers, and photo ops. The tours are guided, respectively, by curator Tomoya Iwata (Tour A) and playwright, director and dramaturg Kyle Yamada (Tour B), who will help deepen the Theater Commons experience through conversation and exchange. The Commons Tour has the potential to create a new, active audience community that transcends generations and genres.
Tour schedule
Tour A
Day 1 | March 2nd [Sat]
10:00 Gather at Institut français de Tokyo, Espace images, Intro talk by Chiaki Soma
11:00–13:30 “18,000 worlds” and more by Saodat Ismailova
13:30-15:00 Artist talk by Saodat Ismailova
[Travel time]
17:00-18:30 Performance “S.O.S – Run Shin Shin” by Minouk Lim
19:00- Mixer (participation optional; an additional participation fee is required).
Day 2 | March 3rd [Sun]
11:00 Gather at Komagome SOKO, Exhibition “Hyper Yellow” by Minouk Lim
[Travel time]
12:30 Arrival at Goethe-Institut Tokyo
[Break]
14:00 Intro talk
14:30-15:30 “Songs for no one” by Nastaran Razawi Khorasani
16:00-18:00 Commons Forum #1
18:30-19:30 Wrap-up gathering (includes drink and snacks).
Tour B
Day 1 | March 9th [Sat]
11:00 Gather at Spiral Hall, Intro talk by Chiaki Soma
[Break]
13:00-14:30 “Yoroboshi: The Weakling” by Q / Satoko Ichihara
15:00-17:00 Commons Forum #2
[Travel time]
18:00-19:00 Exhibition “Hyper Yellow” by Minouk Lim
19:30- Mixer (participation optional; an additional participation fee is required).
Day 2 | March 10th [Sun]
10:30 Gather at Institut français de Tokyo, Espace images, Intro talk
11:00-13:30 “18,000 worlds” and more by Saodat Ismailova
[Travel time]
14:30 Arrival at Miraikan – The National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation
14:30-16:30 “A Conversation with the Sun (VR)” by Apichatpong Weerasethakul
(Division into three groups with the following viewing times: 14:30, 15:00, or 15:30. The performance lasts one hour, and participants have free time when not viewing the performance.)
16:30-18:00 Commons Forum #3
18:30-19:30 Wrap-up gathering (includes drink and snacks).
Profile
Tomoya Iwata
Tomoya Iwata (b. 1995, Aichi) completed his MA from the Graduate School of Global Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts. His research focuses on the history of curation and curators, as well as exploring the possibility / impossibility of understanding others beyond human beings through exhibition practices. Through on-site research, Iwata frequents alternative spaces in various cities mainly in Asia to further understand the dynamics between institutional and alternative art scenes in their individual context. Currently the representative director of The 5th Floor, the curatorial space in Tokyo.
Kyle Yamada
Kyle Yamada is a playwright, director, and dramaturg. Kyle was born in Texas in 1993, and grew up in Aomori, Japan. Since 2019, Kyle has worked as the artistic director and representative of his own theatre group, Allergen Theatre. His recent works include “A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Kumano,” a contemporary adaptation of the Kabuki play “Oguri Hangan,” “Cock-a-Doodle-Doo of the Land of Dawn,” a performance based on in-depth research of the Sanriku area which was damaged in the 2011 earthquake, co-created with dancer/choreographer Reina Kimura, and “The Oracle Maidens of Rain Fish with Trap Nets,” a story of a post-human world, told through a series of monologues by animals and supernatural beings. Kyle also works as a translator and interpreter, and is a member of the “Art Translators Collective.”
Dates
Tour A | March 2nd [Sat], 3rd [Sun]
Navigator | Tomoya Iwata (Curator)
Programs |
– “18,000 worlds” and more by Saodat Ismailova
– “Songs for no one” by Nastaran Razawi Khorasani
– Exhibition “Hyper Yellow” and performance “S.O.S – Run Shin Shin” by Minouk Lim
– Commons Forum #1
Tour B | March 9th [Sat], 10th [Sun]
Navigator | Kyle Yamada (Playwright, Director, Dramaturg)
Programs |
– “A Conversation with the Sun (VR)” by Apichatpong Weerasethakul
– “Yoroboshi: The Weakling” by Q / Satoko Ichihara
– “18,000 worlds” and more by Saodat Ismailova
– Exhibition “Hyper Yellow” by Minouk Lim
– Commons Forum #2, #3
Participation Fee
Booking essential for each tour.
Adults | 15,000 yen
U25 | 13,000 yen
*Ticket and reservation fees for the program are included.
(Admission to “Commons Forum #3” in Tour B, which will be held at Miraikan, is free but reservations are required. We will provide further details after you reserve a ticket.)
Capacity
30 persons per tour (first-come-first-served basis)
Language
Japanese
Please note
– Meals, accommodation, and travel costs are not included as part of the tour.
– We will provide information on places to eat during break times once you reserve a ticket.
– The travel between each venue will be possible by foot or train. Please charge your IC card in advance of participation.
– Details of the tour schedule are subject to change. We will provide further details after you reserve a ticket.
Credit
Organized by Theater Commons Tokyo Executive Committee