Whenever Wherever Festival 2021
Conceived as a performance festival that creates a new image of the city and Aoyama through the body, “WWFes (Whenever Wherever Festival) 2021” will be held over four days at Spiral Hall. The first half will feature experimental projects by co-curators, while the latter half will feature the choreographic works of Kota Yamazaki and twenty-seven collaborators. Bringing together up-and-coming artists, a rare session will take place in Aoyama at the year’s end.
Mapping Aroundness
Mapping Aroundness is a performance festival based on “the body sympathizing with the urban landscape,” a theme shared with Becoming an Invisible City Performance Project (abbreviated as BIC, held 12.25 [Sat.]–26 [Sun.]). The festival will feature performances and workshops by ten curators over four days at two main venues. Mapping Aroundness expands on the concept of the “invisible city” in BIC, with each program using the city as an intermediary to imaginatively locate a unique territory that escapes easy definition. In respective locations, which include meditative spaces, remote areas connected by time signals, desktops, city streets, a temporary satellite named “the waiting tower” at the 7days Sugamo Shop, and an online platform, participants will be immersed in a multi-layered experience of the city, sometimes together with the performers.
As part of the WWFes series, work-in-progress performances by emerging choreographers will also be presented. In addition, there will be showings and talks that bring together artists working in dance, theater and other fields to question the present state of performing arts and show the whereabouts of cutting-edge creativity.
Whenever Wherever Festival 2021
Mapping Aroundness
Date
23 Thu − 26 Sun December, 2021
Venue
Spiral Hall (Spiral 3F) + Others
Artist
Natsuko Tezuka, Hiroaki Umeda, Zen-go (Megumi Kamimura + Shinichi Takashima), Mai Kubota, Kana Sakato, Kakuro Sugimoto, Kohji Setoh, Hidehiko Miura, Sachiko Namba, Ursula Eagly, Madeline Best, Maho Ogawa, Megumi Kamimura, Mina Nishimura /Marie Yoda, Yuki Murai, Kei Matsumaru, Miri Hamada, takaramahaya, Toshikatsu Kiuchi, Aokid / Chiharu Shinoda, Satoru Kimura, Rino Daidoji /Yuka Nakagawa, Yutaro Murakoso (Shinbunka) /Shichiri-Gumi, Kei Shichiri /Takumichan, Mai Nagumo /O, 1、2nine, asunoah, Narumi Yamasaki, Kosuke Nagata /Osamu Shikichi, Spacenotblank, Aokid, Kaho Kogure, Yu Goto, Kazuhito Tsuruga, Yuki Miyawaki, Miyu Motegi, Shizuka Yamaguchi, Takeshi Ohashi, Akane Kuri, Naoyuki Sakai, Aoi Tagami, taichiyamagata, Yoshihiro Watanabe, Kaho Toda, Nanako Matsumoto, Asuka Yamanobe and others
Curator
Mina Nishimura, Aokid, Mari Fukutome, Yutaro Murakoso, Kei Shichiri, Kanako Iwanaka, Keitaro Sawabe, Masako Immaki, Kota Yamazaki, Toshikatsu Kiuchi, Rick Yamakawa
Whenever Wherever Festival 2021
Organized by: Body Arts Laboratory
Venue cooperation: Wacoal Art Center
Planning cooperation: KOBAYASHI PRODUCE INC.
With a grant from: Arts Council Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture
Mapping Aroundness
With a grant from: Minato City Sports, Culture, and Health Foundation (Reiwa 3rd year Minato City Cultural Arts Support Project)
Supported by: Dance Base Yokohama
Official Website
https://wwfes2021/english
Becoming an Invisible City Performance Project
Theater and city, the exterior and interior of the body—a space develops in which several improvised structures are instantly replaced. BIC is a choreographic experiment transcending time and space, where the city becomes a dance.
The project comprises a total of thirteen hours of performance works by twenty-eight artists, who create numerous scores and texts from sensations gathered in and around Aoyama Spiral and present them as dance forms. Excavating the overlooked places in Aoyama, the artists will construct their visions through their bodies to render an original worldview. Replacing the theater with the city, an unimaginable secret Aoyama will be unveiled.
Whenever Wherever Festival 2021
Becoming an Invisible City Performance Project
Date
25 Sat − 26 Sun, December 2021
Venue
Spiral Hall, Online
Choreographer
Kota Yamazaki
Performers and Choreographic Collaborators
Kei Asanuma, Kana Anayama, Kota Kihara, Mai Kubota, Kaho Kogure, Yu Goto, Kazuhito Tsuruga, Kaho Toda, Kanami Nakabayashi, Wataru Naganuma, Nozomi Matsuo, Nanako Matsumoto, Yuki Miyawaki, Miyu Motegi, Kotaro Yagi, Shizuka Yamaguchi, Mei Yamanaka, Asuka Yamanobe, YOSHIANO, Kota Yamazaki, Kana Sakato, Hanako Takayama, Yoshihiro Watanabe, Yuichiro Tamura, Yoshio Ootani, Yow Funahashi, Yuma Takeshita
Exhibition
Narumi Yamasaki, Kosuke Nagata, Toshikatsu Kiuchi, Megumi Kamimura
Whenever Wherever Festival 2021
Organized by: Body Arts Laboratory
Venue cooperation: Wacoal Art Center
Planning cooperation: KOBAYASHI PRODUCE INC.
With a grant from: Arts Council Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture
Becoming an Invisible City Performance Project (Aoyama Version)
With a grant from: ARTS for the future!, Agency for Cultural Affairs
Official Webpage (in Japanese)
https://wwfes2021.wraptas.site/bic
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