"The Show Must Go On"
A masterwork by Jerome Bel that revolutionized the dance scene worldwide
Co-presented by Festival/Tokyo 11 and Saitama Arts Theater

Performers for the Japanese version wanted!

The performance of Jerome Bel's "The Show Must Go On" in Japan will be co-presented by Festival/Tokyo 11 and Saitama Arts Theater. This work created a stir in the European theatre world by radically questioning the principles of stage dance. After it's premiere in Paris in 2001, it toured more than 50 cities all over the world and has in the meantime become a part of the repertoire of the Lyon Opera Ballet. In 2005, Jerome Bel won a Bessie Award (New York Dance and Performance Award) for "The Show Must Go On". The piece gathers men and women of different ages and occupations who perform extremely well-known pop songs that almost everybody feels familiar with, on stage.
We are currently seeking performers for the Japanese version of "The Show Must Go On". Stage experience is not required. Desirable are people of different nationalities, ages and looks.
Don't miss the unique opportunity to participate in this piece that is highly acclaimed by theaters and festivals worldwide and has revolutionized the dance world.

Rehearsal and performance schedule

Rehearsals Oct 31 (Mon) - Nov 11, 2011 (Fri)
The detailed rehearsal schedule will be announced to successful applicants upon decision

Performances Nov 12 (Sat) & Nov 13 (Sun), 2011

Rehearsals and performances will take place at:
Saitama Arts Theater (The performances will be held at the Main Theater.)
3-15-1 Uemine, Chuo-ku, Saitama-shi,
Saitama-ken 338-8506
7 minutes on foot from the west exit of Yono Honmachi-Station (Saikyo Line)
http://www.saf.or.jp/arthall/index.html

Conditions for application:
- People in good health (m/f) above 18 years of age
- Participation in all rehearsals and the two performances in the period from Oct 31 to Nov 13 required
- Ability to understand and communicate in English on a conversational level
- Ability to memorize the important phrases of app. 20 pop songs in English.

Remuneration: 120000 Yen (incl. tax and train fares)

How to apply:
Please fill in the web entry form for application or send the below information by mail:

1. Name:
2. Birth Date:
3. Age:
4. Sex:
5. Address:
6. Telephone number (during daytime):
7. Nearest station:
8. Required time from nearest station to Yono Honmachi Station (JR Saikyo Line):
9. Occupation (if you are a member of a theater company please indicate your affiliation):
10. Nationality:
11. Height:
12. Weight:
13. Clothing size: XS, S, M, L, LL, XL
14. Stage experience:
15. Special skills:
16. Reason for application: (200-400 Characters)
17. English level: (Please specify, in case you have obtained any language certificates. Please also indicate, in case you speak any other languages apart from English)
18. Full-body photograph
19. Head-shot

An explanatory meeting will be held for short listed candidates. The date and time of the meeting will be announced after the closing date of the entry deadline.
The final selection of the participants will be conducted by the director/choreographer by screening of application materials.

Number of performers: 24 (tbc). It is planned to select app. 20 persons on public recruitment.

Application Deadline:
March 31, 2011 (Thu) (date stamp is valid for applications by mail)
(The form for web entries will be open until March 31, 24:00)

Where to apply:
Web　entry: https://qooker.jp/Q/ja/TSMGO/performer/

Mail:
Festival/Tokyo Office
"The Show Must Go On" Recruitment
4-9-1 Nishi-Sugamo, Toshima-ku, Tokyo 170-0001

The result of the screening will be announced to the applicants in the first half of May 2011.

Inquiries:
Festival/Tokyo Office
"The Show Must Go On" Recruitment
Person in Charge: Yuko Uematsu
E-Mail：tsmgo@anj.or.jp Tel: 03-5961-5202　Fax: :03-5961-5207　http://festival-tokyo.jp/

The five jury members named below will view all performances of the "F/T 11 Emerging Artists Program" and award a prize to the outstanding work/artist. The award winner will be invited to present his/her work - the award winning performance or another work - after the F/T 12.

Applications for the "F/T 11 Emerging Artists Program" are being accepted since December 14, 2010. At present, we already have received many applications from Japan, Korea, China, Thailand, Indonesia and further Asian countries. The deadline for application is January 23, 2011, 24:00. For young companies, this program offers the chance, to present their work in the frame of a platform that is aiming to raise attention not only in Japan, but also among other Asian countries.
Application Details

＜F/T 11 Emerging Artists Program Jury Members＞

Tadashi Uchino
Born in 1957. Theatre critic, professor at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences of the University of Tokyo. Currently he is appointed a board member of the "Society of Theory of Representation and Culture", a board member of the Kanagawa Arts Foundation and a councilor of the Saison Foundation. Furthermore he is a member of the editorial board of the academic journal TDR (published by MIT Press) that is specializing in research on Performing Arts in North America. Uchino has been continuously publishing on the topics of melodrama and theatre history in the US.

Hidenaga Otori
Born in 1948. Theatre Critic. He is specializing in the history of ideas in Russian art. So far, he has been holding positions as a member of the Global Advisory Committee of Walker Art Center, artistic director of the international theatre festival "Laookon" (Hamburg, Germany) and vice president of Kyoto Performing Arts Center. His publications include "Reverberation Machines: The Words of Richard Foreman". Among many other works he translated books by Tadeusz Kantor and Andrei Tarkovsky into Japanese. Otori has also been a chief editor of numerous theater magazines, such as Theater Arts and Chimaera, and Performing Arts.

Hans-Thies Lehmann
Born in 1944. Professor of Theatre Studies at the Johan Wolfgang Goethe- Universität, Frankfurt am Main, Germany and directs the Master Program in Dramaturgy there. His numerous publications include Theater und Mythos. Die Konstitution des Subjekts im Diskurs der antiken Tragödie (Metzler 1991), Das Politische Schreiben. Essays zu Theatertexten (Verlag Theater der Zeit 2002) together with Patrick Primavesi the Heiner Müller Handbuch (2004). His seminal work Postdramatisches Theater (1st edition 1999) was translated in 18 languages, English as Postdramatic Theatre (Routledge, 2006). He has published widely (book contributions, magazines of Literary Theory and Theatre Studies) on contemporary theatre, Brecht, theatre aesthetics and film.
He studied in Berlin 1965-1971 at the Institute of Peter Szondi, collaborated some years there with Samuel Weber, taught aesthetics in the Academy of Fine Arts, and was visiting professor at universities in many countries (Japan, Austria, Poland, USA, Lithuania, France, Spain, Wales)

Masataka Matsuda
Born in Nagasaki in 1962. From 1990 to 1997 he was the head of Jiku Gekijo, in a double-function as playwright and director. For his plays he was awarded numerous prizes, such as the OMS Drama Prize for "Saka no Ue no Ie" (1994), the Kishida Kunio Drama Award for "Sea and Parasol" (1996), the Yomiuri Theater Award for "Tsuki no Misaki" and the Yomiuri Prize for Literature for "Natsu no Suna no Ue" (1998). In 2000 he received the incentive prize for culture by the prefecture of Kyoto. After the Jiku Gekijo had dissolved, Matsuda wrote plays for several companies such as Seinendan, Bungakuza and the theatre group En, among others. Apart from his works for theatre he has been also involved with writing screenplays. One of his acclaimed works in this field is the script for Kazuo Kuroki's movie "A boy's summer in 1945" (Utsukushii natsu kirishima) which is based on the novel "The youth of Etsuko Kamiya". In 2004 he founded the marebito theater company, where he serves as both playwright and director. In a questionnaire by the theater magazine "Theatre Arts", he was ranked first place in the category "experimental artist". Currently he is holding the position of a guest professor at the Kyoto University of Arts and Design.

Chiaki Soma
Born in 1975. She graduated from the Waseda University of Tokyo (BA in Literature), then she majored in Arts Management and Cultural Politics at the DESS "Cultural Development and Project Management" (MA) of Lyon Lumiere University and had experiences in the artist in Residence and alternative art spaces in France. Since 2002, she has been working for F/T's precursor, the Tokyo International Arts Festival, producing many international collaborative projects and symposiums with foreign artists and organizations. In 2006, she founded a new creative space for the performing arts, "Yokohama Arts Platform: Steep Slope Studio" in collaboration with Yokohama City, of which she was the director until 2009. In the period 2007-2009 she was an invited lecturer to the Global COE (Educational Program supported by Theatre Museum) of the Waseda University. After having held the position as the program director of the 2008 Tokyo International Arts Festival, she assigned the same position at Festival/Tokyo in 2009.

Please read the following information completely,
then apply using the online application form. (English only)

F/T11 Emerging Artists Program Call for Entries / 公开征集项目/ 모집요강

For F/T 11 in autumn 2011, we are providing performance opportunities for selected upcoming artists not only in Japan, but from all over Asia in the Emerging Artists Program. Through recognition and criticism of these performances from all around Asia, we look forward to a new wave in performing arts. The program is targeted for artists and creators under the age of 40 years, basing their activities in Asia. Artists are selected through online applications and mailed DVD footage of their performance.
We are looking forward to discovering new, sensational works and artists!

Download Program Guidline (English)
Download Q&A (English)

　　预计在2011年秋天举办的F/T11中，以创立亚洲舞台艺术的创作、普及与评论的平台为目的，以亚洲青年艺术家为对象实施公开选拔。为日本国内的报名者和在公开选拔中脱颖而出的艺术家提供在F/T11演出的机会。
公开召集的艺术家和创作人必须是40岁以下并以亚洲为创作中心的个人和团体。参考网上报名资料和邮送的DVD资料进行选拔。
　 期待与才华横溢的你相识！敬请参与!

征集重要事项 下载
Q&A 下载

2011년 가을에 예정되어 있는 F/T11에서는, 아시아를 기점으로 하는 작품의 창조와 보급의 역할을 수행하는 플랫폼을 지향하며, 아시아의 젊은 인재를 대상으로 하는 공모 프로그램을 실시하고자 합니다. 일본 국내로부터의 응모자와 함께 심사를 거쳐 선정되는 아티스트들에게는 F/T11에서의 상연기회가 부여됩니다. 또한 상연작품은 아시아에 있어서의 새로운 무대예술의 흐름 속에서, 일본 및 아시아 각 지역의 무대예술평론가로부터 비평받는 기회가 될 것입니다.
공모 프로그램의 대상 아티스트, 크리에이터는 만40세 이하의 아시아 지역을 거점으로 하는 개인 및 단체입니다. 웹 엔트리와 우편발송에 의한 DVD심사를 통해, 상연 작품을 선정합니다.
재능 있는 여러분과의 만남을 기대하고 있습니다. 적극적인 응모를 기다리겠습니다!

모집요강 다운로드
Q&A 다운로드

All the pre-sale tickets for Norimizu Ameya's "The shape of me" are sold out. However, a
small number of tickets at door are available from 12:30 every day. You will then get a
reservation for a departure between 13:00 and 18:00 on the same day.
For more information on "The shape of me", click here.

There has been a revision in the performance "Memory," playing at the Nishisugamo Arts Factory on Nov. 26, 27 and 28. The role played by Feng Dehua, will be replaced by performer, Lao Xiujuan, the biological mother of choreographer/dancer Wen Hui. This has given us a chance to see into China's Cultural Revolution through the dialogue of mother and daughter who has endured the revolution together. As a survivor of the tumultuousness in contemporary China, her participation has opened new doors for this performance.

An orientation aiming at our foreign audiences, introducing the structure and concept of Akira Takayama (Port B)'s participatory work "The Complete Manual of Evacuation - Tokyo", will be held in English on Monday November 22 from 4 pm in the Ikebukuro Evacuation point. The orientation will be held by Akira Takayama (director) and Chiaki Soma (producer/dramaturge).

Access:
Meet in front of the F/T Station in front of the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Space
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※ Together we will move to the Ikebukuro Evacuation point.
※ No reservation needed.

For more information on The Complete Manual of Evacuation - Tokyo", click here.

We encourage the spectators to write a stage review (3000 to 5000 letters) of one of the F/T performances they have seen. English contributions are also welcome. Please attach your profile and send the review by e-mail to gekihyo@anj.or.jp. Please note that the reviews will be posted on the F/T website within three days after submission. Three winners, who will all receive free passes to F/T 11, are announced on December 14.
The jury is composed of professor Tadashi Uchino of Tokyo University, theatre critic Hidenaga Otori, and critic Ryouta Fukushima.
For more information, click here (Japanese only)

The Complete Manual of Evacuation website is partly bilingual and should be comprehensible for foreigners too. Calll the The Complete Manual of Evacuation information phone on 090-7280-6310 for further inquiries!
http://hinan-manual.com/

The regular tickets for "Riesenbutzbach. A Permanent Colony" by Christoph Marthaler and Anna Viebrock have been sold out recently. On this occasion, we decided to offer additional seats (with limited sight) for all three shows (Nov 19,20,21).
We recommend you, to reserve as soon as possible, as we have only a limited number of additional seats available.

Book now!