Many thanks to all the companies and artists who applied to participate in the F/T12 Emerging Artists Program.
Following an internal process of assessment, we have decided on the program as below. These companies and artists will present productions of their work during the Program (November 5-25, 2012) at venues in Tokyo.
Final Selected 13 Companies
Companies (creative base) (in order of Japanese syllabary):
Against Again Troupe (Taiwan)
Co-Lab Project Group (Korea)
Teater Studio Indonesia (Indonesia)
The end of company JIENSHA (Tokyo, Japan)
The New Youth Group (China)*1
Syudan:hokoukunren (Yamaguchi, Japan)
Jyuuryoku/Note (Tokyo, Japan)
daniel kok diskodanny (Singapore)*2
WCdance (Taiwan)
Banana Gakuen Theater Company (Tokyo, Japan)
Hippie-b (Tokyo, Japan)
Peachum Company (Tokyo, Japan)
Takuya Murakawa (Kyoto, Japan)
*1: Previously announced as "Toya Theatre"
*2: Previously announced as "Daniel Kok"
The final 13 companies feature 7 from Japan, 2 from Taiwan, 1 from South Korea, 1 from Indonesia, 1 from Singapore and 1 from China.
F/T12 Emerging Artists Program Selection
Total applications: 180
Japan: 94
Rest of Asia: 86
Japanese applications by area:
Hokkaido: 1; Aomori Prefecture: 1; Chiba Prefecture: 3; Tokyo: 60; Kanagawa Prefecture: 10; Saitama Prefecture: 3; Gunma Prefecture: 1; Aichi Prefecture: 1; Osaka Prefecture: 3; Kyoto Prefecture: 7; Yamaguchi Prefecture: 2; Ehime Prefecture: 1; Fukuoka Prefecture: 1 (Total: 94)
Asian (excluding Japan) applications by area:
India: 2; Indonesia: 1; South Korea: 23; Singapore: 2; Thailand: 2; Taiwan: 22; China: 18; Nepal: 3; Philippines: 3; Other: 10
Selection Process
From this year the selection process for applicants from both Japan and the rest of Japan was identical, and was conducted in two stages. The first round of selections took into account the companies' publicity videos of 10 minutes or less and the application texts, from which 27 companies were chosen (16 from Japan, 3 from Taiwan, 2 from South Korea, 2 from China, 2 from Singapore, 1 from Thailand, 1 from Indonesia), and the videos and company information for each selected candidate was published then on the F/T website.
To view the videos of the work of the first round candidates, please visit:
http://festival-tokyo.jp/en/12/koubo_result_1st/
For the second round of selections, assessment of candidates was made through interviews with the artists and viewing video footage of previous performances. Internal evaluation and final selection was then decided based on the level of individual approach to issues and themes, on the level of self-awareness of methodology to integrate these issues into creative expression, and on the artists' career and activities so far (including production performance and external reputation), as well as their future vision.