Festival/Tokyo (F/T) was held over thirteen editions from 2009 to 2020. Its programs with a focus on theatre and dance encompassed 204 productions, whose performances and screenings along with related events cumulatively attracted a total audience of 770,000 people. Through this process, many people and works across national borders intersected, forming an immense and variegated node of activities and exchange.
Performances and events cannot be saved as “things.” After they are finished, what takes place there between them and the participants or audiences is gone. But each time, albeit incrementally, they change the world. Those changes connect or branch off, conveying their seeds here and there, and then sprouting up from the soil.
What did F/T cultivate? In the hope that documenting that past may provide seeds and nourishment for future change, Festival/Tokyo Executive Committee is holding three online programs from August 2021 to February 2022.
Ten productions presented at F/T are available to view online, streaming two at a time for ten days each.
Cargo Tokyo-Yokohama: free
Other videos: ¥500 each
Pass (all videos): ¥1,500
Streaming Lineup:
Rimini Protokoll “Cargo Tokyo-Yokohama”
Back to Back Theatre “Ganesh Versus the Third Reich”
Fanglao Dance Company“Bamboo Talk + PhuYing”
Palestine, Year Zero (written and directed by Einat Weizman)
The Farm (directed by Kim Jeong, written by Shu Matsui)
The Instant Café Theatre Company “NADIRAH”
In our distance, there is no sorrow (written and directed by Yukio Shiba)
Shigeki Nakano + Frankens “Halfway to Hanshichi”
Taro Yasuno × Miho Watanabe × Noriyuki Kiguchi Zombie Opera “Danse Macabre”
Momonga Complex “We assemble together”
*We regret to announce that the originally scheduled video of “H3” (directed and choreographed by Bruno Beltrão) is canceled. 
To mark this milestone in F/T’s history, texts written by past festival directors are published online. Discussions about the performing arts and issues related to archiving them are also streaming online for free.
Discover the various productions and events organized across the thirteen editions of Festival/Tokyo through this database, which allows you to search for production information and articles by artist/company name.
Available February 2022
Moderators:
Kaku Nagashima (Director, F/T18–20; Vice General Director, Tokyo Festival)
Nanako Nakajima (dance dramaturge, dance researcher)
Choreographed and Directed by Momoko Shiraga
Taro Yasuno (concept, music) + Miho Watanabe (dramaturgy) + Noriyuki Kiguchi (stage design ）
Written and Directed by Yukio Shiba
Written and Directed by Shigeki Nakano
Dramaturge: Kaku Nagashima
Based on “The Curious Casebook of Inspector Hanshichi” by Kido Okamoto
The Instant Café Theatre Company
Written by Alfian Sa’at
Directed by Jo Kukathas
Directed by Kim Jeong
Written by Shu Matsui
Fanglao Dance Company
Choreographed by Ounla Phaoudom and Noutnapha Soydala
Written and Directed by Einat Weizman
Concept by Stefan Kaegi (Rimini Protokoll)
Direction by Jörg Karrenbauer （Rimini Protokoll）
Back to Back Theatre /
Directed by Bruce Gladwin
Websites for all the editions of Festival/Tokyo
Arts Network Japan
2F 4-36-1 Ikebukuro-Honchou, Toshima-ku,
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