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OSAKA-Asia Contemporary Dance Festival 2007 B Program

OSAKA-Asia Contemporary Dance Festival 2007 B Program





Contact Details	Festival Gate 3F, 3-4-36 Ebisu-Higashi, Naniwa, Osaka, Osaka Prefecture 556-0002 Japan
	TEL	+ 81-6-6646-1120
	FAX	+ 81-6-6646-1149
	E MAIL	dancebox@rock.sannet.ne.jp
	URL	http://www.db-dancebox.org/
Contact	AYA


Administrative Organization	OSAKA-Asia Contemporary Dance Festival Administration Committee
Administrative Body	NPO Dance Box
Facility Name	Art Theater dB
Facility Address	Festival Gate 3F, 3-4-36 Ebisu-Higashi, Naniwa, Osaka, Osaka Prefecture 556-0002
Facility Description	Located at the Festival Gate, an urban amusement facilities which opened in 1997, in an area adjacent to the downtown areas encompassing Shin Sekai and Nipponbashi. Theater=studio Café and information corner
Access	By train: Get off at “Dobutsuen-mae” station on Midosuji Line and Sakaisuji Line or “Shin Imamiya” station on JR Osaka Loop Line and Nankai Electric Railway; walk for 1 minute
History	Four editions of “Asia Contemporary Dance Festival,” which were held between 2001 and 2005, are incorporated into the overall program scheme of Dance Box, which aims to establish an environment that realizes exchange and production for Asian and Japanese artists.
Year of Commencement	2007
Program Objectives	Dance Box’s activities are designed to explore the possibility of shaping an identity for Asia, in which distinct local dance forms are studied in order to build a platform for a broader exchange of diverse cultures in the future. For the 2007 residency program, Pichet Klunchun has been invited from Thailand to collaborate with dancers and actors from western Japan and to stage for a performance in Osaka. The program hopes to find opportunities to bring the production to Thailand and Singapore in the future.
Program Activities	Workshops and auditions Production Performance of the works created during the residency period in Osaka


Focus Area(s)	Contemporary dance
Residency Period	February – March, 2007 (3 weeks)
Number of Resident Artists	1 artist *9 artists are invited for the festival
Conditions	No specific conditions
Provisions	Traveling expense: Available Production fee: Available (¥300,000) Studio: Available Living expense: Available (¥60,000) Accommodation: Available (inn) Professional and staff support: Available (interpreter, attendant) Opportunities for presentations/exhibitions: Available (two-day public performance) Publication and distribution of activity report: Available (documentation by video and photography) Others:
Application Procedure	Recommendation is accepted at all times. Selection is made by producers.
Selection	Selection is made by producers.
Achievements and Outcomes	September, 2003: “INK” Kate Denborough (Australia) 1 artist July-August, 2005: “dB-International Works 2005 - Garden of Eros” Be-Wonder (The Netherlands) 1 artist July, 2006: “INK” Kate Denborough, Gerard Van Dyck (Australia), Shigemi Kitamura, Kyota Takahashi 4 artists Outcomes In 2003, “INK” was produced as result of the artist-in-residence program. The production was further refined to attain higher quality for the performances in Melbourne and Osaka in 2006. A documentary work based on the interviews of senior residents in the community was produced during the “dB-International Works 2005 - Garden of Eros.” By incorporating the method of oral history, this project opened up the theater to the senior residents in the local community.