Essays｜TERASIA　テラジア｜隔離の時代を旅する演劇

TERASIA Artist Interview Vol. 5: Zun Ei Phyu (Artist)

The Path of Art, The Path of MedicineZun Ei Phyu (Zun Ei for short) has two faces: an artist and a doctor. First, we asked her how she came to do the activities she does now. “When I was six years old, there was an art competition for chil

TERASIA Artist Interview Vol. 3: Miho Inatsugu (Actor)

The Making of Tera with a Minimal Theatre CompanyBefore she became an actor, Inatsugu had been involved in contemporary dance. Her dream was to become a creator of dance performances, so she enrolled in the department of Musical Creativity

TERASIA Artist Interview Vol. 4: Kamizu (Artist and Art Therapist)

Why the Focus on Life and Death?Kamizu’s work spans a broad range of activities, from painting, drawing, and other art projects to workshops and programs concerned with healing through art. How did she come to explore the themes of life and

Research Trip in Indonesia: TIM

The hotel On this trip, TERASIA members stayed at a hotel called IBIS Budget Cikini. Heading to the lobby to check in, we had a good view of a fun community pool. Why, oh why didn’t I bring a swimming suit? Here’s how our rooms looked. T

Research Trip in Indonesia: Prologue

Hello. I’m Yukari Sakata. I usually live in Tokyo. I do all kinds of work, but today, I’m writing this piece as one of the directors in TERASIA. Now, you might be wondering: What is TERASIA？ …If you’d like to find out, feel free to put m

Announcing TERASIA Online Week 2022 + Onsite!

This year, our mini-festival is back from November 4 (Fri.) to November 13 (Sun.).TERASIA: Theatre for Traveling in the Age of Isolation is a four-year collaborative project by artists across Asia which launched in 2020 in the wake of the g

TERASIA Artist Interview Vol. 2 Maho Watanabe (dramaturg)

Maho Watanabe, who served as dramaturg for both Tera and TERA in Kyoto, spent her elementary school years in Qatar, discovered the world of theatre while studying abroad in Palestine as a university student, and is currently living in Switz

[Interview] Director Yukari Sakata Discusses the Journey to Arrive at Tera and Where TERASIA Is Headed

TERASIA: Theatre for Traveling in the Age of Isolation is an international collaborative project for a new era that launched in 2020 in the wake of the global COVID-19 pandemic. In November 2021, a ten-day virtual festival—TERASIA Online We

Introduction: About TERASIA

Text by Maho Watanabe (Dramaturge) 1. Concept1-1. TERA's new form to travel in Asia: TERASIA When we created Tera in 2018, we intended a performance that keeps transforming through encounters with new places and people. In this first vers

Yukari Sakata (Director) + Miho Inatsugu (Performer) + Kyojun Tanaka (Music) + Maho Watanabe (Dramaturge)

Interview and text by Yuichi Fukazawa (This interview was conducted on 26th October 2018, during rehearsals for the premier show at Festival/Tokyo) Where each member stands--- Yukari, Miho and Kyojun you are all graduates of Tokyo Universi

A Journey to Nirvana

Maho Watanabe (Dramaturge) The initial motive for creating “Tera” was NOT an interest in spirituality. Conceived from Festival/Tokyo’s “In the City Performance Series,” our aim was to create a new tour system for the piece to visit multipl

[Review] TERASIA Session at TPAM 2021: Group Meeting

Text by Rina Tanaka (Researcher/Critic) On February 10, 2021 (Wed), an on-/offline session “Can a Transnational Team Co-create Theatre Without Crossing Borders? – TERASIA’s Experiment in Quarantine” in the Group Meeting at #TPAM2021 succes

Correspondence: On the Music of TERA and เถระ - 1. The Role of Musicians and "Traditional" Music

by Kyojun Tanaka and Great Lekakul Letter No.1 - From Kyojun to GreatDear Mr. Great, I’m so grateful for such a wonderful opportunity to talk about the music in TERA Japan & Thailand editions. I hope we can exchange our musical inspiratio

Buddhist Preachings of Hell and the Arts: Explanatory Illustrations, Rakugo, and Plays - Part 1

By Kohichi Watari, School of Global Japanese Studies, Meiji University Illustration: Jikkai Sugoroku (Collection of the National Diet Library) IntroductionI had the good fortune of coming across documentary footage from the production TERA

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