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前田圭蔵
Keizo Maeda

Graduated Tama Art University. After working in the Curatorial Department of Setagaya Art Museum, he worked on the planning and production of music and performing arts as well as record label management at Conversation & Company Co., Ltd. Since 2001, he has been involved in the management of the website and magazine realtokyo. At the World Expo held in Aichi Prefecture in 2005, he was in charge of numerous international projects. Associate Director of “Festival/Tokyo” 2011, Producer of “Aichi Triennale” 2013 Performing Arts Section, Director of Main Arena of “Roppongi Art Night” 2014, “International Art Festival Aichi 2022” Performing Arts Section Advisor. Since 2012, he has been involved in the planning and production of domestic and international performing arts as a staff member of the Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture, Tokyo Metropolitan Theater.

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飯田真実
Mami Iida

Project Manager for Art Exhibitions. Graduate from Professional Master of Science and Technique of the Exhibition at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. She has gained several working experiences between France, Canada and Japan, particularly in the operation of a wide range of international contemporary art projects and festivals such as Montreal Biennale (2011), The Japan Media Arts Festival (2012), Aichi Triennale (2013), etc. She was in charge of exhibitions on behalf of ‘Maison de la culture du Japon’, The Japan Foundation’s platform in Paris (2014-2017). Working freelance since 2017, she is currently also active as an art journalist, contributing articles on exhibitions in France to such publications as The Asahi Shimbun (since 2011) and Bijutsu Techo (since 2017) among others.

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桂 真菜
Mana Katsura

Dance & Theater Critic. Previously worked as an editor for Magazine House, Ltd. (Brutus magazine, and books including Anne’s Cradle, the biography of Hanako Muraoka by Eri Muraoka, as well as Shakespeare’s Famous Quotationsby Haruo Nakano, and Ren Osugi‘sGembamon), and currently contributes to various media as a dance and theater critic, continuing to explore the relationship between art and society through all kinds of performing arts from classical to experimental pieces. She has been visiting numerous international festivals since the early 1990s, and also writes art reviews. Member of the International Association of Theatre Critics (AICT/IATC). Research Fellow at the Theatre Museum, Waseda University.

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氷川まりこ
Mariko Hikawa

Born 1963 in Tokyo. Started working in radio broadcasting and publishing while still enrolled at Kokugakuin University, Faculty of Letters, before joining FM Yokohama and getting involved in the planning and production of radio programs. As a freelance editor, she has been working for such magazines as Hanakoand Croissant. Since the mid-1990s she has been specializing in Noh and Kyogen in particular, while also engaging in writing, editing and lecturing activities on art/entertainment forms of Higashiyama culture involving tea, Zen, flowers and incense, around ”traditional and contemporary” as a general theme of her work. Publications include Noh no shinseiki(Shogakukan), Shinsakunoh: Kurenaitennyo no sekai(Hakusensha) and Tsuzumi ni ikiru(Tankosha).

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松村正人
Masato Matsumura

Editor and critic born in Amami in 1972. Matsumura became a freelancer in 2009 after working as the editor-in-chief for the Studio Voice and Tokion magazines. He is the author of Zenei Ongaku Nyumon (“Introduction to Avant-garde Music,” published by Ele-king Books), the editor of titles including Sasageru – Haino Keiji no Sekai (“Devotion – The World of Keiji Haino”) and Yamaguchi Fujio – Tengoku no Himatsubushi (“Fujio Yamaguchi – Killing Time in Heaven”), and the supervisor of Ele-king, Bessatsu ele-king and many other publications. He plays bass in the rock band Yuasawan, appearing on records such as Minato, Funami, Sagoshio, and Myaku (all released on the Boid label).

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三田村光土里
Midori Mitamura

Midori Mitamura has exhibited her spatial artworks widely around the world. Through fieldwork, she structures art installations using various materials such as photos, images, music, language, and found objects. Her artworks metaphorically visualize trails of awkward and endearing emotions drawn from everyone’s lives. Solo Exhibitions “Art & Breakfast Las Palmas de Gran Canaria” 2017 (CAAM – Atlantic Center of Modern Art, Spain), “Green on the Mountain” 2006 (Secession Vienna, Austria), International Art Festival “Aichi Triennale 2016”

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