Kaori Nishio
Guest Author
Playwright, director, head of theater company Bird Park. Born in Tokyo in 1985. After a childhood in Malaysia she researched TERAYAMA Shuji at University of Tokyo (B.A.) and OTA Shogo at Tokyo University of the Arts (M.A.), and founded Bird Park in 2007. She has joined many residency programs and made site specific pieces, and was nominated for the 58th KISHIDA Kunio Drama Award. Furthermore, her major works were performed at Festival/Tokyo, Fujinokuni Arts Festival and so on. From 2015 she joined junior fellow of The Saison Foundation and won the first prize at Japanese Young Director Concours in 2016.
In 2016, she is an awardee of the Theaterformen Festival Grant, reporting for Textures from the festival and the research atelier Our Common Futures.
THIS AUTHOR WROTE
June 16, 2016
The ten Festival Grant Awardees are part of a very small group of people who will watch all performances of Festival Theaterformen. With their heads filled with endless impulses and impressions they are discussing their thoughts in daily meetings, also reflecting on their own work as artists.
Kaori Nishio from Japan shares with us her idea and concept for a talk with the artists of the first festival weekend.
Read her text about two imagined encounters.
June 15, 2016
As a spectactor, can you tell (and should you?) which country a performance comes from? In what way should an artist consider his origin when deciding what audience to aim at?
Japanese artist Kaori Nishio – one of our Festival Grant Awardees – touches those points in her review of Toshiki Okada's performance "God Bless Baseball".