The inaugural edition of performing arts festival Autumn Meteorite takes the image of a meteorite to signify a cosmic pollinator and a catalytic collision of ideas where artists and cultures converge.
¡°The image of a meteorite evokes something foreign, unfamiliar ¡ª a presence infused with a rare power to set things in motion,¡± says the festival¡¯s artistic director Toshiki Okada, active internationally as a playwright and leader of the theater company Chelfitsch.
The first iteration of the monthlong festival kicked off in Tokyo on Oct. 1, with ¡°Another Shape of Reality/Shape of Another Reality,¡± an outdoor performance splintered in three cacophonous parallel parts, written by Akutagawa Prize winner Saou Ichikawa, YouTuber and writer Da Vinci Osorezan and choreographer Natsuko Tezuka.
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