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Credits >>

x Key Visual Berliner Festspiele: Focus Japan
© Shiro Takatani, Dumb Type

Japanese Performing and Musical Arts

Focus Japan

Berliner Festspiele

2026/2027

In its 75th anniversary year, the Berliner Festspiele, in partnership with the Japanese-German Center Berlin, are presenting a special focus on Japan’s performing and musical arts. Through contributions to the programmes of Musikfest Berlin, the Performing Arts Season, Jazzfest Berlin, MaerzMusik, as well as a commissioned project in the city, this initiative draws on a long history of exchange and resonance between the Berliner Festspiele and Japanese forms of artistic expression.

From 28 August to 20 September 2026, Japanese director Akira Takayama will explore archived visions of a “New Berlin” through What If Berlin, a project unfolding along the 27 S-Bahn stations of Berlin’s Ringbahn. For Musikfest Berlin this year the ensemble of the Kanze Noh Theater presents the two Noh dramas Hagoromo and Shakkyō along with the Kyōgen comedy Kaki Yamabushi at the Philharmonie Berlin on 21 September 2026. Otomo Yoshihide returns to this year’s Jazzfest Berlin with the Otomo Yoshihide New Jazz Quintet on 30 October 2026. As part of the Performing Arts Season 2026/27, Damien Jalet will present Planet [wanderer] on 4 and 5 December 2026, a choreographic interpretation of Japan’s creation myth set within a breathtaking stage environment by Japanese sculptor Kohei Nawa.

Finally, from 15 to 17 January 2027, the Berliner Festspiele will present the European premiere of the 2020 performance by the Japanese multimedia performance collective Dumb Type.

Haus der Berliner Festspiele, Schaperstraße 24, 10719 Berlin

www.berlinerfestspiele.de/en/focus-japan

Press material

Press photos

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    Key Visual Berliner Festspiele: Focus Japan
    © Shiro Takatani, Dumb Type
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    Akira Takayama
    © Bea Borgers
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    Yusuke Hashimoto
    Leitender Dramaturg / Head of Dramaturgy Berliner Festspiele
    © Marlena Waldthausen
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    Kanze Nō Theater, Musikfest Berlin
    Kiyokazu Kanze, 26. Großmeister der Kanze-Schule
    Saburota Kanze, Sohn von Kiyokazu Kanze
    © Kanze Foundation
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    Otomo Yoshihide New Jazz Quintett
    Otomo Yoshihide, Ruike Shinpei, Osamun Imagome, Hiroaki Osamu, Yoshioka Yushiro
    © Malwina Witkowska
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    Damien Jalet / Kohei Nawa: Planet [wanderer]
    © Yoshikazu Inoue
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    Dumb Type: 2020
    © Kazuo Fukunaga