PROGRAM
ALB A work-in-progress showcase, “Agog With Curiosity”(Tokyo University of Arts 6th Hall, December, 2026)
Photo by Yo Noguchi
Avec Le Balcon, Lecture & Performance
Inspired by Arnold Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire, young artists from Tokyo University of the Arts will present new works and performances born from their ideas and practices. No Centre supports this program to encourage interdisciplinary artistic practices and nurture emerging artists.
Program
On January 11, No Centre will host an exclusive membership event, [Le Balcon × Dai Matsuoka] Croisements: Lecture & Performance. The event brings together Japanese and French artists for a lecture, performance, and reception. It offers an opportunity to learn more about the concepts and practices of artists who actively collaborate across disciplines, as well as the experiences and interests of young artists who have taken part in the workshops.
Information
- Members Exclusive Event
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[Le Balcon × Dai Matsuoka] Croisements: Lecture & Performance
- Performance Dates and Times
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January 11, 2027, 2:00 PM
- Venue
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The University Art Museum, Tokyo University of the Arts
(12-8 Ueno Park, Taito-ku, Tokyo) - Performers
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Gaspard Kieffer (Le Balcon), Alphonse Cemin (Le Balcon) Dai Matsuoka, and others
- Organized by
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General Incorporated Association No Centre / Graduate School of Global Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts
- Reservation
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Please refer to the membership page for details.
https://www.no-centre.art/membership/?lang=en - Related Event
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Avec Le Balcon: A Work-in-Progress Showcase
Over approximately six months, emerging artists working across music, physical expression, video, and visual art have collaborated in a series of workshops and creative sessions led by members of the French music ensemble Le Balcon and Dai Matsuoka, a dancer with Sankai Juku.
January 10, 2027 17:00-19:00
The University Art Museum, Tokyo University of the Arts
Free admission
*Children below school age are not admitted.Supported by: Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan, through the Program for Supporting Stage Arts and Artist Development; Japan Arts Council.
Sponsored by General Incorporated Association No CentreFor full information about the performances and events, please visit the Avec Le Balcon website in early December.
https://alb.geidai.ac.jp/
Artists
Karlheinz Stockhausen, LIGHT: Monday
Produced, performed, and directed by Le Balcon
Opéra de Lille, France, 2025
Photo by Hervé Escario
Le Balcon
Named after a play by Jean Genet, Le Balcon was founded in 2008 by a conductor (Maxime Pascal), a sound engineer (Florent Derex), a pianist and vocal coach (Alphonse Cemin) and three composers (Juan Pablo Carreño, Mathieu Costecalde, Pedro García Velásquez). It reinvents itself with each project, in its line-up as in its relationship to staging and electronics.
Its repertoire spans every period in the history of music, with a particular affinity for the 20th and 21st centuries: Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos, Weill and Brecht's The Threepenny Opera, Messiaen's Saint François d'Assise and Levinas's La Métamorphose are emblematic of its path.
In September 2026, at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Le Balcon closed Stockhausen's Licht, the Seven Days of the Week with Mittwoch aus Licht, a cycle begun in 2018 and unveiled opera by opera each autumn.
The season continues at the Musikverein in Vienna with Jonathan Harvey's Bhakti, then with La Dixième remix after Pierre Henry, an adaptation by Mauro Lanza and Maxime Pascal, at the Théâtre du Châtelet and at Points communs, before Fausto Romitelli's Professor Bad Trip at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg.
Le Balcon is in residence at Points communs, the national stage of Cergy-Pontoise and the Val d'Oise. It is supported by the French Ministry of Culture, the Fondation d'entreprise Société Générale, patronage from the Caisse des Dépôts, the City of Paris and the Singer-Polignac Foundation.
Photo by Hajime Tanaka
Dai Matsuoka
Butoh Dancer/Choreographer, LAND FES Director.
Graduated Sophia University, the Faculty of Comparative Culture.
Graduated Kuwasawa Design School.
Dai Matsuoka has been performing with Sankai Juku since 2005, and has appeared in some of their major works including Kinkan Shonen, Tobari, Unetsu and ARC.
Matsuoka is a founder and director of LAND FES since 2011, non-profit organization that has the purpose of connecting dance artists, local communities and social minorities.
He has been leading the Scramble Dance Project since 2017, in which both people with and without disabilities create dance together. This inclusive dance project initially instructed by Yoshito Ohno, a legendary figure of Butoh, has been continued by Dai Matsuoka and his organization LAND FES until now and presented its works in several opportunities such as Korea International Accessible Dance Festival 2023 in Seoul, South Korea.
He also runs BUTOH CHOREO LAB, an online platform with video lessons by high-profile Butoh dancers.
At Osaka Kansai EXPO 2025, Matsuoka co-choreographed the integrated dance piece “UNUM” with Adriaan Luteijn of INTRODANS(Netherlands).
He has collaborated globally with artists such as Phantom Limb Company(USA) for “Falling Out”, with Paola Prestini(USA) for “Houses of Zodiac”.
In 2021, curator of “Tokyo Real Underground”, the Tokyo Tokyo FESTIVAL Special13 program.
Life Kinetik® certified trainer.