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 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.
The program includes 14 diverse performances from Japan and abroad as well as a rang
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