On weekends and holidays the B1F Studio becomes an intimate theater seating about 100 people, presenting contemporary dance, theater, music, talks and interdisciplinary work by both emerging and established artists.

 

All seats are unreserved. Doors normally open 30 minutes before curtain. Performances are in Japanese or non-verbal; dance and physical theater programs need no Japanese to enjoy.

 

New to the venue? Please see our Visitor Guide for booking, payment and what to expect on the day.

 

Upcoming Performances

 

Romanized artist names below are provisional readings; the Japanese spelling is given alongside.

 

Dzone2026 oh?dance!!project
#001 -SMILE-

An omnibus programme built like a treasure box, presented together with the artists who have moved us. Each choreographer's own idea of a "Smile" meets inside a single box. Enjoy the landscapes that emerge as the pieces resonate with one another - and the people behind them.

 

Choreographers

Naoki Komaru & Ivy Grace Komaru (We LLC, video work)
Kisara Shinohara (篠原綺更), Fuko Ota (太田楓子), Kyoso Tanaka (田中杏颯)
Yoko Shimizu (清水揚子), Megumi Endo (遠藤恵)
Risa Fukada (深田理沙)
Yoshiyuki Hoshi (星善之)
Risa × sahoooN.
Yoshinori Wakamiya (若宮嘉紀)
Rino Kumaki (熊木梨乃)
Akishi Konosu (鴻巣明史)

 

Six of the performers are members of the Star Dancers Ballet. For the full cast list, please see the Japanese page.

 

Tickets (tax included)

Advance and door: ¥3,500

 

All seats unreserved

 

How to Book

Please apply through the Session House reservation form.

 

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Same Boat, 2nd Production
"Ihatov Roman"

After the works of Kenji Miyazawa

 

About the Company

Same Boat is a theater unit founded in 2025 by the actors Ryuta Kawai (河合隆汰) and Marina Nagai (永井茉梨奈) together with the filmmaker Yuto Kiji (生地遊人). Working from the theme "a boat that carries us to an unknown shore," the company builds its own theatrical language on the basis of corporeal mime, the form that emerged in France in the twentieth century, with a particular focus on the physicality of the actor.

 

About the Work

Kenji Miyazawa was a singular poet who moved between art, science and religion, watching and describing the workings of life with a gaze entirely his own - people, plants, animals, from a pebble to the universe. The beauty and cruelty of nature; the sorrow and the richness of being alive. In time these became the world of Ihatov, his imagined utopia. Same Boat draws a sketch of the mind through the body, taking as its motif the vivid body of work Miyazawa spun out between faith and fury.

 

Cast & Creative

Cast: Itsuzuri (伊綴), Tomohiro Ogawa (小河智裕), Ayaka Kiyota (清田采花), Shimojimoto (Anima Agency), Taran Nibakins, Junpei Yamada (山田隼平), Marina Nagai (Same Boat), Ryuta Kawai (Same Boat)
Composition & Direction: Ryuta Kawai (Same Boat)
Stage Manager: Yuki Sato (佐藤勇輝)
Lighting & Video: Yuto Kiji (Same Boat)
Sound: Maika Kawatobi (川飛舞花)

 

Tickets (tax included)

General: ¥3,500 (advance and door, all seats unreserved)
Free admission for the first 10 elementary and junior high school students at each performance.

 

How to Book

This production is booked directly with the company, not through Session House.

https://forms.gle/vEEXRRfCUNy77X548

 

Presented by Same Boat. Supported by Arts Council Tokyo (Start-up Grant).
Enquiries: sameboattales@gmail.com

 

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SS dance company
"new snow white the Seven Brave"

Snow White is done being the one who gets rescued. Together with seven brave companions - a new kind of dance entertainment.

 

Cast

Sanae Shuto (周東早苗), Moe Shiratori (白鳥萌), Akane Ebine (海老根明音), Miki Yamada (山田実希)
Ui Kusuzawa (藥澤うい), Azusa Kanie (蟹江あずさ), Moe Mukai (向井萌), Honoka Ishida (石田穂花), Azusa Murakami (村上梓), Airu Ogawa (小川愛琉), Momoka Shiozaki (塩崎桃佳)
Shunya Nakajima (中島駿野), Taro Shinozaki (篠崎太郎), Mitsuo Saito (齋藤充央), Yo Sato (佐藤瑶), Manju Onuma (大沼真珠), Riku Murayama (村山りく), Mana Kaneko (金子茉那)
Child performers: Chika Gohara (郷原知花), Miyu Nagai (永井美結)

 

Tickets (tax included)

Main performances (12 & 13 Sep): ¥4,500
Open dress rehearsal (11 Sep only): ¥3,000

 

★ A ticket is required from age 3.
★ Pre-school children may attend free of charge if seated on a lap. Please buy a ticket if a seat is needed.

 

All seats unreserved

 

How to Book

Please apply through the Session House reservation form.

 

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Session House 35th Anniversary Festival
- Memory and Future -

Nine days, 19-27 September 2026. Masterworks danced by the choreographers who made them and by the young dancers who inherit them; an archive show of 35 years of work; a cross-genre dance talk; a free stage experience for children; a backyard cafe open to the neighbourhood; and a closing celebration built on Dvorak's New World Symphony.

 

Full programme, times and booking:

 

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Catalina dell'Arte
"A Certain Meeting - The Unseen Agendas -"
Part Two: The Accusation

Can you see through to the truth? A story of the darkness and the silence hidden inside a harassment case, told across two very different spaces - an immersive site and a theatre. Selected for the Tokyo Performing Arts Festival 2026 Open Call Programs.

 

About the Work

A harassment allegation arrives at the compliance office of an organisation. As the protagonist begins the internal investigation, the accounts of those involved contradict one another completely, and the deference, calculation, rumour, lies and power imbalances peculiar to organisations stand in the way. The more meetings are held, the vaguer the truth becomes, and events accelerate towards an ending no one can foresee. A psychological suspense about the loneliness of our own time, drawn through theatre, dance and video.

 

The first part, "The Internal Investigation" (5-6 September), was staged inside the real offices of JINS Tokyo Head Office as immersive theatre, with the audience moving through the drama as it unfolded. This second part, "The Accusation", moves to the theatre at Kagurazaka Session House and closes in on what actually happened.

 

Cast & Creative

Written and directed by Maoko Takanari (高成麻畅子)
Cast: Junpei Yoshihara (吉原純平), Minori Sakai (坂井美乃里), Makoto Miyashita (宮下誠), Sawa, Akitakeda (あきたけだ), Mikka Bikke (三日びっけ), and others
Special guest: Masataka Nakagauchi (中河内雅貴)
Assistant director: Riko Hikasa (樦笑理子)
Video: Fumiaki Kudo (工藤史痒)
Set and publicity design: Masako Kawamata (川係真佐子)
Production photography: Wataru Furuta (古田亢)

 

Tickets (tax included)

Full pass with benefits ¥11,000 (limited number)
Full pass ¥9,000
Theatre-only ticket for "The Accusation" ¥5,000

 

How to Book

This production is booked through TicketMe, not through Session House.

https://ticketme.io/account/catalinadellarte

 

Filming and photography take place during the performances and audience members may appear in the footage.
The work contains scenes that convey psychological pressure such as harassment, deals with social issues, and includes sexual content. For these reasons, admission is not permitted to children under 12.

 

Presented by Catalina dell'Arte, in cooperation with Kagurazaka Session House (Dzone).
Enquiries: info@catalina-dellarte.com

 

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Condors
30th GIGS

The day Condors was formed, in the place where it was formed - the very same dates and the very same venue as thirty years ago. Only 100 seats for each performance, and a different programme every time: five in all. Exactly thirty years, and "946,684,800 seconds of thank you" offered back to you.

 

Cast & Creative

Composition, choreography and direction: Ryohei Kondo (近藤良平)
Producer: Yasuharu Katsuyama (勝山康晴)
Cast: members of Condors, with a guest artist at every performance

 

Tickets (tax included)

¥10,000 (all seats unreserved, with numbered entry)
¥1,000 more if bought on the day

 

How to Book

This production is booked through e+ (eplus) and the Condors official site, not through Session House. Tickets have been on sale since 10:00 on Saturday 15 August 2026.

https://eplus.jp/sf/detail/0003350012
https://www.condors.jp/

 

If you are coming by wheelchair, please contact ROCKSTAR Inc. in advance.

 

Presented by ROCKSTAR Inc.
Tel / Fax: 03-5272-0991
Enquiries: rockstarltd.info@gmail.com

 

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Tokyo Operetta Theater
"Frau Luna"

Despairing of life in Berlin, young Fritz sets off for the world of the moon floating in the sky. A slightly strange musical play, offered to everyone who longs for somewhere other than here.

 

Numbered entry tickets are handed out at the reception desk from 60 minutes before doors open; admission is in that order once the house opens.

 

Post-show talks with a guest follow the 17:00 performances on 21 and 22 November.
21 Nov 17:00 - Toru Sakakibara (conductor / producer)
22 Nov 17:00 - Atsushi Sasaki (critic)

 

Cast & Creative

Cast: Michiko Hariu (針生美智子), Kenichiro Takashima (高島健一郎), Mai Kusuno (楠野麻衣), Sachi Kitazawa (北澤幸), Hiroyuki Iida (飯田裕之)
Piano: Miki Noma (野間美希)
Music: Paul Lincke
Original libretto: Heinrich Bolten-Baeckers
Libretto, translation of lyrics and direction: Takeshi Kakudo (角岳史)
Stage Manager: Hirokazu Hatasaki (畑崎広和)
Lighting: Taisuke Mochizuki (望月太介)
Presented by Tokyo Operetta Theater

 

Tickets (tax included)

¥6,000 (all seats unreserved)

 

How to Book

This production is booked through Confetti (GETTIIS), online or by telephone, from 24 August.

https://www.confetti-web.com/
Tel: 050-3092-0051 (weekdays 10:00-17:00)

 

Tickets can be collected at any Seven-Eleven store in Japan.

 

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Booking and Enquiries

Unless stated otherwise above, tickets are booked directly with Session House through our reservation form, and settled when you arrive. If you need to pay in advance by card, please ask us by email - for the 35th Anniversary Festival, advance card payment is available through teket.

 

For assistance in English, please feel free to contact us.
Email: mail@session-house.net
Tel: +81-(0)3-3266-0461 (11:00-19:00)

 

Some detailed event information is available only in Japanese. For the very latest schedule and for online streaming, please also see our Japanese event listings.