Performance Schedule :
Kagurazaka Session House B1F Theater

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

 

Planning your visit

Tickets are usually reserved rather than bought in advance: you send a reservation and pay in cash at the door. Most tickets are between ¥2,000 and ¥5,000. Where a visiting company handles its own booking, the listing below says so and links to their page. Some programmes also sell advance card payment through teket (a Japanese-language site).

 

On the day - doors open 30 minutes before curtain, seats are unreserved, and the theater seats about 100. The entrance is on the right-hand side of the building, with a lift down to B1F. There is no cloakroom, but there is space for coats and bags.

 

Language - dance and physical theater need no Japanese. Theater pieces and talks are in Japanese; if you are unsure how much language a programme needs, write to us and we will tell you honestly.

 

Can't come to Kagurazaka? Several performances are streamed live and stay available as an archive for about a week. See Session Online Theater.

 

Our Visitor Guide covers booking, payment and access in more detail, and Map & Access shows the way from the station.

 

Upcoming Performances

 

Romanized artist names below are provisional readings; the Japanese spelling is given alongside. For full cast lists, please see the Japanese event listings.

 

Condors 30th GIGS

The day Condors were formed. The place they were formed. Exactly the same dates as thirty years ago, in exactly the same room.

 

For their thirtieth anniversary, Condors return to Session House: one hundred seats per performance, five performances, and a different programme every time. "946,684,800 seconds of thank you," as they put it - thirty years, to the second.

 

Company

Composition, choreography and direction: Ryohei Kondo
Producer: Yasuharu Katsuyama (勝山康晴)
With the members of Condors, plus guests at each performance

 

Tickets (tax included)

¥10,000 (unreserved, with a numbered entry order). ¥1,000 more at the door.

 

How to Book

On sale since 15 August 2026 through e+ (eplus): eplus.jp
See also the Condors official site.

 

Presented by ROCKSTAR Ltd. Wheelchair users are asked to contact ROCKSTAR Ltd. directly: rockstarltd.info@gmail.com / +81-(0)3-5272-0991.

 

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"Yoru no Soko"
The Bottom of the Night

"The train came out of the long tunnel into the snow country. The bottom of the night turned white."

 

A company of leading Japanese artists takes on Yasunari Kawabata's "Snow Country," with an entirely original score played live. Invited to the Tanzraeume International Tanzfestival 2026 in Germany, and part of Tokyo Performing Arts Festival 2026 Open Call Programs.

 

Company

Composition, choreography and direction: Toko Nakamoto (中本登子)
Supervision, and as Kawabata: Seiichi Shinohara (篠原聖一)
Shimamura: Kenta Shimizu (清水健太)
Yukio: Teita Iwabuchi (岩渕貞太)
Piano, composition and performance: Yoko Nomura (野村陽子)
Hayashi, composition and performance: Tasae Mochizuki (望月太左衛)

 

Tickets (tax included)

¥4,500, all seats unreserved

 

How to Book

Through the Session House ticket form.

 

Presented by Hosaka Ballet Group. Enquiries: yorunosoko2026@gmail.com / +81-(0)45-534-8322

 

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Theater 21 Fes vol.141

Your expression opens the future of dance. Seven ten-minute works an evening - original dance that goes beyond technique, and physical expression of every kind, with no restriction by genre.

 

 

Tickets (tax included)

In the theater: ¥2,200
Online viewing: ¥1,500

 

One online ticket covers both the live stream and seven days of archive viewing after the performance.

 

 

See our online theater page for how streaming works.

 

Interested in performing in a future edition? See Perform Here.

 

 

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SHALA "Metamorphose"
Le Ciel - a lyric of the sky

Performing Art · A Solo Dance Ritual Series, Volume III

 

Toward a sky that opens out without end - may your heart melt gently into it.

 

Quand je regarderai les étoiles, je penserai à toi, Naledi, toi qui éclaires mon chemin.

 

Beyond a night of quiet requiem, a hymn to life, for you.

 

SHALA has offered her dance at sacred places around the world - the Uluwatu Temple in Bali, the sacred cape of Makapuu on Oahu, Lake Tekapo in New Zealand. Working on the theme of life, she has in recent years woven sacred ritual on stage as performing art that reaches beyond the frame of dance. "Metamorphose" now enters its third year; expect once again a moment of beautiful transformation that no one has seen before.

 

 

Company

Concept, direction and performance: SHALA
Stage manager: Shunsuke Nabeshima (鍋島峻介)
Lighting: Miho Ishizeki (石関美穂)
Sound: Natsumi Hasushi (蓮子奈津美)

 

Tickets (tax included)

Advance: ¥5,000
Door: ¥5,500

 

How to Book

Booked with the company. Only advance tickets are sold through the ticket site, paying by credit card or at a convenience store.

livepocket.jp/e/metamorphose3

 

From Thursday 22 October, please book by email instead, paying by bank transfer: shaladina2021@gmail.com. Give your name, the number of people and your contact details in the message, and make sure mail from that address can reach you. A booking is complete once payment is made. The advance price applies until Wednesday 21 October; from Thursday 22 October the door price applies.

 

Presented by Celestia Inc.

 

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Session House D-ZONE
Tenguzaru Dance Company

"Potsun, in the Space between Fast and Slow"

 

A Dzone production - an evening presented by the company, with Session House carrying the technical and production work.

 

Cast

Ikumi Ito (伊藤育美), Hisae Endo (遠藤久栄), Keiko Ogawa (小川圭子), Manami Kon (今愛美), Akiko Tokunaga (徳永明子), Kumiko Miura (三浦久美子), Yoshino Yamada (山田佳乃), Mariko Hasegawa (長谷川麻里子)

 

Tickets (tax included)

¥3,500, advance and door

 

 

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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 follow the 17:00 performances on 21 and 22 November, with the conductor and producer Toru Sakakibara and the critic Atsushi Sasaki respectively.

 

Company

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)

 

Tickets (tax included)

¥6,000 (all seats unreserved)

 

How to Book

Through Confetti (GETTIIS), online or by telephone: confetti-web.com / 050-3092-0051 (weekdays 10:00-17:00). Tickets can be collected at any Seven-Eleven store in Japan.

 

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Miagolatori & FAB HOUSE
"Scenes of Bohemian Life" ⇔ La Bohème

Puccini's opera and the novel it grew out of, played against each other - the spoken scenes in Japanese, the singing in Italian.

 

La Bohème began as Henri Murger's novel "Scènes de la vie de bohème", and the book holds a great deal that the opera leaves out: how Marcello and Musetta first fell for each other, the chaotic business of how the four bohemians came to meet at all. This production weaves several of those episodes back into the opera, under the title "Scenes of Bohemian Life".

 

The acted scenes are played in Japanese and the opera is sung in Italian with Japanese surtitles. There are no English surtitles, but the score is Puccini and the theater is small enough that very little is lost.

 

Two casts share the run: cast A on 28 November, on 29 November in the evening and on 5 December in the afternoon; cast B on 29 November in the afternoon and on 5 December in the evening.

 

Company

Cast A: Sakiko Shibata (柴田紗貴子) - Mimì, Naoki Tokoroya (所谷直生) - Rodolfo, Emma Aoki (青木エマ) - Musetta, Toshiya Yabuuchi (藪内俊弥) - Marcello, Daisuke Oyama (大山大輔) - Schaunard, Tsuneo Osawa (大澤恒夫) - Colline, Ayu Ueyama (植山愛結) - Femmy

 

Cast B: Masayo Hirano (平野雅世) - Mimì, Ren Yoshida (吉田連) - Rodolfo, Manami Mori (森真奈美) - Musetta, Akihiro Oka (岡昭宏) - Marcello, Daisuke Wageta (和下田大典) - Schaunard, Tsuneo Osawa (大澤恒夫) - Colline, Ayu Ueyama (植山愛結) - Femmy

 

Piano: Reiki Kose (巨瀬励起) · Stage manager: Keiichiro Ito (伊藤桂一朗)
Libretto and direction: Jun Ieda (家田淳, FAB HOUSE)
Produced by Shiori Shuto (首藤史織), NPO Miagolatori

 

Tickets (tax included)

¥6,000 in advance, ¥6,500 on the day (all seats unreserved)

 

How to Book

Booked with the company, not with Session House. Write to miagolatori@gmail.com or use the form at miagolatori.com, giving the date and performance, the number of seats, your name and a telephone number or email address. Payment is by bank transfer or card. Enquiries: 070-5553-1742.

 

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Kana Sano & Yusuke Nagashima
"Mitasu Hoko e Mukau" - Heading Toward What Fills

Two dancers who have felt, thought and danced - sometimes alone, sometimes together - now set out to tell a single landscape. The "ordinary acts" that surface in this unreal dance draw the audience back into everyday life.

 

 

Company

Concept and choreography: Kana Sano (佐野加奈) - trained in classical ballet from age five, danced with NBA Ballet, Arts Umbrella Professional Dance Program (Vancouver) and Marie-Christine Giordano Dance (New York), and has since worked with Julie Anne Stanzak (Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch), Yasuyuki Endo, Noroc and Yokohama Dance Collection.

 

Concept, composition, direction and choreography: Yusuke Nagashima (長島裕輔) - trained at Central School of Ballet in London, danced with K-BALLET COMPANY (now K-BALLET TOKYO) from 2007, becoming First Artist in 2010, and has choreographed for Cartier and K-BALLET COMPANY.

 

Stage manager: Shunsuke Nabeshima · Lighting: Miho Ishizeki · Sound: Natsumi Hasushi · Costumes: 山口眞子 · Photo and video: きはらあきら · Flyer design: 小川富美子

 

Tickets (tax included)

Advance: ¥4,000
At the door: ¥4,500
All seats unreserved

 

Tickets are sold through the organisers' booking form (in Japanese).

 

Presented by Kana Sano and Yusuke Nagashima.

 

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Dance Bridge 2026
Mademoiselle Cinema "Okuni Monogatari" - The Tale of Okuni

"The crowd on the riverbank - they are the dance's true audience."

 

The resident company's new production, choreographed and directed by Naoko Ito, founder of Session House.

 

"The rhythm of Okuni's stamping feet - I still long for it, and it still sets me alight." - Naoko Ito

 

Long ago I read Sawako Ariyoshi's novel "Izumo no Okuni," and I was captivated by the footwork of Okuni as she is drawn there. I was fifteen, a gymnast in the country, and did not yet know that a stage form called "dance" even existed. Perhaps the reason we later came to call our own work "Traveling Dance" is that the figure of Okuni, dancing as she travelled, was somewhere in my heart.

 

In 2024, when I had begun to wonder how many more new works I would be able to make, I set out to embody the steps of Okuni that had stayed in me all along. At the dawn of the Edo period, Okuni raised banners proclaiming herself "the finest under heaven" and put on her shows. In an age without freedom, one woman saw through to the end the thing she loved - and her footprints live on in traditional culture we still know today, and go on enchanting those who watch.

 

Times have moved on. For me, dance began with the twist and the jitterbug; I long for tradition, and chasing the distant echo of the rhythm Okuni stamped out, I am still burning.

 

 

Company

Choreography and direction: Naoko Ito
Mademoiselle Cinema: Tamami Takenoshita, Natsumi Hasushi, Mayuko Akimoto, Moe Sugawa, Eha Kudo, Tomoko Odo, Naaya Saito
With Mitsutake Kasai, Takahiro Mochizuki (Senseishonals), Satoshi Ishibuchi (Condors), and Monaco Kurihara (栗原モナコ, chindon music)

 

Lighting: Miho Ishizeki · Sound: Michitaka Ueda (上田道崇) · Stage manager: Shunsuke Nabeshima · Streaming video: Ayaka Hara (原綾香) · Costumes: Matsuno Harada (原田松野) · Art: Kuni Wakao (くに若尾) · Publicity design: Miho Ishizeki

 

Tickets (tax included)

Advance: ¥4,000
Students: ¥2,500 (student ID required)
Children: ¥2,000
Pair: ¥7,000
At the door: ¥500 more for each

 

Online viewing: ¥1,500 - the stream begins on Sunday 20 December at 17:00. See our online theater page.

 

How to Book

Through the Session House reservation form.

 

Presented by the Session House Planning Office, in cooperation with Session House Co., Ltd. Supported by Ikimachi Inc. and Heablex Inc. (Kagurazaka de Kaguramura). With a grant from the Japan Arts Fund (fiscal 2026).

 

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Booking and Enquiries

Where a production is booked through Session House, use our reservation form and settle when you arrive. Several productions are booked with the visiting company instead - the listing above says so and gives the right link.

 

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, please also see our Japanese event listings.