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Unofficial History of Noism

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Before the establishment
Year	Month	Date	Times of Performance	City	Venue	Performance Title			Promoter	Note
1998	10	22	Ryutopia, Niigata City Performing Arts Center, was opened.
2000	05	19-21	3	Tokyo	Playhouse, New National Theatre, Tokyo	J-Ballet -Danse Création- by New National Theatre Ballet			New National Theatre, Tokyo	Jo Kanamori’s work, The Symphony of Sorrowful Songs (Music by Henryk Górecki), was performed by New National Theatre Ballet. Pollished rice was fallen while dancers were exiting to the back of stage in the last scene. Also performed were works of Jun Ishii and Norihiko Mochizuki.
2002	06		Jo Kanamori moved his base of activity into Japan.
2002	11	10	Niigata mayoral election was held and Akira Shinoda kept his post for the 1st term.
2002	11	15-17	3	Tokyo	Playhouse, New National Theatre, Tokyo	J-Ballet -Danse Création- by New National Theatre Ballet			New National Theatre, Tokyo	Jo Kanamori’s work, String(s) piece (Music by Ryoji Ikeda), was performed by New National Theatre Ballet. Also performed were works of Toru Shimazaki and Nobuyoshi Nakajima.
2003	02	06		Tokyo	Art Sphere	no・mad・ic project ～7 fragments in memory (produced by Jo Kanamori, original premiere)			Art Sphere	Decor: Jo Kanamori, Costume Design: Chika, Lighting Design: Hisashi Adachi, Jo Kanamori, Dancers: Sawako Iseki, Masaharu Imazu, Hiromi Obuchi, Kaya Sakuma, Yasutake Shinaji, Takanori Shiraishi, Motoko Hirayama, Shintaro Hirahara, Mika Matsumuro and Jo Kanamori.
2003	05	08	Ryutopia, Niigata City Performing Arts Center, held performances of contemporary dance several times from when they opened. And, they would like to promote contemporary dance to enhance their originality. In May 2003, Jo Kanamori was cast a musical Sans famille and danced at Ryutopia. Mr. Masaharu Tashiro, a member of Niigata City staff, was impressed greatly by Kanamori's dance and acting, and appealed to Akira Shinoda, the mayer of Niigata City, to offer Kanamori the artistic director of dance division of Ryutopia, then they decided so. Kanamori proposed establishment of residential dance company as the condition of acceding to their offer, and it was accepted.
2003	11		Noism04 member audition was held. Appricants were around 200 person, and 10 dancers were selected through 3 staged examination.
2003	12	19 ?	Establishment of Noism04 was announced. Artistic Director: Jo Kanamori, Dancer: Naoya Aoki, Sawako Iseki, Yoshiko Kinoshita, Nami Sato, Yasutake Shimaji, Yuka Seike, Satoko Takahashi, Tomohiko Tsujimoto, Shintaro Hirahara and Mika Matsumuro.
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1st Season
Year	Month	Date	Times of Performance	City	Venue	Performance Title			Promoter	Note
2004	04	01	The 1st circle of Noism (until August, 2007) and the 1st season of Noism started.
2004	04	01	Ayako Nakano joined Noism as an apprentice.
2004	05	06		Joetsu	Joetsu University of Education	Jo Kanamori joined a Talk Show				The audience was around 400 people.
2004	05	08		Niigata	Studio B, Ryutopia	Contemporary Dance Workshop
2004	06	07	Asahi Shimbun Weekly AERA 2004.6.14 published an article, titled 'Niigata City has good relationship with dance,' intrducing Noism. It refered to the situation of dance in Japan, and reward amount of Noism members.
2004	06	08-09	2	Niigata	Theater, Ryutopia			SHIKAKU	Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation
2004	06	16-20	7	Tokyo	Park Tower Hall	SHIKAKU			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation
2004	06	22-25		Niigata	Studio B, Ryutopia	Dance Workshop
2004	08	15		Niigata	Gymnasium of Niigata Prefectural Niigata Chuo High School	Contemporary Dance and Hip-Hop Workshop
2004	08	21		Niigata	Studio B, Ryutopia	Contemporary Dance Workshop
2004	09		Nobuko Takahara and Risa Kojima joined noism as apprentices.
2004	10	03		Niigata	Ryutopa, Studio B	Contemporary Dance Workshop
2004	10	23	2004 Chuetsu earthquake occured at 17:56 JST.
2004	10	28-30	3	Niigata	Theater, Ryutopia			black ice	Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation, The Asahi Shimbun Company
2004	11		Noism Supporters was established by citizens, who had not concerned with Niigata City and/or Ryutopia.
2004	11	05	1	Otsu	Theatre, Biwako Hall	black ice			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation, The Asahi Shimbun Company
2004	11	13	1	Yamaguchi	Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media, Studio A	black ice			Yamaguchi City Foundation for Cultural Promotion
2004	11	20	1	Miyazaki	Theater, Miyazaki Prefectural Arts Center	black ice			Miyazaki Prefectural Arts Center Foundation
2004	11	27	1	Kochi	Museum Hall, The Museum of Art, Kochi	black ice			Kochi Prefectural Foundation for Culture
2004	12		Recruitment for male dancers was announced.
2004	12	04	1	Kani	Small Theater, Kani Public Arts Center	black ice			Kani City Arts Foundation
2004	12	10-12	3	Tokyo	Playhouse, New National Theatre, Tokyo	black ice			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation
2004	12	18	1	Matsumoto	Main Hall, Matsumoto Performing Arts Centre	black ice			Matsumoto Performing Arts Centre
2005	01	01	Company name was changed to Noism05.
2005	01	07-08	2	New York (USA)	Japan Society	8th Japanese Contemporary Dance Showcase			Japan Society (Planned and coordinated by An Creative, inc.)
2005	01	12-13	2	Montreal (Canada)	Maison de la Culture Frontenac	Japanese Contemporary Dance Showcase			An Creative, Inc.
2005	02	24-27	4	Tokyo	Art Sphere			no・mad・ic project	Art Sphere
2005	03	01-02	2	Osaka	Umeda Arts Theater, Theater Drama City	no・mad・ic project			Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation, Umeda Arts Theater
2005	03	11	Supporters Bulletin 001 was published. (A4, 2pp, Monochrome)
2005	03	11-12	2	Niigata	Theater, Ryutopia	no・mad・ic project			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation
2005	04		Ayako Nakano, former an apprentice, became a reguler member.
2005	04	01		Niigata	Studio A, Ryutopia	Contemporary Dance and Hip-Hop Workshop
2005	04	16	Supporters Bulletin 002 was published. (A4, 2pp, Monochrome)
2005	04	16	1	Niigata	Theater, Ryutopia	Charity performance for sufferers from The Chuetsu Earthquakes			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation
2005	06	17		Nagaoka	Nagaoka Lyric Hall	Dance Workshop for Children
2005	07	15	Supporters Bulletin 003 was published. (A4, 4pp, Monochrome)
2005	07	15-17	3	Niigata	Theater, Ryutopia			Triple Bill	Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	1st Guest Choreographer Evening
2005	07	23	1	Osaka	Theatre BRAVA!	Triple Bill			Mainichi Broadcasting System, Inc.
2005	07	28-31	4	Tokyo	Setagaya Public Theatre	Triple Bill			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation
2005	07	31	Yoshiko Kinoshita, Yuka Seike, Tomohiko Tsujimoto and Mika Matsumuro left Noism.
2005	07	31	1st season of Noism ended.
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2nd Season
Year	Month	Date	Times of Performance	City	Venue	Performance Title			Promoter	Note
2005	08	01	Nobuko Takahara, former an apprentice, became a regular member. Aiichiro Miyagawa and Yuki Yamada joined Noism as regular members.
2005	08	10-13	4	Tokyo	Meguro Persimmon Hall	no・mad・ic project 2 [- festival]			Art Sphere, Meguro Foundation of Art and Culture	Produced by Jo Kanamori. Dancers were: Yoshifumi Inao, Kenta Kojiri, Rei Watanabe, et al.
2005	09	18	1	Niigata	Special Stage at Bandai City	Special appearance on All Niigata Dancing Festival
2005	09	24-25		Toyama	Aubade Hall	Dance Workshop for Children, Hip-Hop Workshop				Aubade Hall is the nickname of Toyama City Theater for Performing Arts.
2005	10	02		Niigata	Studio B, Ryutopia	Contemporary Dance Workshop
2005	10	09		Niigata	Studio B, Ryutopia	Hip-Hop Workshop
2005	10	10	1	Niigata	Theater, Ryutopia	Talk Show for the Photo Exhibition of Noism
2005	10	15	1	Niigata	Concert Hall, Ryutopia	Opening event of Niigata City Art Festival
2005	10	22	1	Niigata	Niigata Stadium BIG SWAN	Albirex Niigata pre game entertainment				Albirex Niigata won Yokohama F. Marinos in 1-0.
2005	11	12		Niigata	Studio B, Ryutopia	Dance Workshop for Children
2005	11	25	Supporters Bulletin 004 was published. (A4, 4pp, Monochrome)
2005	11	25-27	3	Niigata	Theater, Ryutopia			NINA - materialize sacrifice	Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation
2005	12	04	1	Toyama	Aubade Hall	NINA - materialize sacrifice			Citizens Arts Administration Center of Toyama, Toyama City, TULIP-TV Inc.	Aubade Hall is the nickname of Toyama City Theater for Performing Arts.
2005	12	09	1	Osaka	Umeda Arts Theater, Theater Drama City	NINA - materialize sacrifice			Kyodo Osaka Inc.
2005	12	14		Sapporo	Sapporo Education and Culture Hall	Contemporary Dance Workshop
2005	12	15	1	Sapporo	Sapporo Education and Culture Hall	NINA - materialize sacrifice			Sapporo Cultural Arts Foundation, The Hokkaido Shimbun Press
2005	12	23-25	3	Tokyo	Playhouse, New National Theatre, Tokyo	NINA - materialize sacrifice			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation
2006	01	13	1	Sendai	Main Hall, Sendai Civic Hall	NINA - materialize sacrifice			Tohoku Broadcasting Company, Well Performing Arts Management
2006	01	14	Company name was changed to Noism06.
2006	01	29		Niigata	Studio B, Ryutopia	Dance Experience with Naoya Aoki
2006	02	16	Supporters Bulletin 005 was published. (A4, 4pp, Monochrome)
2006	02	16-17	2	Niigata	Noh Theater, Ryutopia			Noh Theater Performance	Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation
2006	02	22-25		Niigata	Kochi City Culture Plaza Cul-Port	Noism Repertry Workshop and showing
2006	03	18-19	2	Shizuoka	Shizuoka Performing Arts Center	NINA - materialize sacrifice			Shizuoka Performing Arts Center
2006	03	31 ?	Yasutake Shimaji transferred to The Forsythe Company.
2006	04		Yuta Ishikawa joined Noism as a regular member.
2006	04		In those days, the foundation decided to keep Noism other 3 years. (2007.09-2010.08)
2006	04	26-27	2	Saitama	Outdoor Stage, Omiya Sonic City			Niigata Hana-Jack in Omiya	Niigata Visitors and Convention Bureau
2006	05	06	Supporters Bulletin 006 was published. (A4, 4pp, Monochrome)
2006	05	06-14	7	Niigata	Studio B, Ryutopia			sense-datum	Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation
2006	05	22-24	3	Osaka	Art Theater dB	sense-datum			NPO Dance Box
2006	05	27-28	2	Kanazawa	Theater 21, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa	sense-datum			21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
2006	05	31		Sendai	10-BOX, Sendai	Dance Experience with Naoya Aoki
2006	05	31		Sendai	Well Studio	Body Workshop fof Children
2006	06	01-02	2	Sendai	Studio Hall, L Park Sendai	sense-datum			Well Performing Arts Management
2006	06	03		Kitakami	Sakura Hall	Hip-Hop Workshop, Body Workshop for Adults
2006	06	03-04		Shibata	Shibata Civic Culture Hall	The 59th Niigata Inter-Highschool Championships, Dance Competition and Exhibition			Niigata High Shool Athletic Federation	Naoya Aoki was a judge of Dance Creation Division of the Competition.
2006	06	10	1	Tsukuba	Hall, Tsukuba capio	sense-datum			Tsukuba City, Tsukuba Cultural Foundation
2006	06	11		Tsukuba	Iki-iki Plaza	Let's Dance with Noism Dancers
2006	06	15	Supporters Bulletin 007 was published. (B4, 2pp, Monochrome) a special issue featuring 'Niigata Hana-Jack in Omiya'
2006	06	23-24	2	Shizuoka	Ellipse Theatre Daendo, Shizuoka Performing Arts Park	sense-datum			Shizuoka Performing Arts Center
2006	07	31	2nd season of Noism ended.
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3rd Season
Year	Month	Date	Times of Performance	City	Venue	Performance Title			Promoter	Note
2006	08		Chiaki Hotta joined Noism as apprentices. Risa Kojima, former an apprentice might become an associate member.
2006	09	10		Joetsu	Joetsu Shimin Plaza	Dance Experience with Naoya Aoki
2006	10	31	Satoko Takahashi left Noism.
2006	11		Blogs 'Noism NEWS' and 'Noism Schedule' started on official website of Noism.
2006	11	10	Supporters Bulletin 008 was published. (A4, 4pp, Monochrome)
2006	11	10-12	3	Niigata	Theater, Ryutopia			TRIPLE VISION	Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	2nd Guest Choreographer Evening
2006	11	12	Niigata mayoral election was held and Akira Shinoda kept his post for the 2nd term.
2006	12	02	1	Kitakami	Middle Hall, Sakura Hall	TRIPLE VISION			Kitakami City Cultural Foundation
2006	12	02		Kitakami	Sakura Hall	Hip-Hop Workshop, Body Workshop for Adults
2006	12	08-10	3	Tokyo	Le Teatre Ginza	TRIPLE VISION			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation
2006	12	17	1	Otsu	Theatre, Biwako Hall	TRIPLE VISION			Biwako Hall Foundation
2007	01	01	Company name was changed to Noism07.
2007	01	10	Rei Watanabe joined America tour as a guest dancer.
2007	01	10-12	3	Santiago (Chile)	Cento Cultural Matucana 100, Santiago, Chile	NINA - materialize sacrifice (simple ver.)			Santiago a Mil festival	shortened to 60 min. without intermission
2007	01	16-20	4	New York (USA)	Joyce Theater	NINA - materialize sacrifice (simple ver.)			Japan Society, An Creative, inc.
2007	02	01-03	3	Chicago (USA)	The Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago	NINA - materialize sacrifice (simple ver.)			The Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago
2007	02	08-09	2	Sao Paulo (Brasil)	SESC PINHEIROS (Civic Theater)	NINA - materialize sacrifice (simple ver.)			OFF Producoues Culturais
2007	03	04		Nagaoka	Nagaoka Lyric Hall	Body Workshop for Children				Nami Sato and Aiichiro Miyagawa were lecturers.
2007	04		Emi Aoki joined Noism as a regular member.
2007	04	01	1	Niigata	Theater, Ryutopia	Jo Kanamori and Yasuhiro Mihara Special Talk Show			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	A pre-event for next performance. Yasuhiro Mihara is a cosutume designer.
2007	04	20	Supporters Bulletin 009 was published. (A4, 6pp, Monochrome)
2007	04	20-22	3	Niigata	Theater, Ryutopia			PLAY 2 PLAY - interfering dimensions	Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	Some (50 or so) seats were behind the perormance space on the stage.
2007	04	24-30		Shizuoka	Shizuoka University of Art and Culture	Noism07 Exhibition				Digest video and photos.
2007	04	30		Shizuoka	Gymnasium of Shizuoka University of Art and Culture	Workshop				Naoya Aoki was the lecturer of the workshop, Sawako Iseki and Nami sato were assistants.
2007	04	30	1	Shizuoka	Shizuoka University of Art and Culture	Talk Show by Jo Kanamori and Teachers of the university			Shizuoka University of Art and Culture
2007	05	03-04	4	Shizuoka	Shizuoka Performing Arts Center	PLAY 2 PLAY - interfering dimensions			Shizuoka Performing Arts Center	Some (50 or so) seats were behind the perormance space on the stage.
2007	05	08-10	3	Tokyo	THEATER 1010	PLAY 2 PLAY - interfering dimensions			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	Some (50 or so) seats were behind the perormance space on the stage.
2007	05	16	1	Niigata	Toki Messe	Opening event of the national convention of Japan Advertising Federation in Niigata				Noism performed an arrangement of PLAY 2 PLAY in 5 minutes or so.
2007	05	19	1	Nishinomiya	Theater, Hyogo Performing Arts Center	PLAY 2 PLAY - interfering dimensions			Hyogo Prefecture, Hyogo Performing Arts Center	Some (50 or so) seats were behind the perormance space on the stage.
2007	06	02-03		Shibata	Shibata Civic Culture Hall	The 60th Niigata Inter-Highschool Championships, Dance Competition and Exhibition			Niigata High Shool Athletic Federation	Naoya Aoki was a judge of Dance Creation Division of the Competition.
2007	06	23		Niigata	Studio B, Ryutopia	Noism Workshop				Noism Ballet (Sawako Iseki), Body Workshop for Children (Nami Sato and Aiichiro Miyagawa), Dance Experience for Adults (Naoya Aoki)
2007	07	05-06	2	Moscow (Russia)	Mayerhold Centre	NINA - materialize sacrifice (simple ver.)			Chekhov International Theatre Festival, Russo-Japanese Culture Forum
2007	07	21	Sawako Iseki and Jo Kanamori got married.
2007	07	31	Nami Sato retired from dancer. Shintaro Hirahara, Ayako Nakano and Yuta Ishikawa left Noism.
2007	07	31	3rd season of Noism ended.
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4th Season
Year	Month	Date	Times of Performance	City	Venue	Performance Title			Promoter	Note
2007	08	01	Nami Sato became Ballet Mistress. Yusuke Tsutsumi, Minoru Harata and Izumi Fujii joined Noism as regular members. Nozomi Fujii and JaeYong Ahn joined Noism as apprentices. Megumi Mashimo, Yoshimitsu Kushida, Haruka Tamashiro joined Noism as associate members.
2007	08	31	The 1st circle of Noism ended.
2007	09		Ayako Nakano joined Noism as a dancer again.
2007	09	01	The 2nd circle of Noism (until August, 2010) started.
2007	10		Urgent recruitment for male dancers was announced, then continuous recruitment was announced.
2007	10		Noism free paper was issued by Ryutopia.
2007	10	05	Supporters Bulletin 010 was published. (A4, 4pp, Monochrome)
2007	10	05-07	3	Niigata	Theater, Ryutopia			W-view	Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	3rd Guest Choreographer Evening
2007	10	12-14	3	Tokyo	Theatre Coccoon	W-view			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation
2007	10	20		Niigata	Niigata Municipal Kagamifuchi Elementary School	Body Workshop for Children				Ayako Nakano and Aiichiro Miyagawa were lecturers.
2007	10	22		Kitakami	Sakura Hall	Workshop for the mind and the body				Naoya Aoki was the lecturer.
2007	10	29		Kitakyushu	Kitakyushu Performing Arts Center	Noism Ballet Workshop				Nami Sato was the lecturer.
2007	10	31	1	Kitakyushu	Kitakyushu Performing Arts Center, Theater	W-view			Kitakyushu City Foundation for Promoting Arts and Culture
2007	11	07	1	Kitakami	Middle Hall, Sakura Hall	W-view			Kitakami City Cultural Foundation
2007	11	15		Sapporo	Sapporo Education and Culture Hall	Workshop for the mind and the body
2007	11	17	1	Sapporo	Main Hall, Sapporo Education and Culture Hall	W-view			Sapporo Cultural Arts Foundation, The Hokkaido Shimbun Press
2007	11	22		Niigata	Niigata City Gymnasium	Body Workshop for Children
2007	11	30 ?	Yusuke Tsutsumi left Noism.
2007	12	08		Joetsu	Joetsu Shimin Plaza	Body Workshop for Children
2007	12	09		Itoigawa	Itoigawa Civic Hall	Body Workshop for Children
2007	12	16	1	Niigata	Studio B, Ryutopia	Showing by apprentices and associate members			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	Shown to suppoters members and dance club members of highschools only. Not opend to public.
2008	01	01	Company name was changed to Noism08.
2008	02		It was known that Niigata City would not keep Noism after the 2nd circle.
2008	02		Chiaki Hotta, an apprentice, passed the audition of NDT2.
2008	02	07-08	2	Washington D.C. (USA)	The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts	NINA - materialize sacrifice (ver. black)			The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
2008	02	14 ?	1	Ann Arbor, MI (USA)	a high school in Ann Arbor	Noism Ballet Workshop				Sato Nami was the lecturer.
2008	02	14 ?	1	Ann Arbor, MI (USA)	University of Michigan	Workshop				for Dance class of University. Jo Kanamori was the lecturer.
2008	02	15	1	Ann Arbor, MI (USA)	Power Center for the Performing Arts, University Musical Society	NINA - materialize sacrifice (ver. black)			University Musical Society
2008	02	29	Jo Kanamori received the Minister of Education Award for Fine Arts (Dance category), fiscal 2007 (the 58th). For his outstanding talent, excellent caliber and originality.
2008	02	29-3/1		Iwaki	Small Theater, Alios Iwaki Performing Arts Center	Dance Experience for Adults
2008	03	01 ?	Yoshimitsu Kushida, former an appretince, became a regular member.
2008	03	10	6 members of Noism Supporters made a petition for keeping Noism in the future at Niigata City Hall.
2008	03	15	Recruitment for apprentices was announced.
2008	03	16	A meeting of 'Citizens to support Noism' was held at Niigata Civic Activity Center.
2008	03	20	Members of Noism Supporters attended the celebration for the award of Jo Kanamori, and appealed to those present (includeing the mayor, press and Ryutopia personnel) to support for keeping Noism in the future.
2008	03	28	Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology announced revision of Course of study at junior high school, and dance became compulsory subject of health and physical education at junior high school.
2008	04	01 ?	Mikiko Shinohara joined Noism as an associate member.
2008	04	03	Supporters Bulletin 011 was published. (B4, 2pp, Monochrome) a special issue featuring the matter of keeping Noism
2008	04	03-05	3	Niigata	Studio B, Ryutopia	Performance of Choreography Workshop by Noism Members			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	Charity for sufferers from The Chuetsu Earthquakes. Audiences were 133+82+128.
2008	04	12	A meeting of Supporters member was held at Niigata Civic Activity Center.
2008	04	25-26	2	Seoul (Republic of Korea)	LG Arts Center	NINA - materialize sacrifice (ver. black)			LG Arts Center
2008	05	15	It was announced that Sawako Iseki to retire from dancer and become ballet mistress in next season.
2008	05	31	Nami Sato retired from ballet mistress and left Noism.
2008	06	02	Supporters Bulletin 012 was published. (A4, 4pp, Monochrome)
2008	06	02-04, 07-08, 12-14	10	Niigata	Studio B, Ryutopia			Nameless Hands - house of dolls	Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	Show-Tent sereis vol.1. Jo Kanamori said at after performance talk show that this work would be a hommage to the late Mr. Maurice Béjart, who coached Kanamori formerly.
2008	06	14	A gathering of Noism dancers, apprentices and supporters member were held at Restraurant Rivage in Ryutopia.
2008	06	20-22	3	Shizuoka	Sizuoka Performing Arts Center	Nameless Hands - house of dolls			Sizuoka Performing Arts Center
2008	06	29	SHIKAKU DVD was shown at Crosspal Niigata by supporters.
2008	07	02-06	5	Tokyo	Theatre Tram	Nameless Hands - house of dolls			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation
2008	07	12	1	Iwaki	Small Theater, Alios Iwaki Performing Arts Center	Nameless Hands - house of dolls			Alios Iwaki Performing Arts Center
2008	07	12	black ice DVD was shown at Crosspal Niigata by supporters.
2008	07	19-20	2	Kanazawa	Theater 21, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa	Nameless Hands - house of dolls			21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
2008	07	20	no・mad・ic project DVD was shown at Crosspal Niigata by supporters.
2008	07	23	It was announced that Niigata City decided to keep noism until 2013.08.
2008	07	26-27, 30-31	4	Niigata	Studio B, Ryutopia	Nameless Hands - house of dolls			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation
2008	07	31	Naoya Aoki and Minoru Harata left Noism. Chiaki Hotta (an apprentice) transferred to NDT2. JeaYong Ahn (apprentice) and Risa Kojima (associate member) left Noism.
2008	07	31	4th season of Noism ended.
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5th Season
Year	Month	Date	Times of Performance	City	Venue	Performance Title			Promoter	Note
2008	08		Sawako Iseki retired from dancer and became ballet mistress. Megumi Mashimo, former an associate member, became a regular member. Takuya Fujisawa joined Noism as a regular member. Akihiko Nagano joined Noism as a guest dancer. Megumi Ushiroda, Chiaki Kato, Yuriko Nagai joined Noism as apprentices. Aoi Keimi joined Noism as an associate member.
2008	08	26-9/2	4	Matsumoto	Matsumoto Performing Arts Centre	Saito Kinen Festival Matsumoto 2008 'The Cunning Little Vixen' (Janáček)			Saito Kinen Festival Matsumoto Executive Committee, Saito Kinen Foundation	Jo Kanamori, Sawako Iseki, Yoshimitsu Kushida, Ayako Nakano, Minoru Harata (former member) and Shintaro Hirahara (former member) joined as dancers personally.
2008	10		Noism free paper was issued by Ryutopia.
2008	10		Jo Kanamori received the 61st Niigata-Nippo Culture Award.
2008	10	06		Niigata	Niigata Municipal Yamagata Elementary School	Body Workshop for Children
2008	10	11		Niigata	Studio B, Ryutopia	Noism Workshop				Body Workshop for Children (Fujii, Nakano), Noism Ballet for High School Students (Takahara, Aoki)
2008	10	12		Niigata	Studio B, Ryutopia	Noism Workshop				Noism Ballet for Adults (Takahara, Aoki), Dance Experience for Adults (Miyagawa, Yamada)
2008	10	19	NINA DVD was shown at Crosspal Niigata by supporters.
2008	11	11-25		Niigata	2F Lobby, Ryutopia	Noism Photo Exhibition				Acoompanying event with NINA (ver. black) performances.
2008	11	14	Supporters Bulletin 013 was published. (A4, 4pp, Monochrome)
2008	11	14-16	3	Niigata	Theater, Ryutopia			NINA - materialize sacrifice (ver. black)	Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	Apprentices and associate members joined finale of performances in Niigata. Apprentices were: Nozomi Fujii, Kei Ushiroda, Chiaki Kato and Yuriko Nagai. Associate Members were: Mikiko Shinohara and Aoi Keimi
2008	12	17-21	6	Yokohama	3F Hall, No.1 Building, Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse	NINA - materialize sacrifice (ver. black)			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation
2009	01	01	Company name was changed to Noism09.
2009	01	08	Noism08 received the 8th Asahi Performing Arts Awards, Distinguished Dance Performance Award. (for the outcome of Nameless Hands)
2009	01	28	2	Paris (France)	Maison de la culture du Japon a Paris	Workshop (Kanamori Method)				The venue was the large hall, B3F.
2009	01	29-31	3	Nantes (France)	Centre Choregraphique National de Nantes	Workshop (Kanamori Method)
2009	01	31	1	Nantes (France)	Centre Choregraphique National de Nantes	Work in Progress (ZONE)
2009	02		Jo Kanamori received the 40th Dance Critics Association Award (for outcomes of NINA ver. black and Nameless Hands.)
2009	02	22		Joetsu	Main Hall, Joetsu Bunka Kaikan	Body Workshop for Children
2009	03	05	1	Niigata	Noh Theater, Ryutopia	Talk Show by Jo Kanamori and Yasuhiro Mihara
2009	03	08		Itoigawa	Hall, Oumi Culture Center	Body Workshop for Children				According to another datum, the venue was the large hall of Itoigawa Civic Hall.
2009	03	20		Mitsuke	Mitsuke Arts Hall Arcadia	Body Workshop for Children
2009	04	30	Establishment of Noism2 (in September 2009) was announced.
2009	05		Ayaka Kamei joined Noism as an apprentice.
2009	05		Ryutopia issued Noism free paper 'niigatadakarada' 2009 Spring/Summer. featuring Kaki-no-tane rice cracker.
2009	05	16	Documentary Video of Noism Showing at Nantes was shown at Crosspal Niigata by supporters.
2009	06	05	Supporters Bulletin 014 was published. (A4, 4pp, Monochrome)
2009	06	05-07	3	Niigata	Theater, Ryutopia			ZONE - shimmer / thunder/ moon on the water	Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation, New National Theatre Foundation	Co-production of Ryutopia and New National Theatre, Tokyo.　'academic' is a prototype of 'solo for 2', 'psychic' is a prototype of 'Nameless Poison - The Black Monk'. In 'psychic', the 3rd part, dancers heard musics from 'Psycho' with iPods, and audiences heared Bach. (In this site, it is referred as the iPod technique below.) Jo Kanamori appeared on the stage in 'academic.' Sawako Iseki came back to stage since this performance, also held the post of ballet mistress.
2009	06	17-21	5	Tokyo	The Pit, New National Theatre, Tokyo	ZONE - shimmer/ thunder / moon on the water			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation, New National Theatre Foundation	Zone is a co-production of Ryutopia and New National Theatre, Tokyo.
2009	07	04-05	2	Niigata	Studio B, Ryutopia	Performance of Choreography Workshop by Noism Members			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	A charity. Audiences were 109 persons on 4, 128 persons on 5.
2009	07	12	1	Nagaoka	Special Exhibition Room, The Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art	Art Festa NEOx2 Concert Performance			The Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art
2009	07	14	1	Niigata	Niigata Municipal Yamanoshita Elementary School	Body Workshop for Children
2009	07	22-8/19		Niigata	2F Lobby, Ryutopia	Costume Exhibition of nomadic
2009	07	25	Noism2 member audition was held at Studio B of Ryutopia. Initial appricants were 29 people, 15 people participated on that day, and 8 dancers were selected finally.
2009	07	31	Nobuko Takahara, Yuki Yamada and Ayako Nakano left Noism. Nozomi Fujii and Chiaki Kato, both former apprentice, left Noism.
2009	07	31	5th season of Noism ended.
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6th Season
Year	Month	Date	Times of Performance	City	Venue	Performance Title			Promoter	Note
2009	08	01	Kei Ushiroda (former apprentice), Aoi Keimi (former associate member), Akihiko Nagano (former guest dancer) became regular members. Mikiko Shinohara (former associate member) became ballet mistress of Noism2.
2009	09	01	Noism2, an apprentice company, was established. The main company changed its name as Noism1. Members were as follows: Artistic Director of the Dance Division of Ryutopia, Artistic Director of Noism: Jo Kanamori Noism1 Ballet Mistress and Dancer: Sawako Iseki. Noism1 Dancers: Aiichiro Miyagawa, Emi Aoki, Izumi Fujii, Megumi Mashimo, Yoshimitsu Kushida, Takuya Fujisawa, Akihiko Nagano, Kei Ushiroda, Aoi Keimi. Noism2 Ballet Mistress: Mikiko Shinohara. Noism2 Dancers: Fumiko Ishigaki, Ayaka Kamei (former Noism apprentice), Leonard Jin Sumita, Yuriko Nagai (former Noism apprentice), Sae Hirokawa, Miki Horikawa, Ayaka Yamazaki, Shuntaro Yoshida. Noism2 dancers carry no pay, and can enroll at the company 3 years at the longest. A rehearsal studio for Noism2 was located at 4, Higashisaiwaicho, Chuo-ku, Niigata city.
2009	09	20 ?	Ryutopia pressured Noism Supporters to change the name so that clarifying they are unofficial, because Ryutopia was to announce establishment of official Noism sponsors. Then, Noism Supporters decided their new name as Noism Supporters Unofficial.
2009	09	26	Noism Supporters opened a blog.
2009	10	07	Ryutopia held a press conference, the new system of Noism (two companies) and making of a new production (Nameless Poison) were announced. Also announced was that Ryutopia was to establish official Noism sponsors from April 2010. Reported in the blog of Noism Supporters Unofficial.
2009	10	16	Yuki Yamada (former Noism dancer) joined NINA performances in Taipei as a guest dancer.
2009	10	16-18	3	Taipei (Taiwan)	National Chiang Kai-Shek Cultural Center	NINA - materialize sacrifice (ver. black)			National Chiang Kai-Shek Cultural Center
2009	11	20	Supporters Bulletin 015 was published. (A4, 6pp, Monochrome)
2009	11	20-23	4	Niigata	Studio B, Ryutopia			Nameless Poison - The Black Monk	Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	Show-Tent series vol.2. The iPod technique was adopted overall. Dancers: Swan Lake by Tchaikovsky, Audiences: Lament by Giya Kancheli.
2009	12	05	1	Nagaoka	Nagaoka Institute of Design	pick pick Jam!				A fashion show. Ayaka Kamei and Yuriko Nagai attended as guests.
2009	12	11,13	2	Shizuoka	Medium Hall, Shizuoka Convention and Arts Center GRANSHIP	Opera La traviata			Shizuoka Cultural Foundation, Shizuoka Performing Arts Center	Noism1 attended as dancers.
2009	12	19-20	2	Shizuoka	Shizuoka Performing Arts Center	Nameless Poison - The Black Monk			Shizuoka Performing Arts Center
2009	12	23-24	2	Nagoya	The Mini Theater, Aichi Prefectural Arts Theater	Nameless Poison - The Black Monk			Aichi Arts Center
2010	01	01 ?	Satoshi Nakagawa joined Noism1 as a dancer.
2010	01	19 ?	Ryutopia issued Noism free paper 'niigatadakarada' 2010 Vol.2.
2010	01	22-24, 26-27	5	Tokyo	Theatre East, Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre	Nameless Poison - The Black Monk			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation
2010	01	31	1	Matsumoto	Experimental Theatre, Matsumoto Performing Arts Centre	Nameless Poison - The Black Monk			Matsumoto City Education and Culture Foundation
2010	02	09	1	Niigata	Niigata Municipal Aoyama Elementary School	Body Workshop for Children
2010	02	13-14		Niigata	Studio B, Ryutopia	A lecture class for the Dance Division of Niigata High School Athletic Federation			Niigata High School Athletic Federation	Perticipants were high school students. Lecturer were Noism1 members.
2010	02	21	1	Niigata	Theater, Ryutopia	Shinsai Phoenix - Arts in Niigata, Kodo & Noism			Executive Committee of Shinsai-Phoenix (Niigata Cultural Foundation)	Shinsai means earthquake disaster. A part of Niigata-Asia International Music Festival. Noism1 performed nomadic from ZONE. Yuriko Nagai of Noism2 acted as a substitute for Emi Aoki.
2010	03	01	Supporters Bulletin 015+1 (extra) was published. (A4, 2pp, Monochrome) a special issue featuring Satoshi Nakagawa
2010	03	01-02, 05-07	5	Niigata	Studio B, Ryutopia	Nameless Poison - The Black Monk			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	Emi Aoki suspended due to injury. Satoshi Nakagawa (new Noism1 dancer) and Ayaka Kamei (Noism2 dancer) were partially appeared on the stage.
2010	03	11	1	Niigata	Studio B, Ryutopia			Nameless Poison - The Black Monk, ver. Swan Lake	Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	Audiences heared Swan Lake as dancers did, insted of Lament by Giya Kancheli.
2010	03	12-14	3	Niigata	Studio B, Ryutopia	Nameless Poison - The Black Monk			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation
2010	03	20		Mitsuke	Mitsuke Arts Hall Arcadia	Body Workshop for Children				Aiichiro Miyagawa and Izumi Fujii were lecturer.
2010	03	27-28	2	Niigata	Studio B, Ryutopia			Noism2 Spring Performance 2010	Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation
2010	04	04	Noism2 member audition was held at Ryutopia.
2010	04	09	Recruitment for male dancers of Noism2 was announced.
2010	04	17	1	Niigata	Noh Theater, Ryutopia	Pretheater Talk Show for The Dramatic Dance Les Contes d’ Hoffmann
2010	04	25	3	Niigata	Studio B, Ryutopia	Noism Workshop				Body Workshop for Children (Izumi Fujii etc.), Noism Ballet (Megumi Mashimo etc.) Body Workshop for Adults (Aiichiro Miyagawa etc.)
2010	05	07	1	Niigata	Niigata Municipal Yamanoshita Elementary School	Body Workshop for Children				Aiichiro Miyagawa and Izumi Fujii were lecturer.
2010	05	28	Recruitment for male dancers of Noism1 & 2 was announced.
2010	06	04-06	3	Moscow (Russia)	Fomenko Theater	Nameless Poison - The Black Monk			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation, Chekhov International Theatre Festival
2010	07	16	Supporters Bulletin 016 was published. (A4, 4pp, Monochrome)
2010	07	16-18	3	Niigata	Theater, Ryutopia			Dramatic Dance Les Contes d’Hoffmann	Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	A joint performance of Noism1 and Noism2. Performed in Niigata only. Emi Aoki of Noism1 suspended due to injury.
2010	07	31	Akihiko Nagano of Noism1, Yuriko Nagai and Shuntaro Yoshida of Noism2 left Noism.
2010	07	31	6th season of Noism ended.
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7th Season
Year	Month	Date	Times of Performance	City	Venue	Performance Title			Promoter	Note
2010	08	01	Yukio Miyahara joined Noism1 as a dancer.
2010	08	31	The 2nd circle of Noism ended.
2010	09	01	The 3rd circle of Noism (until August, 2013) started.
2010	09	01	Sawako Iseki became Vice-Artistic Director of Noism. Aiichiro Miyaga became Ballet Master of Noism1. Both still were dancers of Noism1 also. Kana Ikegaya and Akishi Kato joined Noism2 as dancers.
2010	09	12		Niigata	Ryutopia	Local Workshop for the Dance Division of Niigata High Shool Athletic Federation			Niigata High Shool Athletic Federation	Jo Kanamori was the lecturer.
2010	10	02	2	Niigata	Observation Hall, The Water Station View Fukushimagata	Noism Workshop				Body workshop for children and for adults. Lecture meeting with Jo Kanamori was held after workshops.
2010	10	02-24		Niigata	Exhibition Room, The Water Station View Fukushimagata	Noism Photo Exhibition: The world of Noism by Kishin Shinoyama
2010	11	05	Supporters Bulletin 017 was published. (A4, 8pp, Color)
2010	11	05-07, 10-11, 13-15	8	Niigata	Studio B, Ryutopia			Nameless Hands - house of dolls (revival)	Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	Emi Aoki suspended due to injury. There are a few differences between the 1st edition (2008) and revised one (i.e. The iPod technique was adopted in a latter part of the 2nd act.)
2010	11	14	Niigata mayoral election was held and Akira Shinoda kept his post for the 3rd term.
2010	11	27 ?	Ryutopia issued Noism free paper 'niigatadakarada' 2010 Vol.3.
2010	12	02-04	3	Paris (France)	Maison de la culture du Japon a Paris	NINA - materialize sacrifice (ver. black)			Maison de la culture du Japon a Paris, Japan Foundation
2010	12	11	Recruitment for male dancers of Noism2 was announced. Period of time would be from July 2011 to August 2012.
2010	12	23	1	Niigata	Niitsu Art Museum	Noism1 with Niitsu Art Forum 'The Shadow of Mayfly'			Niitsu Art Museum	Emi Aoki and Jo Kanamori appeared on the stage.
2011	01	15	1	Niigata	Studio B, Ryutopia	Workshop for Dance Division members of Niigata High Shool Athletic Federation with Noism Ballet Mistress				Mikiko Shinohara was the lecturer.
2011	01	22		Mitsuke	Mitsuke Arts Hall Arcadia	Noism Ballet Workshop				Mikiko Shinohara and Megumi Mashimo were lecturers.
2011	02	02-03	2	Nagoya	The Mini Theater, Aichi Prefectural Arts Theater	Nameless Hands - house of dolls (revival)			Aichi Arts Center
2011	02	08	1	Niigata	Niigata Prefectural Civic Center	Body Workshop for Adults				Aiichiro Miyagawa and Izumi Fujii were lecturers. One of the course for Art producing.
2011	02	12	1	Kochi	Museum Hall, The Museum of Art, Kochi	Nameless Hands - house of dolls (revival)			Kochi Prefectural Foundation for Culture
2011	02	16	1	Yokohama	3F Hall, No.1 Building, Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse	Nameless Hands - house of dolls (revival)			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation, Performing Arts Meeting in Yokohama Executive Committee
2011	02	22 ?		Niigata	Niigata City Toyano Gymnasium	Workshop for physical education teachears of elementary schools and junior high schools in Niigata City				Jo Kanamori was the lecturer.
2011	02	25-27	3	Niigata	Studio B, Ryutopia			Noism2 Spring Performance 2011	Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation
2011	03	06	Noism2 member audition was held at Ryutopia.
2011	03	11	2011 Tohoku earthquake occured at 14:46 JST.
2011	03	19-20	2	Shizuoka	Shizuoka Performing Arts Center	Dramatic Dance Les Contes d’ Hoffmann			Shizuoka Performing Arts Center
2011	04	17	1	Niigata	Studio B, Ryutopia	Talk Show by Hiroshi Okura and Jo Kanamori				Hiroshi Okura is an art critic, living in Niigata City.
2011	05		Noism started a drive to raise Firebird Funds for performances and workshops to support earthquake recovery.
2011	05	27	Supporters Bulletin 018 was published. (A4, 8pp, Color)
2011	05	27-29	3	Niigata	Theater, Ryutopia			OTHERLAND	Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	4th Guest Choreographer Evening The Firebird, a new work of Noism2, was also performed in Niigata. Jo Kanamori appeared on the stage at his Psychic 3.11.
2011	06	03	1	Niigata	Niigata Municipal Yamanoshita Elementary School	Body Workshop for Children				Aiichiro Miyagawa, Izumi Fujii, Satoshi Nakagawa, Kei Ushiroda and Yukio Miyahara were lecturers.
2011	06	05	2	Otsu	Studio, Biwako Hall	Noism Workshop				Body Workshop for Chldren and Body Workshop for Adults. Izumi Fujii and Mikiko Shinohara were lecturers.
2011	06	05	Noism PR staff started twitter.
2011	06	18	1	Otsu	Theatre, Biwako Hall	OTHERLAND			Biwako Hall Foundation
2011	06	30	Kei Ushiroda of Noism1 left Noism.
2011	06	30	7th season of Noism ended.
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8th Season
Year	Month	Date	Times of Performance	City	Venue	Performance Title			Promoter	Note
2011	07	01	8th season of Noism started. (Usually the season starts in September, but in 2011 it was advanced 2 month due to Saito-Kinen performances in August.)
2011	07	01	Ayaka Kamei and Leonard Jin Sumita, former Noism2 dancer, became Noism1 dancer. Rui Kajita, Ichiro Sugae, Nana Suzuki, Shoko Seki and Fumiro Hirama joined Noism2 as dancers.
2011	07	01	1	Niigata	Concert Hall, Ryutopia	Special performance to support earthquake recovery with residential artists of Ryutopia, Jo Kanamori and Maki Yamamoto			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	Maki Yamamoto is an organist.
2011	07	02 ?	Fumiko Ishigagi, Ayaka Yamazaki and Akishi Kato of Noism2 left Noism.
2011	07	12	1	Niigata	Niigata Municipal Hakunan Junior High School	Noism Workshop				Mikiko Shinohara, Sae Hirokawa, Miki Horikawa and Kana Ikegaya were lecturers.
2011	08	21	Supporters Bulletin 019 was published. (A4, 2pp, Color)
2011	08	21,23,25,27	4	Matsumoto	Main Hall, Matsumoto Performing Arts Centre			Saito Kinen Festival Matsumoto 2011, Miraculous Mandarin and Bluebeard’s Castle	Saito Kinen Festival Matsumoto Executive Committee, Saito Kinen Foundation
2011	08	26	1	Niigata	Theater, Ryutopia	Screen Concert of Saito Kinen Orchestra in Niigata			The Niigata Television Network 21, Inc., Ryutopia	Recorded Miraculous Mandarin (full-length) and Bluebeard’s Castle (abridged) were shown, then live concert was televised.
2011	09	01	1	Beijing	National Centre for the Performing Arts (China)	Saito Kinen Festival Matsumoto 2011 in China, Bluebeard’s Castle				Performed String Serenade of Tchikovsky and Bluebeard’s Castle. It was talked that 800 persons cancelled attending. The number of audiences were unknown.
2011	09	07	1	Shanghai	Shanghai Grand Theater	Saito Kinen Festival Matsumoto 2011 in China, Bluebeard’s Castle				Performed String Serenade of Tchikovsky and Bluebeard’s Castle. It was talked that 1,800 seated Lyric House was almost full.
2011	09	09	Summer holidays started (until middle October).
2011	10	17 ?	Ryutopia issued Noism free paper 'niigatadakarada' 2011 Vol.4.
2011	10	20	It was announced that Niigata City decided to keep Noism until July 2016.
2011	10	23	1	Niigata	Studio B, Ryutopia	Noism Talk Show 'Ryutokai' Vol.1, Toshio Ochi and Jo Kanamori			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	Toshio Ochi is a professor of Niigata University of International and Information Studies.
2011	11	19	1	Niigata	Niigata Prefectural Civic Center	Special Performance at the National Conference of Physical Education for Women			Japan Association of Physical Education for Women, Niigata Association of Physical Education for Women	'The Firebird' by Noism2 and 'psychic' by Noism1 were performed.
2011	12	10-25		Niigata	1F, Billboard Place BP2	Photo Exhibition of the Document of creating Miraculous Mandarin at Saito Kinen Festival Matsumoto 2011, taken by Kishin Shinoyama			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	Audiences were 745 persons.
2011	12	16	Supporters Bulletin 020 was published. (A4, 8pp, Color)
2011	12	16-17	2	Niigata	Theater, Ryutopia			Dramatic Dance Les Contes d’Hoffmann (revised edition)	Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation
2011	12	18	1	Niigata	Theater, Ryutopia	Dramatic Dance Les Contes d’Hoffmann (revised edition), Elementary and junior high school students invitation evening			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation
2012	01		Kenta Kojiri joined Noism1 as a guest dancer.
2012	01	15	1	Niigata	Studio B, Ryutopia	Noism Talk Show 'Ryutokai' Vol.2, Kazunari Sako and Jo Kanamori			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	Kazunari Sako is the representative of hickory03travelers. He is creating local amenity of Niigata.
2012	01	22	1	Kashiwazaki	Kashiwazaki City Sangyo Bunka Kaikan	Body Workshop for Children				Aiichiro Miyagawa and Izumi Fujii were lecturers.
2012	01	28	Official Noism Facebook page was opened.
2012	02	17-19	3	Niigata	Studio B, Ryutopia			Noism2 Spring Performance 2012	Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation
2012	02	26	Noism2 member audition was held at Ryutopia.
2012	03	02	1	Kashiwazaki	Bunka Hall, Kashiwazaki City Sangyo Bunka Kaikan	Noism2 Performance			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation, Kashiwazaki Shinkou Foundation	The first tour performance of Noism2. Program was the same as Niigata.
2012	03	03	1	Joetsu	Main Hall, Joetsu Bunka Kaikan	Noism2 Performance			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation, Joetsu City	The first tour performance of Noism2. Program was the same as Niigata.
2012	03	13	1	Sendai	Studio Hall, L Park Sendai	Noism1 & Noism2 Special Performance in Sendai to support earthquake recovery			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	Audiences were 116 people.
2012	03	14		Sendai	Studio Hall, L Park Sendai	Body Workshop for Children, Noism Ballet Workshop
2012	03	30	1	Tokyo	NHK Hall	NHK Ballet Festival 2012			NHK, NHK Promotions Inc.
2012	04	01	Aoi Keimi of Noism1 retired from dancer and became a staff of Noism.
2012	04	08	1	Niigata	Studio B, Ryutopia	Noism Talk Show 'Ryutokai' Vol.3, Junichi Shioda and Jo Kanamori			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	Junichi Shioda is an art critic and the director of Niigata City Art Museum.
2012	04	14	1	Niigata	Niigata Prefectural Gorvernmemt Memorial Hall	haruyamatozan2012			hickory03travelers	haruyamatozan is art exhibitions and additional events to create local amenities. Noism performed 'psychic' in corridors and exhibition rooms without using the iPod technique. udiences were 103 people.
2012	04	14	1	Saitama	Large rehearsal room, Saitama Arts Theater	Noism Body Workshop				Aiichiro Miyagawa and Megumi Mashimo were lecturer.
2012	04	15	1	Shizuoka	Shizuoka Performing Arts Center	Noism Body Workshop				Aiichiro Miyagawa and Megumi Mashimo were lecturer. 2 classes, for children and for adults were held.
2012	04	24		Washington D.C. (USA)	The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts	Master Class by Jo Kanamori
2012	04	26-27	2	Washington D.C. (USA)	Terrace Theater, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts	ZONE			The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
2012	06	03,05	2	Firenze (Italy)	TEATRO DEL MAGGIO MUSICALE FIORENTINO	Saito Kinen Festival Matsumoto 2011 'Miraculous Mandarin' and 'Bluebeard's Castle' in Firenze				Only Noism1 visited Firenze. Noism2 part were performed by local theater dancers. One more performance on May 31 was planned, but cancelled due to damege of theater ceiling.
2012	06	27	Theater and Concert Hall Revitalize Act (Act No.49 of June 27, 2012) was promulgated and enforced.
2012	06	29	Supporters Bulletin 021 was published. (A4, 8pp, Color)
2012	06	29-7/1	3	Niigata	Studio B, Ryutopia			Nameless Voice - Garden of Water, House of Sand	Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	'Show-Tent' Sereis Vol.3, the concluding volume. Participated in 'Water and Land - Niigata Art Festival 2012'.
2012	07	06-08	3	Saitama	Adaptable Theater, Saitama Arts Theater	Nameless Voice - Garden of Water, House of Sand			Saitama Arts Foundation
2012	07	14	4	Niigata	Phoenix From The Flames (an installation made by Wang Wen-Chih on the right bank of Shinano River near Yachiyo Bridge)			Noism2 Special Performance in Phoenix From The Flames	Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation, Executive Committee of Water and Land - Niigata Art Festival	Noism2 performed a new work choreographed by Yuki Yamada. Audiences were: 44 at 18:30 performance, 44 at 19:30, 38 at 20:30 and 56 at 21:30, total 182 people.
2012	07	14	2	Niigata	Studio B, Ryutopia	Noism Body Workshop				Aiichiro Miyagawa and other members were lecturer. 2 classes, for children and for adults, were held.
2012	07	15	1	Niigata	Studio B, Ryutopia	Noism Talk Show 'Ryutokai' Vol.4, Yuichiro Koyamagi and Jo Kanamori			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	Yuichiro Koyanagi is the president of G.F.G.S., a clothing maker in Kamo city.
2012	07	21-22	2	Shizuoka	Shizuoka Performing Arts Center	Nameless Voice - Garden of Water, House of Sand			Shizuoka Performing Arts Center
2012	07	27-30	4	Niigata	Studio B, Ryutopia	Nameless Voice - Garden of Water, House of Sand			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation
2012	07	31	Yoshimitsu Kushida of Noism1, Sae Hirokawa, Miki Horikawa and Fumiro Hirama of Noism2 left Noism.
2012	07	31	8th season of Noism ended.
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9th Season
Year	Month	Date	Times of Performance	City	Venue	Performance Title			Promoter	Note
2012	09	01	Aiichiro Miyagawa, former the ballet master and a dancer of Noism1, became Workshop Facilitator and a dancer. Sato Oikawa, Takayoshi Tsuchida and Yuya Yoshizaki joined Noism2 as dancers.
2012	09	22-23	Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation and Japan Foundation planned 2 performances of ZONE by Noism1 in Beijing, but the Culture Division of Beijing City put them off, actually cancelled because Japan-China relationship was growing bad.
2012	10	07	1	Niigata	Studio B, Ryutopia	Noism Talk Show 'Ryutokai' Vol.5, Takeshi Noto and Jo Kanamori			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	Takeshi Noto is the general producer of All Niigata Dance Festival.
2012	10	12-13	2	Nagoya	The Mini Theater, Aichi Prefectural Arts Theater	Nameless Voice - Garden of Water, House of Sand			Aichi Arts Center
2012	10	13	1	Niigata	Laforet Harajuku Niigata	LAFORET FASHION NIGHT				Noism2 performed nomadic.
2012	10	14	2	Nagoya	Large rehearsal room, Aichi Prerectural Arts Theater	Noism Workshop				2 classes of Noism Ballet (Aoki and Mashimo, 75 min.) and Noism Repertory (Mashimo and Aoki, 75 min.) were held.
2012	10	18		Kanazawa	Large rehearsal room, The Kanazawa Theatre	Noism Workshop				Emi Aoki and Megumi Mashimo were lecturers. Jo Kanamori joined after class talk.
2012	10	20-21	2	Kanazawa	Theater 21, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa	Nameless Voice - Garden of Water, House of Sand			21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa (Kanazawa Art Promotion and Deveropment Foundation)
2012	10	27-28, 11/02-04	5	Niigata	Studio B, Ryutopia	Nameless Voice - Garden of Water, House of Sand			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation
2012	11	09	1	Niigata	Niigata Municipal Yamanoshita Elementary School
2012	11	10		Niigata	Niigata Prefectural Niigata Minami High School	Local Workshop for Dance Division members of Niigata High School Athletic Federation			Niigata High School Athletic Federation	Jo Kanamori and Aiichiro Miyagawa were lecturers.
2012	11	14	1	Niigata	Hall, Niigata City Higashi-ku Plaza	Noism Body Workshop				for Niigata Athletic Federation
2012	11	15	1	Niigata	Hall, Niigata City Higashi-ku Plaza	Noism Body Workshop				for the training course of nurses
2012	11	17	It was announced that Yuki Yamada to become Noism2 Choreographer and Rehearsal Director in the new season.
2012	11	25	2	Niigata	Studio B, Ryutopia	Noism Body Workshop				2 classes for children and adults were held. Aiihiro Miyagawa and Megumi Mashimo were lecturers.
2012	11	27-2013/01/14		Niigata	2F Lobby, Ryutopia	Photo Exhibition of the Document of creating Miraculous Mandarin at Saito Kinen Festival Matsumoto 2011, taken by Kishin Shinoyama			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation
2012	12	02	1	Niigata	Studio B, Ryutopia	A lecture for the next performance by Jo Kanamori			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	an additional event for the next performance
2012	12	20	Supporters Bulletin 022 was published. (A4, 8pp, Color)
2012	12	20	Yoshimitsu Kushida joined 'solo for 2 / Miraculous Mandarin' performances as a guest dancer.
2012	12	20-21	2	Niigata	Theater, Ryutopia			solo for 2 / Miraculous Mandarin	Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation
2012	12	25-26	2	Yokohama	Hall, Kanagawa Arts Theatre	solo for 2 / Miraculous Mandarin			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation
2012	12	31 ?	Kenta Kojiri (guest dancer) left Noism.
2013	01	20	1	Niigata	Studio B, Ryutopia	Noism Talk Show 'Ryutokai' Vol.6, Tadashi Shiromaru and Jo Kanamori			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	Tadashi Shiromaru is the president of S.H.S furniture service.
2013	01	27		Niigata	Studio B, Ryutopia	Workshop for Dance Division students of Niigata High Shool Athletic Federation			Niigata High Shool Athletic Federation	Noism Repertory Workshop. Megumi Mashimo was the lecturer.
2013	02	23-24	2	Niigata	Studio B, Ryutopia			Noism2 Spring Performance 2013	Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation
2013	03	03	Noism2 member audition was held at Ryutopia.
2013	03	03		Iwaki	Alios Iwaki Performing Arts Center	Noism Workshop in Iwaki				2 classes of Noism Ballet (by Emi Aoki) and Noism Repertory (by Megumi Mashimo) were held.
2013	03	08	1	Kashiwazaki	Kashiwazaki-City Performing Arts Center Artforet, Main Hall	Noism2 Performance in Kashiwazaki			Kashiwazaki-City Performing Arts Center Artforet (Kashiwazaki Shinkou Foundation), Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	A tour performance of Noism2. The program was same as Niigata.
2013	03	09	1	Myoko	Main Hall, Myoko Bunka Hall	Noism2 Performance in Myoko			Myoko Bunka Shinko Foundation, Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	A tour performance of Noism2. The program was same as Niigata.
2013	03	24		Niigata	Niigata Prefectural Niigata Minami High School	Workshop for Dance Division students of Niigata High Shool Athletic Federation			Niigata High Shool Athletic Federation	Aiichiro Miyagawa was the lecturer.
2013	03	26-27	2	Tokyo	Playhouse, New National Theatre Tokyo	DANCE to the Future 2013 by The National Ballet of Japan			New National Theatre Foundation	The National Ballet of Japan performed Kanamori's solo for 2. Also performed were 3 works by Megumi Nakamura.
2013	03	29-31	3	Niigata	Studio B, Ryutopia	Perfocmance of Choreographic Works by Noism1 Members			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	Charity performance for sufferers from The Chuetsu Earthquakes
2013	04	07	1	Niigata	Studio B, Ryutopia	Noism Talk Show 'Ryutokai' Vol.7, Yoshihiro Ino and Jo Kanamori			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	Yoshihiro Ino is a professor of Niigata University.
2013	04	20	1	Niigata	Atrium of NEXT21	City Garden Niigata Opening Reception			The World Forum on Food and Flowers in Niigata, Niigata City	The opening event of a pre-event for Niigata Destination Campaign in Spring, 2014.
2013	05	03	1	Niigata	Studio B, Ryutopia	ZAZA rehearsal opened to Noism Sponsers and Supporters members			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	Opened to Noism Sponsers and Supporters members only.
2013	05	24	Supporters Bulletin 023 was published. (A4, 8pp, Color)
2013	05	24-26	3	Niigata	Theater, Ryutopia			ZAZA - between Prayer and Desire	Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	The performance was firstly named 'ZA-ZA', later changed into 'ZAZA'.
2013	05	31-6/2	3	Yokohama	Hall, Kanagawa Arts Theatre	ZAZA - between Prayer and Desire			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation
2013	06	07-08, 14-15	4	Niigata	Atrium of NEXT21	City Garden Niigata Noism2 Special Performance			The World Forum on Food and Flowers in Niigata, Niigata City	Noism2 performed. The costumes were rent from football club of Hokuetsu High School.
2013	07	07	1	Niigata	Studio B, Ryutopia	Noism Talk Show 'Ryutokai' Vol.8, Masayuki Saito and Jo Kanamori			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	Masayuki Saito is the representative of CineWind, a movie theater.
2013	07	13-14	4	Niigata	Niigata Prefectural Gorvernmemt Memorial Hall			Noism2 Summer Special Performance in Niigata Prefectural Gorvernmemt Memorial Hall	Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	Performed 4 times in all, instead of 2 times as written in the flyer.
2013	07	20-21	2	Shizuoka	Shizuoka Performing Arts Center	ZAZA - between Prayer and Desire			Shizuoka Performing Arts Center
2013	07	31	Aiichiro Miyagawa and Izumi Fujii (former Noism1 dancers), Mikiko Shinohara (former Noism2 ballet mistress), Nana Suzuki and Takayoshi Tsuchida (former Noism2 dancer) left Noism.
2013	07	31	9th season of Noism ended.
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10th Season
Year	Month	Date	Times of Performance	City	Venue	Performance Title			Promoter	Note
2013	08	01	Yuko Ishihara (former Noism1 associate member), Kana Ikegaya and Yuya Yoshizaki (former Noism2 member) became Noism1 dancers. Chein, Lin-Yi from Taiwan joined Noism1 as a dancer. Yuki Yamada became Noism2 Choreographer and Rehearsal Director.
2013	08	31	The 3rd circle of Noism ended.
2013	09	01	The 4th circle of Noism (until August, 2016) started.
2013	09	01	Yuka Asami, Suwako Tanaka, Keigo Nozaki, Junko Fujii, Hiroki Matsubara joined Noism2 as dancers.
2013	09	03	Noism started lessons and rehearsals in 10th season.
2013	09	11	Ryutopia held a press conference at Studio A, new Noism2 Rehearsal director and members of Noism1 and Noism2 were introduced, and price cut of Niigata performances was announced. Contract issue for the 5th circle must be pending. Reported in the blog of Noism Supporters Unofficial.
2013	09	11	A press release for 'PLAY 2 PLAY - interfering dimensions' was published (in Japanese.) What forthrightly disclosed are as follows; Noism performs revival works in winter performance since 2010, for budget reason, change of members, and so on. Dancers who performed the premiere of 'PLAY 2 PLAY' have left noism without Sawako Iseki alone.
2013	09	21	1	Niigata	Reception Room, Ryutopia	A meeting with Noism Sponsers members			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	The first meeting with Noism Suponsers members and Noism staffs. A convivial party was held after meeting.
2013	10	09	Broadcasting System of Niigata (BSN) broadcasted 'Problems of Noism in the 10th Season' in N Suta Niigata, and pointed out that Noism still doesn't have much recognition in Niigata. Also reported was that Ryutopia's budget are around 150 million yen, and 1/3 of that are for Noism.
2013	10	11	The 2nd press release for 'PLAY 2 PLAY - interfering dimensions' was published. (in Japanese)
2013	10	26	1	Niigata	Studio B, Ryutopia	Showing of Nameless Hands			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	Opened to Noism Sponsers and Supporters menbers only. A working process of Spain tour on November, 2013.
2013	11	02	1	Niigata	Approach street of Myokaku-ji Temple, Furumachidori 3 Bancho			Street Workshop by Noism, Kamifurumachi Shopping Arcade 5th Anniversary Events	Kamifurumachi Shopping Street Promotion Association	15:00-16:00.
2013	11	15	A press release for 'Noism2 Spring Performance 2014' was published. (in Japanese)
2013	11	17	1	Niigata	Noism Rehearsal Studio	Painted Desert by Yuki Yamada, Work in progress			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	Work in progress of the new work for Noism2 by Yuki Yamada. Noism Rehearsal Studio is located at Annex 1F, Dia Palace Royal City Higashi-Saiwaicho, 4-10, Higashi-Saiwaicho, Chuo-ku, Niigata City. 15:00 start. No reservation is required.
2013	11	28-30	3	Madrid (Spain)	Teatros del Canal	Nameless Hands - house of dolls			Teatros del Canal	Emi Aoki suspends due to casting reason.
2013	12	01	Noism 10th season lineup (PDF edition) was published. (in Japanese)
2013	12	08	A special topics of Noism was published on Niigata City Bullettin No.2441.
2013	12	14	Noism2 new members audition was announced. The activity period is changed into 2 years of September to August in the year after next. (Formerly it was 1 year and might be renewed annualy untill 3 years.)
2013	12	20	Supporters Bulletin 024 was published. (A4, 14pp, Color)
2013	12	20-22	3	Niigata	Theater, Ryutopia			PLAY 2 PLAY - interfering dimensions (revival of revised edition)	Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	Jo Kanamori appeared on the stage. On Stage Seats (70 seats) were provided. Takyua Fujisawa was suspended.
2013	12	22	Jo Kanamori said at after talk of PLAY 2 PLAY Niigata Performance that he will like to make Noism3 when Sawako Iseki becomes 40 years old. This is the 1st official reference of Noism3, particularly including the period of its establishment.
2014	01	04	New Year Special Program; 10 years of Noism - with the Citizens of Niigata City was broadcasted on BSN TV as Niigata City PR program Sawayaka Niigata.
2014	01	08	Ryutopia started online booking service.
2014	01	12	Excerpts of the talk of Niigata City Mayor and Jo Kanamori, which was broadcasted on January 04 on BSN TV, was published on Niigata City Bullettin No.2446.
2014	01	24-25	2	Yokohama	Hall, Kanagawa Arts Theatre	PLAY 2 PLAY - interfering dimensions (revival of revised edition)			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	Jo Kanamori appeared on the stage. On Stage Seats (70 seats) were provided. No After Talk on Saturday. Takuya Fujisawa was suspended.
2014	01	31?	Junko Fujii, a dancer of Noism2, left Noism in the latter half of January.
2014	02	05	1	Niigata	Niigata Grand Hotel	New Year's Party of Hatsuka-kai			Hatsuka-kai	Hatsuka-kai is a study meeting for business leaders in Niigata. Noism2 performed some excerpt from the new work of Yuki Yamada for their Spring Performance.
2014	02	09	Noism2 member audition (2nd stage) was held at Ryutopia.
2014	02	15-3/30		Niigata	Niigata City Art Museum	Niigata Creation - Art Museum is alive.			Niigata City Art Museum	Decor installation are displayed. Noism member(s) will sometimes appear on the venue.
2014	02	23	1	Niigata	Studio B, Ryutopia	Noism Talk Show 'Ryutokai' Vol.9, Shigeto Yamazaki and Jo Kanamori			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	Shigeto Yamazaki is the chef of Saffron bakery and son of the owner.
2014	02	23	1	Niigata	Noism Rehearsal Studio	Noism2 rehearsal (opened to Noism Sponsers and Supporters menbers only)			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	A rehearsal of Painted Desert by Yuki Yamada and Four Fours by Takuya Fujisawa. Not opened to public.
2014	02	27	Recruitment for male dancers of Noism1 was announced.
2014	03	07-09	3	Niigata	Studio B, Ryutopia			Noism2 Spring Performance 2014 in Niigata City	Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	Yuki Yamada's new work Painted Desert and Takuya Fujisawa's new work Four Fours.
2014	03	08	Jo Kanamori said, at after peorformance talk show on the 2nd day of Noism2 Spring Performance in Niigata, that more than half of Noism2 dancers will be replaced in September.
2014	03	09	Draft budget of Niigata City in fiscal 2014 was published on Niigata City Bullettin No.2454, and it was announced that Niigata City will spend 2 million yen for promotion of dancing culture through outreaching from Noism to junior high school students in Niigata City, holding summer school(s) of dance for members of high school dance clubs in Niigata City and intensifying cooperation of dance companies in Niigata City.
2014	03	14	1	Seiro Town	Seiro Town Culture Hall	Noism2 Spring Performance 2014 in Seiro Town			Niigata Prefecture, Niigata Cultural Foundation, Seiro Town Board of Education, Niigata Prefectural Commission of Promotional and Educational Program for Dancing Art
2014	03	15	1	Tsubame	Tsubame City Culture Hall	Noism2 Spring Performance 2014 in Tsubame City			Niigata Prefecture, Niigata Cultural Foundation, Tsubame City Cultue Hall, Niigata Prefectural Commission of Promotional and Educational Program for Dancing Art
2014	03	19	Recruitment for a staff under exclusive contract with Noism was announced.
2014	03	27	It was announced that they will left Noism at the end of 10th season; Emi Aoki, Takuya Fujisawa and Yukio Miyahara of Noism1, Ichiro Sugae, Shoko Seki, Sato Oikawa and Keigo Nozaki of Noism2. Also announced were as follows; Megumi Mashimo of Noism1 will be a ballet mistress from 11th season. Rui Kajita of Noism2 will be promoted to Noism1 from 11th season. Yuri Itagaki, Rinako Iida, Shinji Takagi, Ayami Toba, Hinano Nishioka, Kyoko Fukai, Nana Yamashita and Asako Yokoie will join Noism2 as dancers from next (Noism2 6th) season.
2014	03	29	A press release for 'Dramatic Dance CARMEN' was published through News of Noism official website. Listed date of the document is March 09, 2014.
2014	04	12	2	Niigata	Entrance Hall of Niigata Nippo Media Ship	Noism2 performance at Media Ship completion 1st anniversary event			Niigata-Nippo Company	Yuki Yamada's work will be played with his talking. Performing time will be 13:00-13:30 and 14:30-15:00.
2014	04	19	1	Niigata	Studio B, Ryutopia	Dramadic Dance 'Carmen' rehearsal (opened to Noism Sponsers and Supporters menbers only)			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	Reservation required (not opened to public).
2014	04	26-27	4	Niigata	Special Stage at Shumoku Area, Niigata Prefectural Toyanogata Park			Noism2 Special Performance in Niigata Odori @ Kata	Water and Land Culture Promotion Section, Department of Culture, Tourism and Sports, Niigata City	Outdoor performance, admission free. Yuki Yamada's work will be played. Starting time is 10:50 and 13:00.
2014	04	26-27	2	Niigata	1st floor, Niigata City Children's Creative Lerning Center	Noism Body Workshop for Children			Water and Land Culture Promotion Section, Department of Culture, Tourism and Sports, Niigata City	Megumi Mashimo will be the lecturer.
2014	05	03-04	4	Niigata	Niigata City History Museum			Minato Niigata Spring Festa 2014, Minatopia Projection Mapping with Noism2	Culture Policy Section, Department of Culture, Tourism and Sports, Niigata City	Outdoor performance, admission free. Starting time of Noism2 performance will be 19:30 and 21:00 on both days.
2014	05	10		Niigata	Studio B, Ryutopia	Body Workshop for Adults			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	16:30-18:00. Yuki Yamada will be the lecturer. Reservation required. Contact noism-ws@ryutopia.or.jp by May 03.
2014	05	10	1	Niigata	Theater, Ryutopia	Dramatic Dance 'Carmen' rehearsal (opened to Noism Sponsers and Supporters menbers only)			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	Reservation required (not opened to public).
2014	05	11	1	Niigata	Books & Music Blue Cafe	Reading Cafe in Niigata			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	A related event to Dramatic Dance CARMEN. Akihito Okuno of SPAC and visitors read Le Carrosse du Saint Sacrement (1829), written by Prosper Merimee.
2014	05	11	A BOM of Noism's Dramatic Dance Carmen was published on Niigata City Bullettin No. 2463, Page 7.
2014	05	30	Jo Kanamori is commissioned to be an advisor for culture creation of Niigata city, and a press conference is held at Niigata city hall with the mayor.
2014	06	06	Supporters Bulletin 025 was published. (A4, 12pp, Color)
2014	06	06-08	3	Niigata	Theater, Ryutopia			Dramatic Dance Carmen	Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	Noism 10th Anniversary joint performance of Noism1 and Noism2. Akihito Okuno of SPAC will join.
2014	06	20-22	3	Yokohama	Hall, Kanagawa Arts Theatre	Dramatic Dance Carmen			Kanagawa Arts Theatre	Noism 10th Anniversary joint performance of Noism1 and Noism2. Akihito Okuno of SPAC will join.
2014	06	24	1	Nishinomiya	No.1 Rehearsal Room, Hyogo Performing Arts Center	Body Workshop for Children			Hyogo Performing Arts Center	For elementary school studens. Yuki Yamada will be the lecturer.
2014	06	27	1	Nishinomiya	Theater, Hyogo Performing Arts Center	Dramatic Dance Carmen			Hyogo Prefecture, Hyogo Performing Arts Center	Noism 10th Anniversary joint performance of Noism1 and Noism2. Akihito Okuno of SPAC will join.
2014	07	13	1	Niigata	Studio B, Ryutopia	Round Table 'Ryutokai' De luxe			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	Noism Talk Show 'Ryutokai' vol.10. 7 guests and a program host talk with Jo Kanamori.
2014	07	13	Masayuki Saito of Cine-Wind and others decided to establish Sawako Iseki Fan Club (provisional name).
2014	07	18-20	3	Niigata	Elevated Garden, Hakusan Park			Noism2 Summer Special Performance 2014 RAFT	Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	Outdoor performance. No postponement for rain.
2014	07	26	2	Niigata	Niigata Church of Konkokyo	Noism body workshop for parents and children			The Promoter of Minamihama Festival	Megumi Mashimo will be the lecturer.13:00-14:00 and 14:30-15:30.
2014	07	27	Niigata-Niippo reported that Mr. Akira Shinoda, the mayor of Niigata City, will run for the next mayoralty election of Niigata City.
2014	07	31	Emi Aoki, Takuya Fujisawa and Yukio Miyahara (former Noism1 dancers), Ichiro Sugae, Shoko Seki, Sato Oikawa and Keigo Nozaki (former Noism2 dancers) left Noism. Megumi Mashimo of Noism1 retired from dancer.
2014	07	31	10th season of Noism ended.
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11th Season
Year	Month	Date	Times of Performance	City	Venue	Performance Title			Promoter	Note
2014	08	01	Megumi Mashimo (former Noism1 dancer) became Noism ballet mistress. Rui Kajita (former Noism2 dancer) became Noism1 dancer.
2014	09	01	Sota Okamoto and Takuya Sato joined Noism1 as dancers. Takahiro Ueda joined Noism1 as an associate member. Rinako Iida, Shinji Takagi, Ayami Toba, Hinano Nishioka, Kyoko Fukai, Nana Yamashita and Asako Yokoya joined Noism2 as dancers. Yuri Itagaki, who was announced to join, did not.
2014	09	02	Noism started lessons and rehearsals in 11th season.
2014	09	02	Mr. Akira Shinoda, the mayor of Niigata City, officially announced that he runs for the next mayoralty election of Niigata City.
2014	09	05	A press release for 'ASU, a devotion to invisibility' was published (in Japanese).
2014	09	12	1	Niigata	Niigata municipal Shirone elementary school	Open house for loacl people			Niigata municipal Shirone elementary school	Yuki Yamada and Megumi Mashimo gave schoolchildren a lecture on dancers. (classroom lecture)
2014	09	13	1	Niigata	Reception Room, Ryutopia	A meeting with Noism Sponsers members			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	The second meeting with Noism Suponsers members and Noism staffs. A convivial party was held after meeting.
2014	09	21	1	Niigata	Multi-purpose Hall, HonPort Niigata City Central Public Library	Noism Talk Show 'Ryutokai' Vol.10, Fumiyoshi and Jo Kanamori			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	Fumiyoshi is a Shamisen player.
2014	10	11-12	2	Niigata	Northern Culture Museum Niigata Branch	Noism2 Special Performance Niigata Take-akari, Hana-akari			Northern Culture Museum Niigata Branch	Yuki Yamada's work. The first performance of Noism2 with new members. Collaboration with handicraft lightning appliances made by KiKiKo and Tebu. One more performance was scheduled on Oct.13, but cancelled due to approaching of the typhoon no.19.
2014	10	19	1	Niigata	Studio B, Ryutopia	ASU, a devotion to invisibility rehearsal (opened to Noism Sponsers and Supporters menbers only)			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	Reservation required (not opened to public). 16:30-17:30, a rehearsal of Part 1. Next rehearsal is holding on Dec. 06, 2014.
2014	11	02		Niigata	Approach street of Myokaku-ji Temple, Furumachidori 3 Bancho			Street Body Workshop; Kamifurumachi Shopping Arcade 6th Anniversary Events	Kamifurumachi Shopping Street Promotion Association	15:00-16:00, Wash out. Megumi Mashimo will be the lecturer. Washed out.
2014	11	03	Sawako Iseki Supporters Club (SawaSawa-Kai) will be established.
2014	11	08	1	Niigata	Children's Creative Lerning Center	Body Workshop for elementary school students			Niigata City Water and Land Culture Promotion Section	13:30-14:30. Free for participate. Megumi Mashimo will be the lecturer.
2014	11	08	1	Niigata	Children's Creative Lerning Center	Body Workshop for middle and high-school students			Niigata City Water and Land Culture Promotion Section	15:30-16:30. Free for paticipate. Yuki Yamada will be the lecturer.
2014	11	09	Niigata mayoral election was held and Akira Shinoda kept his post for the 4th term.
2014	11	16	1	Niigata	Studio B, Ryutopia	Noism Talk Show 'Ryutokai' Vol.11, Yoshiyuki Miyamae and Jo Kanamori			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	Yoshiyuki Miyamae is a designer of ISSEY MIYAKE, the costume designer of Noism1 winter performance 'ASU'.
2014	11	19	1	Niigata	Library Hall, Niigata University Library	'What Architecture describes, What is described with Architecture', a special lecture of Architecture course, Departments of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, Niigata University			Dr. Hitoshi Terao, Associate Professor, Architecture course, Departments of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, Niigata University	Tsuyoshi Tane and Jo Kanamori will be lecturers. Tane is an architect, who provided some decors for Noism. 16:30-19:00, opened for public.
2014	11	22-23	3	Niigata	Furumacni Art Studio	Noism2 Special Performance			Machinaka Art Studio Executive Committee (Niigata City Cultural Policy Section)	A related event to the exhibition of Kenji Shigei. Start at 15:00. No reservation is required. An additional performance was held at 16:30 on Nov. 23. Performed 3 times in all.
2014	11	23	A BOM of Noism's ASU, a devotion to invisibility was published on Niigata City Bullettin No. 2491, Page 6.
2014	11	30	Niigata City was selected as 'Culture City of East Asia 2015', a project of cultural exchange among China, Korea and Japan.
2014	12	04	1	Niigata	Niigata University of International and Information Studies	Noism Body Workshop			Niigata University of International and Information Studies	Yuki Yamada was the lecturer. A classwork of the International Exchange Instructor Training Course.
2014	12	06	1	Niigata	Studio B, Ryutopia	ASU, a devotion to invisibility rehearsal (opened to Noism Sponsers and Supporters menbers only)			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	Reservation required (not opened to public). 16:30-17:30.
2014	12	12	1	Niigata	Theater, Ryutopia	ASU, a devotion to invisibility rehearsal (opened to press only)			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	15:00-15:30. Member of Noism Supporters Unofficial can attend. (Not opened to public)
2014	12	15	Noism2 new members audition was announced. Deadline is Feb. 28, 2015. Skill test will be held on March 15, 2015.
2014	12	19	Supporters Bulletin 026 was published. (A4, 14pp, Color)
2014	12	19-21	3	Niigata	Theater, Ryutopia			Noism1 New Work ASU, a devotion to invisibility Niigata Performance	Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	A new work of Jo Kanamori. The first part is Training Piece featuring Noism Method and Noism Ballet classes. The second part will be ASU, a devotion to invisibility featuring Kai (song) of Altai. Satoshi Nakagawa did not appear on the stage.
2015	01	24-25	2	Yokohama	Hall, Kanagawa Arts Theatre	Noism1 New Work ASU, a devotion to invisibility Kanagawa Performance			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	A new work of Jo Kanamori. The first part is Training Piece featuring Noism Method and Noism Ballet classes. The second part will be ASU, a devotion to invisibility featuring Kai (song) of Altai.
2015	01	31	Sota Okamoto (former Noism1 Dancer) left Noism.
2015	02	01	1	Niigata	Multi-purpose Hall, HonPort Niigata City Central Public Library	Noism Talk Show 'Ryutokai' Vol.12, Naoki Ishikawa and Jo Kanamori			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	Naoki Ishikawa is an explorer and photographer.
2015	02	08	1	Niigata	Studio B, Ryutopia	Noism2 Spring Performance rehearsal (opened to Noism Sponsers and Supporters menbers only)			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	Reservation required (not opened to public). 16:30-17:30.
2015	02	20-22	4	Niigata	Studio B, Ryutopia			Noism2 Spring Performance 2015	Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	New works by Yuki Yamada and Yasutake Shimaji.
2015	02	25	1	Niigata	Niigata West Sports Center	Noism Body Workshop			Niigata City	Dance Culture Promotion Project of Niigata City. For teachers of primary and junior-high schools. Megumi Mashimo and Yuki Yamada were lecturers.
2015	02	27	1	Niigata	Higashi-ku Plaza	Noism Body Workshop			Niigata City	Dance Culture Promotion Project of Niigata City. For teachers of primary and junior-high schools. Megumi Mashimo and Yuki Yamada were lecturers.
2015	02	27	Woo Bin Lim (a Korean Dancer) joined Noism as a guest member. A cultural exchange program of Culture City of East Asia, 2015 Niigata. He will stay Niigata one year.
2015	02	28?	Asako Yokoya (former Noism2 Dancer) left Noism.
2015	03	07	1	Niigata	Ryutopia	Noism one-day school			Niigata City	Dance Culture Promotion Project of Niigata City. For members of Highschool Dance clubs in Niigata City. Sawako Iseki was the main lecturer.
2015	03	15	Skill test of Noism2 new members audition will be held at Ryutopia.
2015	03	20	The website of Noism was renewed, and a press release for 'A girl who has been kept in cotton wool all her life' was published (in Japanese).
2015	03	22	1	Niigata	Theater, Ryutopia	Noism1 supernova rehearsal (opened to Noism Sponsers and Supporters menbers only)			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	Reservation required (not opened to public). 16:30-17:00. A rehearsal of the new work for NHK Ballet Festival 2015 (March 28).
2015	03	28	1	Tokyo	NHK Hall	NHK Ballet Festival 2015			Nippon Hoso Kyokai (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) and NHK Promotions Inc.	A new work of Jo Kanamori, supernova. Music will be works of Toshiro Mayuzumi.
2015	04	01?	Hiroki Matsubara (former Noism2 dancer) left Noism.
2015	04	18	1	Niigata	Studio B, Ryutopia	Noism1 A girl who has been kept in cotton wool all her life rehearsal (opened to Noism Sponsers and Supporters menbers only)			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	Reservation required (not opened to public). 12:30-13:30.
2015	04	19	1	Niigata	Multi-purpose Hall, HonPort Niigata City Central Public Library	Noism Talk Show 'Ryutokai' Vol.13, Daishi Matsunaga and Jo Kanamori			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	Daishi Matsunaga is a Movie Director. 14:30-16:30.
2015	04	24	1	Nagaoka	Theater, Nagaoka Lyric Hall			Noism2 Performance in Nagaoka	Nagaoka City Foundation for Art and Culture Promotion	A tour of Noism2 performance in Niigata prefecture. The program is same as Niigata performance.
2015	05	02-03	4	Niigata	Niigata City History Museum	Minago Niigata Spring Festa 2015, Minatopia Projection Mapping with Noism2			Culture Policy Section, Department of Culture, Tourism and Sports, Niigata City	Outdoor performance, admission free. Starting time of Noism2 performance will be 19:30 and 21:00 on both days. Woo Bin Lim (Noism guest dancer) will join.
2015	06	05	1	Niigata	Theater, Ryutopia	Mares of the Yururi Island by Noism2; Dance Performance for annual study meeting of The Association of Public Theaters and Halls in Japan			The Association of Public Theaters and Halls in Japan	an exhibition of annual study meeting 2015 of The Association of Public Theaters and Halls in Japan
2015	06	06	Supporters Bulletin 027 was published (A4, 12pp, Color)
2015	06	06-8/1	13	Niigata	Studio B, Ryutopia			Noism1 Performance, a new work of Jo Kanamori, A girl who has been kept in cotton wool all her life (Series Modern Fairy Tale, vol.1)	Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	Niigata Performances: June 6,7,10,11,13,14,15, July 24,25,26,30,31 and August 1, (total 13 performances, July 26 and 30 are Mizutsuchi Special Performances.) Kanagawa Performances will be held on late June also.
2015	06	22-28	6	Yokohama	Large Studio, Kanagawa Arts Theatre			Noism1 Performance, a new work of Jo Kanamori, A girl who has been kept in cotton wool all her life (Series Modern Fairy Tale, vol.1), Kanagawa Performance	Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	Curtain Rising: June 22-24 19:30, 25 Suspended, 26 14:00, 27 17:00, 28 14:00.
2015	07	07	It was published that Ryutopia will be suspended in June-Sept. 2017 (Jan.-Sept. at the Theater) and the first half of 2018, due to maintenance.
2015	07	18	Water and Land - Niigata Art Festival 2015 will be opened. (until Oct. 12.) Jo Kanamori is performance director of the festival. What planned is; New Work performance of Noism0, Noism1 Special Performance, Noism2 performance with Taru-Kinuta, Noism Special Talk Show, Reading Cafe featuring an actor of Noism0, Establishment of a shop of Noism goods, etc. Noism0 will be a performance company of the registration system; members will be skillful professionals of dance, drama and/or music. cf. http://www.n-story.jp/special/81/page2.html
2015	07	18-19	2	Kanazawa	Theater 21, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa	Noism1 Performance, a new work of Jo Kanamori, A girl who has been kept in cotton wool all her life (Series Modern Fairy Tale, vol.1), Kanazawa Performance			21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa	Curtain Rising: July 18 18:00, 19 17:00.
2015	07	24	It was announced that they will leave Noism at the end of 11th season; Ayaka Kamei and Leonard Jin Sumita of Noism1. Takahiro Ueda (Noism associate member) and Suwako Tanaka of Noism2 will be promoted to Noism1 from 12th season. Lin Shih Ping will join Noism as Noism1 member. Maya Nishizawa, Sawa Akiyama and Momoka Niitsuma will join Noism as Noism2 member. Also announced was that the 11th season will be extended until the end of September due to Mizu-Tsuchi 2015. Aoi Keimi (a Noism staff, former Noism1 dancer) will left Noism at the end of 11th season.
2015	08	01	1	Niigata	Niigata City Children's Creative Lerning Center	Body Workshop for Children, a project for Children, Water and Land Niigata Art Festival 2015			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	Megumi Mashimo will be the lecturer.
2015	08	08-09, 15-16	4	Niigata	Studio B, Ryutopia	Noism Summer School			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	Participated performance in Water and Land Niigata Art Festival 2015. Dancer Course: 8/8 (intermediate), 8/15(expert). Lecturers will be Yuki Yamada, Megumi Mashimo and Satoshi Nakagawa. General Course: 8/9, 15. Lecturers will be Yuki Yamada and Satoshi Nakagawa.
2015	08	21	1	Niigata	Theater, Ryutopia	Daegu City Modern Dance Company Moon-Looking Dog/2nd Act. of I Saw the Elephant (New Work)			Niigata City, Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	A dance company from Korea. An associated evenet with Nigata International Dance Festival 2015, which is an associated event with 'Cultural City of East Asia 2015 Niigata.'
2015	08	22-23	4	Niigata	Ground of former Futaba Junior High School, Niigata City.			Noism2 Summer Performance (with Niigata Taru-Kinuta Percussions) Spark Fire One More Time on the Red Ground	Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	Participated performance in Water and Land Niigata Art Festival 2015. Performance will start at 18:30 and 20:30 on both days.
2015	08	23	1	Niigata	Small Hall, Niigata Prefectural Civic Center	Tripatite Talk - Task of Dance Companies attached to Theaters, and The future of Asia			Niigata City, Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	Admission free, Reservation Required. 14:30-16:30. An associated event with Niigata International Dance Festival 2015, which is an associated event with 'Cultural City of East Asia 2015 Niigata.' Presenters are: Sung Yop Hong from Korea, Artistic Director of the Daegu City Modern Dance Company, Willy Tsao from China, Artistic Director of the City Contemporary Dance Company and Jo Kanamori from Niigata Japan, Artistic Director of Noism.
2015	08	28	1	Niigata	Theater, Ryutopia	City Contemporary Dance Company As If To Nothing			Niigata City, Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	A dance company from Hongkong. An associated event with Niigata International Dance Festival 2015, which is an associated event with 'Cultural City of East Asia 2015 Niigata.'
2015	08	29	1	Niigata	Untitled 09-01 by Noriaki Maeda at Akiba Park	Perfocmance of Choreographic Works by Noism1 Members: A Work by Megumi Mashimo			Executive Committee of Water and Land Niigata Art Festival 2015	Start at 15:00. Participated performance in Water and Land Niigata Art Festival 2015. Performers: Satoshi Nakagawa and Suwako Tanaka
2015	08	29	1	Niigata	Ohirune-House (The house of afternoon nap) by Yuuki Minamikawa at Nishi-Kaigan Park	Perfocmance of Choreographic Works by Noism1 Members: A Work by Kana Ikegaya			Executive Committee of Water and Land Niigata Art Festival 2015	Start at 15:00. Participated performance in Water and Land Niigata Art Festival 2015. Performers: Megumi Mashimo, Yuko Ishihara, Yuka Asaumi, Ayami Toba and Nana Yamashita
2015	08	30	1	Niigata	Kyoku (The curve) by Takashi Fujino/Ikimono Architects at Uwaseki-gata	Perfocmance of Choreographic Works by Noism1 Members: A Work by Yuya Yoshizaki			Executive Committee of Water and Land Niigata Art Festival 2015	Start at 15:00. Participated performance in Water and Land Niigata Art Festival 2015. Performers: Lin Yi Chien, Yuko Ishihara, Kana Ikegaya, Rui Kajita, Takuya Sato, Takahiro Ueda, Shinji Takagi, Ayami Toba and Kyoko Fukai
2015	09	04	1	Niigata	Theater, Ryutopia	Noism0 The House of Love and Spirit			Niigata City, Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	Participated performance in Water and Land Niigata Art Festival 2015 / An associated evenet with Nigata International Dance Festival 2015, which is an associated event with 'Cultural City of East Asia 2015 Niigata.' Noism0 is a project company that is composed of experts in performing arts. The performers are: Sawako Iseki, Yuki Yamada, Kenta Kojiri, Akihito Okuno (Shizuoka Performin Arts Center) and Jo Kanamori.
2015	09	05	1	Niigata	Music Room of former Futaba Junior High School, Niigata City	Reading Cafe in Water and Land Niigata City Art Festival 2015			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	13:00-15:30. Participated performance in Water and Land Niigata Art Festival 2015. Akihito Okuno of SPAC will be the navigator.
2015	09	05	1	Niigata	THE HEART OF TREES by Jaume Plensa at Yasyragi-tei, Shinano River	Perfocmance of Choreographic Works by Noism1 Members: A Work by Lin Yi Chien			Executive Committee of Water and Land Niigata Art Festival 2015	Start at 17:30. Participated performance in Water and Land Niigata Art Festival 2015. Performers: Yuya Yoshizaki, Rui Kajita, Suwako Tanaka, Rinako Iida and Nana Yamashita
2015	09	06	1	Niigata	The gym of former Futaba Junior High School, Niigata City	Noism Talk Show 'Ryutokai', Mizu-Tsuchi special version			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	14:30-16:30. Participated performance in Water and Land Niigata Art Festival 2015.
2015	09	06	1	Niigata	Gensei-Tatsu Tsuchi (Primitiveness - Standing Soil) by Tetsuo Sekine at Sakata	Perfocmance of Choreographic Works by Noism1 Members: A Work by Satoshi Nakagawa			Executive Committee of Water and Land Niigata Art Festival 2015	Start at 17:30. Participated performance in Water and Land Niigata Art Festival 2015. Performers: Megumi Mashimo, Leonard Jin Sumita, Yuko Ishihara, Yuya Yoshizaki, Takahiro Ueda, Yuka Asaumi and Hinano Nishioka
2015	09	14-15	2	Seoul (Republic of Korea)	Namsan Arts Center	Noism1 A girl who has been kept in cotton wool all her life (Series Modern Fairy Tale, vol.1), Seoul Performance				Participated performance in the 22nd BeSeTo Theater Festival
2015	09	15	1	Niigata	Niigata Municipal Meike Elementary School	Body Workshop for Children, a project for Children, Water and Land Niigata Art Festival 2015			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	Yuki Yamada is the lecturer with assistance of Noism2 all members.
2015	09	30	Ayaka Kamei and Leonard Jin Sumita (former Noism1 dancers) left Noism.
2015	09	30	11th season of Noism ended.
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12th Season
Year	Month	Date	Times of Performance	City	Venue	Performance Title			Promoter	Note
2015	10	01	Takahiro Ueda (former Noism associate member) and Suwako Tanaka (former Noism2 dancer) became Noism1 Dancers. Lin Shih Ping joined Noism as a Noism1 dancer. Yuka Asaumi (former Noism2 dancer) became Noism associate member. Maya Nishizawa and Sawa Akiyama joined Noism as Noism2 dancers. Momoka Niitsuma, who was announced to join, did not.
2015	10	20	Noism started lessons and rehearsals in 12th season.
2015	11	01	Noism2 new members audition was announced. Deadline is Jan. 23, 2016. Skill test will be held on February 07, 2016.
2015	11	17-19	3	Niigata	Niigata Municipal Higashi-Ishiyama, Kamiyama and Kuzutsuka Junior High Schools	Noism2 School Performance			Niigata City, Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	What performed is the revised version of Spark Fire One More Time on the Red Ground.
2015	11	22	1	Niigata	Studio B, Ryutopia	Noism Talk Show 'Ryutokai' Vol.14, Yukihiro Yoshihara and Jo Kanamori			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	Yukihiro Yoshihara is the owner of Yoshihara Photo Studio, and an artist. 16:30-18:00.
2015	12	11-13	3	Niigata	Studio B, Ryutopia			Noism2 Winter Performance	Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	Yuki Yamada's Painted Desert (revival) and SAUDADE (new work).
2015	12	27	1	Niigata	Studio B, Ryutopia	Q&A with Noism Artistic Director 2015			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	15:00-17:00. Admission free, reservation is not required.
2015	12	27	A press release for Dramatic Dance CARMEN (revival) was published.
2016	01	24	Another press release for Dramatic Dance CARMEN (revival) was published. Almost same as older version, but the notification that related events has ended is added.
2016	01	29	Supporters Bulletin 028 was published (A4, 12pp, Color)
2016	01	29-31	3	Niigata	Theater, Ryutopia			Noism1×Noism2 Dramatic Dance Carmen (revival) Niigata Performance	Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	Akihito Okuno of SPAC will join.
2016	02	07	Recruitment for Noism1 male dancers was announced.
2016	02	09	1	Niigata	Niigata Municipal Kameda Gymnasium	Body Workshop for School Teachers			Niigata City	Yuki Yamada and Megumi Mashimo were the lecturers.
2016	02	16	Jo Kanamori received the 33th Takaya Eguchi Award. (for the outcome of ASU and other works in 2015, by Contemporary Dance Association of Japan)
2016	02	19-21	3	Yokohama	Hall, Kanagaawa Arts Theatre	Noism1×Noism2 Dramatic Dance Carmen (revival) Kanagawa Performance			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	Akihito Okuno of SPAC will join.
2016	04	01?	Nana Yamashita of Noism2 left Noism.
2016	04	08	A press release for Dramatic Dance La Bayadère - Nation of Illusion was published. The document is dated as April 7, 2016.
2016	04	08	It was announced that Niigata City decided to keep Noism until August 2019.
2016	04	23	1	Niigata	Noh Theater, Ryutopia	An extension lecture with talking 'Ryutokai' Vol.15, Oriza Hirata and Jo Kanamori			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	Oriza Hirata is a dramatist. 16:00-18:00.
2016	06		Chan Hsiang-Yu came to Japan and joined Noism1 as dancer.
2016	06	17	Supporters Bulletin 029 was published (A4, 12pp, Color)
2016	06	17-19	3	Niigata	Theater, Ryutopia			Dramatic Dance La Bayadère - Nation of Illusion Niigata Performance	Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	3 actors from SPAC will join.
2016	06	26	1	Niigata	Studio B, Ryutopia	An extension lecture with talking 'Ryutokai' vol.16, Tsuyoshi Tane and Jo Kanamori			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	Tsuyoshi Tane is an architect. 16:30-18:30.
2016	07	01-03	3	Yokohama	Hall, Kanagaawa Arts Theatre	Dramatic Dance La Bayadère - Nation of Illusion Kanagawa Performance			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	3 actors from SPAC will join.
2016	07	08-09	2	Nishinomiya	Theater, Hyogo Performing Arts Center	Dramatic Dance La Bayadère - Nation of Illusion Hyogo Performance			Hyogo Prefecture, Hyogo Performing Arts Center	3 actors from SPAC will join.
2016	07	11	1	Nagoya	Large rehearsal room, Aichi Prerectural Arts Theater	A workshop for body and narration			Aichi Prefectural Arts Theater	19:30-20:30. for who have 5 years and up experience in dance or drama, and 18 years old and up. (Jo Kanamori and casts of La Bayadère. 1,500 yen. Reservation required.
2016	07	16	1	Nagoya	Aichi Prefectural Arts Theater	Dramatic Dance La Bayadère - Nation of Illusion Aichi Performance			Aichi Prefectural Arts Theater	3 actors from SPAC will join.
2016	07	19	1	Shizuoka	Rehearsal room, Shizuoka Arts Theater	Noism Body Workshop			Shizuoka Performing Arts Center	19:00-20:30. for Junior high school students and up (Yuki Yamada and Megumi Mashimo). 500 yen for Junior high school students and High school students, 1,000 yen for others. Reservation required.
2016	07	22	A press release for Noism0 - The House of Spirit (revival) was published. The document is dated as July 26, 2016.
2016	07	23-24	2	Shizuoka	Shizuoka Arts Theatre	Dramatic Dance La Bayadère - Nation of Illusion Shizuoka Performance			Shizuoka Performing Arts Center	3 actors from SPAC will join.
2016	07	27-31	5	Niigata	Studio B, Ryutopia	Noism Summer School 2016			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	13:00-14:15 Noism Ballet (Jo Kanamori, Megumi Mashimo and Kana Ikegaya)／14:30-15:45 Noism Method (Jo Kanamori, Yuki Yamada and Yuko Ishihara)／16:00-17:30 Noism Repertory (Jo Kanamori, Sawako Iseki and Satoshi Nakagawa)／17:30-18:00 Q&A (Jo Kanamori) on each days. All classes are independent. 1,000 yen for a class on a day, 4,000 yen for a class on 5 days／2,500 yen for all 3 classes on a day, 10,000 yen for all classes on 5 days. Reservation required.
2016	07	31	1	Niigata	No.5 Practice Room, Ryutopia	Noism Body Workshop			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	15:00-16:30 for elementary school students (Megumi Mashimo and Yuka Asaumi)／16:45-18:00 for 16 years old and up (Yuki Yamada and Yuya Yoshizaki). 500 yen for a class. Reservation required.
2016	07	31	Megumi Mashimo (former Noism Ballet Mistress), Lin Yi Chien, Rui Kajita, Takuya Sato, Takahiro Ueda and Suwako Tanaka (former Noism1 dancer), Rinako Iida, Shinji Takagi and Kyoko Fukai (former Noism2 dancer) left Noism. Those former dancers, without Sato, Ueda and Fukai joined La Bayadère Tottori Performance as guest dancers.
2016	07	31	The 12th season of Noism ends.
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13th Season
Year	Month	Date	Times of Performance	City	Venue	Performance Title			Promoter	Note
2016	08	01	Yuka Asaumi (former Noism associate member) became Noism1 dancer. Naoya Sakata joined Noism as Noism1 dancer.
2016	08	20-21	2	Saitama	Main Theater, Saitama Arts Theater	Noism0 The House of Love and Spirit (Revival) Saitama Performance			Niigata Executive Comittee of BeSeTo Theater Festival	An aligned performance with BeSeTo Theater Festival.
2016	08	31	The 4th circle of Noism ends.
2016	09	01	The 5th circle of Noism (until August, 2019) starts.
2016	09	01	Nanami Katayama, Kaede Kadoyama, Ayaki Makino and Rio Miyoshi joined Noism as Noism2 dancers. Ayaka Fujita joined Noism as associate member.
2016	09	24	1	Yonago	Yonago Culture Hall	Dramatic Dance La Bayadère - Nation of Illusion Tottori Performance				3 actors from SPAC will join.
2016	10	07	1	Niigata	Theater, Ryutopia	Noism0 The House of Love and Spirit (Revival) Niigata Performance			Niigata Executive Comittee of BeSeTo Theater Festival	An aligned performance with BeSeTo Theater Festival.
2016	11	01	1	Niigata	Niigata Municipal Hayadori Junior High School	Noism Special Lecture by Jo Kanamori			Niigata Nippo Reader's Club
2016	11	01?	Sena Imoto joined Noism as anassociate member.
2016	11	03	Noism2 new members audition was announced. Deadline is Feb. 19, 2017. Skill test will be held on March 05, 2017.
2016	11	05	1	Niigata	Niigata Municipal Higashi-Aoyama Elementary School	Noism Body Workshop				Yuki Yamada is the lecturer, Satoshi Nakagawa and Kana Ikegaya are assistants. One of the series Art Experiences for Parent and Child.
2016	11	08-16	3	Niigata	Niigata Municipal Iwamuro, Hakunan and Koai Junior High Schools	Noism2 Outreach Performance for Junior High School			Niigata City, Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	The Firebird by Jo Kanamori was performed.
2016	12	01	A press release for Noism2 Regular Performance was published.
2016	12	05	A press release for Noism1 The Match Seller's Tale & passacaglia was published. The document is dated as December 03, 2016.
2016	12	16-18	5	Niigata	Studio B, Ryutopia			Noism2 Regular Performance	Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	Firebird (by Kanamori) and Etude, a New work of Yuki Yamada.
2017	01	08	1	Niigata	Studio B, Ryutopia	Noism1 The Match Seller's Tale & passacaglia refearsal (opened to Noism Sponsers and Supporters menbers only)			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	Reservation required (not opened to public).
2017	01	10	Theater of Ryutopia will be suspended until April 20, 2017 due to maintenance.
2017	01	20	Supporters Bulletin 030 was published (A4, 12pp, Color)
2017	01	20-29	6	Niigata	Studio B, Ryutopia			Noism1 Series Modern Fairy Tale, vol.2 The Match Seller’s Tale & passacaglia	Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation
2017	02	09-12	5	Saitama	Adaptable Theater, Saitama Arts Theater	Noism1 Series Modern Fairy Tale, vol.2 The Match Seller's Tale & passacaglia Saitama Performance			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation
2017	02	17-26	6	Niigata	Studio B, Ryutopia	Noism1 Series Modern Fairy Tale vol.2, The Match Seller's Tale & passacaglia			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation
2017	03	05	1	Niigata	Studio B, Ryutopia	Workshop for members of highschool dance clubs in Niigata city			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	Lecturers were Noism1 members.
2017	03	23	Recruitment for male dancers was announced.
2017	03	30	1	Bucharest (Romania)	Grand Hall, National Theatre Bucharest	Dramatic Dance La Bayadère - Nation of Illusion Bucharest Performance			Japan Foundation	Cosponsored by Ambasada Japoniei in Romania, Radu Stanca National Theatre and Art Production Foundation.
2017	04	05-06	2	Sibiu (Romania)	Radu Stanca National Theatre	Noism1 Series Modern Fairy Tale, vol.2 The Match Seller's Tale & passacaglia, Sibiu Performance			Japan Foundation	Cosponsored by Ambasada Japoniei in Romania, Radu Stanca National Theatre and Art Production Foundation.
2017	05	25	It was announced that Shih Ping Lin of Noism1 and Sawa Akiyama of Noism2 will leave Noism at the end of 13th season; Sena Imoto of Noism associate member will be a Noism1 dancer from 14th season, Ayami Toba and Hinano Nishioka of Noism2 will be Noism1 associate members from 14th season; Mio Iwaki, Kana Mori, Mao Morikawa and Yu Suzuki will join Noism as Noism2 dancers from 14th season.
2017	05	26	It was announced at the talk show after perfoamcne on May 26 that Yuki Yamada will not be Noism2 choreographer from next season, but a teacher continuously. He may lose choreographic motivation.
2017	05	26	Supporters Bulletin 031 was published (A4, 12pp, Color)
2017	05	26-28	3	Niigata	Theater, Ryutopia			Noism1 New Work Liebestod - The Death of Love and a repertory Painted Desert Niigata Performance	Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	New Work by Jo Kanamori and a repertory of Yuki Yamada. Painted Desert was created for Noism2, and premiered at Noism2 Spring Performance in March 2014, then revivaled at Noism2 Regular Perfoamance in December 2015. This is the first case that Noism1 performe a work originally created for Noism2.
2017	05	29	The entire building of Ryutopia will be suspended until September 7, 2017 due to maintenance.
2017	06	02-04	3	Saitama	Main Theater, Saitama Arts Theater	Noism1 New Work Liebestod - The Death of Love and a repertory Painted Desert Saitama Performance			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	New Works by Jo Kanamori and a repertory of Yuki Yamada.
2017	06	23-25	5	Niigata	Niigata Prefectural Gorvernmemt Memorial Hall			Noism2 Special Performance 2017 Yorunochi	Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation, Niigata Prefectural Gorvernmemt Memorial Hall	New Work by Shintaro Hirahara. It was announced on April 21 that an additional performance will be held on June 24. Another additional performance on June 25 night was announced on May 10.
2017	07	31	Shih Ping Lin (former Noism1 dancer) and Sawa Akiyama (former Noism2 dancer) left Noism.
2017	07	31	The 13th season of Noism ends.
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14th Season
Year	Month	Date	Times of Performance	City	Venue	Performance Title			Promoter	Note
2017	08	01	The 14th season of Noism started. (Usually the season starts in September, but in 2017 it was advanced 1 month due to NINA tour.)
2017	08	01	Yuki Yamada retired Noism2 Resident Choreographer, still does be Noism2 Rehearsal Director. Sena Imoto (former Noism1 associate member) become Noism1 member.　Ayami Toba and Hinano Nishioka (former Noism2 member) become Noism1 associate members. Mio Iwaki, Mao Morikawa and Kana Mori become Noism2 members. Yu Suzuki did not join Noism2.
2017	08	11	1	Imizu	High Frequency Culture Hall	Noism1 × WADA ASAKO DANCE COMPANY Toyama Performance			Toyama Prefectural Artistic and Cultural Association, Toyama Prefecture, The Kitanippon Shimbun	Part 1: Repertories of Wada Asako Dance Company, Part 2: Painted Desert by Noism1
2017	08	13	1	Niigata	The Niigata Bandaijima Art Museum	Noism Special Performance @ Exhibition Léonard Foujita and models			The Niigata Bandaijima Art Museum	Start 18:45. Reservation and entrance fee for the museum rquired.
2017	08	31	It was announced that Yuko Ishihara, former Noism1 dancer, leave Noism today due to personal matter.
2017	09	01	1	Niigata	Nippo Hall	Noism Special Performance at Niigata Conference for Community Development			Community Development Section, Niigata City	An attraction for opening ceremony of the conference. New work Saiha (Breaking Waves) will be performed. Reservation required. Capable of seating 200.
2017	09	01	Yu Suzuki became Noism2 member.
2017	09	15	1	Niigata	Special Stage of Niigata City History Museum	Minatopia Projection Mapping with Noism1 in Minato Niigata Lighting Festa 2017			Minato Niigata Lighting Festa 2017 Executive Committee	Admisstion free. No reservation necessary. Noism1 will performe at 19:00. Saiha was performed.
2017	09	20-21	2	Niigata	Niigata Municipal Sonoki Junior High School, Koshin Junior High School	Noism2 School Performance			Niigata City, Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	School performance at junior high schools in Niigata city. The Firebird (by Jo Kanamori) was performed.
2017	09	27	1	Niigata	Studio B, Ryutopia	NIDF 2017 Workshop			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation, NIDF 2017 Executive Committee	Reservation required. Sung Yop Hong of Daegu Contemporary Dance Company (Korea) is the lecturer.
2017	09	29	1	Niigata	Theater, Ryutopia	Niigata International Dance Festival (NIDF) 2017; Daegu Contemporary Dance Company Performance			NIDF 2017 Executive Committee	Coming from Daegu City, Korea. Former named Daegu City Modern Dance Company (DCMDC). NIDF 2017 Executive Committee=East Japan Railway Company Niigata Branch, Niigata Nippo Co., Ltd., Broadcasting System of Niigata, Inc., Niigata City Western-Style Dance Association, Niigata Visitors & Convention Bureau, Niigata City Culture and Sports Commission, Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation and Niigata City.
2017	10	08	1	Niigata	Theater, Ryutopia	NIDF 2017; T.H.E Dance Company (The Human Expression Dance Company) Performance			NIDF 2017 Executive Committee	Coming from Singapore. Kei Ushiroda, former Noism member, is now member of this company.
2017	10	09	1	Niigata	Studio B, Ryutopia	NIDF 2017 Workshop			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation, NIDF 2017 Executive Committee	Reservation required. Swee Boon Kuik of T.H.E Dance Company (Singapole) is the lecturer.
2017	10	15	1	Niigata	Theater, Ryutopia	NIDF 2017; City Contemporary Dance Company Performance			NIDF 2017 Executive Committee	Coming from Hong Kong, China.
2017	10	16	1	Niigata	Studio B, Ryutopia	NIDF 2017 Workshop			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation, NIDF 2017 Executive Committee	Rewervation required. Willy Tsao of City Contemporary Dance Company (Hong Kong, China) is the lecturer.
2017	10	22	1	Daegu	Daegu Arts Center	Noism1 NINA - materialize sacrifice (ver. 2017) Daegu (Korea) Performance			Daegu Metropolitan City, Daegu Arts Center	Noism1 East Asia Tour in 2017. Participated in Daegu & Asia Contemporary Dance Festival. The work is distinguished from ver. black, so named ver. 2017 tentatively at this site.
2017	11	08-09	2	Hangzhou	Zhejiang Concert Hall	Noism1 NINA - materialize sacrifice (ver. 2017) Hangzhou (China) performance			BeSeTo Committee of China	Noism1 East Asia tour in 2017.
2017	11	15	1	Niigata	Noh Theater, Ryutopia	Seiichi Kondo's talk series Interrogation No.5-2 Japanese Classical Dance and Contemporary Dance with Jo Kanamori and Nasoyo Ichiyama			The Japanese Classical Dance Association Inc.	Seiichi Kondo is the president of The Japanese Classical Dance Association. Nanayo Ichiyama is the unit manager of The Japanese Classical Dance Association Niigata Branch.
2017	11	24	1	Hong Kong	Kwai Tsing Theatre	Noism1 NINA - materialize sacrifice (ver. 2017) Hong Kong Performance			City Contemporary Dance Company, Hong Kong	Noism1 East Asia tour in 2017.
2017	12	01	1	Kyoto	mumokuteki hall	Listen to professionals! -Relocation of the Agency for Cultural Affairs and the Future of Cultural Art- Creating in a Theater			Kyoto City	Performers: Jo Kanamori (Artistic Director of the Dance Department of Ryutopia and Noism) and Masato Horiuchi (Technical Supervisor of Kanagawa Arts Theater) Facilitator: Naoto Moriyama (Professor, Department of Performing Arts, Faculty of Arts, Kyoto Art and Design University) Reservation required (first 100 arrivals); Refer to the link destination. (in Japanese)
2017	12	03	1	Niigata	Noh Theater, Ryutopia	An extension lecture with talking 'Ryutokai' Vol.17, Tamae Hirokawa and Jo Kanamori			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	Tamae Hirokawa is a costume designer of SOMA DESIGN. Reservation required.
2017	12	15	Supporters Bulletin 032 was published (A4, 12pp, Color)
2017	12	15-17	3	Niigata	Theater, Ryutopia			Noism1 NINA - materialize sacrifice (ver. 2017) Niigata Performance	Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	Participated performance in Niigata International Dance Festival (NIDF) 2017. Jo Kanamori's new work The Dream of the Swan, a solo dance by Sawako Iseki, will be performed together.
2017	12	17	1	Niigata	Theater, Ryutopia	NIDF 2017; International Symposium The Future of Theatrical Culture in Asia			NIDF 2017 Executive Committee	Members are Artistic Director of dance companies that joined NIDF 2017.
2017	12	25	Recruitment for Noism1 male dancers was announced on official website of Noism. A flyer was distributed at the venue of NINA Niigata Performance.
2018	01	17	1	Saitama	Large Practice Room, Saitama Arts Theater	Noism Repertory Workshop			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	Sawako Iseki is the recturer. Reservation required.
2018	01	26-28	4	Niigata	Studio B, Ryutopia			Noism2 Regular Performance vol.9	Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	Make me Cry, a new work by Yasutake Shimaji and a Noism repertory by Jo Kanamori.
2018	02	04	1	Niigata	Noh Theater, Ryutopia	An extension lecture with talking 'Ryutokai' Vol.17, Kenichiro Mogi and Jo Kanamori			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	Kenichiro Mogi is a neuroscientist. Reservation required.16:00-18:00. The venue was changed from Studio B to Noh Theater.
2018	02	17-18	2	Saitama	Main Theater, Saitama Arts Theater	Noism1 NINA - materialize sacrifice (ver. 2017) Saitama Performance			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	Jo Kanamori's The Dream of the Swan, a solo dance by Sawako Iseki, will be performed together.
2018	03	04	Noism2 member audition will be held at Ryutopia.
2018	03	06	Niigata Nippo's Web site reported on March 6 that Satoshi Koyanagi, a member of city council, voiced on March 5 that Noism should have positive evaluation of Niigata citizens to have continued activity. Tsutomu Nakano, director of culture and sports department, Niigata City, responded that they will review of the status of Noism by the end of March 2019.
2018	04	01	It is annouced that 3 Noism1 members, Satoshi Nakagawa, Yuya Yoshizaki and Naoya Sakata and a Noism1 associate member, Ayami Toba will left Noism; Sakata will performe in Japan until Mirroring Memories on April, others will performe until ROMEO & JULIETS Saitama performance on September; Hinano Nishioka (Noism1 associate member) and Maya Nishizawa (Nosim2 member) will be promoted to Noism1 members; Nanami Katayama and Rio Miyoshi (Noism2 member) will be promoted to Noism1 associate members.
2018	04	14	1	Niigata	Theater, Ryutopia	Art Mix Japan 2018 Niigata Soh-odori (All Niigata Dancing Festival)			Art Mix Japan Executive Committee	Noism2 will take part in the performance.
2018	04	28	Supporters Bulletin 033 was published (A4, 4pp, Color, extra edition)
2018	04	28-30	3	Tokyo	Recital Hall, Tokyo Bunka Kaikan	Noism1 Special Performance Mirroring Memories - those are as sacred lights			＜Ueno Forests Ballet Holiday＞ executive committee	An omnibus piece of excerpts from 10 Noism repertories and new parts that will be performed by Jo Kanamori himself.
2018	05	12-13	2	Hangzhou	Zhejiang University Theatre	Noism1 NINA Hangzhou Performance (Cancelled)				Cancelled due to venue accident. (April 21, 2018)
2018	05	19-20	2	Shanghai	Shanghai International Dance Center, Grand Theatre	Noism1 NINA Shanghai Performance			Shanghai International Dance Center Theater Management Co. Ltd.	The Dream of the Swan will be performed also.
2018	07	04	Sawako Iseki received the 38th Nimura Dance Award. (for the outcome of Liebestod and her achievement as the vice artistic director of Noism, by Suwa City)
2018	07	05	It was announced that Ayami Toba, Noism1 associate member, will be a Noism1 member from the 15th season, who was announced on April to leave Noism.
2018	07	06	Supporters Bulletin 034 was published (A4, 8pp, Color)
2018	07	06-08	3	Niigata	Theater, Ryutopia			Noism×SPAC Dramatic Dance vol.5 ROMEO & JULIETS Niigata Performance	Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	Guest actors from Shizuoka Performing Arts Center take part in the performance.
2018	07	14	1	Toyama	Aubade Hall	Noism×SPAC Dramatic Dance vol.5 ROMEO & JULIETS Toyama Performance			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	Guest actors from Shizuoka Performing Arts Center take part in the performance. Aubede Hall is the nickname of Toyama City Theater for Performing Arts.
2018	07	19	1	Niigata	Niigata City Kounan Ward Culture Hall	The 69th Niigata Prefecture Public Hall Meeting			Niigata City Board of Education	Noism2 performed Saiha.
2018	07	21-22	2	Shizuoka	Shizuoka Arts Theatre	Noism×SPAC Dramatic Dance vol.5 ROMEO & JULIETS Shizuoka Performance			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	Guest actors from Shizuoka Performing Arts Center take part in the performance.
2018	07	26-30		Niigata	Studio B, Ryutopia	Noism Summer School 2018			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	Jo Kanamori, Sawako Iseki and Noism1 members will recture Noism Method, Noism Ballet and Noism Repertories. Q&A will be also.
2018	07	28-29	3	Niigata	Bandaijima Multipurpose Plaza			Noism2 Special Performance 2018	Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	New work Zone by Yoshimitsu Kushida will be performed. The venue is outdoor. Rain or shine.
2018	07	31	14th Season of Noism ended.
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15th Season
Year	Month	Date	Times of Performance	City	Venue	Performance Title			Promoter	Note
2018	09	04	Noism started lessons and rehearsals in 15th season.
2018	09	14-16	3	Saitama	Main Hall, Saitama Arts Theater	Noism×SPAC Dramatic Dance vol.5 ROMEO & JULIETS Saitama Performance			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	Guest actors from Shizuoka Performing Arts Center take part in the performance.
2018	10	07	1	Osaka	Yamamoto Noh-theater	Noh and Noism			Yamamoto Noh-theater	Short performances of Noh and Noism, and a talk show.
2018	10	28	Niigata mayoral election was held. Mr. Yaichi Nakahara (aged 59, supported by LDP) was elected firstly. The prizewinner is a former member of House of Councilors (LDP).
2018	11	17	1	Niigata	Theater, Ryutopia	Open rehearsal of Dramatic Dance La Bayadere - Nation of Illusion for Noism Sponsor Members			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	Reservation required (not opened to public). 12:00-14:00. A rehearsal for St. Petersburg Performance (Nov. 21) of Dramatic Dance La Bayadere - Nation of Illusion.
2018	11	22	1	St. Petersburg (Russia)	Alexandrinsky Theatre	Dramatic Dance La Bayadere - Nation of Illusion St. Petersburg Performance			DIAGHILEV. Postscriptum. International festival of arts in St Petersburg	Here is the official news release.
2018	11	29	1	Niigata	Niigata University of International and Information Studies	Noism Body Workshop			Niigata University of International and Information Studies	Yuki Yamada was the lecturer. Participants were members and teachers of international exchange facilitator education course, about 30 person.
2018	12	02	1	Niigata	Studio B, Ryutopia	An extension lecture with talking 'Ryutokai' Vol.19, Dan Sunaga and Jo Kanamori			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	Dan Sunaga is a furniture designer.
2018	12	15	Niigata Nippo published that Niigata City will extend recent contract with Noism one more year. Mr. Nakahara, the new mayor will consider signing new contract with Noism in that time. That is an extension of 5th circle one more year, NOT the beginning of 6th circle.
2018	12	22	1	Suwa	Suwa City Culture Center	The 41st Suwa City Art Festival (including prize-awarding ceremony of the 38th Nimura Dance Prize)			Suwa City Bord of Education	Part 1: Prize-awarding ceremony of the 38th Nimura Dance Prize (for Sawako Iseki). Part 2: Performance of dance works by Yeichi Nimura. Part 3: Performance of a dance work of Miyako Kato.
2018	12	25	Theater of Ryutopia will be suspended until February 28, 2019 due to maintenance.
2019	01	01	Jo Kanamori received the 60th Mainichi Arts Award. (for the direction, choreography and dancing of Mirroring Memories and Romeo & Juliets.)
2019	01	13	1	Niigata	Studio B, Ryutopia	Open rehearsal of R.O.O.M. / Mirror in the Mirror for Noism Sponsers and Supporters Members			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	Start 12:30, length will be 1 hour. Reservation required. Not opened to public.
2019	01	25	Supporters Bulletin 035 was published (A4, 8pp, Color) Noism Supporters Unofficial has decided and published that they discontinue privileges of membership (showing Noism rehearsals) and fixed membership fee; due to enrich of Noism Sponsors membership system (low price membership was started). They also induce their members to participate Noism Sponsors membership. They continue their activity as a corporate member of Noism Sponsors and recruiting their own members.
2019	01	25-02/17	13	Niigata	Studio B, Ryutopia			Noism1 Experimental Dance vol.1 R.O.O.M./Mirror in the Mirror Niigata Performance	Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	A new work by Jo Kanamori.
2019	02	21-24	5	Tokyo	Kichijoji Theatre	Noism1 Experimental Dance vol.1 R.O.O.M./Mirror in the Mirror Tokyo Performance			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	A new work by Jo Kanamori.
2019	03	03	1	Niigata	Studio B, Ryutopia	Special post performance talk show of Noism1 R.O.O.M./Morror in the Mirror.			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	Start 16:30. No reservation required; show ticket stub of R.O.O.M. to enter. Jo Kanamori, Sawako Iseki and Noism1 members will perform.
2019	03	06	It was announced that Niigata City submitted 2019 FY budget of Ryutopia (Niigata City Performing Arts Center), including activities of Noism until August 2020, to Niigata City council.
2019	03	09	It was announced that auditions for Noism1 and 2 members will be held.
2019	03	15-17	5	Niigata	Studio B, Ryutopia			Noism2 Regular Performance vol.10	Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	A new work by Shintaro Hirahara BOW!!! and Noism repertories.
2019	03	24	1	Niigata	Studio B, Ryutopia	An extension lecture with talking 'Ryutokai' vol.20, Kazuya Kondo and Jo Kanamori			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	Kazuya Kondo is a graphic designer.
2019	03	31	An audition for Noism2 member was held at Ryutopia.
2019	04	11	It was announced that Noism1 Sibiu (Romania) Performance was cancelled due to deficit of subsidy.
2019	04	14	An audition for Noism1 member will be held at Ryutopia.
2019	04	19-20	2	Sapporo	Creative Studio, Sapporo Cultural Arts Theater hitaru	Noism2 Sapporo Performance			Sapporo Cultural Arts Foundation	The program is the same as thier regular performance vol.10 on March, 2019.
2019	05	10	It was announced that they are recruiting a staff attached to the company of Noism. Annual salary system, a yearly contract and no social insurance.
2019	05	12	1	Niigata	Studio B, Ryutopia	A rehearsal of Carmen, opened to Noism sponser members			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation
2019	05	18	1	Niigata	Studio B, Ryutopia	A rehearsal of Carmen, opened to Noism sponser members			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation
2019	05	29-31	3	Moscow	Helicon-Opera Theatre	Noism Dramatic Dance Carmen Moscow Performance			Chekhov International Theatre Festival	Invited by Chekhov International Theatre Festival 2019. Noism1, Noism2. a guest dancer and a guest actor will perform.
2019	06	14-15	2	Sibiu (Romania)	Unknown	Noism1 Experimental Dance vol.1 R.O.O.M./Mirror in the Mirror Sibiu Performance			Sibiu International Theater Festival	Invited from Sibiu International Theater Festival. Cancellation was announced on 11 April 2019, due to shortage of subsidies.
2019	06	20	Niigata Nippo More (Web Edition) reported that Mr. Nakahara, the mayor of Niigata City, professed at a plenary meeting of Niigata City Assembly on June 19 that he will make a decision about activities of Noism behind next September by the end of this August.
2019	06	26	1	Kyoto	Kyoto Art Center	Listen before Jump! Workshop + Q&A (Talk Session)			Kyoto Art Center	Sawako Isaki was the lecturer. Workshop: Noism Method and Noism Ballet. Talk Session: Deveropping career of young dancers and making association with the general public by Noism.
2019	07	04	Supporters Mail Magazine 001 was issued. (in Japanese)
2019	07	06	1	Niigata	Studio B, Ryutopia	Open reharsal of the 15th anniversary performance of Noism			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	For Noism Sponcer Members only. Not opened to the public. 12:00-13:00.
2019	07	07	1	Niigata	Studio B, Ryutopia	Open reharsal of the 15th anniversary performance of Noism			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	For Noism Sponcer Members only. Not opened to the public. 12:00-13:00.
2019	07	08	Niigata City held a conference; the 2nd verifying committee for Noism, the dance company attached to Ryutopia. The committee was established as per instructions from Mr. Nakahara, the mayor of Niigata City, on early June, 2019. Members are 7 persons; intellectual persons living in Niigata, university professors and an expert in theater operation. Jo Kanamori gave a presentation as a person concerned that explaining his artistic result and action plans for the future. This is the final committee.
2019	07	09	Supporters Mail Magazine 002 was issued. (in Japanese)
2019	07	10	10 delagates of interested citizens of Niigata City presented the petition for keeping activity of Noism to the Mayor and the Chief Director of Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation.
2019	07	10	Noism announced their members in the 16th (2019/2020) season. Artistic Director=Jo KANAMORI, Vice-Artistic Director=Sawako ISEKI, Noism2 Rehearsal Director=Yuki YAMADA; Noism1 members=Kana IKEGAYA, Geoffroy POPLAWSKI, Sena IMOTO, Kairi HAYASHIDA, Charlie LEUNG, Kai TOMIOKA, Hinano NISHIOKA, Stephen QUILDAN, Tyrone ROBINSON, Ayami TOBA and Maya NISHIZAWA; Associate member=Rio MIYOSHI; Noism2 members=Kana MORI, Honoka IKEDA, Milan Hajime KHANAL, Karin SUGINO, Mariya NAGASAWA, Remi HASHIMOTO and Tomomi NAKAMURA; Company Staffs=Haruka UESUGI, Ryu ENDO and Izumi HORIKAWA Leavers are; Noism1=Yuka ASAUMI and Hsiang Yu CHAN; Associate Member=Nanami KATAYAMA; Noism2=Kaede KADOYAMA, Mio IWAKI, Mao MORIKAWA and Yu SUZUKI Determinate members are cleared on September 10; Hinano Nishioka left Noism1, and Hikaru Tsubota joined Noism2.
2019	07	11	1	Niigata	Theater, Ryutopia	Open reharsal of the 15th anniversary performance of Noism (opened to the press)			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	For Noism Sponcer Members and the press only. Not opened to the public. 13:00-14:00.
2019	07	15	Supporters Mail Magazine 003 was issued. (in Japanese)
2019	07	16	SPICE published an article by Morihiko Takahashi, a dance critic, titled as "At The 15th Anniversary of Noism."
2019	07	19-21	3	Niigata	Theater, Ryutopia			Mirroring Memories and Fratres I (new work) Niigata Performance	Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	Refer to the Link of Tokyo Performance for Fratres I.
2019	07	26	Some delagates of interested citizens of Niigata City presented the petition for keeping activity of Noism to The Chairperson of Niigata City Council. The Chairperson said that Niigata City is not examining to discontinue Noism but change of thier activity.
2019	07	26-28	3	Tokyo	Meguro Persimmon Hall	Mirroring Memories and Fratres I (new work) Tokyo performance			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	Refer to the Link or Niigata Performance for Mirroring Memories.
2019	07	29	Nihon Keizai Shimbun (Nikkei Newspaper) web edition reported as "The mayor of Niigata City will decide maintenance of Noism, the dance company of Niigata, by the end of August."
2019	07	31	Niigata Nippo More(News paper of Niigata, web edition) reported as "Noism can't see into their future; the renewal of thier contract does not be fiedx; the mayor of Niigata City to make decision by the end of August." It vaguely suggests that the activity of Noism may change.BSN (Broadcasting System of Niigata Inc.) also reported the summary of this arcicle.
2019	07	31-08/04		Niigata	Studio B, Ryutopia	Noism Summer School 2019			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	Lecturers are Yuki Yamada and Noism1 members.
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16th Season
Year	Month	Date	Times of Performance	City	Venue	Performance Title			Promoter	Note
2019	08	01	Bijyutsu Techo (The Note of Art) web edition reported as "A Dance Company Noism was examined thier continuation．”
2019	08	04	1	Niigata	Studio B, Ryutopia	Noism2 Special Showing			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	A showing of Noism repertoires and some work in progress by Yuki Yamada. For Noism sponcer members only. Not opened to the public. 12:30-13:30.
2019	08	08	Supporters Mail Magazine 004 was issued. (in Japanese)
2019	08	09	Supporters Mail Magazine 005 was issued. (in Japanese)
2019	08	14	Niigata Nippo published thier editorial on August 14 and asserted as follows; Noism is a cultural property of Niigata City, which has been developed since 15 years before. Niigata City should make development its Dancing Culture as to promote economic effects and regional vitalization. Mr. Nakahara, the mayor of Niigata City, should make his decision about Noism carefully．Noism should also think about what is needed to develop their activities rooted in the community.
2019	08	17	Asahi Shimbun Digital reported as 'What Noism will be? The international Dance Company and Financial difficulty of Niigata city' that history of Noism and its evaluation, current status of Niigata city, comment of Ms. Uesugi (Noism staff) and Ms. Koshino (Noism Supporters Unofficial), and an interview with Jo Kanamori.
2019	08	21	Mr. Hitoshi Terao, an associate professor of Faculty of Engineering, Niigata University (and a member of Noism Supporters Unofficial), contributed to the Niigata Nippo newspaper and said that Noism should inclease making thier works with artists in Niigata to improve theatrical culture of Niigata.
2019	08	24	Niigata Nippo published an interview with Jo Kanamori. Kanamori said as follows; When he started Noism in 2004, he looked to establish the theatrical culture 100 years later, and he would take it himself first 30 years. He would like to continue Noism. He beleives that the return to citizens is not only using local human power and/or local goods but also showing first class performance in the world to Niigata citizens. He hope that Noism to be what citizens beleive as first class in the world.
2019	08	27	UX Niigata TV 21 reported on their news on August 27 that Niigata City noticed to Noism to extend the contract for 2 years with some conditions.
2019	08	28	Niigata Nippo reported that Niigata City personnel met Jo Kanamori on August 24 and told their intention to extend the contract 2 years (until the end of August 2022) with some conditions; Mr. Nakahara, the mayor of Niigata city, said that he couldn't make comment because it was under negotiation. BSN and NHK Niigata also reported as same. NHK especially referred to the possibility of reducing subsidy from Niigata city. Refer to Suppoter's Mail Magazine 007 (Aug.30) for what reported by media later.
2019	08	28	Supporters Mail Magazine 006 was issued. (in Japanese)
2019	08	29	Niigata City renewed its website and published the results of its verification of Noism activities, and what requested to Noism in the recent negotiation for contract extension.
2019	08	30	Supporters Mail Magazine 007 was issued. (in Japanese)
2019	08	31	The 5th circle of Noism ends. Extension for one more year was announced in March, 2019.
2019	09	01	Extension period of the 5th circle of Noism (until August, 2020) The 6th circle of Noism (until August, 2022) starts.
2019	09	10	Noism started lessons and rehearsals in 16th season.
2019	09	16	1	Niigata	Exhibition Hall, Toki Messe	Opening Ceremony of The 34th National Cultural Festival - Niigata 2019, and The 19th Niigata National Arts abd Culture Festival for Persons with Disabilities			Executive Committee of the 34th National Cultural Festival and the 19th National Arts and Culture Festival for Persons with Disabilities of Niigata Prefecture	Dancers will be Sawako Iseki and Jo Kanamori. Length will be 3 min., or so.
2019	09	20-22	2	Toga (Toyama Pref., Japan)	Toga Art Park of Toyama Prefecture	The 9th Theatre Olympics; still/speed/silence by Jo Kanamori			Theatre Olympics International Committee	still/speed/silence (Direction, Choreography: Jo Kanamori, Music: Keiko Harada) will be performed. Dancers are Jo Kanamori and Sawako Iseki; named themselves Noism0.
2019	09	26	Supporters Mail Magazine 009 was issued. (in Japanese)
2019	09	26	Noism announced that the extension of their contract for the 6th Circle (from Sept. 01, 2019 to Aug. 31, 2022) has formally fixed.
2019	09	27	Supporters Mail Magazine 008 was issued. (in Japanese)
2019	09	27	Noism, Niigata City and Ryutopia had a press conference at Ryutopia. They formally announced the contract extention for Noism 6th Circle. Also announced was Noism performance in winter, 2019-2020. Noism also announced that they have 3 companies (Noism0, Noism1 and Noism2) from 16th Season; Sawako Iseki, Jo Kanamori and Yuki Yamada are members of Noism0.
2019	09	29	1	Niigata	Studio B, Ryutopia	Noism Talk Show 'Ryutokai' vol.21, Yuki Mori and Jo Kanamori - Is the dance company attached to a Japanese theater needed?			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	Yuki Mori is a dancer, choreographer who has been an artistic director of public theater in Europe firstly as a Japanese person. He will provide a dance work to Noism1 for their performance on December, 2019.
2019	10	01	Supporters Mail Magazine 010 was issued. (in Japanese)
2019	10	19	1	Niigata	Light and Sound Hall, Children Cleative Center, Ikutopia Shokuhana	Noism Workshop for Children			Niigata City and Children Cleative Center	For primary school children. Reservation required. The lecturer is Yuki Yamada.
2019	10	22	Supporters Mail Magazine 011 was issued. (in Japanese)
2019	11	09-10	2	Tottori	Former Kowashigawa Elementary School Gymnasium	BeSeTo 26; Noism1 Mirroring Memories			BeSeTo Japan Committee, Japan Performing Arts Foundation	Performance will start at 17:00 on both day. Ticket will on sale from 10:00 on September 14. Call 0857-84-3268 (Bird Theatre) or mail to ticket@birdtheatre.org.
2019	11	19	Supporters Mail Magazine 012 was issued. (in Japanese)
2019	11	30	1	Niigata	Studio B, Ryutopia	Noism rehearsal opened to sponsor members			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	Not opened to public.
2019	12	05	1	Niigata	Theater, Ryutopia	Noism rehearsal opened to the media			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	Not opened to public, but also opened to Noism sponsor members.
2019	12	06	Supporters Mail Magazine 013 was issued. (in Japanese)
2019	12	13-15	3	Niigata	Theater, Ryutopia			Noism1+Noism0 Yuki Mori+Jo Kanamori Double Bill Niigata Performance	Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	New works; Farben by Yuki Mori and CINEMATODANCE - Three Short Pieces by Jo Kanamori.
2019	12	17-19	3	Niigata	Studio B, Ryutopia	Noism workshops for Niigata Citizens			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	For regional contribution. Dec. 17: for dance club members of high schools in Niigata Prefecture. 26 persons from 7 schools will join; Dec. 18: for blind persons; Dec. 19: for dancers will join Jo Kanamori's work that will perform at　the memorial performance of Niigata City Western-style Dance Association, Oct. 2020.
2019	12	24	Supporters Mail Magazine 014 was issued. (in Japanese)
2020	01	09	Supporters Mail Magazine 015 was issued. (in Japanese)
2020	01	17-19	3	Saitama	Main Hall, Saitama Arts Theater	Noism1+Noism0 Yuki Mori+Jo Kanamori Double Bill Saitama Performance			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation, Cosponsored by Saitama Arts Foundation	New works; Farben by Yuki Mori and CINEMATODANCE - Three Short Pieces by Jo Kanamori.
2020	01	23	Supporters Mail Magazine 016 was issued. (in Japanese)
2020	01	31	1	Niigata	Theater, Ryutopia	Simple version of Chronos Kairos 1 for Students of Niigata Municipal Hakushin Junior High School			Niigata City Educational Committee, may be	https://twitter.com/jokanamori/status/1223177865048420353
2020	02	02	A ceremony to support Noism Company Niigata with Mr. Masayuki Saito as the founder's representative was held at Gioia Mia Niigata. https://twitter.com/NoismPR/status/1224542292565872640 https://twitter.com/jokanamori/status/1223939508288147462
2020	02	20	Supporters Mail Magazine 017 was issued. (in Japanese)
2020	03	03	Supporters Mail Magazine 018 was issued. (in Japanese)
2020	03	06-08	5	Niigata	Studio B, Ryutopia			Noism2 Regular Performance vol.11	Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	Noism Repertoire by Jo Kanamori and a new work, Black Elephant by Yuki Yamada. Postponed untill July 2020 due to coronavirus counterplan; announced on Feb. 28.
2020	03	12	Supporters Mail Magazine 018 update was issued. (in Japanese)
2020	04	05	Noism2 member audition will be held at Ryutopia. Active period is not 2 years, but 1 year from Sept. 2020. Changed on March 27 to private audition due to avoid spread of cronavirus.
2020	04	14	Supporters Mail Magazine 019 was issued. (in Japanese)
2020	04	19	1	Niigata	Studio B, Ryutopia	Noism Ballet / Pre-opening of Open Class by Noism Company Niigata			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	For junior-high school students or elder who have dance experience more than 3 years. Reservation required. Fee: 500 yen. Lecturer: Sawako Iseki. 19:30-20:45. Cancelled due to avoiding COVID-19. (Apr.08)
2020	04	26	1	Niigata	Studio B, Ryutopia.	Body Workshop for Children / Pre-opening of Open Class by Noism Company Niigata			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	For elementary school and junior-high school students and thier parents. Reservation required. Fee: 500 yen. Lecturer: Yuki Yamada.14:30-15:30. Cancelled due to avoiding COVID-19. (Apr.08)
2020	05	10	1	Niigata	Studio B, Ryutopia	Body Workshop for Adults / Pre-opening of Open Class by Noism Company Niigata			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	For highschool students and elder. Reservation required. Fee: 500 yen. Lecturer: Yuki Yamada.14:30-15:45. Cancelled due to avoiding COVID-19. (Apr.08)
2020	05	17	1	Niigata	Studio B, Ryutopia	Noism Repertoire / Pre-opening of Open Class by Noism Company Niigata			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	For highschool students of elder who have dance experience more than 3 years.19:30-20:45. Cancelled due to avoiding COVID-19. (Apr.08)
2020	05	17	1	Niigata	Beans Hall, Niigata City Central Public Library	Noism Talk Show 'Ryutokai' vol.22, Ayumu Eguchi and Jo Kanamori - Is it true that Niigata is a place of cultural desert?			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	Ayumu Eguchi is the representative of NAMARA, a comedy group of Niigata.15:00-16:30. Postponed due to avoiding COVID-19. (altanative date is unknown; as of May 12)
2020	05	20	Supporters Mail Magazine 020 was issued. (in Japanese)
2020	06	12-14	3	Niigata	Theater, Ryutopia			Experimental Dance vol.2 Le Sacre du printemps by Noism0 + Noism1 + Noism2 and Fratres III by Noism0 + Noism1, Niigata Performance	Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	Double bill of new works by Jo Kanamori. Cancelled due to avoiding COVID-19. (may performe in summer, 2021) Preview performance in Niigata will be held on August 2020. (May 19)
2020	06	13-14	2	Niigata	Theater, Ryutopia	Experimental Dance vol.2 Le Sacre du printemps by Noism0 + Noism1 + Noism2 reharsal			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	Reservation required. Opened to Noism Sponsorship Members living in Niigata Prefecture only. Not opened to public. Limited to 50 audiences each.
2020	06	18	Supporters Mail Magazine 021 was issued. (in Japanese)
2020	06	19-21	3	Tokyo	Playhouse, Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre	Experimental Dance vol.2 Le Sacre du printemps by Noism0 + Noism1 + Noism2 and Fratres III by Noism0 + Noism1, Tokyo Performance Cancelled (May 19)			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	Double bill of new works by Jo Kanamori. Cancelled due to avoiding COVID-19. (May 19)
2020	07	02-03	2	Sapporo	Creative Studio, Sapporo Caltural Arts Theater	Experimental Dance vol.2 Le Sacre du printemps by Noism0 + Noism1 + Noism2 and Fratres III by Noism0 + Noism1, Sapporo Performance			Sapporo Caultural Arts Foundation	Officially announced on March 13. Officially cancelled (postponed) on May, 22. Also announced cancelling by Sapporo hitaru on May 25.
2020	07	10-12	4	Niigata	Studio B, Ryutopia			Noism2 Regular Performance vol.11	Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	Postponed to July 10-12 due to coronavirus counterplan.
2020	07	17	Supporters Mail Magazine 022 was issued. (in Japanese)
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17th Season
Year	Month	Date	Times of Performance	City	Venue	Performance Title			Promoter	Note
2020	08	07	Kana Ikegaya, a member of Noism1, announced that she will leave noism on Sept. 2020. It was annouced officially that she leave Noism by the end of August. However, she will still be a member of Noism until a performance of Niigata City Wiestern-style Dance Association on October 4, because she is the rehearsal director of Jo Kanamori's work which is performed on the show.
2020	08	11	Supporters Mail Magazine 023 was issued. (in Japanese)
2020	08	26	It is announced that members of Noism Company Niigata in 17th season will be as follws; Noism0 = Jo KANAMORI (Artistic Director), Sawako ISEKI (Vice-Artistic Director), Yuki YAMADA (Noism1 Rehearsal Director) // Noism1 = Hsiang Yu CHAN, Geoffroy POPLAWSKI, Sena IMOTO, Kairi HAYASHIDA, Charlie LEUNG, Kai TOMIOKA, Ayami TOBA, Stephen QUILDAN, Maya NISHIZAWA, Rio MIYOSHI, Kota NAKAO; Associate Members = Karin SUGINO, Akira HIURA // Noism2 Rehearsal Director = Yuka ASAUMI; Noism2 = Honoka IKEDA, Milan Hajime KHANAL, Hikaru TSUBOTA, Tomomi NAKAMURA, Manami AOKI, Ikumi KANENOBU, Ayu KOBAYASHI, Keiko TSUCHIYA, Rino WATABE // Leavers = Kana IKEGAYA, Tyrone ROBINSON (former Noism1); Kana MORI, Mariya NAGASAWA, Remi HASHIMOTO (former Noism2) Hsiang Yu CHAN and Yuka ASAUMI (former Noism1 member) joined again. It was announced on July 14 that Geoffroy POPLAWSKI to left Noism by 16th Season, however, he remained. Hsiang Yu CHAN must not join Noism again (Oct.09)
2020	08	27	Niigata Nippo published a series of articles about current state of Noism; titled Current position of restarted Noism in total 4 times on today until September 1st. Those were followed by Supporters Mail Magazine No.024 (in Japanese).
2020	08	27-28	2	Niigata	Theater, Ryutopia	Experimental Dance vol.2 Le Sacre du printemps by Noism0 + Noism1 + Noism2 Preview Performance			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	Those persons can not attend that coming from areas where COVID-19 emergency measures should be taken. No stage decorations and lightings. Addmission fee is requred. Reservation required. Limited to 50 audiences. Le Sacre du printemps, Fratres III and Adagio Assai (new work; tentative title; performed by Noism0; music=Piano Concerto in G major, 2nd mov. by M. Ravel) will be performed.
2020	08	31	The end of extended Noism 5th Circle.
2020	09	06	1	Tokyo	Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre	Le Sacre du Printemps Main Concert in TOKYO MET SaLaD MUSIC FESTIVAL 2020			Tokyo Metropolitan, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra	Noism will join the main program of SaLaD Music Festival. Date and frequency of performances are unknown. It was announced on Aug.03, that Performing date is Sept.06, and programs are Fratres Ⅲ and Adagio Assai.
2020	09	22	Noism 17th season started.
2020	09	23	Supporters Mail Magazine 024 was issued. (in Japanese)
2020	10	04	1	Niigata	Theater, Ryutopia	The 9th Joint Performance of Niigata City Western-style Dance Association			Niigata City Western-style Dance Association	At a path between rice-fields - 8 short pieces by Jo Kanamori is performed by selected dancers of Niigata City Western-style Dance Association; this is a part of Noism's contribution program to local community. Rehearsal director is Kana Ikegaya.
2020	10	04	1	Niigata	Concert Hall, Ryutopia	The 20th Concert of Group Niigata, a musical group of Japanese musical instruments			Group Niigata	Noism2 will perform with Niigata Illusion suite, composed by Makoto Goto, choreographed by Yuki Yamada.
2020	10	09	Noism published Video dance BOLERO 2020 online.
2020	10	11	1	Niigata	Noh Theater, Ryutopia	Noism Talk Show Ryutokai vol.22, Ayumu Eguchi and Jo Kanamori - Is it true that Niigata is a place of cultural desert?			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	Ayumu Eguchi is the representative of NAMARA, a comedy group of Niigata. Postponed from May 17, due to COVID-19. 16:30-18:00; reservation required.
2020	10	13	Supporters Mail Magazine 025 was issued. (in Japanese)
2020	10	31	2	Niigata	Light and Sound Hall, Children Cleative Center, Ikutopia Shokuhana	Noism Body Workshop for Parents and Children			Niigata City and Children Cleative Center	Part 1: for kindergarten children and parents; Part 2: for primary school children and parents. To be charged. Reservation required.
2020	11	01	1	Niigata	Studio B, Ryutopia	Noism Ballet Experience (beginners' course); Open Classes for Citizens			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	Ballet experience not required. Yuka Asaumi is the lecturer. Reservation required.
2020	11	05	Supporters Mail Magazine 026 was issued. (in Japanese)
2020	11	08	1	Niigata	Studio B, Ryutopia	Body Workshop; Open Classes for Citizens			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	For everyone. Yuki Yamada is the lecturer. Reservation Required.
2020	11	15	1	Niigata	Studio B, Ryutopia	Noism Repertoire Experience (beginners' course); Open Classes for Citizens			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	Ballet experience not required. Yuka Asaumi is the lecturer. Reservation required.
2020	11	22	1	Niigata	Studio B, Ryutopia	Noism Ballet (medium course); Open Classes for Citizens			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	For who has 5 years or more dance experience. Sena Imito is the lecturer. Reservation required.
2020	11	23	1	Toyohashi	Main Hall, Toyohashi Arts Theatre	Noism Dance Workshop			Toyohashi Cultural Foundation	An event associated with Toyohashi Performance on December. Bar lesson of Noism ballet and experience of a Noism repertory; Le Sacre du printemps. Participants are teens who have dance experiences. Yuka Asaumi might be the lecturer.
2020	11	29	1	Niigata	Studio B, Ryutopia	Noism Ballet Experience (beginners' course); Open Classes for Citizens			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	Ballet experience not required. Yuka Asaumi is the lecturer. Reservation required.
2020	12	06	1	Niigata	Studio B, Ryutopia	Noism Repertoire (medium course); Open Classes for Citizens			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	For who has 5 years or more dance experience. Geoffroy Poplawski and Kairi Hayashida are lecturers. Reservation required.
2020	12	09	Supporters Mail Magazine 027 was issued. (in Japanese)
2020	12	12	1	Toyohashi	Main Hall, Toyohashi Arts Theatre	Experimental Dance vol.2 Le Sacre du printemps by Noism0 + Noism1 + Noism2 and Fratres III by Noism0 + Noism1, Toyohashi Performance (Preview Performance)			Toyohashi Cultural Foundation	Not fixed yet. Officially announced on April 01, 2020. It was announced on Aug.01, that this is a preview performance, and Fratress III and Adagio Assai are accompanied.
2020	12	16	1	Niigata	Studio B, Ryutopia	Noism One Day School 2020			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	For Members of High School Dance Clubs in Niigata Prefecture. Dancing experience of Le Sacre du Printemps. Lecturers are Geoffroy Poplawski and Noism1 members.
2020	12	17	1	Niigata	Studio B, Ryutopia	Noism Workshop for Niigata City Ballet Association			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	Lecturers are Sena Imoto and whole members of Noism1. Teaching material is a part of NINA - materialize sacrifice, a Noism repertory.
2020	12	24	1	Niigata	Concert Hall, Ryutopia	Ryutopia Organ Christmas Concert 2020			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	Noism will performe with The Nutcracker suite.
2020	12	25	The Agency for Cultural Affairs awarded the Grand Prize of TV Documentary Division of the 75th Art Festival Award to a tv program, named The value of Art; Dancer Jo Kanamori's 16 years of struggle, produced by Broadcasting System of Niigata.
2021	01	08	Supporters Mail Magazine 028 was issued. (in Japanese)
2021	01	10	1	Kyoto	Main Hall, Rohm Theatre Kyoto	Gagaku - Series Traditional Performing Arts as Theatrical Arts, Commemorative Event of the 5th anniversary of the opening of Rohm Theatre Kyoto			Kyoto City, Rohm Theatre Kyoto=Kyoto City music art cultural Promoting Foundation	Direction, Choreography: Jo Kanamori, Dancers: Noism0, Music: Reigakusha. Noism0 must dance with Gagaku.
2021	01	21	Niigata City pubrished an evaluation report of the 16th Season of Noism Company Niigata. Newspaper reported that Noism achieved their required level.
2021	01	22-2/11	12	Niigata	Studio B, Ryutopia			Noism0/Noism1 Duplex Niigata Performance	Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	Double bill with a new work The Garden of Remnant for Noism0 by Jo Kanamori (premiere: Jan 10, 2021 at Rohm Theatre Kyoto) and a new work Das Zimmer (The Room) for Noism1 by Yuki Mori. Venue capacity for each session is limited to 50 people at Niigata Performance.
2021	01	31	1	Niigata	Studio B, Ryutopia	Noism Ballet Experience (beginners' course); Open Classes for Citizens			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	Ballet experience not required. Yuka Asaumi is the lecturer. Reservation required.
2021	02	12	Jo Kanamori was prized the Grand Prize of the 15th Japan Dance Forum award.
2021	02	14	1	Niigata	Studio B, Ryutopia	Body Workshop for Children; Open Classes for Citizens			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	For primary school children. Experience is not required. Yuki Yamada is the lecturer. Reservation required.
2021	02	21	1	Niigata	Studio B, Ryutopia	Noism Ballet (medium course); Open Classes for Citizens			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	For who has 5 years or more dance experience. Sena Imito is the lecturer. Reservation required.
2021	02	22	Supporters Mail Magazine 029 was issued. (in Japanese)
2021	02	25-28	5	Saitama	Adaptable Theater, Saitama Arts Theater	Noism0/Noism1 Duplex Saitama Performance			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	Double bill with a new work The Garden of Remnant for Noism0 by Jo Kanamori (premiere: Jan 10, 2021 at Rohm Theatre Kyoto) and a new work Das Zimmer (The Room) for Noism1 by Yuki Mori.
2021	02	28	1	Niigata	Studio B, Ryutopia	Noism Ballet Experience (beginners' course); Open Classes for Citizens			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation	Ballet experience not required. Yuka Asaumi is the lecturer. Reservation required.
2021	03	03	Sawako Iseki received the Minister of Education Award for Fine Arts (Dance category), fiscal 2020 (the 71th). For her results of The Last Rose of Summer and so on. She can be expected to reach more maturity and progress as a dancer who represents Japan from Niigata.
2021	03	06	1	Niigata	Studio B, Ryutopia	Body Workshop; Open Classes for Citizens			Niigata City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation