As 2025 closes, let us share our preferred performing arts shows for each month – unfortunately I had to not retain a quite a number of works I also enjoyed. It is always a hard choice, but each of the below performances I would be ready to watch again – and laugh again, and cry again, and wonder again. And again reflect upon.
January 25 – Impro Tokyo, theater to start the year in laughter
February 25 – The flag and the apron, theater, Kurumizawa
March 25 – Ballet coffret, ballet and contemporary dance, NNTT
April 25 – As far as impossible, theater, WTF Shizuoka
May 25 – Lacrima, theatre, WTF Shizuoka
June 25 – Next to that girl, theater, Kurumizawa
July 25 – Birds of a kind, theater, SPT
August 25 – Awa Odori festival Otsuka (Tokyo), folk dance
September 25 – The Mistake, theater
October 25 – Dance juror’s dance, theater, TMT
November 25 – The rite of spring, butoh, Kochuten
December 25 – Hamletmachine, theater, YPAM
Tokyo stages and live arts, theatre and biodiversity 
