+51 Aviación, San Borja by Yudai Kamisato

Abstract: Born in 1982 in Peru and based in Japan, Yudai Kamisato creates works with the theme of migration and crossing borders based on the episodes he collects while visiting various places. In 2006, he won the first prize in the TOGA Directors Competition for his staging of Desire Caught by the Tail by Pablo Picasso. He is the winner of the Kishida Kunio Prize for Drama in 2018 with The Story of Descending the Long Slopes of Valparaíso , which premiered at the Kyoto Experiment festival in 2017. His works have been presented at some of the major theatre festivals in Japan and abroad. He stayed in Argentina from October 2016 to August 2017 on an overseas research grant from the Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs.