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56At the time, the largest number of infected people was 5,908.Performances were held at the New National Theatre, Tokyo.significantly from the original plan due to COVID-19. The original plan was for children from Minato City, Kunitachi City and Hinode Town to develop original choreography under the guidance of visiting dancers to create a dance routine that would eventually be performed at a theatre in Tokyo. The implementation was revised into the form of a workshop where participants could experience the process of creation, and the results were presented to parents and other interested parties and preserved in the form of a documentary film. Some of the workshops were also moved online. advantage of the characteristics of metropolitan cultural facilities were held, including Eiko Ishioka: Blood, Sweat, and Tears – A Life of Design at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo and Garden of Life: Eight Contemporary Artists Venture into Nature at the Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum.by father-daughter duo YOKOO Tadanori and YOKOO Mimi were completed and unveiled in July of that year.declaration of state of emergency and social distancing guidelines, the implementation of the programmes, including promotions, had to be done carefully to prevent the spread of infection. For example, TOKYO REAL UNDERGROUND, a programme with traditional butoh dance at its core, underwent a major overhaul in its planning due to COVID-19 to focus on the online streaming of video works.Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, in May, the A New Fine Day: Shinoyama Kishin exhibition was held at the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, and in July, the Color Sumo Wood-Block Prints and Edo Culture exhibition and the special exhibition Splendors of Edo: Rites of the Samurai, Festivals of the Merchants were held at the Edo-Tokyo Museum.public viewing events that were scheduled to be held at Yoyogi Park and While COVID-19 pandemic continued, a variety of exhibitions that took From April onward, the Special 13 programmes, including DANCE TRUCK TOKYO, The Speed of Light, Sumida River│Storm and Urge and the TOKYO SENTO Festival 2020 were held, but in response to the In April, the Isamu Noguchi: Ways of Discovery exhibition was held at the As for the Tokyo 2020 Games, it was decided in June that live sites and In April 2021, the details of SUPER WALL ART TOKYO, a programme that had previously been listed as a “secret project” among the Special 13, were announced. The project was to create a giant 150-meter high, 25-meter wide mural artwork on the walls of the Marunouchi Building and Shin-Marunouchi Building in front of Tokyo Station, and art pieces created other locations would be cancelled. After the decision to hold events without visitors at venues in Tokyo and three other prefectures was made on July 8, a state of emergency was declared for the fourth time in Tokyo on July 12. With the Tokyo 2020 Games set to kick off on July 23, the number of daily cases of COVID-19 infections in Tokyo showed an increasing trend, with the highest number of reported daily cases occurring on August 135. The Tokyo Tokyo Festival which reached its climax with the holding of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, continued under difficult circumstances with thorough infection control measures.In July, “TURN Fes 2021” began and select Special 13 exhibitions such as PAVILION TOKYO 2021, SUPER WALL ART TOKYO and The Constant Gardeners opened. Masayume became a major topic of conversation when a giant face was hoisted into the Tokyo sky without prior notice and began trending on social media and was featured in news programmes. In August, the World Performing Arts Forum and the Exhibition of manga《What if Tokyo》were held, and all Special 13 programmes were successfully implemented.From just before the start of the Olympic and Paralympic Games through their duration, the Tokyo Media Centre in Yurakucho and the athletes’ village provided spaces for experiencing traditional culture and performing arts by showcasing videos and exhibiting artworks, and broadly shared the appeal of Tokyo’s arts and culture with athletes, tournament officials and the media. The Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, meanwhile, hosted the Tokyo 2020 Official Art Posters Exhibition, which had been held at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo during the previous year.On the other hand, there were some programmes that unfortunately had to be cancelled. The Summer Festival Opera 2019–20 Japan↔Tokyo↔World performance of Die Meistersinger von Nuremberg at the Tokyo Bunka Kaikan had to be cancelled after a new COVID-19 variant was confirmed among those involved in the performance6. For the Tokyo Caravan, the original plan was to invite performers from the Tohoku region and other parts of Japan to Tokyo, but it was difficult to invite them due to the state of emergency, and the event was ultimately cancelled, along with some of the projects selected for the Tokyo Tokyo FESTIVAL Grant.The programmes that were scheduled to be held after 2020 had to overcome various unforeseen difficulties, such as changes in planning, revision of operation methods and the need for strict infection control measures, but most of the programmes were able to be held and the Tokyo Tokyo FESTIVAL came to an end on September 5, the last day of the Tokyo 2020 Games.Development of the Tokyo Tokyo FESTIVAL in the year of the Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games1598.

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