Registration is open for the TPAM Performing Arts Meeting in Yokohama 2012, an international platform for performing arts with networking, information exchange and performance showcases for professionals from Asia and worldwide. It is a place for “Meeting” consisting of a discussion/presentation section for the improvement and development of activities in the performing arts sector through networking professionals and a performance section for discovering and introducing works that are responsive to the contemporary reality. The Programme includes showcases (Japanese and international performing arts), networking sessions and presentations. A parallel meeting Performing Arts AIR Meeting@TPAM will be held on artists' residencies, with sessions in Yokohaka and Kyoto. It has almost been a year since the 3/11. The disaster of the earthquake and tsunamis and the accident of the nuclear power plant have been undermining the condition of survival and the structure of society. TPAM in Yokohama 2012 tries to be a response to the situation in the belief that performing arts relate deeply to the fundamentals. Organized by: Performing Arts Meeting in Yokohama 2012 Executive Committee (The Japan Foundation; Kanagawa Arts Foundation; Yokohama Arts Foundation; Japan Center, Pacific Basin Arts Communication / Secretariat: Japan Center, Pacific Basin Arts Communication) Subsidized by: “Baltasar Gracián” Program of Ministry of Culture of Spain