CANADA
CORPUS
A Toronto company touring physical theatre and visual humour internationally. Co-producer of Mukashi, Mukashi with KIO.
Les moutons is listed in the Sydney Opera House programme for October 2026.
Co-production with KIOCOLLABORATE
Different perspectives. New possibilities.
KIO brings together international co-creation across Canada, Australia, Korea and Europe with decades of experience performing for children. Let’s make something new together.
LET’S TALK
Start a conversation.
- 01Co-production and artistic research
- 02Artist and company exchanges
- 03Connections across communities, schools and borders
THE KIO APPROACH
Rooted in school theatre. Open to the world.
We bring the audience connection developed through years of school touring together with experience in international co-creation. Our partnerships grow from both performing and making work together.
Read about KIO’s creative practiceExplore the possibilities.
All productions
Canada × Japan · Co-production
Mukashi, Mukashi
Old stories. New ways of seeing.
Québec × Japan · Co-production
Train – La promesse de Miyazawa
A promise that travels across cultures.
Denmark × Japan · Co-production
BAKU
Different cultures. A shared imagination for peace.
Korea × Japan · Co-production
わたしにさよなら
Theatre created together across Korea and Japan.
Australia × Japan · In development
Mamma, Yokai!
A new story is taking shape.
OUR HISTORY / TACT/FEST
Meeting in Osaka.
Creating across borders.
For many years, KIO organised TACT/FEST, Osaka’s international arts festival for children and young people, connecting overseas productions with audiences in Japan.
The invitation of CORPUS’s Les moutons to TACT/FEST helped build an enduring relationship. Supporting performances across Japan grew into making new work together, leading to Mukashi, Mukashi.
At Toyooka Theater Festival 2023KOHEY NAKADACHI / OSAKA FRINGE
From theatre collaborations to the city.
The encounters at TACT/FEST and KIO’s international co-productions form part of the network that Kohey Nakadachi now brings to his international cultural work through Osaka Fringe.
Osaka Fringe is an open-access arts festival bringing artists from Japan and abroad into spaces across Osaka. Organised separately from KIO, it is presented here as part of Kohey Nakadachi’s wider cultural work and international network.
Explore Osaka FringeOUR INTERNATIONAL PARTNERS
Partners in making theatre.
Co-productions build relationships that continue as each partner creates and tours new work.
QUÉBEC / CANADA
Théâtre Incliné
A Québec company combining puppets, bodies, shadows and sound. Its official repertoire includes Train, co-produced with KIO.
Jour bleu is presented with Théâtre Outremont in Casteliers’ 2026–27 season.
Co-production with KIODENMARK
Meridiano Teatret
A Danish company led artistically by Giacomo Ravicchio and KIO’s co-production partner on BAKU.
Its recent work I SEE YOU combines digital imagery and puppetry to explore friendship and feeling invisible.
Co-production with KIOAUSTRALIA
Things of Foam and Wood
Founded by Tamara Rewse and Hamish Fletcher, the company designs and builds touring puppets through its experience as puppeteers. It is developing Mamma, Yokai! with KIO.
Their work also includes mechanism design, puppet re-modelling and performance for Bluey’s Big Play.
Co-production with KIOKOREA
playBST
KIO’s Korean partner on the co-production わたしにさよなら.
Co-production with KIOFROM AN IDEA TO A SHARED EXPERIENCE
From first conversation to curtain call.
01
Tell us your idea.
Share your dates, location, venue and budget where known.
02
Work out the details.
Together we discuss the work, technical needs, responsibilities and arrangements.
03
Bring it to life.
Once agreed, we prepare for the shared experience with your audience.