Artist-in-residence and Showing of work-in-progress

Japanese and foreign artists will share their process of creation during the festival and show their work-in-progress at the end of their stay. Viewing the process is free.

Artists in residence: Dates which is open to public

Kumotaro Mukai　Oct.4~Oct.25 (Except Oct.8&9)

Yumi Tateishi　Oct.5〜Oct.25 (Except Oct.8〜Oct.12 & Oct.17〜Oct.19)

ANTIBODIES Collective 　10.6〜10.12

Alesandra Seutin Oct.3〜Oct.25

Julie Iarisoa Oct.3〜Oct.25

ANTIBODIES Collective
「Dugong」Work-in-progress

It is an accelerated world where efficiency is virtue
We are busy coming and going in a closed network at the speed of light
Now, a dugong is floating on the horizon of phenomena
I can see its gene flickering like a fading candle
It is like ourselves who lost amongst data without anchor
A stage is an anti-accelerator of time
There we break the “cage” as refugees through our primal action
Toward “Now”, a sincere moment that a life drifting on a limit
A curfew is already out of reach

Monday (holiday), October 12th. 15:00 & 19:30.

Admission Fee: ¥2,000 (in advance); ¥2,500 (on the day)

ANTIBODIES Collective
ANTIBODIES is established in 2015 by Yoko Higashino and Toshio Kajiwara as a collective of specialists with the idea of developing new interdisciplinary models for dynamic collaboration. It is an evolved form of “Dance Company Baby-Q” a genre-bending dance theatre group established in 2000.

Serial performances by participants of artist-in-residence program

Kumotaro Mukai “Butoh? in Progress”

Yumi Tateishi　“1960”

Alesandra Seutin (Zimbabwe)

Julie Iarisoa (Madagascar)

Friday, October 23rd. 19:30

Saturday, October 24th. 18:00

Sunday, October 25th. 14:00

Admission Fee: ¥2,000 (in advance); ¥2,500 (on the day)

Kumotaro Mukai
“Butoh? in Progress”

What is Butoh? We can say that Butoh was avant-garde at a time. What do we know about Butoh? I suppose we don’t know about it very well. This is a challenge to show the audience various aspects of Butoh with words, images and my body and explain it in a certain way of Japanese huckster. The creation process is open to public, and my “Butoh?” will be updated daily through the conversation with audience.

Kumotaro Mukai
In 1994 Mukai joined Dairakudakan and trained under Akaji Maro. Two years after his leaving the company in 2012, Mukai established “Deux Shrine.” He keeps asking himself what dance is and what will be a new expression on stage while he always treasures “amusement”. His lightness is unlikely to be butoh while he approaches to the darkness of human mind to reveal that one is basically free thorough his unprecedented direction which is a legacy of his mentor. He is also a senior fellow of The Saison Foundation.

Yumi Tateishi
“1960”

I was inspired by Judson Dance Theater movement in 1960s, especially its center figure, Yvonne Rainer and Trisha Brown. From what they said or did, I have drawn my interests:
Do not show off passion or sexual appeal. Make a dance from the basic daily movement such as to sit, walk, or lie down. Only a body can keep being the real. I take my farewell of my dance in the past.

Yumi Tateishi
Tateishi started Jazz Dance when she was a little girl thanks to her mother who used to be a member of Takarazuka Revue. In 2010 she went to Berlin to study dance. From 2012 to 2014, she participated in Ervi Siren’s “KITE” as Contemporary Dance Residence Exchange and Co-production Program between Japan and Finland. In 2013 Tateishi started solo dance and her project “1960” launched in 2015. She now is searching for her original dance beyond genre.

Julie Iarisoa (Madagascar)

Iarisoa is from Antananarivo, the capital city of Madagascar where she started to learn dance when she was 8 years old and later joined the company Rary in 2003. She perceives the subtle blend of contemporary dance and inspired by the Malagasy traditions and the Malagasy popular culture. Informal meetings with street dancers in Madagascar also become regular appointments for Julie. In 2004 Julie established her own contemporary dance company "Anjorombala," which has performed in Africa and Europe. She also runs a dance studio which receives artist-in-residence.

Alesandra Seutin (Zimbabwe)

London-based Alesandra Seutin was born in Harare, the capital city in Zimbabwe and was raised in Brussels. She studied dance at Laban Center & Middlesex University in London. Her movement language reflects her cultural roots and is a hybrid of Contemporary, African and Urban dance styles. In 2007 she established Vocab Dance Company and performed at London’s Sadler’s Wells, The Place Theatre, Paris’ Theatre Louis Aragon and so on. The later works include ”Where is Home?”(2015).