Omori Yoko, whose unique dance style blends ballet, contemporary, and street dance, whose penetrating gaze captures the loneliness lurking beneath pop culture’s frenzy, and whose dry humor objectifies the self, has gained a following in Japan and Europe. Omori describes this new work as “a piece that turns my entire life up to now into an amusement park.” Transforming the diverse emotions she has experienced—the joy of empathy, the pain of heartbreak, love, anger, and hatred—into play equipment through her body and a rich dance vocabulary, Omori crafts a peculiar amusement park and presents it to the audience. Following its world premiere at Italy’s Orient Occidente Dance Festival in September 2025, this marks its Japanese premiere.

Leila Ka’s Japan debut features “Bouffées,” which won first prize at the Paris City Theatre competition—a hallowed venue for contemporary dance—and “YOU’RE THE ONE WE LOVE.”
On stage, women who, together, set off—staggering, ailing, or at times joyful—against an adversity we can sense but know nothing about. Our heroines are by turns invincible or tragically vulnerable: they advance, resist, sometimes collapse, yet fight tirelessly until they feel their strength begin to fade.
The two pieces are a cry of hope, where the body exults in what it holds most dear: this vital impulse that keeps us standing.
A diptych that conveys the world of the most acclaimed choreographer since her debut in 2018.