Fukunaga Shoya, who won the Outstanding New Artist Prize in Competition II at Yokohama Dance Collection 2024 for his solo work Contact Shots exploring the relationship between video and the body, presents a new piece themed around “practices concerning the body and material as a recording medium.” In this work, the body confronts “paper”—a traditional recording medium that is easy to own and use. Information written on paper has no weight, yet through the gaze, it becomes part of the performer’s body, gaining mass and manifesting substance. Using the key act of “writing choreography on paper and then creating movement while referencing that record,” the dance presents to the audience the state of our bodies—unconsciously highly informatized, rapidly traversing the space between virtual and real.

Formed in Spain in 2022, the company Wettribute offers an “immersive and chilled journey” that invites the audience into the space between reality and dreams. Soft music plays as a couple (Andrea Pérez and Abián Hernández) relax. However, the end of an ordinary day transforms into five different scenes through the smooth, organic movements and diverse dance vocabulary of the two performers. The development, which does not rely on a commonplace narrative, creates a unique sense of floating, and the expressive bodies envelop the audience and the space with impressions and various emotions such as affection, humor, intensity, and strength in each scene. This marks the Japanese premiere of a work that has been performed extensively in Spain and abroad since its premiere.