The engawa was built in traditional Japanese houses between tatami rooms and gardens, serving as a gentle transition between inside and outside. Since becoming the choreographer at the Red Brick Warehouse in 2024, Kojiri has conducted a two-year collaborative research project in Yokohama with the architect Hannes Mayer, examining the engawa from various angles and focusing on its symbolic value of “ambiguity.” Six dancers, including Kojiri, delicately create a space defined by the ambiguous boundary between the self and the outside world society and nature. It is a space where the body embraces the changing seasons and merges with the environment, where memories of past times return and are shared. This dance, which questions the richness lost in our efficiency driven world, itself becomes a new Engawa connecting art and society.
Kojiri Kenta <SandD> " Engawa, The Self in Season "
- 12.05 [Fri] 19:30
- 12.06 [Sat] 13:00
- 12.06 [Sat] 18:00
Kojiri Kenta
" Engawa, The Self in Season "
- Choreography, Composition, Performance: Kojiri Kenta
- Scenography, Concept: Hannes Mayer
- Performance: Narumi Rena, Sato Takuya, Horita Chiaki, Hatanaka Mayu, Aoyagi Jun, Kojiri Kenta
- Music: tatsukiamano
- Organizer, Planning and Production: SandD
- Co-Organizer and Co-Production : The Japan Foundation
- Support: Steep Slope Studio, Koganecho Area Management Center, Studio Architanz

Kojiri Kenta
Kenta Kojiri began his ballet training at an early age and, in 1999, received a prize at the Prix de Lausanne, earning a scholarship to continue his studies in Europe. He went on to dance with the Ballets de Monte-Carlo and later the Nederlands Dans Theater (NDT), where he performed works by leading choreographers such as Jiří Kylián, Mats Ek, William Forsythe, Ohad Naharin, Wayne McGregor, and Crystal Pite. After Jiří Kylián’s departure from NDT in 2010, he pursued a freelance career, developing his voice as both dancer and choreographer in Japan and abroad. In 2017, he founded SandD, a platform exploring the dancer’s body in the performing arts through cross-disciplinary collaborations that unite sound, light, Noh theater, and digital programming, bridging genres and generations. In April 2024, he was appointed Associate Choreographer at Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse No.1, continuing his pursuit of new forms of expression and artistic dialogue.

Hannes Mayer
Hannes Mayer is a German architect and artist bridging between research and practice with a focus on digital technologies and ecological transformations in architecture. He directed a world-leading laboratory for robotics in architecture at ETH Zurich, and realised large-scale installations for the Centre Pompidou, V&A Dundee, Venice Biennale and Aichi Triennale 2022 in Japan – which formed the starting point of his collaboration with Kenta Kojiri.
Hannes Mayer was a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and taught at the Bartlett School of Architecture in London. He was a resident artist at Goethe-Institut Villa Kamogawa Kyoto in 2016, the Cité internationale des Arts Paris in 2023, Koganecho KAMC Yokohama in 2024 and is a recent grant-laureate of the Fondation d’entreprise Martell in France.