Yokohama Solo×Duo＜Compétition＞＋

Yokohama Solo×Duo+ Jury

• MIURA Masashi (Critic)
  ITO Junji (Professor, University of Toyama / Faculty of Art and Design Director
  Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum / Art Critic)
  KAWASAKI Toru (Director)
  MURAKAMI Kasumiko (Writer)
  Brigitte PROUCELLE (Attachee Culturelle, Ambassade de France au Japon)
  Rebecca LEE　(Les Labos d’Aubervilliers Manager)
  ISHIKAWA Makoto (Director, Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse No.1, Yokohama Arts Foundation)

Directors coming to Japan

The following directors came from abroad to the 2007 Yokohama Dance Collection R.
The opportunity to mingle and exchange views with these overseas directors and directors from Japan during Yokohama Dance Collection R will, we hope, open up new possibilities.
　

• ※As of December, 2006

• On Jan.20, we held an international symposium with these directors from overseas as panelists!

Photo:
Gari Buenavista

Donna MIRANDA

Works “Beneath polka-dotted skies
Donna MIRANDA is an independent dance artist in the Philippines with no dance company affiliation. She has studied at the Philippine High School for the Arts, Ballet Philippine, and, in 2005,received specialized training in contemporary dance in the Web Europe Scholarship Program. Since then she has been actively involved in multimedia projects that explore new possibilities through works that combine contemporary dance, new media, fusion, physical theater, narrative, and sound. In 2000, she also became one of the founders of the Green Papaya Art Project, which is building a research platform for contemporary dance in Manila through its anatomy projects (AP+).

HWANG Hwan-Hee

Works “Trust you Trust Me !”
After Hwan-Hee HWANG graduated from Pusan Arts School, where she specialized in modern dance, she completed the four-year curriculum in the School of Dance at the Korean National University of Arts in 2003 and its two-year graduate program in dance performance in 2005, earning a master of arts degree. She is currently working with Micha Purucker in Germany as well as being a regular member of and won second prize in the women’s solo performance division of the Dance Association of Korea’s competition.

Jose Jay B. CRUZ

Works “GESTURES OF THE FLESH”
Jose Jay B. CRUZ participated in the 2006 Hong Kong dance festival that was commissioned by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council. He also won a scholarship to the Dance Omi International Dance Collective, participating in August 2006 as one of nine resident dancers. In 2003, he created Dancing Wounded Contemporary Dance Commune, which presents works that focus on expanding the possibilities of dance through collaborations between musicians, singers, actors, poets, instrumentalists, and visual artists; he serves as its artistic director and choreographer. He also took part in the Wi-Fi Body independent and contemporary dance festival in the Philippines in August, as part of his pursuit of more ambitious, more diverse contemporary dance in Manila and the Philippines at large.

LEE Sun-A

Works“Performing dream”
After graduating from Hansung University with a concentration in dance, Sun-A LEE entered the master of arts in dance choreography masters class at Korea University and, in November, 2005, choreographed and performed The Part of Me.

YANG Young-Eun

Works “Solo Movement”
In 2005, Young-Eun YANG completed a bachelor of arts in dance at Sejong University and entered the master of arts degree program, specializing in dance, at the School of Dance at the Korean National University of Arts. In May, 2005, she danced in the KNUA Choreography Troop works Rest (choreographed by Park Hyun Seok) and Circle (choreographed by Song Hae Young). She performed her own work, Overlapped View, in November.

Photo:
Jun Ishikawa

JunJun

Works “A sound of a blink”
JunJun’s work, arising from his intense interest in movement, has developed into mime and then contemporary dance based on mime. A founding member of Performance Theater Mizuto Abura, he has appeared in all its performances since its founding in 1995 through 2006, with creative responsibility for movement issues. He is highly regarded for his outstanding ability to create a sense of time and space and, as a dancer, for the sinuous grace of his movement.

OTA Yukari

Works “Pulse”
Yukari OTA began studying classic ballet as a small child, later learned jazz and modern dance, and spent 1993 to 1996 in France, studying contemporary dance. Since 1997, she has danced in works by Takiko IWABUCHI As a founding member of Dance Theatre LUDENS, she has participated in performances of all its works and its tours as well as serving as assistant artistic director since 2003. In 2005, she began working in solo dance, performing her first solo piece, Pulse, and took part in Let’s Dance! Vol. 6 (JCDN) as a recommended participant, performing in Ritto and Shizuoka. She performed her second solo piece, Portrait, in August.

KINO Saiko

Works “ovo”
Saiko KINO was born in Sapporo, majored in dance education at university, and, after graduation, studied with Kyoko Makino while creating mainly solo works that addressed her own state of being. She received the Yokohama Arts Foundation Prize in the Yokohama Dance Collection Solo x Duo for Edge and traveled to France in 2004 for further study. Presently attached to the Russell Maliphant Company, she is also engaged in musical and artistic collaboration and choreographing her own work. A naturally gregarious person, she has started a body work study group and outdoor performances. And she dances.

RYU Jae-Mi

Works “ELASTIC”
Jae-Mi RYU trained at Seoul Arts High School and the Korean National University of Arts (Seoul), graduating in 2002. She has choreographed Elastic, The Eye Lashes, Empty Space, For Your Eyes (for the short variation section of the Prix de Lausanne competition), Opening Performance, and Contact, Confusion, Continuation. As a dancer, she has performed in Visual Point (the AHN Sung-Soo pick-up group), Feme Point, Wonder Land (the AHN Sung-Soo pick-up group), and Pilgrim Land, participating in a South American tour.

Photo:
Jung,Kwang jin

HONG Hye-Jeon

Works “Time Warp”
Hye-Jeon HONG delivers a strong message, with a smile, through episodes based on life in contemporary society. A graduate of Seoul Art High School, she has earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in dance from Sejong University and is presently working on her doctorate there. Invited in 2003 to participate in the Asian Arts Mart (Singapore), she presented Day after Day, and Sunflowers (with support by MODAFE). In 2004, she choreographed Hybrid; in 2005, the Femme Fatale Trilogy, by the Condores & Hong Dance Company, was jointly commissioned by Dance Selection and the Seoul International Dance Festival; performances in Tokyo and Seoul were sponsored by the Japan Foundation, and she was also invited to perform at Session House in Tokyo. She presented Time Warp at the Dance Festival for the Critics’ Choice of Young Artists in 2006 and was also invited to New York to perform in the Asian Cultural Festival.

Kimiho HULBERT

Works “Inbetween Realities”
Kimiho HULBERT studied ballet under Mitsuyo KISHIBE, then entered the Antwerp Ballet School in 1991 and Colorado Ballet in 1994. 1997-joined the New National Theatre, and at the same time started choreographing for young dancers. She founded Unit Kimiho in 2001 and participates annually in its Dance Noel performances at Aoyama Theatre. Her works include TCBY, Vision of Energy, and Branches of Sorrow and Love. She has also choreographed Eve’s Silma (2004), White as Snow, as Red as an Apple (performed by the Japan Ballet Association, 2006), Fairies in a Midsummer Night Dream (performed by the students at the New National Theatre Ballet, 2005), and In Between Realities (performed by Unit Kimiho at the Fifth Seoul International Dance Festival, March, 2006).

Photo:
Hiroshi Katayose

TACHIBANA Chia

Works “Table Time”
After graduating from the journalism department of Sophia University, Chia TACHIBANA studied choreography and contemporary dance in England, at Bretton Hall College, London Contemporary Dance School, and Laban Centre. Since returning to Japan, she has presented works in a variety of genres with dancers of many nationalities, in Japan and abroad. Tachibana formed Яichal Dance Art Museum in 2005. At present, while teaching improvisation at AngelR Ballet Studio, She is continuing creative activities by exploring new possibilities through art, dance, and improvisation.

NAKANO Chigusa

Works “Watch”
Chigusa NAKANO began learning ballet from watching it on television; after earning a qualification as an art instructor at teacher’s training college, she joined the Shiki Theater Company. After leaving Shiki, until she appeared in a musical by Philippe Decouflé, she had not associated herself with the world of contemporary dance or imagined herself as a choreographer. She began work in those fields in 2000 and, in 2005, won the special prize in the 13th Saitama International Creative Dance Competition.

MATSUMURO Mika

Works “A shadow picture”
Mika MATSUMURO performed in Nomadicproject, by Jo KANAMORI, in 2002. After performances in Paris and Budapest, she joined Noism in 2004, performing overseas in New York and Canada as well as participating in its tours in Japan. Turning freelance in 2005, she choreographed a performance piece for the artist Tadasu Takamine that September. In appearances as a dancer with the media artist Akitsugu MAEBAYASHI and others, she performed, structured, and choreographed GAGA Space Performance, which was given three public performances over two days in a gallery in 2006. She presented her own works of art and performed three works of very different content: Signs, Spiral, and In Bloom.