anna

Born in Osaka. A known “dancing fool,” anna has been dancing for 25 years. She has done ballet, modern dance, and break dance, and is now inspired by extemporaneous dance. In 1999 she moved to Tokyo. She then moved to Yokohama because, she says, she wanted it to be Yokohama to whom she paid her resident's tax. She is an artist who collaborates with other artists in a wide variety of genres, as dancer or choreographer, in opera, musicals and films. Also acclaimed as an instructor, she devotes enormous effort into training young dancers. In July 2007 she opened her own dance studio, Studio Dansage, in Shinjuku; her dreams continue to grow without bounds. In 2002 anna was awarded the French Embassy Prize for Young Choreographers at the Yokohama Dance Collection’s Yokohama Solo x Duo ＜Compétition＞. At the 2006 Yokohama Dance Collection R, Yokohama Solo x Duo ＜Compétition＞＋; she was awarded the Yokohama Prize for Brilliant Future. In November 2006 she won the Choreographer Division Grand Prix and the Audience Prize at MASDANZA, The International Contemporary Dance Festival of the Canary Islands.
http://www5c.biglobe.ne.jp/~anna55
http://www.studiodansage.com/

Hiroyuki Miura

Head of M-laboratory, dancer, choreographer
Miura studied Butoh at Asbestos Studio in the early 1990s. From 1996 to 2002 he was the principal dancer in Papa Tarahumara, performing in Japan and abroad. In 1999, he formed his own company, M-laboratory. 2002 saw the first of his Tabio series of solo performances. His solo works The Man Who Gets Angry on the Third Planet, Tabio, and Love, Short Version were awarded the National Association Members Prize at the Yokohama Solo x Duo in 2005. The M-laboratory work Will Johnny Go Off to War? won second prize in 2005 at Tokyo Competition #2. Miura now performs primarily in Tokyo but throughout Japan and at venues throughout Asia and participates in a wide variety of workshops. He also works as an adjunct dance instructor in contemporary dance at the Kanagawa Comprehensive Industrial High School.
http://www.t3.rim.or.jp/~h-miura/

Kim Myung-shin

Born in 1979, Kim received her degree in dance from Hansung University in Seoul, Korea. In 2007 Kim unveiled three new works: The World in a Bath, I Will, and The Great Vestiges. Her 89 degree, which won the French Embassy Prize at the Yokohama Dance Collection R, Solo x Duo ＋ in 2006, has been enthusiastically received by audiences in Paris, Tokyo and Seoul.

Donna Miranda

Donna Miranda is an independent dance artist from the Philippines. She received dance training as a national government scholar at the Philippine High School for the Arts, pursued professional practice with Ballet Philippines and Myra Beltran’s Dance Forum, and received specialized training in contemporary dance through the DanceWEB Europe Scholarship Program in Vienna, Austria. Her solo “Beneath Polka-dotted Skies” won the Jury Prize Award at the 2007 Yokohama Dance Collection R Solo x Duo +. Now working extensively in Southeast Asia, she seeks to initiate a creative framework for cross-media action among a loose collective of artists working in contemporary dance, performance, experimental sound, and video, via collaborative, process-based art actions.