Chey Jurado “Agua”（Japan Premiere）
Jeong Cheolin “Flight”
Nagano Yuriko “MONOLITH”（World Premiere）
Dance Connection

Chey Jurado is a self-taught urban dancer (breaking, popping, locking) who has started his career as a choreographer and dancer. He is a professional B-boy, having won “Redbull Bc One Spain” awards four times and currently working for <La Veronal and Roberto Olivan Co.> “Agua” (Japan Premier) has won the Best Performer Award at the 22nd MASDANZA international dance festival in Spain. His themes are the four elements, water, earth, fire and wind. The focus of AQUA is water, the element that overcomes adversity, the purest element, necessary, moldable, liquid element, rigid, volatile, decisive when giving life or when removing it… Unpredictable of a short piece format that allows the spectator to immerse himself in the infinite ways to interpret their qualities through movement, turning it into a tribute to itself. This work is a must-see for its interpretation of the essential elements of life through Chey’s bodily and physical vocabulary, choreographed as urban dance.

Jeong Cheolin, a dancer with the globally renowned <Bereishit Dance Company>, also founded the <Melancholy Dance Company> in 2016. A finalist of competitionⅠin the 2016 Yokohama Dance Collection, he has performed at numerous dance competitions and festivals.
With his work “Flight” premiered in 2016, he represented Korea in the 1st HOTPOT East Asia Dance Platform in Hong Kong, co-hosted by SIDance. This, his debut work as a choreographer, displays an impressive connection between the choreography and the title. In it we see two individuals struggling to overcome their limitations and very nearly take flight. In the choreography we see optimism as they go through repeated success and failure towards achieving their goal.
*A dance platform founded for the first time for cooperation and collaboration by three major dance festivals in East Asia held to discover and foster fresh talent: the City Contemporary Dance Festival (China, Hong Kong), SIDance (Korea, Seoul), and the Yokohama Dance Collection (Japan, Yokohama).

Nagano Yuriko won the Outstanding New Artist Prize in Competition II at Yokohama Dance Collection 2018. The members of <Youseidaizukan>, her four-member performance unit, are all graduates of Tama Art University. They present stage performances composed from a variety of scenes, combining dance, singing, and comedy. Nagano’s activities span a wide range, from solo performances to appearances with the <Mamagoto> and <Condors>. Her art has been featured on television. “MONOLITH” is title and theme of her new work. As the title implies, in it we see an unhappy, uninterpretable quiz, to which there are no answers.