This year we will be showing performances by the 12 finalists chosen from the 32 artists who entered the video and document screening for new artists under the age of 25 aiming to become choreographers.
PROGRAM
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Competition IINew Choreographer Division
@Yokohama Nigiwaiza Small Hall
12.4 [Sat] 15:00
Saeki Honoka
“Apple Logic”
Tokuda Mika
“SAKUHIN”
Nakajima Chiho
“bolero”
Hashimoto Mana
“Patriotism”
Hirata Yuka
“moro”
Yoshizawa Fuu
“Mermaid”
12.5 [Sun] 15:00
Asakawa Kanae
“O ku“
Ito Sho
“logi,”
Kobayashi Konomi
“Ms. Flea Market”
Naito Naomi
“EXCESS”
Yamaguchi Nagisa
“mole”
Yokoyama Miya
“A body in my head”
JURY
Vivienne Sato (Artist), Kato Yumina (Director, Steep Slope Studio), Kitao Wataru (Dance Company Baobab・Choreographer・Dancer), Hamano Fumio (Senior Editor, Shinshokan Dance Magazine)
Outstanding New Artist Prize
Opportunity to perform at the Prize’s Performance at Yokohama Dance Collection
Architanz Artist Support Award
Applicants to The Architanz Artist Support Award will be judged by representatives of the organization.
Asakawa Kanae
She started rhythmic gymnastics at the age of five. Graduated from the Faculty of Art and Information Studies, Department of Stage Expression at Shobi Gakuen University.
Studied under Miwa Akiko and Shimizu Fumihito. She has participated in works by Tamura Koichiro, Shimojima Reisa, and others.
Ito Sho
Actor and contemporary dancer.
He was raised in an athletic environment involved in many sports and belonged to the gymnastics club in High School, participating in interscholastic athletic meets. Cultivating his body and spirit through sports has become the foundation of his physical expression. He is currently developing works that transcend genres in theater, dance and more.
He was a finalist in the Yokohama Dance Collection 2021 Competition II. Resides in <PURISSIMA>.
Kobayashi Konomi
Enrolled in the Sculpture Department, Musashino Art University.
Having started dance from a young age, she presents works that make use of her physicality.
She works every day with two things in mind; the fact that she is “creating a piece of work,” and the “boundaries between dance.”
Saiki Honoka
She studied modern dance under Takahashi Saeko as a child.
She first came across contemporary dance at university.
Currently based in Saitama, she explores the seamless relationships between dance and daily life, and between the city center and rural areas.
Tokuda Mika
Born in Ibaraki Prefecture.
She has had a long affection for Yokohama. She studied rhythmic gymnastics from third grade to high school.
She became absorbed in various dances at university and since graduation, her thirst for interesting things continues. Performed at Za-Koenji Dance Award Show II.
Naito Naomi
Graduated from Dance Education Course at Ochanomizu University in 2019.
Since 2015, she has appeared in more than nine works as a dancer at <Dance Company Nect>, led by Nihei Noe. Other appearances include Pichet Klunchun’s “MI (X)G,” Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre Opera Yanaihara Mikuni’s “La Traviata,” and “History of Humankind” directed by Tani Kenichi and choreographed by Ella Rothschild.
Nakajima Chiho
Graduated from Saitama Prefectural Art High School, Performing Arts Department.
She is enrolled in the Drama and Dance Course, currently taking a drama seminar at Tama Art University, Drama and Dance Design Department. She started classical ballet at the age of six. While in high school, she studied a wide range of stage expression such as acting, modern ballet, Japanese dance, and jazz dance. At university, she studies the dance method of Teshigawara Saburô. This is her first time producing her own dance piece.
Hashimoto Mana
Born in 2000, Tokyo. She is a student in the Department of Dance, National Taiwan University of The Arts.
In 2019, she received the 16th Japan-Taiwan Cultural Exchange Youth Scholarship Award for her work in contemporary dance, and was invited to pay a courtesy call to the Taiwanese government. In the same year, she was awarded the Bunkyo University Publicity of the Year award in the Student Category.
Hirata Yuka
Born in 1997, Tokyo. She began contemporary dance at the age of four at a practice hall along the Tsurumi River in Kanagawa. Studied contemporary dance and creative methods under Iwabuchi Takako at Japan Women’s College of Physical Education. In 2019, she won the Matsumoto Chiyoe Award for her work “Dokuhaku (Monologue)” at Art .M.. She has participated in works by Shimojima Reisa, Tamura Koichiro, and is currently working as a freelance dancer while teaching physical education.
Yamaguchi Nagisa
Graduated from Oberlin University, Arts and Culture Departmen, majoring in theater.
She first encountered contemporary dance at university and studied under Kisanuki Kuniko. She challenges herself at creating work inspired by the physical reaction towards things and space around her. She also produces stage props for theatrical works.
Yokoyama Miya
She started classical ballet from an early age.
She became interested in contemporary dance while in high school. She has appeared in works by Hirahara Shintaro and others, and started creating her own works in 2020.
She is currently studying dance at the Japan Women’s College of Physical Education.
Yoshizawa Fuu
She started learning jazz dance as a child, and started making her own pieces while in college.
She is interested in the mystical, magical, and instinctive powers that can only be understood through dance in the relationship between the stage and the audience. Her aim is to create work that can instill spiritual effects in people beyond aesthetic stimulation. Her major choreography work in recent years is “Hamigaki (Toothpaste)”.