Performance Curators Initiatives

MORE PHOTOS of our conversation last night at the IFTR Working Group on Choreography and Corporeality. Thank you again to all the wonderful dance practitioners and scholars from all over the world and from various contexts of making, who are tirelessly asking the hard questions about our practice and continuing the conversation alive.

Our guest artists 𝐊𝐢𝐦 𝐒𝐚𝐧𝐡-𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐮 conducting movement workshop with the UPDC - University of the Philippines Dance Company. In the workshop, Kim Sanh-Chau, assisted by her collaborator 𝐋𝐨𝐮𝐢𝐬𝐞 𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐥 𝐉𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐬𝐨𝐧 explore sensorial and somatic experiences through somatic body. Drawing from her movement practice demonstrated in the performance 𝐁𝐥𝐞𝐮 𝐍𝐞𝐨𝐧, Chau explores the various facets of the squat position and how this position relates to its various physical, historical, and philosophical experience and perspective.

Sharing this wonderful initiative/performance from one of our partners –– Dance Base Yokohama. Do not miss.

Date: Nov. 14th, 2020
Time: 17:30 (Japan Standard Time) (Duration: Approx. 40 minutes)

*We are planning to have a post-show discussion afterwards. Unfortunately, we are hosting this in Japanese, but we would love to hear from you separately about your thoughts and feedback.
Ryu Suzuki, up and coming choreographer and DaBY’s own Associate Choreographer, has gathered young musicians, video creators, dramaturges, dancers, producers, and set designers with an architecture background to create a choreography piece rooted in interdisciplinary collaboration. Through numerous exchanges of ideas and discussions, they fully cherish their multiplied and complicated point of view in the creative process, ultimately seeking to propose new modes of creating dance.
The choreography piece, which will be presented this weekend, brings attention to the borders often drawn between good or evil. Focusing on the forces that pull us toward and away from these borders, the three bodies on stage (Ryu Suzuki, Kana Ikegaya, and Kohei Fujimura) express the fluid and mutating bodies that oscillate between two opposing forces.