Bud of Asian Dance
MIZUNO Ristuko from JCDN is in charge of all about the dance. Young people proposed that they would like this year’s work to be something featuring Hong Kong. Since we wanted to challenge and create something here in Tottori, we asked YASUMOTO Masako to work with Tottori Prefecture Yazu High School. The students belong to the calligraphy club, not the dance club at school.
Composed and Choreographed by YASUMOTO Masako
Performed by Members of Yazu High School Calligraphy Club: IRIE Rei, URUSHIBARA Miyu, OOTANI Akari,
KAWAKAMI Yuzuka, KINOSHITA Rina, KIMOTO Manami, KOZUKA Sakura, HATANO Aika, HIMETA Kokoro,
MORIKI Sayaka, YAMANE Maho, YONEI Azusa
YASUMOTO Masako, a choreographer who has always created a furor in the field of contemporary dance, creates a new work of dance with the students of Yazu High School Calligraphy Club; they have played an active part in the National Calligraphy Performance Championship and had a good reputation for their flexible and dynamic movements.
YASUMOTO Maksako
A dancer and choreographer. She was born in 1974, Tokyo. She has presented her works of confidence both in and outside Japan. She also has been very active in choreographing for various fields such as theatre arts, music videos, promotion videos of companies and so on.
She had lived in Fukuoka since 2012, before moving to Kyoto in 2015. She does a workshop for people of various generations and holds extracurricular lessons at elementary school. Her newest piece “cola-cola” is out now; it is based on the relationship between children and parents.
Choreographed and Performed by Hugh CHO
Performed by Steve NG, Soames LEE, TO Chi-sing, LO Chun-chung, Alan CHENG, Alkon WONG, Marco CHIU
Bruce Lee has been recognized as the symbolic existence of a martial artist. Along with his monologue, this work explores unique movements, combining the martial arts and contemporary dance. This is the updated version work by eight performers, which will be its premiere at BIRD Theatre Festival. This has been selected as one of the most brilliant works in the paper “Dance Europe”, 2017. They joined the Hong Kong Dance Exchange 2018 with this performance.
[Along] Trailer
Hugh CHO
After graduating from Hong Kong Academy for Performing Art, he had belonged to the Hong Kong dance company “Unlock Dancing Plaza” from 2010 to 2014, and started choreography. He was a choreographer and performer in the dance video “Eternal Sunshine” showed at the short film selections of Cannes Film Festival 2012. In 2015, he directed the short film “yellow alert” . He was invited to the JCDN International Dance in Residence Exchange Project in 2016. “Made in Hong Kong” was invited to the internationale tanzmesse dance fair in Germany. He also does acrobatics of the Cantonese opera.
Choreographed and Performed by KT YAU
Choreography Assisted by Carmen YU
Bodies of performances/ dancers are always open and visible. By taking advantage of this theory in a different way, it creates an experimental work that the audience and dancer are cut off from their sight. Stop thinking with your head, empty your heart. See what you cannot see. Then you will see the existence of the dancer’s body in your line of sight. Along with the cynical humour, the audience will go back and forth between the world with the existence of the dancer and the world without it. KT YAU participated in the Hong Kong Dance Exchange 2018 with this performance.
[Remain Invisible] Trailer
KT YAU
She was born in Hong Kong. She had majored in the contemporary dance at Hong Kong Academy for Performing Art and graduated in 2013. She used to belong to the Hong Kong dance company “Y-space”. Now she works on a freelance basis. In 2016, she had learned and gained more experience in Vertigo Dance Company, Israel. The recent years’ work called “Unmixed” (2017) was focused on the control in the society and displayed the dynamics of the body and souls.
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The Katsuya Gymnasium
[ The Period of The Festival ] Thursday, 6 - Sunday, 23 September, 2018
[ Programme Director ] NAKASHIMA Makoto (Director /Artistic Director of the BIRD Theatre Company TOTTORI)
