DaBY Artist in Residence
Dancer and choreographer.
In 1999, he won the Prix de Lausanne International Ballet Competition. He was the first Japanese male to join the Netherlands Dance Theater I. Since leaving the company, he has made guest appearances with the Royal Swedish Ballet, Noism, Sylvie Guillem's "6000 Miles Away," and Kylian Productions, while also focusing on creative activities, including the solo performance "Study for Self/portrait" (Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, 2005). In recent years, he has been leading Opto with Rei Watanabe and Nagama Yuasa, coaching Japanese figure skaters, curating OpenLab's "Dancers, Dance with Words", and working as a lecturer/navigator for Saitama Dance Laboratory (Saitama Arts Theatre, Sai-No-Kuni).
DaBY Dance Evangelist from April 2020 to March 2010.
Resident artist at DaBY since April.
Activities in DaBY
Year 2020
Host of DaBY talk Live
OpenLab "Dancers, Dancing with Words" organizer and host
ProLab "Closed Research
ProLab "Master Class" Instructor
Instructor of "Children's Dance Workshop" at OpenLab
Dancer-in-Residence at DaBY
September
Kenta Komori dance performance "Study for Self/portrait 2020" (Venue: Royal Netherlands Ambassador's Residence in Japan)
Performances and composition
Year 2021
OpenLab "Dancers, Dance with Words" and "Dancers, Dance with Music and Words" planner and host
Instructor of OpenLab "Kenta Komori Dance Workshop
ProLab for Dancers Dancer Training Program
FY2021 [1st semester] [2nd semester] Lecturer
January
Kenta Komori + Yasuhiro Morinaga "The Threshold
(Venue: Goethe-Institut Tokyo)
Composition, Choreography, Performances
March
Kenta Koyurugi & DaBY Residence Dancers Present New Work "Dialogue
Nakamura Benefit Productions Online Project
Appearance in "Puzzled Documents
Year 2022
May
DaBY/SandD Kenta Komori + Yasuhiro Morinaga "Korori
Composition, Direction, Choreography, Performances
October
Jiří Pokorný New Work Tryout Rehearsal Director