Dance Base Yokohama

Dance Base Yokohama

DaBY Residence Artist

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 Kirlian Productions, while developing activities around his creative work, including the solo performance "Study for Self/portrait" (Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, 2005). In recent years, in addition to leading Opto with Rei Watanabe and Nagama Yuasa, she has been coaching the Japanese national figure skating team, curating OpenLab's "Dancers, Dance with Words", and serving as a lecturer and navigator at the Saitama Dance Laboratory (Saitama Arts Theatre, Sai-No-Kuni).
He is a DaBY Dance Evangelist from April 2020 to March 2010.
Residence artist at DaBY from April.

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DaBY Production

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Activities in DaBY

2020.6.27 -

OpenLab “Dancers, Dance with Words” vol.1

2020.8.15 - 26

OpenLab “Children’s Dance Workshop” (Instructor: Kenta Komori)

2020.8.27 -

OpenLab “Dancing with Dancers Language” vol.2

2020.9.12 -

OpenLab “Dancing with Dancer Words” vol.3
Meet W. Forsythe ~Before & After

2020.9.13 -

Kenta Komori Dance Performance “Study for Self/portrait 2020

2021.1.9 -

OpenLab “Dancers, Dance with Words” vol.4
Imagination – Possibilities found in Classical Ballet

2021.1.22 - 24

Kenta Komori + Yasuhiro Morinaga “The Threshold

2021.2.27 -

OpenLab “Dancers, Dance with Words” vol.5
Living as a Freelance Artist – What Creativity to Seek

2021.3.6 - 7

Kenta Koyurugi & DaBY Residence Dancers Present New Work “Dialogue

2021.3.21 - 28

Nakamura Benefit Productions Online Project “Puzzled Documents

2021.8.29 -

OpenLab “Dancers, Dancing with Words” vol. 6
A career that began with an encounter with Crystal Pite

2021.9.6 - 11.7

DaBY ProLab for Dancers Dancer Training Program FY2021 [1st semester]

2021.10.23 -

DaBY Contextual Studies “Introduction to Self-Production for Dancers”
(Instructors: Chihiro Tokai x Eri Karatsu x Kenta Kodori)

2021.11.6 - 7

DaBY ProLab for Dancers Dancer Training Program FY2021 [1st semester] Results Presentation

2022.2.1 - 20

DaBY ProLab for Dancers Dancer Training Program FY2021 [2nd semester]

2022.2.20 -

DaBY ProLab for Dancers Dancer Training Program FY2021 [2nd half] Open Rehearsal

2022.2.27 -

OpenLab “Dancers, Dancing with Music and Words” vol.8
– Classical to contemporary, the fascination of diversified expression

2022.3.27

OpenLab “Dancers, Dancing with Music and Words” vol.9
~The Possibility of Ballet Dancers and the State of Retirement

2022.4.14 - 2023.3.31

DaBY Dancer Registration System

2022.5.6 - 8

DaBY/SandD
Kenta Komori + Yasuhiro Morinaga “Korori

2022.10.23 -

Jiří Pokorný New work tryout