Date: 2025/2/15(Sat) 18:00~
Venue: Dance Base Yokohama

Kouhei Fujimura, a resident artist for the 2024 academic year, will hold creation and tryout at Dance Base Yokohama. The work to be created this time will explore the emergence of dance by reinterpreting the concept of choreography, using the culture of backrooms and liminal spaces as a clue. Asahi Ishikawa, Kohei Fujimura, Naoto Oka, and Masaya Fukunaga, each of whom has a cross-disciplinary background, will create a work that intersects contingent creativity.

◆ “Nooooclip”.

What I foresee now is a dance that is like jumping through the darkness.
For example, it starts with the unnatural and eerie sensation of a familiar cityscape or a well-worn walking path suddenly rising up as something distant, and slipping off into the frontier folded up inside it. To be pushed by something and to no-clip behind a wall.
For me, that is the moment when I catch the “Okay, let’s dance” without any guarantees or conditions, and the dance always comes from there. The disparate limbs intuit something and start jumping in all directions with no landing point in sight, like a child mouthing everything in the scenery that flows through the car window. A desire to start something a little different. I want to see what lies beyond where my personal fantasy pulls at my body and begins to draw a free line.

◆Participating Artists

Concept / Direction / Performer: Kohei Fujimura (DaBY Residence Artist)

Appearance: Asahi Ishikawa

Sound Grammist: Naoto Oka

Research assistance: Masaya Fukunaga

◆Date and time

Saturday, February 15, 2025

Doors open 17:50

Concert begins 18:00

Artist Talk will be held! (updated 2/13)
Kohei Fujimura & Kirara Akiyama “Why don’t we talk about dance?”

Artist Talk will be held after the performance on February 15.
Those who have seen the performance are welcome to attend. Please enjoy it together with the viewing of the performance.

Speakers:
Kouhei Fujimura (Dancer / DaBY Residence Artist for 2024)
Kirara Akiyama (Coordinator / Co-president of “Body Planning Unit YOHAKU”)

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This talk will move beyond the “Nooooclip” performance piece, and will focus on broader topics such as choreography and the body, workability, ideas of creation, reproducibility and archiving. This talk will focus on broader dance topics such as choreography and the body, artwork, ideas of creation, reproducibility, and archiving, through a discussion with Kirara Akiyama, who is also involved in creative and performing arts production herself.
We hope to create an opportunity for the audience to listen to the talk over a drink, and for the conversation to spill over into the audience. The time will be unlimited.
—Please come and join us for an unlimited time.

◆Rates

Standard / 2,500 yen (tax included)

Option / 1,500~5,000 yen (tax included)

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◆Application Method

Please register through DaBY’s Peatix page.

https://koheifujimura-nooooclip.peatix.com

*DaBY members registration is required to purchase tickets. Please register here in advance.

◆Venue

Dance Base Yokohama (https://dancebase.yokohama/access)

3F KITANAKA BRICK&WHITE BRICK North, 5-57-2 Kitanaka-dori, Naka-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
Directly connected to “Yokohama Kitanaka Knot”, Exit 2a, Bashamichi Station, Minatomirai Line

◆Artist Profile

Kouhei Fujimura

Residence Artists in 2024

Based in Tokyo and Yokohama, she has been active as a dancer. After 2020, he began research and experimental performances based on the question, “How can the body be reconstructed as a ‘dancing body’? In 2022, he will create “Subject a a work that attempts to subvert the active will and subjectivity in the performing arts. Other representative works include “PreDanceMusic,” a work dealing with the pre-meaningful experience of the body listening to music, and “Two Flutes and a Chapter for Dance,” a work that examines the bodily knowledge of instrumentalists and dancers in terms of breathing. The other is “A chapter for two flutes and a dance. As a freelance dancer, he has performed in works by many directors and choreographers in Japan and abroad.
She completed her graduate studies at the Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences, University of Tsukuba. His master’s thesis was “A Study of Improvisational Properties Appearing in Dancers’ Bodies.

◆Credit

Organized and co-produced by Dance Base Yokohama and Kohei Fujimura

◆Inquiries

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