[Wings] DaBY Dance Showcase – Double Bill / Canada (CINARS): Showcase + Booth + Pitch
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DaBY Dance Showcase – Double Bill
・Ayaka Ono Akira Nakazawa Spacenotblank, Dance Piece No. 3: Naoya Shiga “At Kinosaki”
・Teita Iwabuchi, The Great Afternoon: the soft machine xxx
Date: Monday, November 9, 2026, 20:00–22:00
Venue: Édifice Wilder – Espace danse, 1435 rue de Bleury / Espace Orange
In 2024, Dance Base Yokohama (DaBY) launched “Wings”: International Dance Project by Dance Base Yokohama for Emerging Creators, utilizing the Agency for Cultural Affairs’ “Fund for Strengthening the Infrastructure for Cultural and Artistic Activities.” Together with the six groups of creators selected for the “Wings” project, we have been creating and staging works with a view toward international performances.
In November 2026, two works created through “Wings” will be presented at CINARS, one of the world’s largest performing arts events.
The works are Teita Iwabuchi’s The Great Afternoon: the soft machine xxx and Ayaka Ono Akira Nakazawa Spacenotblank’s Dance Piece No. 3: Naoya Shiga “At Kinosaki”.
Both works premiered at the Aichi Prefectural Art Theater in October 2025, were presented at YPAM Exchange in December of the same year, and have since undergone further performances, including at Iwaki Performing Arts Center Alios (Dance Piece No. 3: Naoya Shiga “At Kinosaki” only), and re-creation. These will be their first performances outside Japan.
During CINARS, as part of “Japan at CINARS 2026,” we will also hold a pitch session and a booth together with the Aichi Prefectural Art Theater, the Japan Council of Public Theaters and Halls, and YPAM, expanding opportunities to introduce the works and to network.
Please look forward to the future development of each “Wings” work.
◆Works
・Teita Iwabuchi, The Great Afternoon: the soft machine xxx ▶︎Work details
・Ayaka Ono Akira Nakazawa Spacenotblank, Dance Piece No. 3: Naoya Shiga “At Kinosaki” ▶︎Work details
◆About CINARS
Founded in 1984 in Montréal, Québec, Canada, CINARS is a performing arts market and one of North America’s leading events for performing arts professionals.
Held every two years, it is a meeting place bustling with performing arts companies, agents, and presenters from Canada and abroad, where participants discover challenging and stimulating works, exchange ideas, and build lasting collaborative relationships.
◆Showcase
[Date & Time]
Monday, November 9, 20:00 – 22:00 (1 performance)
*Running time: 95 minutes
*A reception will be held after the performance until 22:00
[Venue]
Édifice Wilder – Espace danse, 1435 rue de Bleury / Espace Orange (https://agoradanse.com)
[Reservations]
Please reserve your ticket via the link below.
https://cinarsplus.org/en/biennale-2026/shows/cmuveb8eh02ea06rwtpjbzrtp
*Reservations are available to registered CINARS participants only. Please log in to apply.
◆Pitch
[Date & Time]
Tuesday, November 10, 12:30 – 13:30
[Venue]
Room “Westmount 6,” Hôtel Bonaventure
[Reservations]
Please reserve your ticket via the link below.
https://cinarsplus.org/en/biennale-2026/activities/cmv44kyr600m907pgh17uvh3x
*Reservations are available to registered CINARS participants only. Please log in to apply.
[Overview]
Four organizations—the Japan Council of Public Theaters and Halls, YPAM, the Aichi Prefectural Art Theater, and Dance Base Yokohama—will present about 20 works in 60 minutes.
This is an opportunity to see a wide range of up-and-coming artists and works active in Japan all at once.
◆Booth
[Date & Time]
Thursday, November 12 – Saturday, November 14, 9:00 – 12:00
[Venue]
Hôtel Bonaventure
[Booth Number]
#139 – DaBY / Aichi Prefectural Art Theater
[Overview]
Next to booth #138 of the Japan Council of Public Theaters and Halls and YPAM, Dance Base Yokohama and the Aichi Prefectural Art Theater will have a joint booth.
We will introduce works by the creators and artists of DaBY “Wings” and the Aichi Prefectural Art Theater’s “Constellation.”
◆Performance in Québec City
Following the CINARS showcase on the 9th, Teita Iwabuchi’s The Great Afternoon: the soft machine xxx will be performed on Saturday, November 14 at “Célébrons Kyoto!” (“Let’s Celebrate Kyoto!”) in Québec City.
The event commemorates the 10th anniversary in 2026 of the friendship and cooperation agreement between the Province of Québec and Kyoto Prefecture.
The 12:30 performance will be presented together with the kagura dance “Urayasu no Mai” by Yuuki Religa.
Venue: Auditorium Roland-Arpin (Musée de la civilisation)
Date & Time: Saturday, November 14, from 12:30
Running time: approx. 45 minutes
Admission: Included in museum admission
For details, please see:
https://mcq.org/decouvrir/activites/celebrons-kyoto/?d=2026-11-14
◆Program Credits
■Teita Iwabuchi, The Great Afternoon: the soft machine xxx
Deeply influenced by the late Ko Murobushi, Teita Iwabuchi developed the “ecstatic body theory” from butoh, martial arts, and Lao Tzu. Together with two dancers, he delves into the viscera of butoh.
The vocalizations that characterize this work—groans, screams, broken breaths—leak out from inside the body before they become words, laying bare even the mechanism that moves the body.
From voice to movement. From movement to voice. This back-and-forth passes from body to body with a delay, creating feedback that saturates the space.
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Direction, Choreography & Performance: Teita Iwabuchi
Performance: Kaho Kogure, Naoyuki Sakai
Dramaturg: Haruto Niwa (Dance Base Yokohama)
Music Producer: Takashi Sugawa
Musicians: Takashi Sugawa (cello, contrabass) / Kazuhisa Uchihashi (guitar, daxophone) / Hitomi Aikawa (vibraphone, percussion)
Recording: Akihito Yoshikawa (Recording Engineer, Studio Dedé) / Yo Inoue (Assistant Engineer, Studio Dedé)
Costumes: Kyoko Fujitani
Understudy: Yu Otsuki
Producer: Eri Karatsu (Aichi Prefectural Art Theater / Dance Base Yokohama)
Technical Advisor: Yoshinori Sekoguchi (URAK)
Stage Manager: Chikage Yuyama
Sound Design: Raku Nakahara (KARABINER inc.)
Lighting Design: Akiyo Kushida
Production Coordinators: Yuka Kamimura (Dance Base Yokohama), Marie Takimoto
Public Relations: Nozomi Tanaka (Dance Base Yokohama)
Managing Director: Hiromitsu Katsumi (Dance Base Yokohama)
Premiere: November 2025 (Menicon Theatre Aoi) *Performing Arts Selection 2025 Festival Edition
Presented, Planned and Produced by: Dance Base Yokohama [SEGA SAMMY ARTS FOUNDATION]
Co-produced by: Aichi Prefectural Art Theater [Aichi Arts Foundation]
Supported by: Creator Support Fund
<“Wings”: International Dance Project by Dance Base Yokohama for Emerging Creators>
■Ayaka Ono Akira Nakazawa Spacenotblank, Dance Piece No. 3: Naoya Shiga “At Kinosaki”
Ayaka Ono Akira Nakazawa Spacenotblank transform Naoya Shiga’s 1917 short story “At Kinosaki” into a wordless dance work about death and life, recovery, and inheritance.
Retracing the process by which Shiga turned his experience in Kinosaki into literature, they reconstruct the landscapes and silences of Kinosaki as choreography through “physical catharsis,” their own choreographic mechanism that generates and transforms movement and hands it on from body to body.
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Original Work: Naoya Shiga, “At Kinosaki” (1917)
(Reference: Naoya Shiga, “At Kinosaki” / “Annotated: At Kinosaki,” NPO Hon to Onsen (2013))
Choreography & Direction: Ayaka Ono, Akira Nakazawa
Performance: Haruna Imai*, Ayako Saitoh, Sayaka Tateyama
Co-creation: Hokuto Kodama, Musashi Tanno*
Rehearsal Directors: Mayu Kishimoto, Shizuka Yamaguchi
Music: mmm
Producer: Eri Karatsu (Dance Base Yokohama / Aichi Prefectural Art Theater)
Stage Manager: Chikage Yuyama
Technical Advisor: Yoshinori Sekoguchi (URAK)
Lighting Design: Nami Nakayama
Sound Design: Shomi Sakurauchi
Production Coordinators: Yuka Kamimura (Dance Base Yokohama), Yuka Mori (Uncreative)
Production Cooperation: Spacenotblank
Public Relations: Nozomi Tanaka (Dance Base Yokohama)
Managing Director: Hiromitsu Katsumi (Dance Base Yokohama)
Premiere: October 2025 (Aichi Prefectural Art Theater) *Performing Arts Selection 2025 Festival Edition
Planned and Produced by: Dance Base Yokohama [SEGA SAMMY ARTS FOUNDATION]
Co-produced by: Aichi Prefectural Art Theater [Aichi Arts Foundation]
Supported by: Creator Support Fund <“Wings”: International Dance Project by Dance Base Yokohama for Emerging Creators>
*Part of the expenses for choreographic inheritance is covered by a grant the artists received from The Saison Foundation.
Research Cooperation: NPO DANCE BOX, Kinosaki Onsen Mikiya, Sueyozan Onsenji
Residency Cooperation: Kinosaki International Arts Center (Toyooka City)
Residency Cooperation (Chef): Natsuki Ota
Cooperation: Iwaki Ballet Company, Saito DANCE KOUBOU, Tokyo Ballet Works, Ayako Watanabe
▶︎Work details
*Performer Haruna Imai and co-creator Musashi Tanno were selected through an audition held in June 2026 as “choreography inheritors,” who inherit, through direct transmission of movement, the choreography that Hokuto Kodama has performed since the premiere.
https://dancebase.yokohama/en/info/16867/
◆Profiles
Teita Iwabuchi, The Great Afternoon: the soft machine xxx
©Yuka Uesawa
©︎Yuri SatoAyaka Ono Akira Nakazawa Spacenotblank, Dance Piece No. 3: Naoya Shiga “At Kinosaki”
©︎Dan Bellman
©︎manami tanaka
©︎ISLAND STUDIO◆“Wings”: International Dance Project by Dance Base Yokohama for Emerging Creators
Dance Base Yokohama (DaBY) has launched a new project, “Wings”: International Dance Project by Dance Base Yokohama for Emerging Creators. The project aims to enhance the international presence of Japanese creators, fostering leading Japanese artists, producers, dramaturgs, and critics, presenting works abroad, and creating further opportunities for restaging.
“Wings” website
◆Contact
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◆CINARS Performance Credits
Presented, Planned and Produced by: Dance Base Yokohama [SEGA SAMMY ARTS FOUNDATION]
Co-produced by: Aichi Prefectural Art Theater [Aichi Arts Foundation]
Supported by: Creator Support Fund
<“Wings”: International Dance Project by Dance Base Yokohama for Emerging Creators>
In cooperation with: Délégation générale du Québec à Tokyo
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