DaBY Collective Dance Project
1st New Work Tryout & Practical Talk Exercise

[Date] 8/30 (Sun) 16:00~16:45
[Place] Dance Base Yokohama

Dance Base Yokohama (hereafter DaBY) has launched a new project “DaBY The first tryout of new works will be held in 2020. The first tryout of new works will be held at Dance Base Yokohama on Sunday, August 30, 2020.

The project will be directed and choreographed by DaBY associate choreographer Ryu Suzuki, and will include young musicians in their 20s and 30s, filmmakers, dramaturgs, dancers, production artists, and stage designers with backgrounds in architecture. By bringing together creators who are not bound by the conventional framework of dance, and through repeated discussions based on their own expertise and ideas, and through experimentation with multiple perspectives, the project will explore the state of creation by artists in the new era of the spread of the new type of coronavirus infection.

The project, which began discussions more than six months ago and was fully launched in July 2020, will periodically present small works using various media such as video, sound, and photography under the theme of “gaps in perception” and the elements that emerge during creation, which will be called “fragments”. By exhibiting “fragments” to the public, the process of creation will be made visible, and tryouts will be held to explore how these fragments can be constructed and the possibilities of further performing arts.

■The 1st Tryout Participating Creators

Direction/Choreography Ryu Suzuki (DaBY Associate Choreographer)
Dance Takayuki Ueda / Ken Nakagawa / Mano Hatanaka
Music Tatsuki Amano
Stage Design Hirotaka Isshiki / Kenjiro Miyano (On Design)
Video Daisuke Omiya
Dramaturg Seito Niwa
Production Nozomi Tanaka (DaBY)

■fragment

Fragments on DaBY channel on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1h6t3C9XrYKZoxhHM4P6SXaZ408y2WdV
Fragments created during the creative process exhibited at the exhibition https://dancebase.yokohama/en /info/3267

■Information on the 1st Tryout Performance

Performance format] Live performance
at Dance Base Yokohama (3F KITANAKA BRICK&WHITE BRICK North, 5-57-2 Kitanaka-dori, Naka-ku, Yokohama)
Live streaming
on DaBY channel ( https://www.youtube. com/c/DanceBaseYokohama)
[Fee] Live performance 2000 yen
Live streaming free
Agency for Cultural Affairs FY2020 “Continuous Support Program for Cultural and Artistic Activities

■Live ammunition exercises

Following the tryout performance, we will hold a closed opinion exchange meeting with a name system. We look forward to your participation to share your frank opinions for the development of our creative activities.
The date and time】 Sunday, August 30, 17:00-18:30 (tentative)
【Place】 Dance Base Yokohama or Zoom
【Application】 Please contact DaBY ( info@dancebase.yokohama ) if you would like to participate in this event.
After the tryout, we will send the URL of the Zoom meeting to all participants. Those who will participate on-site will be informed at the venue on the day of the meeting.

■ 1st tryout stage photo