Dates] Saturday, November 28 and Sunday, November 29
Venue] Dance Base Yokohama

The Halasaori Tryout “Spectacular View” will show fragments of research creations as a result of the two-week residency.

A 30-minute performance will be given on both days starting at 16:00. During the time when there is no performance, live drawing by Saori Hara and collaborative work (video work) with AI artist Yuma Kishi will be available for viewing throughout the day.

◆Harasaori Note

A spectacular view.
　We are looking at a landscape where tragedy seems to have become a reality. I imagined the weight of the “curtain” that had not been raised in the world during the nine months when time was the only gift given to us. I thought about the dance, the words, the voices, the sounds, the light, you, and me. With that time, I continue to move between three cities: Berlin, Tokyo, and Yokohama.
　It is neither the past nor the future, but a shadow that only I, in the present, am allowed to see. I would like to begin this creation by calling it a “spectacular view.

　Tryout “Spectacular View” is composed of three attempts: “Perceptive Room” [performance], “Metawindow” , and “Desktop” [live drawing]. Desktop” [live drawing]. The “body” is surrounded by the environment/objects of the room, window, and desk, and the “perception” is surrounded by the body. Our “perception” is constantly changing within this double enclosure, and will remain there until the end of our lives. This cannot be blocked by others.

◆Tryout Structure

“Perceptive Room” [performance] 30min
With the help of Masato Sasaki, a leading researcher on “affordance,” who has continuously used it as an inspiration for his choreography, he worked with the performers for five days of studio work.

Created, directed, choreographed and performed by Saori Hara
Choreography and Performers: Yu Ishizuka, Kaho Kogure, Kazuma Shimazu, Haruka Suzuki, Ippei Tanaka
Studio Creation Participation: Yu Ishizuka, Ayano Otaki, Kaho Kogure, Kazuma Shimazu, Haruka Suzuki, Ippei Tanaka, Seira Nakanishi
Music: Toru Umehara
Cooperation: Masato Sasaki (Ecopsychologist/Professor Emeritus, University of Tokyo)


” Desktop” [live drawing].
Japanese halfbeak (species of fish with elongated lower jaw) (Hemiramphus sajori)
Drawing” is an act of perceiving the fluctuation of the tip of the body extended by the pen. Desktop” is an attempt to recapture the “line,” which has been used to record choreography and as a function for esquisitions, by drawing for about five hours a day, together with one’s own physical sensations.


“Metawindow” .
Saori Hala + Yuma Kishi
The AI was trained by Kishi for about a week on the movements of Hala, photographed at DaBY, to generate shapes using music as an external stimulus. How does the AI see “dancing with sound and light,” which humans have practiced since ancient times?

Music: Toru Umehara

According to Leon Battista Alberti, an architect of the early Renaissance, painting was an “open window.
The world as it is, depicted through transparent glass. In other words, an “image transmitted through”.
In Fresh Widow (1920), Marcel Duchamp succeeded in contrasting the presence of the “reflected image” in the space by attaching black cloth to the window frame.

The “window,” an important motif in art history as an equilibrium point in the conflict of images, will play an even more special role in 2020.
Did the world viewed from our own room really penetrate and reflect correctly to us?

Metawindow” (2020) is a video installation that creates an exhibition space in another dimension, one that is “not” this world.
In a different space where no sound exists, the former “dances” observed in the here and now are melted down and reconstructed.

When “floating images” emerge as a new third image in addition to “transmitted images” and “reflected images,” what do we perceive as transmitted and what as reflected? What can we perceive as transmitted and what as reflected?

Yuma Kishi

◆Schedule

Saturday, November 28, 14:00~20:00[16:00~ 30分程度のパフォーマンスあり]
Sunday, November 29, 12:00~18:00[16:00~ 30分程度のパフォーマンスあり]

◆Formats and Fees

November 28 (Sat) Admission: 2000 yen (tax included)
November 29 (Sun.) Admission: 2000 yen (tax included)
*This program is free to enter and leave throughout the day. Ticket holders for the dates in question may enter and exit at any time without limitation on the length of their stay.
When entering DaBY, please be sure to present the Peatix QR screen to the staff and provide your name.

◆Venue

Dance Base Yokohama ( https://dancebase.yokohama/access )
KITANAKA BRICK&WHITE BRICK North 3F
5-57-2, Kitanaka-dori, Naka-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa Directly connected to “Yokohama Kitanaka Knot”, Exit 2a, Bashamichi Station, Minatomirai Line

◆Application Method

Please register through Peatix at https://daby-tryout5.peatix.com/.
*Pre-registration as a DaBY member is required to apply for tickets. Please apply here.
*Registration will begin at 10:00 on Saturday, October 31.

◆Creator Profile

Japanese halfbeak (species of fish with elongated lower jaw) (Hemiramphus sajori)
Saori Hala


©Kazuhei Kimura

Lives and works in Berlin. Through the creation of performance works based on design theory, he explores the nature of the immediate body in site-specific space and time. In addition, he also works with text, drawing, and video. In recent years, he has performed “Da Dad Dada,” a self-documentary work dealing with the life and death of his father, a dancer, in Japan and Germany, and will present a performance work “no room” at Dance New Air the following fall, 2019. He won the 9th El Sur Foundation Newcomer Award in the contemporary dance category.

2020 Arts Commission Yokohama U39 Artist Fellow
2018 Completed Solo Performance in Dance (HZT/SODA), Berlin University of the Arts
2017 Overseas Trainee dispatched by POLA ART FOUNDATION

2015 MFA in Design, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music
2013 Yoshino Gypsum Foundation Overseas Trainee

Yuma Kishi
Yuma Kishi



Contemporary artist / AI artist, born in 1993. Graduated from the University of Tokyo in 2019 with a degree in Electrical Optics, Graduate School of Engineering. Since then, he has been based in Tokyo. His works have been used by NIKE and VOGUE, and he is active in many other fields. His work has been featured in NIKE and Vogue, and he is active in many other fields.
https://obake2ai.com/work

Studio Creation Participating Members
common crossbill (Loxia curvirostra)
Ayano Otaki
Kogure Kaho
Kazuma Shimazu
Haruka Suzuki
Ippei Tanaka
Seira Nakanishi
*Some of them will perform in the tryout performances. Performers for the tryout performances will be announced at a later date.

Music Toru Umehara
Collaborator: Hiromasa Kishi (Contemporary Artist / AI Artist)
In cooperation with Masato Sasaki (Ecopsychologist/Professor Emeritus, The University of Tokyo)
Supported by Arts Commission Yokohama
　　　 Agency for Cultural Affairs, FY 2020 “Continuous Support Program for Cultural and Artistic Activities”.