Dates] March 6 (Sat) and March 7 (Sun)
[Venue] Dance Base Yokohama

The new work “Dialogue” will be presented by DaBY resident dancers who have been training at the host ProLab “Class” since DaBY’s opening, along with artists with whom Kenta Komori has been collaborating. Dialogue” will be presented.
This work is the result of Kenta Koyurugi and the DaBY dancers-in-residence’s year-long collaboration at DaBY. The process of this creation will utilize “Kinematics (tentative),” a dance notation system using machine learning by programmer Shoya Dozono, and will be exhibited with video on the day of the performance. In addition, a part of the process will be introduced with demonstrations by the artist and dancers in the after talk after the performance.

◆Concept

This is about the training that dancers repeat as part of their routine.
Although it is an act to confirm the small differences in sensations that occur to the body on a daily basis, it is always next to the danger of being manipulated by repeated movements and losing the sensations that are supposed to be there.

Our bodies, as we live our daily lives, remember sensations, sometimes forget them, and grow. Is it possible to “record” the sensations that we forget and lose in the course of our lives through the physical expression of dance?

This work is an attempt to “record” through the act of choreography the individual “memories” of each person, including the physical dialogue derived from the dialogue between the performer and the choreographer.
Dance is not something that is born and disappears in an instant, but is a form of “memory” that is born from numerous dialogues in a condensed period of time.

◆ Schedule

Saturday, March 6, 16:00
Sunday, March 7, 14:00

*After Talk will be held after the performance on each day.
*Performance time (performance + after-talk) will be approximately 80 minutes.

＜After Talk Performers (tentative):
March 6 (Sat) Kenta Komori + Yasuhiro Morinaga
Dancers｜ Takuya Sato, Yuka Okamoto, Kana Anshin

March 7 (Sun) Kenta Komori + Shoya Dozono
Dancers｜ Mariko Ono, Shinoh Hatanaka, Takayuki Ueda

◆Rates

Advance ¥3,000 (tax included)
Door ticket ¥3,500 (tax included)

◆Application Method

Please register through Peatix at https://daby-dialogue.peatix.com.
*Pre-registration as a DaBY member is required to apply for tickets. Please register here.
Registration will begin at 18:00 on Friday, February 19.

◆Access

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

◆Artist Profile

Kenta Kojiri
Kenta Kojiri
Dancer and Choreographer / DaBY Dance Evangelist

©Takayuki Abe

After winning a professional scholarship at the Prix de Lausanne in 1999, he moved to Europe. After working with the Ballet de Monte Carlo of the Principality of Monaco, he became the first Japanese male dancer to join the Netherlands Dance Theater1. Since leaving the Netherland Dance Theater 1, he has performed in “TOKI” in 2011 and 2013, “Vibration of Light” in 2004, “Study for Self/Portrait” in 2005 and 2008, and other creative works, including “6000 Miles Away” by Sylvie Guillem, Royal Swedish Ballet, Noism, Kirlian Productions, and others. and others. In recent years, he has been leading Opto with Rei Watanabe and Nagama Yuasa. He has choreographed operas and musicals, coached Japanese figure skaters, curated Dance Lab’s “Dancers, Dance with Words,” taught and navigated at Saitama Dance Laboratory, and served as a dance evangelist at Dance Base Yokohama.

Yasuhiro Morinaga
Yasuhiro Morinaga
Sound Designer / DaBY ProLab “Closed Research” Participant

After completing graduate studies at Tokyo University of the Arts, he moved to France. Since returning to Japan, he has been conducting fieldwork in various parts of the world from a musical and artistic anthropological perspective, producing sound sources and presenting his works while making field recordings of the primary sources of musical instruments and songs, soundscapes of rituals and rites, and environmental sounds of cities and settlements.

◆Profile of performers

Mariko Ono
Mariko Ono
Rehearsal Director and Dancer / DaBY Repetitor

©Hiroyasu Daido

She began studying classical ballet at the age of 3 and participated in a European ballet training program at the age of 14. After that, she was exposed to various genres of dance.
She has performed in numerous dance performances, as well as with the Japan Ballet Association, Contemporary Dance Association, and others. She has also performed in the Nikikikai Opera, plays, musicals by Johnny’s and others, Hello! Project live performances and singing shows such as SMAP x SMAP, etc., as well as performing and choreographing in a wide range of settings, including as an assistant.
In 2015, she worked as an assistant choreographer for Kenta Komori in the Toho musical “Elisabeth. She continues to work with him in other productions as well.
In the 2019 musical “Romeo & Juliet,” she will support all dance scenes under three choreographers including Kenta Koyurugi.
Currently, she performs in dance performances, organizes her own performances, and creates her own solo works.
Went to Europe by herself in 2016 and 2018. Performed in a video production in London.

Kana Ajimu
Kana Ajimu
Dancer / DaBY Resident Dancer

Born in Fukuoka, Japan, she began classical ballet at the age of 6.
After graduating from high school, she studied at Goh Ballet Academy in Canada for two and a half years.
She is a member of the Goh Ballet Youth Company.
During her study abroad, she studied contemporary dance under Maiko Miyauchi.
After returning to Japan, she was a member of Star Dancers Junior Ballet Company for one year.
From September 2016 to March 2018, she was a member of Dance Company Lasta, led by Yoshimitsu Kushida.
From May 2017 to January 2019, he was a member of Junior Company L.A.B., led by Ryu Suzuki.
In 2018, she joined his newly launched Dance Company eltanin as a flagship member.
In January 2018, he formed Muruma with Ikumi Otsuka and Ako Yasuoka.
In September of the same year, he passed an audition and joined Co. Ruri Mito, a company led by Ruri Mito.

Yuka Okamoto
Yuka Okamoto
Dancer / DaBY Resident Dancer

Started street dance and jazz dance at the age of 12.
She first encountered contemporary dance when she studied abroad in LA for a short time at the age of 17, and after returning to Japan, began studying contemporary dance and classical ballet in earnest in Japan.
She is currently searching for her own dance while also working on stage, as a backup dancer, and in clubs.

Mano Hatanaka
Mano Hatanaka
Dancer / DaBY Resident Dancer

She studied classical ballet from childhood and began contemporary dance at the age of 16. While studying dance creation methods at Ochanomizu University’s Dance Education Course, she has performed in creative dance performances at the university and in works by Kazuyuki Futami, etc. In 2019, her choreography won second place in the 2nd World Dance Competition in Niigata and the Niigata Mayor’s Prize, and she is actively engaged in her own choreographic work.

Takayuki Ueda
Takayuki Ueda
Dancer/ DaBY Collective Dance Project 1st Tryout Participant

Actor and dancer.
Born in 1990 in Himeji City, Hyogo Prefecture.
Graduated from J. F. Oberlin University, majoring in theater.
While attending Oberlin College, he spent most of his time in theater, and upon graduation he began performing in contemporary dance productions, and is currently active as both an actor and dancer.
He also directs, shoots, and edits his own music videos.
As an actor, he has appeared in productions directed by Mari Natsuki, Tomohiko Imai, Shuji Onodera, Kenichi Tani, Tak Tak Taku Yamamoto, and Satoko Ichihara, and as a dancer in choreography by Ryohei Kondo, Uran Hirosaki, Kenta Komori, Wataru Kitao, Ryu Suzuki, and Ella Hochilde.

CoRich Outstanding Actor Award (2010)

Takuya Sato
Takuya Sato
Dancer/ DaBY Opening Event Shintaro Hirahara “En-En” Tryout Participation

Born in Okayama, Japan, she started classical ballet at the age of 7 under Noriko Kawawa, and studied ballet at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague, the Netherlands from 2004 to 2006. From 2014 to 2016, she was a member of Noism1, Japan’s first public theater dance company based in Ryutopia, Niigata. Currently, she is a member of OrganWorks. Major performances include: “Hakoni Musume” and “supernova” choreographed by Jo Kanamori (NHK Ballet Feast 2015); OrganWorks “Holy Beast ~Live with a sun~” @ Setagaya Public Theater (2019); OrganWorks x Chiharu Shiota “Kuchinaishi” @ Mori Art Museum Chiharu Shiota “The soul is Furueru” at Mori Art Museum (2019).

◆Credit

Choreography/Direction｜Kenta Komori (DaBY Dance Evangelist)
Music｜Yasuhiro Morinaga
Programming (Training)｜Shoya Dozono
Rehearsal Director/Performer｜Mariko Ono (DaBY Repetitor)
Cast｜Kana Anshin / Yuka Okamoto / Shinoh Hatanaka (DaBY Residence Dancer)
Takayuki Ueda, Takuya Sato
Production ｜Miyako Miyata (DaBY) / Marika Futagawa (DaBY) / Aya Komori (TASKO inc.)
Publicity｜Nozomi Tanaka (DaBY)
Lighting｜Tsuyoshi Ueda (RYU)
Stage Manager｜Satoshi Ozaki
Costume｜Hitomi Tsuchida
Supervision｜Eri Karatsu (DaBY Artistic Director / Aichi Arts Center Senior Producer)
Organizer, Planning & Production Dance Base Yokohama