The project “New Dance Technologies” will be developed as part of the 2025 DaBY Residence Program.
Based on the results of the project, which has had two showings at different venues, three events (lecture, showing (+ talk), and workshop) will be held free of charge during the residency program.
We look forward to your participation.

◆”New Dance Technologies, Inc.

New Dance Technologies is a project initiated in 2023 by the performance unit “Team Chipro” and dance critic Keisuke Sakurai. The project aims to collect, reconstruct, and archive “movements” that thrive in a certain place, and to perform a dance work based on these movements.

The ultimate goal of this project is to make an archive of new body techniques in contemporary dance, comparable to Forsythe’s “Improvisation Technologies,” available on the web for use by all human beings and dancers.

We will announce what “a certain place” is after the final announcement of this project. At this point, we estimate that about 1,000 “movements” will be archived in “New Dance Technologies.

This time, as an experiment in the process, the dancer/choreographer Pijin TOROZO will be invited to collect, reconstruct, and archive “movement” and perform a dance based on the collection. The number of members will be gradually increased in the future as we work toward the final presentation and release of the archive.

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◆Application

Please register through Peatix.

*Registration as a DaBY member is required to apply. Click here to register in advance.

◆Participant Profile

Team ChiPro
Performance unit of Nanako Matsumoto and Kengo Nishimoto. They jointly choreograph and compose works. They continue to work on the theme of the criticality of the body and gesture. In recent years, they have found a step from a concrete place and time in the city, and create dance works that deal with the intersection of the multiple contexts evoked by the step and the performers’ physical sensations and memories. web: https://flicker-gastonia-308.notion.site /team-chiipro-ebcd495eb9e84e24b00b6bb820eca4b0

Keisuke Sakurai
Musician and dance critic
Has accompanied dance for decades with various approaches such as criticism, stage music composition, curation, and space management.

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TOROKO PIJIN
dancer, choreographer, representative of neji&co. She creates dance works focusing on gestures that have no purpose and disappear the moment they move, the space of the theater that integrates them as works of art, and the time of performing arts. 2011, Jury Prize at Yokohama Dance Collection EX, F/T Award at Festival/Tokyo Open Call Program. 2016, F/T Award at Festival/Tokyo. 2016, Curator of Our Masters Tatsumi Hijikata “tongues/glossolalia”; Associate Artist for the second term of THEATRE E9 KYOTO. He is a Saison Fellow II of the Saison Foundation (FY2022-2024).

◆Credit

Organized by New Dance Research Group (Nanako Matsumoto, Kengo Nishimoto / Team Chipro + Keisuke Sakurai + Pijin Tosuko)
Co-sponsored by Dance Base Yokohama