Place】Dance Base Yokohama

Lecturer / Navigator] Kenta Komori (Dance Evangelist, DaBY)

Kenta Komori’s “Class”, which has been offered to professional and aspiring professional dancers since its opening in June 2020, will be held as the OpenLab “Kenta Komori Dance Workshop”! Anyone with dance experience can take a special class by Kenta Komori for a limited time. While based on contemporary dance techniques, this dance class is open to participants from various dance backgrounds, and will cultivate sensitivity to thinking about expression through improvisation and work directly on creativity.

■Dates/Tickets on sale

Monday, April 12, 19:00-20:30 *Application closed.
Monday, May 10, 19:00-20:30 *Application closed.
Monday, June 14, 19:00-20:30 *Application closed.
Monday, July 12, 19:00-20:30 *Application closed. *Some additional numbers available from 10:00, Wednesday, July 7 [updated 7/6]
*Registration starts 30 minutes before the start


■Capacity and Target
About 15 people, 5 years of dance experience or more

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

■Fees
1 time ¥3,000

■Registration:
Please register through Peatix.
*Pre-registration as a DaBY member is required to apply.

July 12 (Mon.) Class Application Link :https://daby-openlabws-2107.peatix.com/

■Instructor Profile
Kenta Kojiri [Dance Evangelist]

©Takayuki Abe

Dancer, choreographer, Dance Base Yokohama Dance Evangelist, winner of the Prix de Lausanne 1999. He was the first Japanese male dancer to join the Netherlands Dance Theatre I. After leaving the company, he joined the Royal Swedish Ballet Company and became a member of the Royal Swedish Ballet Company. Since leaving the company, he has made guest appearances with the Royal Swedish Ballet, Noism, Sylvie Guillem’s “6000 Miles Away,” and Kirlian Productions, while developing activities around his creative work, including the solo performance “Study for Self/portrait” (Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, 2005). In recent years, he has been leading Opto with Rei Watanabe and Nagama Yuasa, curating Dance Lab “Dancers, Dance with Words,” which teaches Japanese figure skaters how to express themselves, and serving as an instructor/navigator at Saitama Dance Laboratory (Saitama Arts Theatre, Sai-No-Kuni).