Toranan Ame / Creation workshop/audition for new piece “R/evolution(s)” – Dance Base Yokohama International Dance Project “Wings” for the next generation of creators who want to spread their wings to the world.
＜Call for Participating Dancers
Dance Base Yokohama (DaBY) will launch a new project “Dance Base Yokohama International Dance Project “Wings” for the next generation of creators who want to spread their wings to the world” in 2024. The five creators selected for the “Wings” project will work together to create a new work with a view to performing it overseas.
Creation of a new piece “R/evolution(s)” choreographed by Toranan Ame will begin.
As the first step, a creation workshop will be held.
This workshop will also serve as an audition for the performers of next year’s new work “R/evolution(s)”.
Intensive workshops using butoh techniques performed with dancers from different backgrounds.
The main focus will be on physical choreography, with creations developed through research that sometimes includes dialogue with participants, and a showing on the final day.
We look forward to your participation.
◆ Contents
Toranan Ame has been studying Butoh under Akane Maro since 2008 when he was a student of sculpture at Musashino Art University, and since becoming independent from Dairakudakan in 2019, he has been pursuing a dense solidity with an emphasis on flow and texture based on Butoh but without relying on spirituality, Orientalism, or narrative. The company’s philosophy is based on butoh, but never on spirituality, Orientalism, or narrative.
The new work they are working on this time is a dance piece based on the motif of orbital motion, with the theme of reinterpreting the sense of the body in the modern age.
Inspired by the word “revolution,” which means revolution or revolution, this work, through the “Multi Layered Body” butoh method advocated by Ame, launches physicality as a phenomenon, intersecting with metamorphosis, multifaceted composition, and the physicality of the dancers. How will this work, which aims to materialize the details of the body with intensity, pierce the modern society overflowing with information and meanings?
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◆Date and time
2025
Monday, March 24
16:00-19:00 Face to face meeting and research
Wednesday, March 26 – Friday, March 28
12:00-18:00 Creation
Saturday, March 29
13:00-17:00 Technical Rehearsal
17:30-18:30 “R/evolution(s)” Showing
◆Venue
Dance Base Yokohama ( https://dancebase.yokohama/access )
3F KITANAKA BRICK&WHITE BRICK North, 5-57-2 Kitanaka-dori, Naka-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
Bashamichi Station, Minatomirai Line Exit 2a “Yokohama Kitanaka Knot Direct connection
◆Targets and Conditions of Participation
・ 20 years old or older・Professional or dancers aiming to become professional
・Able to participate in the showing on the last day, March 29 (Sat.)
*Basically able to participate all day
*Any field of dance is acceptable.
If you wish to participate in the audition, please also confirm the following conditions.
◯New Creation @DaBY
Tuesday, June 24, 2025 – Friday, July 18, 2025 16:00-21:00 (tentative)
◯Pre-production rehearsal @DaBY (to be adjusted from the following schedule)
September 17 (Tuesday) to October 12 (Saturday), 2025
◯Rehearsal / Performance @ Aichi Arts Center (Rehearsals will be arranged from the following schedule)
October 14 (Tue) – November 2 (Sun), 2025
◯Showcase (to be adjusted from the following schedule)
December 1 (Mon.) – 21 (Sun.), 2025
*Please consult with us if you are in the process of adjusting your schedule or if you have already made plans.
*Participants who are selected to perform in a new work will be paid a rehearsal participation fee and a performance fee. Details will be communicated separately.
◆Application
Free of chargehttps://cananamok-newworkws.peatix.com
*DaBY Members registration (free) is required to apply. Please register here before applying.
◆About Dance Base Yokohama International Dance Project “Wings” for the next generation of world-class creators
Dance Base Yokohama (DaBY) is launching a new project, “Dance Base Yokohama International Dance Project “Wings” for the next generation of creators who want to spread their wings to the world. This project aims to increase the international presence of Japanese creators, nurture leading Japanese artists, producers, dramaturges and critics, and create opportunities for overseas performances and further revivals of their works.
Details of the project are available in the PDF below.
https://dancebase.yokohama/wp/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/2401118_PERSSRELEASE.pdf
◆Profile
Conan Amok
Residence artist at DaBY. Choreographer and dancer. He graduated from Musashino Art University, Department of Sculpture in 2010, and is a member of Dairakudakan (2008-1019). He studied under Akaji Maro at Dairakudakan (2008-1019).
He creates dance works with solid and precise physicality, meta and frenetic at the same time. He researches and practices “multi-layered body,” a butoh technique based on phenomenological and sculptural perspectives, and conducts workshops and performances in Japan and abroad. He has also appeared in numerous stage productions, dramas, films, music videos, and commercials, and has served as an instructor at Butoh Lab Camp (2023) and as a special lecturer at Musashino Art University (2023).
◆Inquiries
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