Dance piece No. 3: Naoya Shiga’s “At the Castle
Ayaka Ono Akira Nakazawa Spacenotblank

That identity is somewhere in there…

Ayaka Ono Akira Nakazawa SpacenotblankThis is the third dance work by In December 2022, he won the Yokohama Dance Collection 2022 Competition I Kinosaki International Art Center Prize for “Balance”, the latest phase of his original mechanism “Physical Catharsis”. In May 2025, he stayed at Kinosaki International Art Center for research and creation of “Dance Work No. 3”. After that, he officially titled the piece “Dance Work No. 3: Naoya Shiga’s “At Kinosaki””. Inspired by the content of Naoya Shiga’s “At Kinosaki,” the process and basis of writing, and the context of the novelist’s stay “at Kinosaki” and the act of transforming the events there into a creative work. Ayaka Ono Akira Nakazawa SpacenotblankThe “At Kinosaki” is a tracing of the trajectory of Naoya Shiga and the history of Kinosaki, and the form of “expression” that we, who live in the present age, will arrive at.

Credit

Original idea: Naoya Shiga’s “At the Castle’s Zaki” (1917)
Choreography and direction: Ayaka Ono choreographed and directed by Yoh Nakazawa
Performers: Hokuto Kodama, Ayako Saito, Sumi Tateyama
Rehearsal Director: Shizuka Yamaguchi
Music: mmm
Art: Takuya Kamiike
Producer: Eri Karatsu (Dance Base Yokohama / Aichi Prefectural Art Theater)
Technical Director: Yoshinori Sekoguchi ( Aichi Prefectural Art Theater)
Technical Director: Chikage Yuyama
Stage Manager: Rion Moribe
Sound : Kosaka Sakuraiuchi
Lighting : Nami Nakayama
Production: Yuka Kamimura (Dance Base Yokohama)
Production cooperation: Space Knot Blank

Planning and production: Dance Base Yokohama [Sega Sammy Foundation for Arts and Culture]
Co-production: Dance Base Yokohama [Sega Sammy Foundation for Arts and Culture], Aichi Prefectural Art Theater[Aichi Arts Foundation]
Support: Fund for Strengthening Infrastructure for Arts and Cultural Activities (Supporting the development of creators and cultural facilities with high added value)
Residence Cooperation: Kinosaki International Art Center (Toyooka City)
Residence Cooperation (Chef): Natsurai Ota
Research Cooperation: NPO DANCE BOX, Mikiya Kinosaki Onsen, Sueyozan Onsenji
Cooperation: Iwaki Ballet Company