Faintly Here
Moto Takahashi

Exploring a style that fuses hip-hop and classical ballet, Takahashi Moto toured abroad for the first time in two U.S. cities last year with his dance company MWMW. Inspired by a Japanese ghost story, Takahashi wrote a poetic tale from scratch as the core of this dance work, which is composed through physical expression that transcends words. The space changes its form from moment to moment, and time and space flow with their own breath. Memories that you have shared with someone else, moments that you may have shared with someone else. To touch it without averting the eyes and ears. A touch. The approaching presence tests the extent to which one’s senses are open. This work depicts a ghost story for the sake of a small communion with the things that appear in the world around us.

Credit

Direction/Choreography/Performance/Music：Moto Takahashi
Performance：Yuria Onishi, Yuki Nakatani
Performance Vision Enabler：Chieko Ito
Producer：Eri Karatsu (Aichi Prefectural Art Theater / Dance Base Yokohama)
Technical Director：Yoshinori Sekoguchi（Aichi Prefectural Art Theater）
Technical Director：Chiskei Yuyama
Stage Director：Hiroshi Nakai (URAK)
Sound Design: Raku Nakahara (KARABINER inc.)
Lighting Design: Akiyo Kushida
Production: Marihide Takimoto

Premiere: November 2025 (Menicon Theatre Aoi) *Performing Arts Selection 2025 Festival Edition

Produced by: Dance Base Yokohama [SEGA SAMMY ARTS FOUNDATION]／“Wings”: International Dance Project by Dance Base Yokohama for Emerging Creators
Co-produced by: Dance Base Yokohama, Aichi Prefectural Art Theater [Aichi Arts Foundation]
Supported by: Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan, Japan Arts Council