Dates]
Friday, January 22, 2021 18:30
Saturday, January 23, 2021 15:00 / 18:00
Sunday, January 24, 2021 14:00

[Venue] Goethe-Institut Tokyo Hall

Since 2017, the dancer/choreographer Kenta Komori has been working with artists from other genres in a collaborative research and creation project called SandD (Project “Surface and Destroy”). The project “SandD (Project “Surface and Destroy”)” will present a new work, “The Threshold” by Kenta Koyurimoto + Yasuhiro Morinaga in January 2021. The piece is based on the physical expression created by the collaboration of sound artist Yasuhiro Morinaga and Kenta Koyurimoto, with the participation of lighting designer Tsuyoshi Ueda and stage director Satoshi Ozaki. Through this dance work, which shares the dancers’ physical sensations and fuses their respective creative methods, we aim to create a place where new everyday life and the stage are connected.

The Threshold

The physical act of moving (migrating) from one place to that place and the “boundaries” that appear there. There is a certain line that seems to be passable if you ask for it, but it is a line that is hard to step over. The stimulation of the body and the perception of the body are in conflict with each other.

◆ Schedule

Friday, January 22, 2021 18:30
Saturday, January 23, 2021 15:00 / 18:00
Sunday, January 24, 2021 14:00
*The performance will last 45 minutes.

◆Access

Goethe-Institut Tokyo Hall
1F German Cultural Institute, 7-5-56 Akasaka, Minato-ku, Tokyo 107-0052
https://www.goethe.de/ins/jp/ja/sta/tok.html

◆Rates

Advance tickets 2,000 yen (tax included)
Door tickets 2,500 yen (tax included)

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◆Collaborative Research Artists

Kenta Komori (Dancer, Choreographer / DaBY Dance Evangelist)
Yasuhiro Morinaga (Sound Artist)
Satoshi Ozaki (Stage Manager, Art Director)
Go Ueda (Lighting Designer)

◆Artist Profile

Kenta Kojiri
Kenta Kojiri
Dancer and Choreographer / DaBY Dance Evangelist

©︎Carl Thorborg

After winning a professional scholarship at the Prix de Lausanne in 1999, he moved to Europe. After working with the Ballet de Monte Carlo of the Principality of Monaco, he became the first Japanese male dancer to join the Netherlands Dance Theater1. Since leaving the Netherland Dance Theater 1, he has performed in “TOKI” in 2011 and 2013, “Vibration of Light” in 2004, “Study for Self/Portrait” in 2005 and 2008, and other creative works, including “6000 Miles Away” by Sylvie Guillem, Royal Swedish Ballet, Noism, Kirlian Productions, and others. and others. In recent years, he has been leading Opto with Rei Watanabe and Nagama Yuasa. He has choreographed operas and musicals, coached Japanese figure skaters, curated Dance Lab’s “Dancers, Dance with Words,” taught and navigated at Saitama Dance Laboratory, and served as a dance evangelist at Dance Base Yokohama.

Yasuhiro Morinaga
Yasuhiro Morinaga
Sound Designer

After completing graduate studies at Tokyo University of the Arts, he moved to France. Since returning to Japan, he has been conducting fieldwork in various parts of the world from a musical and artistic anthropological perspective, producing sound sources and presenting his works while making field recordings of the primary sources of musical instruments and songs, soundscapes of rituals and rites, and environmental sounds of cities and settlements.

So Ozaki
So Ozaki
Stage Manager, Art Direction

Studied American theater at Osaka University of Foreign Studies. Participated in Ishinha and Dumb Type as a performer. As a stage director, he has worked with Dumb Type, Noism, chelfitsch, and others. Has worked as technical director for Harajuku Performance Plus, Aichi Triennale, and Postmainstream Performing Arts Festival.

Go Ueda
Go Ueda
Lighting Designer

He is a member of Nagare Inc. and has been working on stage lighting design for music festivals in Bangkok, Thailand since 2010, while studying at King Mongkut University, where he received a master’s degree in architectural lighting. His major works include lighting design for Big Mountain Music Festival in Thailand and Wonder Fruits Festival in Pattaya, etc. He also designs DIY lighting equipment and has created many projects and installations with his own DMX equipment.

Composition, Choreography, Performer｜Kenta Komori
Composition/Music/Performance｜Yasuhiro Morinaga
Satoshi Ozaki
Lighting｜Tsuyoshi Ueda (RYU)
Sound｜Raku Nakahara (Luftzug)
Technical Assistant｜Sato Oikawa
Photographs｜momoko japan
Recording｜Akari Eda
Advertising Art｜Yusuke Kawamura
Public Relations｜Nozomi Tanaka (Dance Base Yokohama)
Miyako Miyata (Dance Base Yokohama)
Production cooperation | Aya Komori (TASKO inc.)
Supervision｜Eri Karatsu (Dance Base Yokohama)

Kenta Komori, Dance Base Yokohama
Organizer｜Kenta Koyurugi
Co-sponsored by Goethe-Institut Tokyo and Dance Base Yokohama