OpenLab “Children’s Dance Workshop” (Instructor: Kenta Komori)
[Dates] 8/15 (Sat) 11:00-12:30 and 8/26 (Wed) 16:00-17:30
[Location] Dance Base Yokohama
Dance for children by Kenta Komori, DaBY Dance Evangelist, to make first-class dance and performing arts accessible from a young age. Dance workshops for children will be held. While using dance techniques, the focus will be on learning to move the body through imagination.
Class Content
Dance Experience” Flexibility, ballet, contemporary dance, etc. (30 min.)
Creation / Playing with the Body” Dance creation in a space close to the stage with lighting (45 min.)
Small Presentation” – Showing the results of the creative process to the parents (15 min.)
Workshop (Max. 15 people)
Fee 3000 yen (tax included)
□Target: Elementary school students (1st grade to 6th grade)
□Registration:
Please register through Peatix (https://daby-openlab2.peatix.com/)
*Pre-registration as DaBY members is required to register for tickets.
Profile of the lecturer
Kenta Kojiri
(DaBY Dance Evangelist)
©Takayuki Abe
Awarded the Prix de Lausanne in 1999. He was the first Japanese male dancer to join the Netherlands Dance Theater I. 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” (2017, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art). In recent years, she has been leading Opto with Rei Watanabe and Nagama Yuasa, coaching Japanese figure skaters, curating Dance Lab “Dancers, Dance with Words”, and working as an instructor/navigator for Saitama Dance Laboratory (Saitama Arts Theatre, Sainokuni).