YPAM Joint Program DaBY Performing Arts Selection 2021
DaBY Choreographer in Residence Saori Harasaori’s new work “P wave
Schedule] December 19 (Sun.) 15:00
Venue] Dance Base Yokohama
Application] Peatix page ( https://pwave.peatix.com/)
Arrival of P wave [initial microtremor]. The buzzing of neurons. Sensing and avoidance study show.
Saori Harasaori has been creating works from a cognitive psychology perspective, which examines how humans read information from the environment and objects to determine their own behavior. This work, themed on perception and cognition, focuses on human social behavior under emergency conditions. The work will be performed as a new work that is a further development of the work-in-progress performance “Zekkei” that was staged at the same venue in November, 2020. The work will be performed as a new work.
◆Schedule
December 19 (Sun.) 15:00
◆Venue
Dance Base Yokohama (https://dancebase.yokohama/main2/access)
KITANAKA BRICK&WHITE BRICK North 3F
5-57-2, Kitanaka-dori, Naka-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa Directly connected to “Yokohama Kitanaka Knot”, Exit 2a, Bashamichi Station, Minatomirai Line
◆Application Method
Please register from the Peatix page below.
https://pwave.peatix.com/
◆Artist Profile
Japanese halfbeak (species of fish with elongated lower jaw) (Hemiramphus sajori)
Saori Hala
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Dancer, choreographer, artist, director of Co.S.
Based in several cities including Berlin, Tokyo, and Yokohama, she has created performance and choreographic works on the theme of space and the body, and belonging to the body. With a background in design and ecopsychology, which she studied at university, as well as her childhood experience of living with natural disasters unique to Japan, she has continued her movement research focusing on “the body moved by the environment”. In 2021, he performed “Da Dad Dada” at Dance New Air, Japan’s largest international dance festival, to high acclaim.
The company’s activities are diverse, involving not only the stage but also the music, fashion, and other cultural scenes. Recent collaborations, appearances, and choreography include Nosei Otani, Mami Kakudo, Tomoyo Harada, Shuta Hasunuma, U-zhaan, NIKE, BLESS, Shiseido, shu uemura, and Cartier.
M.F.A. in Design from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, M.F.A. in Solo Performance from the Department of Dance at the Berlin University of the Arts; 2013 Yoshino Gypsum Art Foundation overseas trainee; 2017 Pola Art Foundation overseas trainee; 2017 Pola Art Foundation overseas trainee; 2017 Pola Art Foundation overseas trainee.
He is a 2020-2021 Arts Commission Yokohama Artist Fellow and Dance Base Yokohama Residence Choreographer.
◆Credit
Created by Saori Harasaori
Cast: Saori Hara, Komi Koyama, Mizuno Nakamura
Stage Manager: Yoshiko Haraguchi
Sound: Norimasa Ushikawa
Lighting: Masayo Okano
Design: Fumiyo Moriya
Production: Yuko Takeda
Production Assistant: Toru Umehara
Organized by: Dance Nippon Associates, Inc.
Co-sponsored by Dance Base Yokohama and Co.
Subsidized by Agency for Cultural Affairs “ARTS for the future!
Contact: Co.S co.saorihala@gmail.com