ƒAOYAMA ROUND THEATRE„@–The order and program are subject to change
@program A@November 18th (thu) start 19:00 with post-performance talk
œEmanuel Gat (Israel) "Winter Voyage"
Born in Israel 1969. Studied Music at the "Tel-Aviv academy". Started dancing at the age of 23 with the "Liat Dror Nir Ben-Gal Company".
Created his first piece two years later. During the next eight years has created a number of independent projects as a choreographer and leading dancer. His work was presented in Israel as well as in dance festivals around the world. In 1995 has received a scholarship from "Ballet Master" in Denmark.
In 2003 has received the "Rosenblum award for performing Arts".
His work was presented in Israel, Japan, U.S.A, France, Germany, Belgrade, Turkey and Italy.
http://www.gatgat.com/
Studio Tanca, professional dance theatre from Slovakia, is a scene for original pieces working with choreographic, musical and scenographical aspects of contemporary arts.
The main strategy of Studio Tanca is creation of original dance projects- in the field of contemporary dance and open communication with its audience. Studio Tanca was created in 1998 as a stage for young dancers and choreographers who work with contemporary dance techniques.
But only since July 1999 it has been working as an individual subject. Artistic and ideological side of the theatre has been formed by the director and choreographer of Studio Tanca Zuzana Hajkova She is the person who created the basic repertoire of the theatre.
Studio Tanca has represented Slovakia on many international festivals at home in Slovakia and abroad - in Poland, Czech republic, Germany, and Egypt. This way it strengthens phenomenon of Slovak culture and contemporary theatre.
œMoriyama Kaiji (Japan) "Arawasano-kuu"
Kaiji Moriyama has started his career as a dancer from 1999.
Since then he has performed major roles in the work of Kota Yamazaki, Yukio Ueshima, Kaoruko, YOUYA and Aki Nagatani etc. and participated in their both domestic and international tour. When danced in Edinburgh Festival in 2001, he was described as "one of the most talented dancer in this years' Fringe"(The Scotsman).
From 2001 he started to create solos including a experimental piece performed in a shrine. In 2002 participated in "Little Asia Dance Project" in which young emerging choreographers from 5 Asian countries tour around the cities of each country.
In 2003 his new piece Jakuhoshi (performed in New National Theatre Tokyo) based on a repertoire of Noh theatre was highly praised.
He also often appears on TV programs and commercials.
http://mkaiji.cool.ne.jp/
@program B@November 20th (sat) start 19:00 with post-performance talk
Paul-Andre Fortier discovered dance in 1973, after having taught theatre and literature, and decided to dedicate his life to this art. He joined the group Nouvelle Aire, a veritable wellspring of talent that produced a whole generation of Quebec choreographers like Ginette Laurin, Edouard Lock, Daniel Leveille etc.
Derriere la porte un mur, created in 1978, marked the beginning of a prolific and intensive career as a choreographer. In 1981, he won the Jean A. Chalmers Award and his company, Danse-Theatre Paul-Andre Fortier, founded in 1979, was renamed Fortier Danse-Creation. From 1991-1993, he created solos with the participation of visual artist Betty Goodwin. Returning to group compositions, in 2001, he created Tensions, a piece that takes an unusually fresh look at human lonliness.
In 2004 the choreographer will be working on a project that, in the tradition of Tensions, will combine dance with new visual and sound technologies. Currently he also has a goal of supporting a new generation of dancers.
http://www.fortier-danse.com/
@program C@November 22nd (mon) start 19:00 with post-performance talk
œEun-jung Jang (Korea) "without concern"
Graduated from Ehwa Woman's University in 1988. A member of Korea Contemporary Dance Company. An instructor of National Traditional Music High School. In 1994 with her work Empty Space, she was awarded the best dancer prize in the 4th Rencontres Choregraphiques Internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis. In 2000, selected as Korea Culture and Art Promotion Center new artist with Slow Down.
In 2002 she won the 1st Young Choreographer Award by Korea Contemporary Dance Promotion Center. In 2003, without concern won the first prize award in the 12th Saitama International Concour in Japan and the grand prix in the 5th choreographer contest in Korea.
œHo-bin Park (Korea) "People from the Moon"
Ho-bin Park started to dance in 1986 while he majored in acting at his college. In 1994, PARK was awarded the grand prix with Death of a Poet. He was granted a scholarship from the Korean Culture & Arts Foundation, which enabled him to study and work in France between 1995-1996. During his stay in France, his solo work L'oiseau a la tete pleine was invited by Swedish Cultural Centre in Paris and Open Theatre Dance Festival in Athens, Greece.
Since he came back to Seoul in 1996, PARK has been leading JoBac showing his vigorous energy of creation. In July 1999, PARK was awarded MAMPIST Scholarship by Samsung Foundation of Culture, the most prestigious in its kind in Korea sponsored by Samsung Group, provides him with an opportunity to work as a guest artist in one or two dance companies in France from 2000 to 2001.
http://www.jobacdance.com/
œAe-soon Ahn (Korea) Premiere of Japan-Korea Collaboration Project
@collaboration with Masumi Yanase and So-jung Park
Born in Seoul, Korea in 1960, Ahn Ae-soon received her college education and obtained her Master's Degree in dance department at Ewha Women's University. Ahn Ae-soon as a founder established Ae-soon Dance Company and started her choreography career in 1983. Since then she has devoted to creating original works almost every year.
Her important choreographed works include Encounter, Empty Space, The 11th Shadow, Epitaph, GUT-Play, On Time, The Epitaph of White butterfly : Ah-Yi-Go, Circle and Circle and so on.
Her works have been presented in more than 15 countries including Germany, England, China, France, Russia, USA, Japan, Yugoslavia, Israel, etc. She received the Grand Prix at Recontres Choreographiques Internationales de Bagnolet in 1998.
By the critics, Ahn Ae-soon is highly acclaimed as "a refined modern dance artist who re-constructs Korean or Eastern sentiments . . . based on Korean traditional and contemporary dance movements, shows off distinguished personality and creativity by deliberately taking Korean-like physicality" and "a choreographer who is distinctively good at technique with sharp sensitivity.
@program D@November 24th (wed) start 19:00 with post-performance talk
œMyriam Gourfink (France) "Marine"
Myriam joins the Conservatoire National de Musique et de Danse d'Angers in 1977. From 1992 she followed several workshops of contemporary dance. From 1995 until 1997 she took yoga classes at the Ecole Francaise de Yoga. She is considering these two new directions as potential areas of experimentation of movement.
Since 1999 , she develops a computer writing programme for dance "LOL", with Frederic Voisin, an I.T specialist, music assistant and ethnomusicologist from IRCAM in Paris, Laurence Marthouret, a trained choreographer from Le conservatoire National superieur de musique et de danse de Paris, where she studied the NOTATION LABAN, and Kasper T. Toeplitz a composer.
The choreographic process in the work of Myriam Gourfink is widely influenced by her discovery of Yoga and I.T.
Her dance which can be characterised by its slowness, can be traced back more to a highly detailed investigation of the methods of interior visualisation, to an extreme attention to the volume of the body, envisaging the space as a series of invisble points linked by trajectories, like a form of yoga in movement, where the notions of fullness and emptiness are ever-present.
œAlessio Silvestrin (Italy) "DERIVARE"
@installation performance by Alessio Silvestrin and Reijiro Tsumura
Born in 1973. Studied ballet in his home town of Vicensza, at the Academie Princess Grace Monte-Carlo and at the Ecole Atelier Rudra Bejart in Lausanne. Studied music at conservatory of music in Vicenza and at the Academie de Muique Ranier in Mone-Carlo.
Danced with cie Bejart Ballet Lausanne and with Ballet de l'Opera de Lyon worked as both dancer and choreographer, before joining Ballet Frankfurt in 1999.
Alessio choreographed for Copenhagen International Ballet in 1998, Ballet Frankfurt in 2000/01 and Ballet Freiburg Pretty Ugly in 2001. In 2002-2003, he presented his piece in festivals in Korea and the Netherlands. In 2003 as "11322 project", he created a piece with Jo Kanamori and Sawako Iseki and presented at Kishin ShinoyamaΥs studio. From 2003 he has been working as a freelance artist based in Tokyo. Often gives workshop for young dancers and youth in Aoyama Theatre and etc.
http://www.alessio.dds.nl/
œYumiko Hamatani, CRUSTACEA (Japan) "2P"
Yumiko Hamatani founded CRUSTACEA in 1995 as a moderate punk performance unit with female dancers from Tokyo, Osaka, and Kyoto.
In 1999, it changed into a company with Hamatani and Masako Sugimoto.
Currently the company is based in Osaka and expanding opportunities to attempt various style of collaboration with the members of Artist Bank.
The company's work is based on the idea that they are realistically female living in this modern society.
With Hamatani, the artistic director and choreographer's unique and punk interpretation, they carve out their voice oozing out of the body and stimulate the audience's imagination and five senses by its speedy and human movement.
Besides theatre performance, they also provide general public with dance performance full of entertainment in alternative opportunities such as street performance and TV commercials.
http://www.h2.dion.ne.jp/~capcr/