DANCE NEW AIR 2018

What becomes visible when we see through the body

Since when the predecessor festival of Dance New Air started 15 years ago, the situation around dance has been changed significantly and the art form called “dance” has been growing increasingly diverse. With the increased number of people enjoy seeing dance and people enjoy dancing themselves, dance becomes more familiar. But at the same time, simpler and more direct expression tends to be preferred, so we strongly want to deliver profound fascination of dance to as many people as possible.

We introduced more than 200 brilliant pieces beyond existing genres and categories since 2002. For this year, our 8th festival from 2002, with “what becomes visible when we see through the body” as our key phrase, we present overwhelming works which will touch your heartstrings. What will we see when artists’ emotion deep inside their heart emerging through their bodies?

In terms of performance with body, people might be more familiar with sports than with dance. The origin of “art” is Latin word “ars” and going further back, we can find the word “techne” meaning technique. Thus, we can see a close relationship between dance, expressive art form, and sports, evaluated by technical aspect. The extreme concentration which top athletes get in during sport games is similar to the state where dancers lose themselves and completely absorbed in pieces on stage. Now, the world sporting extravaganza is coming up in 2 years, by capturing these two objectively, we also focus on the nature of our body.

In Dance New Air, a dance festival in Aoyama, Tokyo, we use not only theatre space but also many other spaces such as outdoor space, cinema and book center, and explore and offer new possibility through dance. Also we’d like to support artists developing themselves for future with their physical expression, and serve ourselves as a platform to activate their development.
Lastly, we would like to express our deepest gratitude to our audience and everyone who has supported and contributed to Dance New Air.

Dance New Air Executive Committee
Dance Nippon Associates
Wacoal Art Center Co., LTD.

Duration

October 3rd Wed through October 14th Sun

　

Venues

Spiral Hall, Shogetsu Hall, Sogetsu Plaza, Goethe-Institut Tokyo, VACANT, Theatre Image Forum, Aoyama Book Center main store, STUDIO ARCHITANZ, Libra Hall, World Kita Aoyama Building

　

Organizers

Dance New Air Executive Committee, Dance Nippon Associates, Wacoal Art Center Co., Ltd.,

　

Co-Organizers

FY2018 Minato Cooperation Project for Cultural Program, Daguerreo Press, Inc. (Theatre Image Forum), Sogetsu Foundation, Ambassade de France – Institut français du Japon, Goethe-Institut Tokyo, ARCHITANZ Co.,Ltd

　

Funding

Supported by the Agency for Cultural Affairs Government of Japan in the fiscal 2018, Arts Council Tokyo (Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture)

　

Sponsorship

NCD Co., Ltd., THE BODY RIDE Co., Ltd., SPLENDID CO., LTD., TOKYU STAY Service Co., Ltd., Toyota Motor Corporation, minä perhonen, MHD Moët Hennessy Diageo K.K., WORLD Co., Ltd.

　

Cooperation

Aoyama Book Center main store, Australian Government, Australia now sponsors, THREE AOYAMA, The Saison Foundation, Dance & Nursery!! Project, VACANT, World Space Solutions Co., Ltd.
　

Partnership

Baobab, TOKYO BABYLON, LAND FES, Shinagawa Culture Foundation, Mikiko KAWAMURA, Tottori Prefecture & BIRD Theatre Management Committee, Kitakyushu Performing Arts Center, Kyoto City/Institut français du Japon-Kansai, Setagaya Public Theatre, Aichi Prefectural Art Theater, Mitsutake KASAI×Naoka UEMURA, Office ALB, Kanagawa Arts Theatre, Festival/Tokyo 18

　

Advisory Board

Tatsuro ISHII (Dance Critic / Emeritus Professor of Keio University / Visiting professor at Aichi Prefectural University of Arts)
Ryoichi ENOMOTO (Director of ATAMATOTE International / Visiting professor at Kyoto University of Art and Design)
Shigeto NUKI (Dance Critic / Professor at Senshu University, School of Letters)
Takao NORIKOSHI (Writer, Dance Critic / Director of JAPAN DANCE PLUG Co., Ltd.)
Atsuko HISANO (Program Director, The Saison Foundation)

　

Supervisor

Shinji ONO, Hiroyuki KOBAYASHI(Spiral)

　

Chief Producer

Maki MIYAKUBO

　

Producers

Kumi HIRAOKA, Koyo YAMASHITA, Satoshi HASHIGUCHI(Spiral)

　

Production staffs

Mai TAKIZAWA, Fuyuko MEZAWA, Kanako IWANAKA, Kaito OTSU(Spiral)

　

Ticket Administration

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Receptionist

Natsumi TAKASUGI, Saori YONEDA, Fuka OKAZAKI

　

Attendant

Haruna MATSUNAMI, Ayane OKAZAKI

　

Intern

Momoko YAMASHITA

　

Translation

Yoko TOKITA

　

Workshops Interpretation

Suzuko TANOIRI
　

Support Staffs

Yuki AOKI, Hiroko IKESAKO, Tomoko ICHIKAWA, Tomomi UENO, Megumi UTSUMI, Kyoko OGUSHI, Mariko OGATA, Saki KATO, Eriko KOBAYASHI, Hisaki SOMEMIYA, Tomomi TERASHITA, Manako NAGATA, Noriko HATA, Shu FUJII, Maya MATSUI, Miyu MOTEGI, Haruna MORI, Kumiko YASUMURO

　

Publicity Design

Hirohisa OTA(golzopocci)

　

Website Construction

Masahiro OHSKA

　

Technical Coordination

Yoshiko HARAGUCHI

　

Lighting Coordination

Yukihide OTSUKA (Spiral)

　

Sound Coordination

Atsushi UKIOKA (Spiral)

　

Stage Set Coordination

Eisuke OTSU

　

Stage Management

Satoshi ONO, Daijiro KAWAKAMI, Dai MATSUOKA, Tomomi TORIKAI

　

Assistant Stage Management

Kensuke SUGITA, Shunsuke MOMOKI

　

Wardrobe

Yuri ITO, Mika TOMINAGA

　

Technical Interpretation

Hanako HORIUCHI
　

Photography

Yulia SKOGOREVA

　

Video

Kei UCHIDA, Moyou KAWAZAKI, Syunsuke NAKASE