Young Dancers Support Project 2024
*Information at the time of adoption.
- Name of the organization or individual
- Session House Planning Office
- subsidy category
- Creation Grant
- Grant Type
- single year
FY2024 1st Term Creation Grant Category III Projects that contribute to the improvement of the artistic creative environment [Long-term grant] [Single-year grant]
Business Overview
This project was carried out for the purpose of fostering young dancers and popularizing dance. At "U 25 Theater 21 Festival" and "U 35 Theater 21 Festival," 7 groups each performed, and 5 groups out of 14 groups performed at the Session House Award "Dance Flower". In "Dance Flower," the five dancers selected above and six guests from Choomna Dance Company in South Korea gave a joint performance and Yako Omori and Chinatsu Horikawa "be there not there" was selected as the Session House Award and NDA International Dance Festival Daegu Invitation. In addition, the training of dancers and the dissemination of the works were carried out through Zoom feedback meetings after each performance. In the Dance Flower Award Winner Performance held as a summary of the awards over several years, Saei Onishi, G-ray, Takuto Sakurai, and Takahiro Mochizuki performed together, and Saei Onishi was selected to perform in the step-up program "Dance Bridge."
- Period of Activity / Project
- [Performance] Saturday, September 14, 2024 [Performance] Sunday, September 15, 2024 [Performance] Saturday, September 28, 2024 [Performance] Saturday, February 1, 2025
- Venues
- Session House (Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo)
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Profile
【 General Incorporated Association Session House Planning Office 】
Since its establishment in 1991, the General Incorporated Association Session House Planning Office has collaborated with staff and artists to realize projects, train dancers, expand the audience, collaborate with local communities, and promote cultural exchange with the world.
Based in the Session House, a small theater for contemporary dance, she has planned and planned more than 40 dance performances a year, focusing on presenting the works of choreographers active on the world stage and creating opportunities for young people to perform. In recent years, they have been among the first to hold online dance performances amid the COVID-19 pandemic. It continues to serve as a dance hub.