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Name of the organization or individual

Sota Okamoto

subsidy category

start-up subsidy

Grant Type

single year individual

FY 2023 2nd Startup Subsidy

Alone (Akiyama) Photo by Kotori Shinoko

mamama (LOCUS) Photo by Kotori Shinoko

A small windowless room (Kazuki Ishihara) Photo by Kotori Shinoko

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Business Overview

"Chair" is set as the common theme of the performance, and in addition to the furniture element of "chair" = something to sit on, life, places, feelings and memories that can be seen through the "chair" are used as the key to the creation, and 4 works including video works are created. "Wait. Late. Lost." Choreography: Sota Okamoto Performers: Sota Okamoto, Rui Kajita, Takuya Sato Choreography/Performers: Kazuki Ishihara "mamama" Choreography/Performers: LOCUS(Yumeo Suzuki, Kana Mori) "Alone" Choreography: Sota Okamoto Performers: Ei Akiyama Organizer/Planner: Sota Okamoto Co-organizer: 88 Structure/Direction: Sota Okamoto Photographs/Video: Nature of Kazama Advertising Material Production: Kotori Shinoko Production Cooperation: Rui Kajita, Kyoko Nakazawa (CCJ) Venue Cooperation: Katsumi Hoshi Ballet Art

implementation period

Friday, December 29, 2023 - 30th (Sat)

Place of implementation

H.K. Ballet Art (Suginami Ward, Tokyo)

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Profile

Sota Okamoto
Born in Kanagawa prefecture
Began classical ballet at the age of 8
03′ Domestic trainee for up-and-coming artists of the Agency for Cultural Affairs
Graduated from the National Ballet School in Berlin, Germany with a Bachelor of Arts degree
After working with the Mecklenburg State Theatre Ballet, Noism1, and the Tchaikovsky Memorial Tokyo Ballet, she is currently working as a freelancer
As a dancer, she has appeared in the works of Kazuyuki Futami, Yasuyuki Endo, and Paul Julius
Her choreographic work includes the Tokyo Ballet <<Choreographic Project I, II>>, The 6th Ballet Tradition, and the Japan Contemporary Dance Company
Presented her performance in Odi Et Amo at SAI DANCE FESTIVAL 2023 Competition
Selected as an invited work of Contemporary Ballet of Asia (Korea)