a project in which the whole world is a theater
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- Name of the organization or individual
- Minami Azu
- subsidy category
- Startup Grant
- Grant Type
- single year individual
Reiwa 5 (2023) 1st Startup Grant
Business Overview
A special event, a performance by the dancer Minami Azu, was held as part of the great retrospective exhibition of the photographer Abe Freindlich (from May 20 to September 17, 2023), which will be held at the non-profit photographic art center Photography Form Frankfurt in Frankfurt, Germany. Abe Freindrich involuntarily photographed Minami Azu, a Japanese dance dancer, dancing on the New York subway. Then, despite or because of the language barrier, a fruitful collaboration has developed over the years based on the location and concept decided by both artists. This time, as a culmination, they danced the choreography of the photos they had taken so far. The event was organized by Serena, the curator and art director of Photography Form Frankfurt, with local staff in Minami Azu.
- Period of Activity / Project
- Friday, September 8, 2023
- Venues
- Photography Foam (Frankfurt/Germany)
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Profile
【 Minami Azu 】
He has been interested in painting since he was a child. While working as a designer, he studied art at Musashino Art University. He learned about dance, contemporary dance, and performance art, where words, images, and life become dance, and began creating works.
A year after the earthquake, based on the image of the scars from his surgery and the scars after the earthquake, in April 2012, he released his independent solo dance works "Scar Tissue 1" and "Scar Tissue 2". He received the Dance Critics Association Newcomer Award for these two works.
"Scar Tissue 3" was released in 2013 and "Scar Tissue 4" was released in 2016. In 2017, he was invited to Dance Festival & Rancontorchoreography, France.
In 2022, he won the NDA Award at New Dance for Asia (NDA).