White goat black goat -- if not a will, if not a eulogy,
*Information at the time of adoption.
- Name of the organization or individual
- Setsuko Yamada
- subsidy category
- Creation Grant
- Grant Type
- single year individual
Reiwa 4(2022) 1st Term Creation Grant Category I Single-Year Grant
Business Overview
Dancer and choreographer Setsuko Yamada and up-and-coming young director, choreographer and dancer Midori Kurata produce a dance performance project called "Shiroyato Kuroyato: If It's Not a Will, If It's Not a Eulogy". Yamada studied improvised dance under Ei KASAI, and after he became independent, he developed his own dance world centering on solo dance and acted as a pioneer of contemporary dance. On the other hand, Kurata continues to create works that explore the possibilities of "dance" by confronting himself and others in each work, and using the stage structure to raise the events that occur as fiction. 15 years ago, the 2 met as teachers and students, and today they are working in seemingly different directions. This project was born out of a 15 year process by 2 people who have been talking with each other for a long time as people who are involved in dance and the stage. They looked at each other's differences and sympathies and made it into a dance work. Composition/Actors: Setsuko Yamada, Midori Kurata Stage Directors: Natsumi Hasuko Lighting: Asako Miura Sound: Mitsunori Miyata Video: Kohei Kitagawa Production: Maki Miyakubo, Yoshimi Toyoyama Advertising art, website, booklet design: Goruyuki Kodama
- Period of Activity / Project
- Saturday, July 16, 2022 - 18th (Mon)
- Venues
- Kagurazaka Session House
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Profile
[Setsuko Yamada]
She learned improvised dance from Akira Kasai, and after she became independent, she developed her own dance world, mainly solo dance, and performed many times in Japan and overseas. It is said to be the forerunner of contemporary dance. Since 1989, he has managed a dance company called Biwa-kei. From 2000 to 2011, he became a professor at the Department of Video and Performing Arts, Kyoto University of Art and Design, and was involved in planning dance and drama as a senior researcher at the Performing Arts Research Center until 2021. Won the 2020 Japan Dance Forum Award and Grand Prize. He wrote "Hayabusa no Hana" (Flowers of Speed) (Itsuyanagi Shoin).