Integrated Dance Company Hibiki-Kyo 9th Performance
*Information at the time of adoption.
- Name of the organization or individual
- Creative Arts Executive Committee
- subsidy category
- Creation Grant
- Grant Type
- single year
Reiwa 3(2021) 2nd Term Creation Grant Category I Single-year Grant
Business Overview
The integrated dance company Hibiki Kyo, which is pioneering a new style of dance expression utilizing diverse physical characteristics including wheelchair dancers, held its 9th independent performance. As a repertoire dance company, they pursue new dance expressions with different choreographers every year. Program 1: Dancing Fairy Tale "Katan Katan" Choreography: Takuro Suzuki Cast: Yoko Izumi (using a wheelchair), Arisa Sugaya, Kazuhito Tsuruya, Takashi Suzuki Program 2: Niku Chair – My body is the axis of the world Choreography: Nobuyoshi Asai Cast: Maho Amakata (using a wheelchair), Yoko Izumi (using a wheelchair), Kanda Hatsune Farrell, Rina Kato
- Period of Activity / Project
- February 27, 2022 – February 28, 2022
- Venues
- Tokyo Metropolitan Art Theater Theater Theater West
(Toshima Ward, Tokyo)
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Profile
[Creative Arts Executive Committee]
It was established in May 1990 to support people with disabilities in expressing themselves through art and to explore new possibilities for art. Since then, she has been developing activities to ask questions about the new way society should be through the participation of not only people with disabilities, but also people of all ages, genders and ethnicities in art activities. In June 2014, he established Hibiki Kyo, an integrated dance company to develop new forms of dance expression that make use of diverse physical characteristics, in addition to participation-type activities and local art project-type businesses. It is attracting attention as an effort to integrate society and art.