Integrated Dance Company Hibiki -Kyo 8th 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 2 (2020) 1st Term Creation Grant [Single-Year Grant Program]
Business Overview
This is the 8th independent performance of Hibiki Kyo, an integrated dance company that opens up new dance expressions utilizing diverse physical characteristics, including wheelchair dancers. As a repertoire dance company, they pursue new dance expressions with different choreographers every year. This time, two young choreographers, Kurata Midori and Yokoyama Shono, are commissioned to produce different works.
- Period of Activity / Project
- March 27, 2021 to March 28, 2021
- Venues
- Tokyo Metropolitan Art Theater Theater Theater West (Toshima Ward, Tokyo)
*Information such as project outlines is provided by organizations and individuals providing subsidies.
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.