Cross Transit Project
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- Name of the organization or individual
- Office Alb
- subsidy category
- Creation Grant
- Grant Type
- single year
FY30 Creation Grant [Single-year grant program] 2nd term
Business Overview
Contemporary dance choreographer Akiko Kitamura started this international collaborative project with Japanese and Asian artists in 2015. He conducted research on traditional dances, music, spirit rituals, and martial arts rooted in each region of Southeast and South Asia, and was inspired by the artists and cultures he encountered there. Using the keywords "memory," "ruins," and "body," he presented experimental works that traverse historical trends and places. It is a prayer that transcends differences in culture, language, etc., and fuses (crosses) the "seeds" that have been treasured and handed down in the music and body movements of each region, and blooms as a "future Asia." "Cross Transit" performed in the United States was the first work of this project, and "Ryojin no Uta" performed in Tokyo after "Tsuchi no Keki" is the latest work.
- Period of Activity / Project
- Friday, March 15, 2019 - 23rd (Sat) Friday, October 25, 2019 - 27th (Sun)
- Venues
- Stephen Hall, Towson University (Towson), Kennedy Center Terrace Theater (Washington DC), Japan Society (New York), United States Theater Tram (Setagaya-ku, Tokyo)
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Profile
[Akiko Kitamura]
Choreographer. His work was presented at BDF/ADF(2001/2003, USA). His masterpiece, finks, won the Montreal HOUR 2005 Best Dance Film award. In 2005, Ghastly Round, a commissioned work by the Berlin World House of Culture, was performed around the world. Since 2011, he has promoted the Indonesia International Collaboration To Belong project (won the 7th Japan Dance Forum Award). 2015: Started the CrossTransit project. He released "Tsuchi no Keki" (pulse of the earth) (won the 13 Japan Dance Forum Grand Prize) in 2018 and "Ryojin no Uta" (Song of Ryojin) in 2019. In 2020, an international joint project "Echoes of Calling" was launched in Ireland.