An international collaborative project between Japanese and other Asian artists launched in 2015 by contemporary dance choreographer, Akiko Kitamura. She researches traditional dance, music, spiritual rituals and martial arts rooted in regions across Southeast to South Asia, and creates and presents experimental works that extend across the course of history and place, inspired by the artists and cultures she has encountered and based on the key concepts of memory, ruins and the body. Transcending differences of culture and language, the project is a prayer to fuse (cross) the “seeds” carefully passed down (transited) to the musical and physical practices of each place and germinate them as “Asia of the future.”
“Cross Transit” was the first work produced on this project, followed by “vox soil” and the latest work, “Rhymes of Soil,” which was performed in Tokyo.