YELLOW, 2022 Photo: Masabumi Kimura
YELLOW, 2022 Photo: Masabumi Kimura
YELLOW, 2022 Photo: Masabumi Kimura
“YELLOW” is a piano and dance film project about the colour yellow. A composer/pianist (Sayoko Kawano) and a choreographer/dancer (Misato Shimizu) worked on even ground.
Yellow is associated with sun, stars, and sunflowers and has a vigorous and warm image impression.
Also, yellow is the colour which warns you like railroad crossings or traffic lights.
For Japanese, Asian(=Yellow race) hate is a serious issue.
In the film industry, the “Yellow filter” effect, which adds a yellow filter on the scenes when they describe a poor or disputed area, is gaining attention for potential discrimination.
In this film, we suggested a new “Yellow” by describing various faces of the colour yellow with original piano music and contemporary dance.
Misato Shimizu
Freelance Contemporary dance artist based in Tokyo.Misato started her classical ballet and contemporary dance training at a young age.She graduated from Ochanomizu University. (BA and MA in Dance Studies)Then she has gotten a scholarship from the Japanese government to study at Northern School of Contemporary Dance (Leeds, UK).She finished MA in Dance and Creative Enterprise with Distinction.She has worked as a dancer with choreographers such as Ryohei Kondo, Motoko Hirayama, and Fernanda Prata. As a choreographer, she is presenting her pieces at home and abroad.She was invited to perform her solo “The Fly” at “Let’s Dance International Frontiers 19” (Leicester, UK). She is also presenting film works, site-specific works, and collaboration works with artists from other fields of art.
Misato Shimizu
misatoshimizu.dance@gmail.com
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