Suichu-megane∞
A contemporary dance company founded in 2011, which consists of choreographers, dancers, producers, and visual designers. The troupe’s parallel activities currently comprise the organizing and producing of stage productions/video works, as well as work for outside clients such as music video choreography. While basing her professional activities on “dancing,” troupe leader Ayane Nakagawa uses theatrical techniques and production to make simple concepts and fragments of images dance, and her work is characterized by a style similar to science fiction techniques of the sort that push the limits of the viewer’s imagination. In recent years Nakagawa, who studied classical ballet and Nihon Buyo from childhood and went through adolescence between pointe shoes and Japanese tabi socks, has been trying to develop practical concepts unique to her. These include receiving high acclaim for her attempt at connecting the forms and aesthetics of traditional performing arts to the context of contemporary dance in “my choice, my body,” as well as her involvement in the project “shiki,” which is designed to create an on-the-ground environment of neutral collaboration with leaders and successors in the field of Nihon Buyo Japanese dance.