Toyota Choreography Award 2012, Next Age Choreographer Award – Marmont by Kaori Seki
Photo: Jun Ishikawa
Feb 15 (Fri) 15:00
Part 1: Talk / Part 2: Showing
Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse 3F Hall
¥1,000 (reservation required)
TPAM Pass benefit⇒Admission free
Toyota Choreography Award (TCA) was launched in 2001 by Toyota Motor Corporation in conjunction with the Setagaya Public Theatre. The award aims to discover and nurture promising young choreographers, and cultivate new dance expressions in Japan. In the TPAM 2103, TCA will present a showcase by recent awardees and finalists, and give a talk by directors of the Saison Foundation and Yokohama Dance Collection EX.
Part 1. TALK SESSION “What is expected to leading choreographers of the next generation?” | *Language: Japanese | 15:00 start
Facilitator: Atsuko Hisano (Program Director, The Saison Foundation)
Speakers: Katsuhiro Nakatomi (Director, Yokohama Dance Collection EX / Yokohama Arts Foudation), Koichiro Takagi (Director-General, Toyota Choreography Award Secretariat)
Part 2. SHOWING: Yuuri Furuie “OH! ’12”, Kaori Seki “Hevellud” duo ver., Wataru Kitao “Marina bay Sans”, Yu Okamoto “My Mexico” | *Order to be confirmed | 15:50 start
Organized by: Executive Committee of the Toyota Choreography Award, Toyota Motor Corporation
Co-presented by: Setagaya Arts Foundation, Setagaya Public Theatre
Co-organized by: Performing Arts Meeting in Yokohama 2013 Executive Committee
Cooperated by: Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse Number 1 (Yokohama Arts Foundation), Non-Profit Organization Japan Contemporary Dance Network (JCDN)
Reservation & contact: The Toyota Choreography Award Secretariat 03-3373-1166 ✉
Official website
Photo: Theater Guide
Yuuri Furuie (Next Generation Choreographer Award, 2010)
Born in Kumamoto, Furuie completed her degree in Dance and Dance Education at Ochanomizu University. After graduation, she formed a dance group Project OH!YAMA with her classmates in 2006. She takes responsibility of the choreographer’s part for the group. She participated in JCDN’s “We’re gonna go dancing!! Vol.8” in Oita, Kochi, Awajishima, and its special showing in Tokyo. She was awarded a jury prize at the Yokohama Dance Collection R 2009, and also participated in L’EXPERIENCE JAPONAISE in Nîmes, France in that year. In 2010, she won the Next Generation Choreographer Award in the Toyota Choreography Award. In 2011, her award-winning production Catch My Beam was performed in Tokyo, Kochi and Kanazawa. In addition to OH!YAMA’s performances, she choreographed and appeared in music video by Japanese pop stars. She was well received in the choreography of The Glass Menagerie directed by Keishi Nagatsuka in 2012.
Photo: Teita Iwabuchi
Kaori Seki (Next Generation Choreographer Award, 2012)
Seki started her classical ballet training from childhood and contemporary dance career at the age of eighteen. She has danced for companies such as Un Yamada, Kakuya Ohashi, etc. She was awarded ST Spot Labo Award in 2008, and started to create company works in 2009. Since 2010, Seki has been interested in working with the scent which appeals the audience directly. In 2012, her work Hetero choreographed jointly with Teita Iwabuchi won the French Embassy Prize for Young Choreographer of the Yokohama Dance Collection EX 2012, and Marmont won the Next Generation Choreographer Award in the Toyota Choreography Award. She has stayed and performed a new piece at the Centre national de dance contemporaine Angers in France in 2012 by the support from the French Embassy. She is also a founding member of Mure which was established in 2007 with the artists of the same generation.
Photo: Masakazu Yoshikawa
Wataru Kitao (Audience Award, 2012)
Choreographer / dancer / actor. Born in Hyogo, 1987. Kitao has been involved in a wide range of dance performance, and studied dance under Kuniko Kisanuki at university. In 2009, he founded the dance company Baobab just before graduation, for which he has worked on choreography, structure and direction, then organized performance events and participated in various festivals. Kitao also works on his own solo pieces and choreography for theatrical productions. He won the second place in Condors Choreography Competition 2010 and Audience Prize in the Toyota Choreography Award.
Photo: Masakazu Yoshikawa
Yu Okamoto (Finalist, 2012)
Okamoto started classical ballet training at 3 and challenged dance contests but frustrated. She also appeared in other dance genre and show business. She studied under Kuniko Kisanuki and Akira Kasai at J. F. Oberlin University, and performed Kasai’s Utrobne and toured to Italy. She established her own dance group Tabatha, and won excellent prize in NEXTREAM21 in RIKKOUKAI, became a finalist in the Toyota Choreography Award as well in 2012. She also challenges other artistic works such as flier designs.
