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SlovenčinaYuzo Ishiyama, dancer from Tokyo on festival New dance days
The International festival of contemporary dance New Dance Days will start in European capital of culture. Košice will be in days 21. – 27. october dance parquet. The international festival of contemporary dance is conceived as a biennale. It has been established with the aim of building a platform and a stable background for contemporary dance and present prominent Slovak and foreign choreographers and dancers.
The festival will be attended by ensembles such as Balet Preljocaj (FR), The Symptoms (Hungary), Charlotte Öfverholm (Sweden), Polish dance theatre (Poland), CobosMika (Spain) and others. The festival will bring to Košice the first international presentation of the current scene and new trends in the area of contemporary dance. A priority of the event is to present the original creations of young artists. Accompanying events will include workshops by known choreographers as well as chats. The project will actively involve the existing dance environment,
conservatoires, dance schools, dance clubs and professionals.
Yuzo Ishiyama
Performance media artist and choreographer
Ishiyama is presenting many performance works integrating sound, installation, visual images and dance. He has collaborated with international artist as a choreographer/director or a performer. With his dynamic works being highly acclaimed, he has been invited to many performance festivals and arts centers such as „dance“ (Munich), KIASMA (Helsinki, and „Julidans“ (Amsterdam).
Ishiyama founded artist collective Yuzo Ishiyama/A.P.I. in 2006. Yuzo Ishiyama/A.P.I. has since its foundation kept on developing new „body movement language/expression“ which reflects vividly the world of today. The collective focuses on the creation of live art works which do not end up on (small) computer monitors in the age of the „post-Internet“. Mixing with visuals, installation, computing and dance etc. is no longer a special for them any more. It is a „default setting“.
In 2006, presented a multimedia dance piece „QWERTY“ at The New National Theatre Tokyo. The following year, he was invited to the digital art festival „Bains Numériquees#2“ in France.
In 2008, toured Brazil including Belo Horizonte, Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro. At the „Panorama Festival“ which is famous contemporary dance festival in South America, his dance piece attracted more than one thousand audiences.
During his long term stay in Finland in 2011, he created and presented a new piece „CatB“ collaboration with the local artists. This was the official program of the „European Capital of Culture – TURKU2011“ in March.
In May of that year, he was invited to The National Ballet of Japan as a guest choreographer and presented a new version of „QWERTY.“
“QWERTY”
Multimedia dance piece
The permeation of digital technology has increased our choices. “QWERTY” is a performance which reflects an insight of confusion/hesitation and the re-recognition of the human body.
This piece clearly embraces Ishiyama´s point of view that the human body exists on the same extended line from digital media. He is also presenting his hypothesis that the importance of the human body as an interface of data transmission is increasing today.
Dynamic ´Interaction´by the multi-projected visuals, intelligent moving lights and dance occurs on the stage.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbjwLpxB1iU
“radi-”
Multimedia dance piece, 54 min.
Impossible to be stopped, however, a flood of information is radially permeating. Our digital-networked society possesses a risk of sudden disintegration. This situation makes us been intimidated by or responded excessively to “others”
Such social matters today are the main theme of “radi-”
– Improvised, but elaborately programmed lighting, like a live music.
– Dancers´agile/sharp movements which make up mathematically-complicated formation instantly.