Workshop and talk: Dialogue within body, dialogue through body

Dates

July 7, 8, 9  14:30-16:30 Dance workshop

July 10  19:00- 20:30 Dance workshop and talk

Fee: 2000JPY

Please contact Yamakiwa Art Hotel for the reservation.
E. info@yamakiwagallery.com  T. 025-594-7667

The gallery is 10 min away by car from the closest public transport. We offer pick-up and drop-off service by car at an extra cost. Also you can book accommodation and meals at Yamakiwa Art Hotel.  Please feel free to ask for the details.

About

A contemporary dancer Ema Yuasa will be invited to do a residency for dance workshop and a talk at Yamakiwa Gallery. This workshop is developed from the everyday body gestures of local residents whose life is based around a traditional farming, to find the possibility of communication through bodily language between people with different backgrounds.

Our way of using body or behaviour is deeply connected to our living, and to the system for evaluation such as manner or class system. We would like to bring opportunities to question such norms set for judging what is right or beautiful, which is taken for granted in everyday life. We believe this will help us gaining an open attitude to other people who have different ways of living or sets of values.

The workshop is very simple, fun and creative, and open for everyone without any experience in dance.

In the talk, Yuasa will look back at the residency and workshop, referring to her rich experience of bodily expression at various sites in the world.

Yuasa also has many experiences in collaborating with artists to create site-specific works, such as performance piece in installations. In this project, she will also work with artist duo Hanqing & Mona, who do residency at Yamakiwa Gallery in June, to create a collaborative piece in the gallery space.

Access

We offer pick-up and drop-off service by car at an extra cost of 1500JPY:

Pick-up

13:48 Yamazaki bus stop (Echigo-Yuzawa station – Morimiyanohara station line operated by Minami Echigo Kanko bus)

14:00 Echigo-Shikawatari train station (JR Iiyama line)

Drop-off 

17:13 Echigo-Shikawatari train station (JR Iiyama line)

17:34 Yamazaki bus stop (Echigo-Yuzawa station – Morimiyanohara station line operated by Minami Echigo Kanko bus)

Ema Yuasa
Japanese contemporary dancer and choreographer. She studied ballet in Monaco, worked at dance companies in Germany and France, and joined Nederlands Dance Theater in 2004. After 11 years at NDT, she became freelance and started working with Rei Watanabe and Kenta Kojiri as Opto, and joined EASTMAN under the direction of Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui.

She also creates choreographed pieces, while collaborating with various artists and designers such as pianist Tomoko Mukaiyma, fashion designer Tamae Hirokawa, Noh player Noboru Yasuda and architect Tsuyoshi Tane.

https://www.emayuasa.com

Hanqing & Mona

UK-based artist duo who studied photography and sculpture at the Royal College of Art (London). Their practice is an investigation into photographs and architectural materials to create spatial intervention through site-specific sculpture and photo-based installation.

Their works have been exhibited internationally at major institutions including the Institute of Contemporary Art, Camden Art Centre, Talbot Rice Gallery and OCI Museum of Art. They are a fellow member of the Royal British Society of Sculptor and the winner of the New Contemporaries, Gilbert Bayes Award, and OCI Young Creatives.

000(Alt)

This project is collaboration with 000 (Alt), a group of architects, researchers and artists, organising lecture events in Tokamachi city in Niigata. They aim to breakdown stereotyped social issues and find different viewpoints, by looking at contemporary ideas of various professions in different locations. We have invited guest lecturers from various fields, such as architect Jun Aoki, novelist Tomoyuki Hoshino, art producer Takashi Serizawa.