Program: Kota Yamazaki/Fluid Hug-Hug Dance Company

KOTA YAMAZAKI/FLUID HUG-HUG DANCE COMPANY

at UC San Diego Friday, January 29 2016, at 8 pm Mandeville Auditorium

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FUNDING CREDIT

OQ was made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. With additional support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Japan Foundation through the Performing Arts JAPAN program. The creation of OQ was also partly supported with a Dance in Process residency at the Gibney Dance Center.

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ArtPower presents

KOTA YAMAZAKI/FLUID HUG-HUG DANCE COMPANY OQ

Friday, January 29, at 8:00 pm Post-Performance ArtTalk Mandeville Auditorium

PROGRAM OQ

Choreographer: Kota Yamazaki Performers: Julian Barnett, Lauren Cox, Mina Nishimura, Silas Riener, and Kota Yamazaki Set Designer: SO-IL (Florian Idenburg, Jing Liu, Ilias Papageorgiou and Kerim Miskavi) Music Composer: Masahiro Sugaya Lighting Designer: Kathy Kaufmann Costume by: Kota Yamazaki Technical Director: Tsubasa Kamei Tour Organizer: Cathy Pruzan Artist Representative Running time for this performance is approximately 70 minutes without intermission.

ABOUT THE PROGRAM OQ is the phonetic sound for the Japanese word palace. The starting point for the creation of OQ was my interest in the Japanese utakai (Japanese aristocrat poetry reading ceremony passed down from ancient Japan) and renga (linked poems consisting of multiple stanzas composed and recited collaboratively by multiple authors). I am especially drawn to the principles of “unity of opposites” and “one is equal to many/many is equal to one” used in renga poetry, and also Buddhist philosophy. With these principles, a series of stanzas creates an entire universe by bridging elements of Kyo (subjective coloring) and Jitsu (objective reality) while at the same time emitting a sense of playfulness and celebration of life. As a result of pursing these ideas with five performers with diverse training backgrounds, a schizophrenic and chaotic landscape has emerged.

OQ has two acts. Seemingly very different, these acts are yet closely connected. These acts could be seen as Kyo and Jitsu or more simply yin and yang in dualism. And a metaphorical object designed by architect collective SO-IL exists almost as an anchor to connect Kyo and Jitsu in this amorphous and anarchy palace.

—Kota Yamazaki

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ABOUT THE COMPANY Kota Yamazaki/Fluid Hug-Hug was founded in New York in 2002 on the principle of “traveling, exchanging, and exploring.” Yamazaki believes that a person is fluid and has to keep flowing like water, so that exchange between people of different backgrounds become easier and freer. The name Fluid Hug-Hug comes from this idea of fluidity as well as people coming together from all over the world. The company has been invited to perform at festivals and theaters in the United States, France, Germany, Japan, Korea, Singapore, and Australia.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS Kota Yamazaki (Choreographer/Performer) was born in Niigata and studied fashion design in Tokyo. He was first introduced to butoh through the teachings of Akira Kasai at the age of 18. An awardee at the Platform of Bognolet Competition (France), Yamazaki formed his Tokyo–based dance company, Rosy Co., where he created original works in collaboration with various artists, including architect Toyo Ito. In 2001 Yamazaki received an invitation from Germaine Acogny to create a new work for her Senegal–based company, Jant-Bi. During his six residencies from 2001–04, he created the work FAGAALA, which received a Bessie Award.

In 2002, Yamazaki moved to New York and founded Kota Yamazaki/Fluid Hug-Hug. The company has performed in national and international venues such as Melbourne International Arts Festival (Australia), Portland Institute for Contemporary Art’s TimeBased Art Festival (OR), National University of Singapore’s Centre for the Arts, Warhol Museum (PA), Arizona State University, Dance Theater Workshop (NY), Danspace Project (NY), French Institute Alliance Française’s Crossing Line Festival (NY), Japan Society (NY), among others. During these years, he taught at Bennington College, Barnard College at Columbia University, National University of the Arts in Korea, and Yotsuya Arts Studium at Kinki University, among others.

In 2013, Yamazaki received the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Award in New York for his artistic achievements and has been a director of Body Arts Laboratory/Whenever Wherever Festival in Tokyo since 2009.

Mina Nishimura (Performer), from Tokyo, was introduced to butoh and improvisational dance through Kota Yamazaki’s teaching. She has performed with influential choreographers such as Neil Greenberg, David Gordon, RoseAnne Spradlin, DD Dorvillier, Daria Fain, Yoshiko Chuma, Trajal Harell, Marten Spangberg, while performing in theater and film productions including Haruki Murakami’s Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (directed by Stephen Earnharst) and Harry Partch’s Delusion of Fury (directed by John Jesurum). During these years, her own choreography has been presented at Dance Theater Workshop (currently New York Live Arts), The Kitchen, Danspace Project, Movement Research, Whenever Wherever Festival (Tokyo), and Mount Tremper Arts Summer Festival, among others. Nishimura was the danceWeb scholar at ImPulsTanz (Vienna) in 2009, and the artist-in-residence at Brooklyn Art Exchange (2010–11), Chez Bushwick (2013), and Movement Research (2013–15) in New York. She has taught at universities and institutions such as Bennington College (VT), FerrisUniversity (Japan), Whenever Wherever Festival (Tokyo), and Brooklyn Studios for Dance. Nishimura has recently performed on Saturday Night Live with Sia for her “Alive” and “Bird Set Free.”

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SO–IL (Set Designer) is an idea-driven design office that brings together extensive experience from the fields of architecture, academia, and the arts. A creative catalyst involved in all scales and stages of the architectural process, SO–IL approaches projects with an intellectual and artistic rigor fueled by a strong commitment to realizing ideas in the world. SO–IL is lead by partners Florian Idenburg, Jing Liu, and Ilias Papageorgiou.

Their work has received numerous awards, including the MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program, the AIA Young Practices Award, and the Emerging Voices Award by the Architectural League. SO–IL has been widely featured in international publications such as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, and Domus, and in exhibitions at the Guggenheim Museum and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urbanism, Studio-X in Beijing, Kunsthal KAdE in the Netherlands, and the Benaki Museum in Greece. The work of SO–IL is part of the collections at MoMA, the Art Institute Chicago, and the Guggenheim Museum.

Lauren Cox (Performer) started her lifelong dance career as a competitive rhythmic gymnast. Since then she has traveled the world studying ballet, modern, jazz contemporary, hip-hop/street styles, street jazz, samba/Afro-Brazilian, Haitian cultural dances; and is currently studying under Sheila Barker as her apprentice and assistant. Cox has danced for artists such as Alicia Keys, Pharrell, and LL Cool J; appeared on Saturday Night Live and America’s Got Talent; and danced for companies such as Cecilia Marta Dance Company, Maria Torres Dance Company, Rhapsody En Dance (Rhapsody James), and more. She is ecstatic to be performing with Kota Yamazaki and cast. Cox is on staff at the prestigious Joffrey Ballet School in the jazz and contemporary program. She has also taught at Alvin Ailey Extension as well as Broadway Dance Center. Her choreography has been showcased in venues around New York such as Ailey Citigroup Theater, Broadway Dance Center, Joffrey Ballet School, Funkbox NYC, and Broadway Underground at BB Kings in Times Square. She is also the founder and artistic director of Humans Collective. www.HumansCollective.com Tsubasa Kamei (Technical Director) is a New York City–based lighting and scenic designer.

He has been working as technical director/stage manager for Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE at the Joyce Theater in NYC, Eisenhower Theater at the Kennedy Center, and Anne and Ellen Fife Theatre at Virginia Tech.

OQ marks Kathy Kaufmann (Lighting Designer)’s third collaboration with Kota Yamazaki.

She has designed for many wonderful choreographers including Michelle Dorrance, Joanna Kotze, Cori Olinghouse, Keely Garfield, David Parker, Eiko & Koma, Sally Silvers, Jon Kinzel, and Rebecca Davis. A two time Bessie recipient, Kaufmann is a resident designer at Danspace Project at St. Marks Church and teaches at Sarah Lawrence College.

Julian Barnett (Performer) was born in Tokyo, Japan; raised in Northern California; and lives in New York. He studied dance, music, and film at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and completed the ArtEZ master of choreography in the Netherlands. He received the danceWEB scholarship at Impulstanz in Vienna and worked with Benoit Lachambre.

In addition, he has collaborated and performed with Jeanine Durning, Steve Paxton, Wally Cardona, Johannes Wieland, and others. As a choreographer, Barnett creates work that explore the socio-political possibilities for transformation and empathy, through the lenses of performance, musicology, and philosophy. His works have been invited throughout New York, the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Japan, China, and since 2012, actively throughout Europe.

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Silas Riener (Performer) grew up in Washington D.C. A graduate of Princeton University, he has danced with Chantal Yzermans, Takehiro Ueyama, Christopher Williams, Jonah Bokaer, and Kota Yamazaki. A member of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company from November 2007 until its closure at the end of 2011, he received a Bessie Award (2012) for his performance in Cunningham’s Split Sides. While performing with MCDC, Riener completed his M.F.A. in dance at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Since 2010, he has collaborated with poet Anne Carson and choreographer Rashaun Mitchell, with whom he continues to develop new projects. He has taught workshops and technique classes at Concord Academy Summer Stages, throughout Turkey at several universities, and at the dance programs at Princeton University and Barnard College. His work has also been seen at Danspace Project, at CATCH, and as part of LMCC’s River to River Festival. Along with Mitchell he was named one of Dance magazine’s “25 to Watch” in 2013. He is a 2014 City Center Choreographic Fellow and a Mellon Artist-in-Residence at the Newhouse Center for the Humanities at Wellesley College.

Masahiro Sugaya (Music Composer) is one of the standing composers in the field of contemporary music in Japan. After completing master program in composition under Joji Yuasa and Teizo Matsumura at Tokyo College of Music, he worked as a musical director in wide range of fields—including stage, screen, television, and contemporary art. He joined dance theater company Pappa Tarahumara in 1987, and since then has composed and directed all musical activities. Three of his scores, Zoo of the Sea, Parade, and The Bush of Ghosts have been released on CD. He also has composed original scores for Yamazaki’s evening length works including Picnic, Cholon, Chamisa 4, and Rays of Space. His style of creations includes computer music to Japanese new tradition. He has been a guest faculty at Tohoku University of Art and Design.

SPECIAL THANKS FROM KOTA YAMAZAKI TO: Dancers and all collaborators for dedicating their creativity, talent, sensitivity, and energy to this project.

Ryoji Sasamoto and Leah Morrison, who were original casts of OQ, for dedicating their passion and talent to the project.

Marguerite Hemmings, Eva Schmidt, and Malik Nashad Sharpe for investing their energy and creativity and nourishing the creation process of OQ. Japan Society and Arizona State University for supporting the creation of OQ. Cathy Pruzan (Cathy Pruzan Artist Representative) for organizing and supporting our tour thoroughly.

Mount Tremper Arts (Mathew Pokoik and Hèléne Lesterlin) for providing an ideal environment for the creation of OQ. method.B studio (Makiko Tamura and Ryoji Sasamoto) for hosting us for a creative residency in Japan.

Bennington College for giving me an opportunity for creating a sketch of the work with students.

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