Japan Creative Centre and School of Dance, Faculty of Performing Arts, LASALLE College of the Arts are delighted to present a demonstration entitled "Live Bone" by Japanese dancer and choreographer, Kaiji Moriyama. Moriyama's dances are often likened to that of a sword, tearing through space with smoothness and sensitivity. However, this time he will present a performance in a metaphorical expression of bones and internal organs.This unique dance display will be held at Lasalle College of the Arts.
ABOUT KAIJI MORIYAMA
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MORIYAMA Kaiji
Dancer, Choreographer / Japan
MORIYAMA Kaiji was born in Kanagawa in 1973. In 2005, with his self‐produced and choreographed solo performance “KATANA”, he was reviewed by The New York Times as "an amazing dancer", and was invited to the Venice Biennale 2007. He has a reputation for the world of expression involving the use of traditional Japanese materials such as the performance with a noh play motif, and he received the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology’s Art Encouragement Prize for New Artists (Dance Division) and Takaya Eguchi Award for “The Universe of Mandala” which was unveiled in 2012 (hosted by New National Theatre, Tokyo).
He has a strong presence in Today’s dance scene because of his unique style of expanding the playing field by moving freely across every genre such as theaters, visual arts, fashion and photographs and keeping up a creative activity. He premiered theatrical version of “LIVE BONE” in August this year and visits Indonesia, Vietnam and Singapore as a Japan Cultural Envoy FY2013 of the Agency for Cultural Affairs.
For more information on Kaiji Moriyama, please click here.
DEMONSTRATION
DATE: Friday, 17th January 2014
TIME: 4:00 - 5:00 pm
VENUE: Campus Green, LASALLE College of the Arts,
1 McNally Street, Singapore 187940 (directions)
ADMISSION: Free of charge (small children are welcome to join)
Direction, Choreography :
Kaiji MORIYAMA
Art, Costume :
Kodue HIBINO
Music :
Kohske KAWASE
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