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Dai Matsuoka – Butoh Dancer/Choreographer, LAND FES Director.
Dai Matsuoka has been performing with Sankai Juku since 2005, and has appeared in some of their major works including Kinkan Shonen, Tobari, Unetsu, and ARC. Matsuoka is the founder and director of LAND FES since 2011, a non-profit organisation that has the purpose of promoting diversity and inclusion through performing arts. He has been leading the Scramble Dance Project since 2017, in which both people with and without disabilities create dance together. This inclusive dance project – initially created by Yoshito Ohno, a legendary figure of Butoh – has been continued by Dai Matsuoka where he has presented its works domestically and internationally, such as Korea International Accessible Dance Festival 2023 in Seoul, South Korea. He also runs BUTOH CHOREO LAB, an online platform with video lessons by high-profile Butoh dancers.
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BUTOH CHOREO LAB: https://butohchoreolab.com
Dancers/Performers: Yoko Izumi, Nanami Katayama, Llon Kawai, Matsuyoshi Koiso, Kaho Kogure, Naoya Sakata, Masahiro Nomura, Kazuyo Morita
Video Documentation: Kazuyuki Negishi, Haruki Morita (JONA inc.)
Production: Yurika Kuremiya, SWOON inc.
Producer: Dai Matsuoka
Iungo – Encounter Tokyo connects 8 dancers with mixed backgrounds. They casually meet each other on a bench in a public place and from there starts an encounter of minds, bodies and hearts. This piece is based on a choreographic format that Adriaan Luteijn has developed for Introdans from the Netherlands called The Encounters. This piece was created with the incredible input of the cast, and made in a short and intensive working period with Luteijn in Tokyo in January 2024, and produced by LAND FES.
(Scramble Dance Projects)
Dancers/Performers: Maho Amakata, Sayuri Iimori Daiki Ishikawa, Yoko Izumi, Rie Kato, Kambara Kenta, Kanshi Kobayashi, Rieko Hirata, Yu Machitera, Dai Matsuoka
Video Documentation: Kazuyuki Negishi, Haruki Morita (JONA inc.)
Video editing: Andante All Stars
Based on the concept of enjoying scrambling (mixing and mingling) with diverse people, the Scramble Dance Project has been working to co-create dance beyond disabilities since 2016. As a collaborative project among three public theaters in Yokohama (Kannai Hall, Iwama Civic Plaza, and Yoshinocho Civic Plaza) that promote the value of coexistence and co-creation through performing arts, a new piece ROCKS by Scramble Dance Project was created and performed in March 2024.
Dancers/Performers: Kenta Kambara, Momoko Shiraga, Yoko Higashino, Osamu Jareo, Anna Irite, Mamiko Hosokawa, Newcomer “H” Sokerissa! and workshop participants
Direction: Dai Matsuoka, Makoto Ando
Cinematography: Masabumi Kimura, Ryo Sakamoto
Video editing: Ryo Sakamoto, Yuto Niyama
Produced by: LAND FES
LAND FES DIVERSITY Fukagawa is a project in which dancers and participants, regardless of disability, age and nationality, work together to create video works in Fukagawa, Tokyo. In 2021, we held workshops and shootings in the local area directed by 7 different contemporary dancers, in which the participants tried out various dance practices and created a lot of communication through their bodies. The complete video is full of the charm of Fukagawa and the dance that connects people together.
This work is supported by the Arts Council Tokyo Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture, Cooperated by: Iine Morishita, Daisuke Uzunami, gift, Yuta Hirai, Naoko Matsushima, NPO Acceptions.
