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<div style="text-align: left"><span class="english-small-1">Title - Shokunin I<br />
Duration - approx. 40 minutes<br />
Choreographer / Dancer - Kai Tomioka Aya Misaki<br />
Music - Andrea Balency-Béarn (original score)</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span class="english-small-1">Shokunin is the Japanese term for craftsperson,<br />
referring not only to technical skill,<br />
but to a lifelong dedication to mastery, precision, humility, and care. This work translates that spirit into contemporary dance, approaching choreography as a dialogue with materials in which transformation emerges through repetition, accumulation, and sustained attention.<br />
It is the first chapter in an ongoing series built around this concept. The work is informed by sensibilities found across practices
such as nanba walking, Zen, and the Mono-ha movement:a commitment to listening closely to a material rather than imposing upon it. Within this framework, the body itself becomes a material
to be observed, shaped, and understood through experience.<br />
We are interested in how attention can reveal what is already present. Space, time, sound, memory, sensation,<br />
and the subtle movement of the body are treated as<br />
realities to be encountered rather than represented.<br />
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</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span class="english-small-1">The work creates conditions in which these elements can be experienced and shared. At its core, Shokunin I explores the relationship between making and being made.<br />Through repetition, restraint, and deep engagement with process, choreography emerges not as a fixed form but as something continually discovered. The work draws upon artistic experiences in Japan, where an awareness of negative space, tension, presence, and materiality has profoundly influenced the artists' approach. These influences shape not only the aesthetic of the work but its choreographic logic, cultivating a practice of listening, patience, and attentiveness.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span class="english-small-1">Title - Shokunin I<br />
Duration - approx. 40 minutes<br />
Choreographer / Dancer - Kai Tomioka Aya Misaki<br />
Music - Andrea Balency-Béarn (original score)</span></div>
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Bohyo (儚氷) (2025) — Choreography by Kai Tomioka.<br />
Performed at Chidoribunka, Osaka<br />
Dancers: Aya Misaki, Yuki Takahashi, Sayo Homma, Kai Tomioka, Tamako Kuramoto<br />
Music by Andrea Balency-Bearn<br />
Photography by Mex Wahab
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Bohyo (儚氷) (2025) — Choreography by Kai Tomioka.<br />Performed at Chidoribunka, Osaka<br />Dancers: Aya Misaki, Yuki Takahashi, Sayo Homma, Kai Tomioka, Tamako Kuramoto<br />Music by Andrea Balency-Bearn<br />Photography by Mex Wahab
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Bohyo (儚氷) (2025) — Choreography by Kai Tomioka.<br />Performed at Chidoribunka, Osaka<br />Dancers: Aya Misaki, Yuki Takahashi, Sayo Homma, Kai Tomioka, Tamako Kuramoto<br />Music by Andrea Balency-Bearn<br />Photography by Mex Wahab
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Bohyo (儚氷) (2025) — Choreography by Kai Tomioka.<br />Performed at Chidoribunka, Osaka<br />Dancers: Aya Misaki, Yuki Takahashi, Sayo Homma, Kai Tomioka, Tamako Kuramoto<br />Music by Andrea Balency-Bearn<br />Photography by Mex Wahab
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Bohyo (儚氷) (2025) — Choreography by Kai Tomioka.<br />Performed at Chidoribunka, Osaka<br />Dancers: Aya Misaki, Yuki Takahashi, Sayo Homma, Kai Tomioka, Tamako Kuramoto<br />Music by Andrea Balency-Bearn<br />Photography by Mex Wahab
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