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<div style="text-align: left">Title - Shokunin I<br />
Duration - approx. 40 minutes<br />
Choreographer / Dancer - Kai Tomioka Aya Misaki<br />
Music - Andrea Balency-Béarn (original score)</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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<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><br /><br />
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<div style="text-align: left">Title - Shokunin I<br />
Duration - approx. 40 minutes<br />
Choreographer / Dancer - Kai Tomioka Aya Misaki<br />
Music - Andrea Balency-Béarn (original score)</div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span class="english-small-1">抜け殻 (NUKEGARA)<br />Choreographed and danced by Kai Tomioka Music composed by Andrea Balency-Béarn <br />
Wearable art created by Mai Suzuki<br />In loving memory of Molly Ayling.<br />
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<div style="text-align: left">抜け殻 (NUKEGARA)<br />Choreographed and danced by Kai Tomioka Music composed by Andrea Balency-Béarn <br />
Wearable art created by Mai Suzuki<br />
<br />In loving memory of Molly Ayling.<br />
<span class="english-small-1"><br />A shell remains. The shape of a body that was once there, still clinging to the tree. It has already left, yet its presence lingers in the imprint of its former self. To shed is to let go. It is to leave something behind. We don’t only grieve absence; we continue to inhabit the spaces shaped by what once existed. The body we carry holds traces of bodies, places, and selves that are no longer there. There is a moment in the shedding where both bodies exist at once. The one being left behind, and the one still becoming. Neither quite gone, neither fully arrived. The shell is empty because life has moved elsewhere. It is empty to make space for what might come next.<br /><br />A solo coming to terms with grief.<br /><br /><br /></span><span class="japanese-small-1">抜け殻 (NUKEGARA)<br />振付・出演：富岡櫂 <br />音楽：アンドレア バレンシーバアン <br />ウェアラブルアート：鈴木舞 <br />
<br />モリー エイリング へ、愛を込めて<br />
<br />そこの木の幹にしがみついていた。もう実態は無いが、かつてあった存在は、まだ印象を残している。脱皮する事は、何かを捨てて前に進むこと。不在を悲しむだけで無く、一度は存在したものを軌跡として心に刻んでおくのだ。そして今の存在は次の存在と時を共有している。二つが共に不在では無く、二つが共に存在するわけでも無い。抜け殻は、生命が他に進んだがために空っぽだ。しかしその殻は、次に来るものがそのそれを埋める事を知っている。埋める存在を待ち望んでいるのだ。グリーフと向き合うソロ作品</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span class="english-small-1">This is an ongoing collaboration with visual artist Mai Suzki bringing traditional Japanese Kumiko craft techniques and dance.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: center"><span class="english-small-1">生</span></div>
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<span class="english-small-1">Photography by Isao Okita.</span>
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