The Future of Dance - Crossing Social Borderse
- 7 September 2023
- 6:00pm – 7:00pm
- Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, 13 / 14 Cornwall Terrace, London NW1 4QP
- https://dajf.org.uk/event/the-future-of-dance-crossing-social-borders
- +44 (0)20 7486 4348
- events@dajf.org.uk
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Yoriko Maeno is a Japanese dance theatre director and choreographer based in Berlin. Over the past 15 years, Maeno has crossed and blurred the boundaries between dance and other art media, dance and society, and the local and global. Through her projects, she has committed herself to local communities, opening up new perspectives for both these communities and the dance theatre scene.
In this talk, Maeno introduces her two most recent projects related to local communities: “AMA-Perlentaucherin” (2020-22), about the culture of the Ama (“sea women”) in Japan, and her series of projects about dementia (2019-2021), using a creative process based on research, which in these cases she undertook in a small Ama village in Mie Prefecture and at a day-care centre in Berlin. She will also discuss the advantages of the digital technology we became used to during the pandemic.
Maeno will share her thoughts about the potential ecosystem for dance theatre, and further possibilities for it to tackle current issues facing humanity globally, such as divisions in society and the use of AI.
About the contributors
Yoriko Maeno
Yoriko Maeno is a dance theatre director and choreographer based in Berlin. She studied contemporary dance at Ochanomizu University in Tokyo. Starting her career as a dancer at various venues in Japan, she has worked as an independent choreographer since 2010. In 2013 she received a scholarship for upcoming artists from the Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs and started to work in Berlin. In 2018, her piece “Lullaby” was awarded the “Audience Prize” at the Tokyo Babylon Dance Collection. She focuses on contemporary social and cultural themes by researching places and interacting with people outside the mainstream of society. She brings them together with many kinds of art forms, including digital and visual art. She explores combinations of opposites that cross the borders between majority and minority, present and past, and reality and fantasy. Her recent productions have been supported by Germany’s district, state, and federal governments. In 2020 she became a member of UNESCO’s Conseil International de la Danse (CID).
