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Hiroaki Umeda
Saturday, March 19th, 2011 Tags: Art, Choreography, Experiential, Hiroaki Umeda, Instalation, Japan, Performance, Tokyo, Video
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As a tribute to Japan’s artists, I will be doing a few posts specialized in their amazing work.
So here is the first one that I have to comment on before going out, hittging the
dance floor along with some booze. Hiroaki Umeda is a multidisciplinary artist that leads S20 his studio based in Tokyo. He creates “experiential” environments, where he performs some type free style of dancing that is choreographed in order to marry video projections giving to his projects a complete new dimension, such body movements resemble a lot if he was performing a melange of a kendo Kata with other martial arts like Tai-chi, karate do, kung fu, and so on. I totally see these performances buy viagra online being done in different types of atmospheres, events, shows and even parties or interacting with the audience. But what is most interesting about all of it, is that this theatrical performances are actually so well executed that they completelly transports us into a new world where we would defenitelly would love to live in.
I think these are a must see performances for anyone who has the chance to attend. Here is his bio and the description of his full project.
Hiroaki Umeda was born in 1977 and currently lives and works in Tokyo.
He studied photography at the Nihon University in Japan and decided to start dancing at the age of 20. In 2000 Hiroaki Umeda founded his own company «S20» and since he has started making own pieces. One of his represented piece “while going to a condition” was presented at the Rencontres Chorégraphiques Internationales (France) and was hailed as ” a visual and sensorial experience… The discovery of a young artist, both orig inal and promising.”. Following that “Finore” (2003) was presented at FIND Festival (Canada),and “Duo” at Panorama dance festival (Brazil). After a residency at the Chaufferie (Philippe Decouflé’s rehearsal space), Hiroaki Umeda performed “Accumulated Layout” in 2007 at the Théâtre National de Chaillot, Paris. Those pieces have been presented at important festivals all over the world, such as Kunsten festival des arts (Belgium), at Berbican Centre in Mime festival (England), Rome Europa festival (Rome), Festival d’Automne (France) and so on.
Since his first group piece project with the Finnish dancers in 2008, he has started choreographing to other dancers, which wiil be his future ten-year project. Also he has started working on video piece, sound piece and installation as an extension of his solo project.
Hiroaki Umeda is a pluridisciplinary artist : choreographer, dancer, sound, image and lighting designer. His work is both minimal and radical, subtle and violent, and is created to be “experienced”. He is now recognized more as a visual
artist rather than a choreographer, a mover rather than a dancer.
