AYANO YOKOYAMA
Dancer / Choreographer / Directer of lal banshees
1987- Nagano, Japan. Based in Tokyo, Japan.
Ayano explores an original movement that focuses on sensation. Through choreography unbound by gender constraints and intricately connected to sound, she excavates
sensations. Additionally, she creates moments through dance that can only exist in the spontaneous overﬂow, without intention. Breaking the boundaries between thevisible and the invisible, she approaches the present moment with movement. She utilizes personal imagination and sensation to highlight this current moment.
She initiated the dance project as "lal banshees" in 2016. In recent years, she has been actively composing dance works in collaboration with musicians. In recent years, she
has presented "Suiyoubaion" and "Snow on the seaﬂoor" which creatively reuses discarded PET bottles as stage props, and has been restaged in various locations. This
diptych earned an invitation to Aerowaves, Spring Forward 2022 Elefsina. Other pieces are the installation and performance, "STRANGER THAN PHENOMENON,"
held in vacant storefronts (organized by Shinshu Arts Council, Nagano Prefecture) and "YU-KEI" which features a full-length live performance. THE SAISONFOUNDATION Saison Fellow I

EDUCATION
2010

Department of Dance, Faculty of Physical Education, Japan women's college of physical education

Tokyo, Japan

GRANT / AWARD
2021- The Saison Foundation FellowⅠJapan

2021

Insentiv Prize, KYOTO CHOREOGRAPHY AWARD2020

2021

16th JaDaFo Dance Award

2020

Grand Prix Jury Prize, YOKOHAMA DANCE COLLECTION2020 CompetitionⅠ

2020

Porosus camping2020 Prize, YOKOHAMA DANCE COLLECTION2020 CompetitionⅠJapanJapanJapanJapan

Selected Production
2023“Zuku-Zuku-Zuku”

Matsumoto Performing Arts Center

Nagano, Japan“Snow on the seaﬂoor” Choreographers2022

NAHA CULTURAL ARTS THEATER NAHArt

Okinawa, Japan“Suiyoubaion” Aerowaves, Spring forward2022

Popup venue

Elefsina, Greece“ STRANGER THAN PHENOMENON”

Vacant store in Omachi shopping street

Nagano, Japan“YU - KEI”

Theatre tram

Tokyo, Japan“/”

Institut Français Tokyo

Tokyo, Japan“Snow on the seaﬂoor” Choreographers2021

ROHM Theatre Kyoto South Hall

Kyoto, Japan“/”

Komaba Agora Theater

Tokyo, Japan“GHOSTS AND ALL” International Dance Film Festival2021

Online＋Screen

Tokyo, Japan“GHOSTS AND ALL” MEXICO CITY VIDEODANCE FESTIVAL

Online＋Screen

Mexico, Mexico“GHOSTS AND ALL” Fuselage Dance Film FestivalOnline＋Screen

Bucharest, Romania“GHOSTS AND ALL” Prague Music Video Awards

Online＋Screen

Prague, Czech Republic“GHOSTS AND ALL” Bucharest International Dance Film FestivalOnline＋Screen

Seattle, USA“Snow on the seaﬂoor”

Kinosaki International Arts Center

Hyogo, Japan“Snow on the seaﬂoor” KYOTO CHOREOGRAPHY AWARD2020

Kyoto arts center

Kyoto, Japan

2020“Suiyoubaion” YOKOHAMA DANCE COLLECTION2020 CompetitionⅠ

Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse No.1 3F hall

Kanagawa, Japan2019“Wait for snow at PeppiLeica” Dance sellection2019

Aichi Arts Center

Aichi, Japan

Solo, trio duology “Suiyoubaion” , “Snow on the seaﬂoor”

Komaba Agora Theater

Tokyo, Japan

2018“Moonlight pool”

Theater tram

Tokyo, Japan

2016“Wait for snow at PeppiLeica” TOYOTA CHORAOGRAPHY AWARD2016

The Setagaya Public Theatre

Tokyo, Japan“Snow haze of PeppiLeica”

Komaba Agora Theater

Tokyo, JapanSUNRIZE AIR

Miyako Arts Center

Iwate, Japan

Dance House Kogane4422

Dance House Kogane4422

Aichi, Japan

2022

2021

Residency
2023
2022

2021

NAGANO ORGANIC AIR ×Asahi AIR

Nagano, Japan

Centre National de la Danse, Cite National des arts

Centre National de la Danse, Cite National des arts

Paris, FranceAerowaves × KIAC × YDCDANC.C.E

Athens, Greece

Aerowaves × KIAC × YDC

Kinosaki International Arts Center

Hyogo, JapanFounding
2022

ARTS COUNCIL TOKYO “YU-KEI”
Centre National de la Danse, Camping

Porosus Foundation

2021- The Saison Foundation FellowⅠ
2018

ARTS COUNCIL TOKYO “Moonlight pool”

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