Yuzo Ishiyama
Biography (1/2)"0dB"(ver.01) at DDD AOYAMA CROSS THEATER / Japan photo by Yohta Kataoka

Yuzo Ishiyama is a performance media artist/choreographer based inTokyo, Japan.
He is presenting various performance works integrating sound,installation, visual images, and body movements.
From the 1990s, Ishiyama started his creative career as a core memberof the media art performance company 'nest'.
In 2020, they were invited to the festival 'dance' in Munich with theirperformance "Circulation Module" which he co-directed with thecompany. The show was also presented at KIASMA in Helsinki in thefollowing year.
Ishiyama has also joined numerous international collaboration projects.
He co-directed the dance piece "LinkAge" with a Dutch dance company in2000. This piece was premiered at 'JULIDANS Festival' in Amsterdam andwas also invited to the New Zealand Festival.
In 2006, Ishiyama created the dance piece "QWERTY" and it was presented
at the New National Theatre Tokyo. In this show, he introduced the new
method to combine dynamic video projection with body movements.
After this creation, he founded the artist collective 'A.P. I.'.

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In the following year, they were invited to the digital art festival 'Bains
Numériques' in France with this piece.
Not only in Europe but they also toured South America as they
were invited by several major local dance festivals in Brazil such as
Panorama Festival (Rio de Janeiro) and FID (Belo Horizonte).
In 2009, Ishiyama created the dance piece "radi-" featuring multiprojection.
This show was premiered at Kawasaki Art Center in Japan (as adirector/choreographer/cast), and was also selected as the opening
performance at the international dance festival 'New Dance Days' inKosice/Slovakia in 2013.
Two years later, the filmed version of this piece was invited to 'Muséede la Civilisation' in Quebec City/Canada. The screening had a long run

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of 13 months.
During his long-term stay in Finland in 2011, collaborating with localartists, he created and presented the dance piece "CatB" which was theofficial program of the European Capital of Culture-TURKU2011 (as adirector/choreographer).
In the same year, he was invited to the National Ballet of Japan asa guest choreographer and presented his original work at the New
National Theatre Tokyo.
Ishiyama launched the "0dB" project in 2016.
He has presented a series of dance works with 'no sound' in which
both performer s and audience wear headphones. This projectquestioned the audience "What is a realistic sensation exactly?"
Its advanced version "SHGZR-0dB" (as a director/choreographer/cast)
was presented at Spiral Hall in Tokyo which earned a high reputation
especially.
In his another project, he choreographed not only humans but
machines as well.
In a series of his creations called ". / [dot slash]" (as a director/choreographer/cast), he featured "a dialogue between machines andhumans." He choreographed drones in 2020 and moving lights in thefollowing year.
In 2022, he presented "S.S.S.S.," a live artwork that erased the border
between music concert and dance performance.
In this work, the performers play a role of both dancers and instrument
players.

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>>"S.S.S.S." - 2022~- Premiered at R's ART COURT / Japan -2022

Yuzo Ishiyama
Works (1/2)>>"./ [dot slash]" Project - 2020~"./ [dot slash] -beta version"
at YOYOGI PARK STUDIO / Japan -2021"./ [dot slash] -alpha version"visual work -2020>>"0dB" Project - 2016~"SHGZR-0dB"
at Spiral Hall / Japan -2018"0dB"(ver.01)
at DDD AOYAMA CROSS THEATER / Japan -2017"0dB / Prototype"invited to art festival "Roppongi Art Night" / Japan -2016>>"CatB" - 2011~ (International Collaboration Dance Piece)- Premiered at "TURKU 2011" (European Capital of Culture - OfficialProgram) -2011- Creation in Turku, Finland -2011>>"radi-" - 2009~, 2013~ (Multimedia Dance Piece)- Premiered at Kawasaki Art Center / Japan -2009- (video version) invited to Musée de la Civilisation / Quebec, Canada -2015- Invited to contemporary dance festival "New Dance Days" / Slovakia -2013- (prototype) Invited to art festival "gene" - Roppongi Hills Arena / Japan -2008

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>>"QWERTY" - 2006~, 2013~ (Multimedia Dance Piece)- Premiered at "Dance Exhibition" / New National Thetre Tokyo -2006

Yuzo IshiyamaWorks (2/2)- Invited to contemporary dance festival "New Dance Days" / Slovakia -2013- Invited to The National Ballet of Japan (new version) -2011- Invited to contemporary dance festival "Panorama Festival" / Brazil -2008- Invited to digital art festival "Bains Numériques #2" / France -2007>>"SU" - 2006~ (Multimedia Live Art Piece)- Premiered at "Dance and Media 2006" / Japan -2006- (solo version) Invited to digital art festival "Bains numériques #2" -2007>>"LinkAge" - 2000~(Multimedia Dance Piece -collaboration with Dutch company)- Premiered at "Julidans" festival / Amsterdam -2000- Invited to "New Zealand Festival 2002" / Wellington -2002>> nest "Circulation Module" - 1998~(Multimedia Performance Piece)- Premiered at "PARK TOWER NEXT DANCE FESTIVAL" / Tokyo -1998- Invited to "ARS01" festival at KIASMA / Helsinki -2001- Invited to "dance 2000" festival / Munich -2000

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Yuzo Ishiyama
Works"QWERTY" at New National Theatre, Tokyo / Japan photo by Yohta Kataoka"0dB"(ver.01) at DDD AOYAMA CROSS THEATER / Japan photo by Yohta Kataoka"radi-" at Kawasaki Art Center / Japan photo by Yohta Kataoka

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Yuzo Ishiyama
Works"SHGZR-0dB" at Spiral Hall / Japan photo by Yohta Kataoka"QWERTY" at 'Bains Numériques #2' / France photo by Yohta Kataoka"SHGZR-0dB" at Spiral Hall / Japan photo by Yohta Kataoka

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"DDD"- July 2017 (Dance Magazine / Japan)"0dB" vividly throws questions at the audience - "What gives us a realistic
sensation at live performance?"
The show also confronted us the fact that how we see the art and theworld through biased eyes today.
(...)
This is the 'contemporary' dance based on the realities of city dwellers TOKYO DANCE with 'no sweating' dynamism.

"The Slovak Drama Journal KOD" -December 2013 (TheatreArts Magazine / Slovakia)
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two dance pieces (radi-; Qwerty) characterized by conceptual multimedia
staging aesthetics. Media-light virtual stage space serves the black andwhite dancers as an enclosed theatre area. The dancers had to dynamicallywork their way around the area in order not to become its full part and not
to vanish in the network of constantly blinking intermediary effects andgraphic "lies."
The choreographic compositions were characterized by physicalreservedness, human solitude and motion plasticity linked in a functionalmusical-media concept. Ideas embodied in the movements of life
performers - incompatible with the media signs - gave an aesthetically net
effect in the spirit of conceptual dance arts.
By Peter Mato

"CatB" at 'TURKU 2011' (European Capital of Culture) / Finland photo by Yutaka Endo

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"Turun Sanomat" -24th March 2011 (Newspaper / Finland)
One of the essential themes of CatB is the essay “The Cathedral and theBazaar” (1999) by Eric S. Raymond.
(...)
CatB can be seen as a hybrid of social relations provided by those twomodels(=Cathedral Development Method and Bazaar Developmentmethod). The four dancers - the amazing So Ueda and Satsumi Fukai inaddition to Airaksinen and Aaltonen - express various urban encounters,
violent at times, but also an open dialog is found and the direction ofpower is changed.
(...)
Personal movement qualities are evident, but also automatized repetitionin movements and in geometrical compositions can be seen. Sansui andCatB are both fascinating in their ever-changing movement vocabulary.

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By Kaisa Kurikka"Jornal do Brasil" -October 2008 (Newspaper / Brazil)
What we usually observe is the cliché of dance of each country....
Yuzo brings a different proposal. Instead of working with a Japan of thepast, he thinks about a Japan of the future...

"La Terrasse" -3 October 2007 (Culture Magazine / France)
In Japan, the country having a tendency to turn to a digital culture, thedance is not synonymous with Butoh. It is what also proves the Collective
A.P. I. with Qwerty, a dance performance and multimedia piece which
exploits space by a spectacular installation.

"Danser"-October 2007 (Dance Magazine / France)
Yuzo Ishiyama <one of the children of the pioneer group : Dumb Type,in a way. The Japanese work not so much in representation. It is neither
the gesture nor all that is around, but the design of the project that isimportant. They really bring a new interpretation through the visual
images and sound effects.>
Dominique Roland interview

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