Yokohama Dance Collection EX 2013

Competition Winners Decided!
Competition I: Dance Composition Division
Competition II: New Choreographer Division
Competition I: Dance Composition Division 12 Finalists from 3 Countries/124Entrants
Countries/124Entrants from 5 Countries
Prize

Name of Winner / work

Age / Birthplace・・Residence

NAKAMURA Yo“good bye”

24 / Born and resides in Tokyo

OKUNO Miwa
“Highlight of Decline”

29 / Born in Kawasaki, resides in TokyoSHIMADA Tadashi“twilight”

26 / Born in Yokohama, resides in Tokyo

Jury Prize
Sibiu International
Theater Festival
The French Embassy Prizefor Young ChoreographerMASDANZA Prize

Encouragement Prize【The Prizes】】■Jury Prize: ¥200,000 prize and the right to present work at Yokohama Dance Collection EX in subsequent years.
■French Embassy Prize for Young Choreographer: Residence in France for up to six months during the year 2013.
■MASDANZA Prize: Right to participate in MASDANZA, the International contemporary dance festival in Spain.
■Sibiu International Theater Festival: Opportunity to perform and have a workshop for young students at the Sibiu
International Theater Festival in Romania in 2014.
【Juries】】
ONO Shinji (producer, Aoyama Theatre, Aoyama Round Theatre), SHINDO Hiroko (dance critic),
MAEDA Keizo (board director realcities), HAMANO Fumio (senior editor, Shinshokan Dance Magazine),
MUROBUSHI Ko (dancer, choreographer), Rebecca Lee (Director, Institut français du Japon – Yokohama),
Aymar Crosnier (producer, curator)

Competition II: New Choreographer Division
Prize
Outstanding New Artist Prize
Encouragement Prize
Encouragement Prize

15 Finalists / 40 Entrants

Name of Winner / work

MASUMIZU Erika“KAKUSHIN-HAN”
SHIRAI Aisa
“HUM”
MATSUDA Kodo““A think ordinary”

Age / Birthplace・・Residence
25/Born in Yokohama, resides in Tokyo
24/Born in Osaka and resides in Tokyo
24/Born in Saitama and resides in Tokyo【The Prizes】】■Outstanding New Artist Prize: Support for creating and performing a new work.
Comprehensive support for the production of a full-scale work and its performance at the Yokohama Red BrickWarehouse No. 1.
The performance will be scheduled to be given during the next Yokohama Dance Collection EX.
【Juries】】
SUMIYOSHI Chie (art producer, writer), TATEISHI Kazuhiro (magazine editor)
HAMANO Fumio (senior editor, Shinshokan Dance Magazine)※ Encouragement Prize: Awarded for a choreographer with promise at both Competition I and Competition II

Competition I Profiles of Prize winners
NAKAMURA Yo 【Jury Prize / Sibiu International Theater Prize】】©Maezawa Hideto

Nakamura Yo began studying contemporary dance in the Modern Dance Club at Waseda
University. Since 2009, she has taken part as their assistant in the choreography of Onodera Shujiand Kondo Ryohei. She has also appeared in a Go Hiromi music video, a Bee TV commercial, andother productions. She began creating her own works last year. She took part in Competition II ofthe 2012 「Yokohama Dance Collection EX」and「the NEXTREAM21 Dance Competition」, inwhich she received the Jury Award.

OKUNO Miwa
【The French Embassy Prize for Young Choreographer / MASDANZA Prize】】©Hirasawa
Saisho©Hirasawa
SaishoHaving started studying modern dance at the age of three, Okuno Miwa has been active in Japanand abroad since joining <Leni-Basso> in 2006. She began performing as a soloist in 2009 andpresented “【00】～ Shirei～ “ in the 2010 「Dance Ga Mitai! Newcomer Series 8」. In 2011, shestudied independently in Europe, returning to Japan to engage in new creative endeavors. Hergoal is to create a space in which the body is given presence as an object.

SHIMADA Tadashi 【Encouragement Prize】】
Born in Yokohama in 1986, Shimada Tadashi studied painting in childhood and, from the ageof 19, performance methods at <UPS Academy>, a school directed by Narahashi Yoko. Therehe first experienced physical expression as an art form and, the following year, presented
Hirugao; since then his career has focused on solo performances.

Competition II Profiles ofof Prize winners
MASMIZU Erika 【Outstanding New Artist Prize】】©Fujimoto Junko

Masumizu, who began working in modern dance in the dance club at Kyushu Women’sHigh School. A graduate of J. F. Oberlin University’s College of Performing and Visual Arts,
she performed while a student in works choreographed by Kisanuki Kuniko and Ito Chie.
After working as a cheerleader for a professional baseball team, she became the teamleader in <Sumidagawa Leaders>, choreographed by Yasumoto Masako. While sheregards the dance duo <YoneEri> with Yoneda Saori as her base, she also performs with<Dance Company Baobab>, led by Kitao Wataru, and other groups.

MATSUDA Kodo 【Encouragement Prize】】©Matsuda Kodo

Matsuda, who first began studying jazz dance at eighteen, has worked in a variety of othergenres, including hip-hop, rock, and contemporary dance. Ambitiously engaged in anumerous creative activities, he revealed his “Sleepless Night”, in his first independent
performance, in 2010, and is involved in both choreographing and performing. At present,
while performing in a variety of settings, he continues to explore his own sensibilities,
while presenting his work at every opportunity. He is intensely engaged in studying bothtechnique and creative production.

SHIRAI Aisa 【Encouragement Prize】】
Born in Osaka and raised in Yokohama, Shirai now lives in Itabashi, Tokyo. In 2010, she
graduate from the department of expression studies at Rikkyo University. In 2011, she
performed in “Grief of Euridice”, which was choreographed by Kamimura Megumi; in2012, she performed in “Bartleby” with <the performance unit ttu>. She is also engaged inpresenting her own compositions and in collaborative work with video artists.
©Iida Kousuke

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