Exhibition SPACE DANCE Online 2024 Spring
/ スペースダンス展示Online 2024春
old “EXHIBITION SPACE DANCE Online 2020-2022” with the members of Tokyo Space Dance, and the guests and trained space dancers around the world. Then, we formed “New Stage for Expression and Interchange” unaffected by the trend of the times to show the activity as an artist for a lifetime.
私たちは、『スペースダンス展示・オンライン2020 – 2022』を東京スペースダンスメンバー・ゲストの参加により開催しました。私たちは、時間をかけて、ゆっくりと、世界中にスペースダンサーを育成します。そして、時代の潮流に左右されることがないアーティストとしての能動性を生涯にわたり発揮できるように、「表現と交流のための新しいステージ」を形成します。
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■ Ayumi Toyabe (Budapest, Hungary)
People, objects, and the environment change over time.
My works Affordance, Walking dance, Paradise, and Flower this time seem to go back and forth on some kind of ”boundary”. I thought I am in the present time but suddenly I felt like I am in the distant past. I also felt like I’ll reach the unknown if I keep going. I think these feelings are the magic that space dance brings.
時間と共に変化していく人間、物体、環境。
今回の私のAffordance、Walking dance, Paradise, Flowerは何かの「境界線」を行ったりきたりしているような部分がある。現代だと思いきや、遠い昔にいるような感覚であったり、このまま進めば未知のところまで行けるような感覚であったり。これらの感覚はスペースダンスがもたらしてくれる魔法だと思う。
Born in Tokyo (1993). After graduating from the Ballet Academy in Germany, went to Art Factory International in Italy. Her solo piece Augmented Spaces directed by Gyula Berger was performed in Japan, Korea, Romania, Estonia and Hungary. Her first dance film SATO was featured on Dance Cinema (2019). The solo piece with the drone called ABOVE directed by Nina Kov was performed at European Institute of innovation and technology (2019). Currently she is leading the international dance collective UGOIQ based in Hungary, teaching Ballet and Contemporary dance in ZeroPlus Dance program and working as an assistant director of Tokyo Space Dance.
[Contact: ayumi.toyabe05@gmail.com]
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■ Pinar Isik Sinka (Miami, U.S.A.)
“INFINITE SPACE”
It is very space that we travel in.
How do you feel in Space?
Abyss, Freedom, Travel, Curiosity, Beautiful, Fearful, Emptiness, Death, Infinite?
Space Dance by Pinar Sinka
Video Bulent Ince
Music by Kai Engel / Mist and Clouds
Pinar Sinka is a visual artist and a space dancer. She has a deep understanding of Space Dance that has risen from Butoh. In 2019, in Izmir, Turkey, she produced a project with all contents of Space Dance, Kids Space Dance, Space Dance Design Workshop, Space Dance Workshop & Performances, and Exhibitions. Her Space Dance is not only a “Life Hymn” but also an “Expectation” for a new era. She is also sensitive to cutting-edge trends in art and science.
[Contact: sculptorpi@yahoo.com]
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Nature is the pure dimension of life, that can resonate with our body and mind. We are blessed that we can nourish ourselves from their treasures to live in health. With its support we can get closer to our impressions, it can calm down our thoughts and also we can find our answers in it. In Space Dance project I love that participants can not only experience a new method of dance but also the possibility to do it in the nature, which is a very different perspective for expression. With its unique formes the environment creates the frames and hold space for the body to move freely. If we can find the resonance with it our body can react and tell its actual speech.
I was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1993. Dance has always been a profound motivation since my childhood. I’ve explored the beauty of dance with the help of my mother when I was little. She has a strong relation with this field. I’ve learned ballet, contemporary and improvisation dance on several workshops and courses, including the intensive course of Budapest Contemporary Dance Academy, and classes of Ayumi Toyabe and Gyula Berger at ZeroPlus DanceWorks. For me the improvisation dance is one of the most effective and deep forms of self expression. In this way I can connect to a deeper level of existence in help with all the elements of nature. As I feel the rhythm of the music and the space around me it helps me to guide my movement organically. I believe that our body language is the mirror of our soul, through dance we can nourish ourselves and others too.
[Contact: mancisarkadi@gmail.com]
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■ Arina Matvejeva (Latvia / Hungary)
Being open to the unknown.
I wish to truly welcome the unexpected from my interaction with the environment. Can I let go of control just a little bit more?
In dance, I can become aware of new sides of my inner self, my history and certain limitations, which are artificial and not necessary.
Beyond those limits lies a surprise, an unexpected turn, that’s where my being livens up, and I seem to find a deeper feeling of belonging.
Originally coming from an academic environment, Arina has dedicated the last ten years of her life to the study and practice of holistic modalities of healing and self-integration. Her passions are three-fold and include sacred ceremonies and transformational work for women; Community Building (the method of M. Scott Peck); and dance, embodiment, and improvisation practices.
She has studied Tuning Scores, Logomotion, and Process Work with Nora Hajos (Hungary, USA). During her time in Berlin, Germany, in 2013, she was exposed to Gaga movement and Contemporary African Dance. For the last ten years, she has studied extensively with Natascha Noack (Germany), Koffi Koko (France, Benin), Achille Acakpo (Benin), and Elsa Wolliaston (France, Afrique). Since 2021, Arina practices Space Dance in Budapest, Hungary, under the supervision of Ayumi Toyabe (Japan, Hungary). Her interest is in eventually weaving together ritual, voice, and dance, as interactive and transformative art performance.
[Contact: arina.matvejeva@gmail.com ]
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I dance with the winds.
I dance in the winds.
And / Or I am danced by the winds.
Under the sky spreading to the other side of the world, I dance.
There is nothing to bother me but many to lead me dance.
That is my space dance.
Born in Tokyo and received her BA in dance from Hunter College, NY. Joined Tokyo Space Dance in 2006 and has been exploring the connection between the space and her body and searching the relationship between dance and herself in life. “Touch, feel and reach into the space. Enjoy the engagement with it and then become a part of it. Connected with myself and with the universe, I find myself in peace and fulfilled. Dance makes all possible.”
[Contact; cozyakito@gmail.com]
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■ Christina Elias (Sao Paulo, Brazil)
“ONE MINUTE DIARIES”
In this series of mini video performances, the written or spoken text works as a soundtrack for the visual narrative, trying to concentrate several pages of a diary into audiovisual works lasting approximately one minute. This is a critique of the demands of a consumer society in which everything must be reproducible, marketable, capable of appropriation and, above all, function as an economic good – including the individual. The one-minute diary reproduces the conception of time in capitalism that suggests consuming as many items as possible within a limited space of time. Fast, express consumption.
Between 2024 and 2028, Christina Elias created 5 audiovisual diaries of this series. She recaptured this project in 2023, having produced 10 new diaries between January 2023 and January 2024. In this exhibition the last five diaries of this new season, created with funding of the PROAC 05/2023 Government of the State of São Paulo (Brazil), are available for viewing.
I first met Tetsuro Fukuhara in Rome in 2013 when I participated in his workshop. Since then, I have been training my body-mind to be creative based on his four chapters method of Butoh. In this process, I discovered an open method of body-mind training, which prepares the artist for focused and structured creation, in a context, where freedom, chance and improvisation build the basic structure of this process. In the video that follows, I try to give expression to how I incorporated Fukuhara’s principles and practices into my artistic process.
[Contact; cristinaelias09@gmail.com]
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■ Robin Bisio (Santa Barbara, U.S.A)
“Salted Earth”
I am sharing some stills from a recent dance short I created with dancer Kaita Mrazek and cinematographer and editor Nik Blaskovich called Salted Earth.
California has been in a drought state for many years but recently climate change has brought intense atmospheric rivers of rain to a thirsty land. Salted Earth exists in a state of paradox. We were going to film on the dusty beach of Soda Lake in the Carrizo Plains. It’s white and salty soil was completed covered with water when we went to film last spring and the hills were awash with a giant superbloom. We took our dance from desiccated land to a lush landscape of flowers. This is a hope for the planet— that the dramatic changes we are seeing around the world and especially in coastal California will lead to a regeneration and regreening of the planet.
“Robin Bisio is a choreographer and filmmaker in Santa Barbara, U.S.A., first guest artist to SPACE MUSEUM Online. We know many dance films in the nature, but we feel Robin’s work is something special. Which point? It is very mysterious and interesting point for us. Our time is at the height of digital expression, but no matter how rich the digital expression is, how much its abundance can contribute to the promotion of the richness of nature will be the final victory. To amplify the richness of nature. That is the real challenge we are looking for. I think she knows about this challenge.” (T.F)
[Contact: robinbisiofilms@aol.com]
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■ Tetsuro Fukuhara (Kumano, Japan)
Atsushi Iriki, a neuroscientist, wrote, “Humans have created an artificial environment, and at the same time they have embodied that environment, they have also turned their bodies into objects, and in order to carry this burden, humans brains have developed new parts.” I fell in love with this seaside jetty, and dancing on this concrete somehow calms me down. It seems that my feet especially like seaside jetty, which is strange because here I feel my feet are moving a step faster than my conscious mind. When I dance, I feel my brain also releases a nostalgic secretion that may make me feel better. I feel my brain has a deep memory of this jetty.
Tetsuro Fukuhara is Director of Tokyo Space Dance, Space Dance Choreographer, Writer, and Photographer. 2006, “One Day at Universe” was published by Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency(JAXA) in Tokyo. From 2009, he hold Space Dance Project in Asia, Africa, Middle East, Europe, South-Middle-North America, and Japan. 2018, “VISION of BODY” was published in Warsaw, Poland and he presented “APAROS – AI Robot as My Alter Ego” at Kopernik Science Center.
[contact; teelena790@gmail.com]
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