SAKURAI IKUYA DANCE SOLO
”Holy Birds”
2nd and 3rd, April, 2016 plan-B, Tokyo
Dance,Choreograph, Lighting design, Sound and music composition = SAKURAI Ikuya, Art installation and Costume = SAKURAI Emico, Production = CROSS-SECTION, Coproduction= plan-B
【schedule】Saturday,2nd April. 20:00 start / Sunday, 3rd April. 19:00 start ※open=20min. before start
【venue】Alternative space "plan-B" (4-26-20 Yayoicho nakano Tokyo)
【access】7 minutes walk on Nakano dori from Nakano-Fujimicho station (Subway, Marunouchi Line). 1 minute walk from Fujikoukomae bus stop (Nakano >> Shinjuku Nishiguchi, or Shibuya)
【Fee】 ¥3000 ( ¥2800 reservation )
TICKET RESERVATION (need your Name and Date:Sat.2nd Apr. or Sun.3rd Apr.)
contact: CROSS-SECTION_Email
※day of the performance=planB TEL 03-3384-2051
Sakurai Ikuya is a dancer/choreographer based in Tokyo. He became a pupil of Kasai Akira . In 1997, he has created a company with artist Emiko Sakurai a company “Sakurai Ikuya/CROSS-SECTION”. Until this date, he has created and performed more than 40 dance pieces, and also has been teaching professionals and amateurs, through exploring the new possibilities of butoh. 2000: Participated in "Theater X(cai)" International Dance Festival Tokyo. 2001and 2006-2009: participated continuously in "Dance Hakushu" Festival directed by Tanaka Min. 2002: Choreographed for NHK educational TV Program. 2006: Invited from 10th “a sul” Contemporary Dance Festival in Portugal. 2012: participate in Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale Niigata Japan. 2012: Invited from "Centre culturel régional Dudelange", and "Centre de Création Chorégraphique Luxembourgeois" , LUXEMBOURG.2014: participated in Naka-Boso International Art Festival Japan. 2015: Invited from NAGASAKI for the Day of the Atomic Bombing. Works 2005〜2015
artists statement :
I pursue my dance works to be “a body as zero” on stage. It is just a body, which has no individual background, no generation, no border, and even no identity. It is a body for resonance, and it is like a natural phenomenon, which is changing continually like fire or earth. I think dance is the art of dynamics. The moment “a body as zero” starts moving with the new power of life created by the operation of music, lights, and the space, I think that is the beginning of dance. Dance is like a correlation between rising and vanishing energy on a purified body and the way it becomes is just like primitive rites or meditations seeing unknown imagination.-----Ikuya Sakurai