Author: yukokominami

Rejuvenating Movement Workshop, April 2026

Our body/mind is flexible, strong and has power to rejuvenate itself if we manage to give body/mind a space and trust to do so! The workshop aims to promote basic well-being physically/mentally/interpersonally/environmentally, using exercises derived from different practices (Nogushi gymnastics, Noguchi seitai katsugen, acupuncture points/meridian studies, etc) to observe, loosen-up, stretch, discharge and charge, adjust and align, and rejuvenate! It…

Rejuvenating movement workshop

Our body/mind is flexible, strong and has power to rejuvenate itself if we manage to give body/mind a space and trust to do so! The workshop aims to promote basic well-being physically/mentally/interpersonally/environmentally, using exercises derived from different practices (Nogushi gymnastics, Noguchi seitai katsugen, acupuncture points/meridian studies, etc) to observe, loosen-up, stretch, discharge and charge, adjust and align, and rejuvenate! It…

A-UN, at Rainy Days Festival, Philharmonie Luxembourg

            A performance-piece – which is  a meeting at a crossing called Steve Kaspar, “A-UN” will be performed on 22nd of November, 2025 at Rainy Days Festival, Philharmonie Luxembourg https://www.philharmonie.lu/en/programme/2025-26/a-un-000000e9001ba1d3

Workshop Butoh at Nuisis Zobop 9th-11th October 2025, Porto

De 9 a 11 de outubro, 10.00-14.00, o Centro de Criação e Investigação Nuisis Zobop no Espaço Agra recebe a coreógrafa e bailarina japonesa Yuko Kominami para a realização de um workshop intensivo de Butoh.“Nevoeiro, pólen, fantasma e fumo são elementos que podem conter as chaves para o processo de evaporação — o processo de desaparecer. Passar por este processo…

Along the meridian rivers – a traveler (2025)

https://vedanza.org/d-i-v-e-r-s-e-presents-along-the-meridian-rivers-a-traveler-by-yuko-kominami-20-sep-2025/ 20 Sep 2025 20h ALONG THE MERIDIAN RIVERS – A TRAVELER creation by Yuko Kominami   The piece explores body and life as a passage, meridians (in Chinese medicine) as rivers and acupuncture points as ports, where connections, communications, meeting, crossing, and voyages can happen. The performance aims to be also a topological playground of ever-changing constellations with acupuncture…

A-UN, in the rainy days festival, Philharmonie Luxembourg

For those who missed A-UN in Casino Luxembourg and then VEWA, Dudelange…. here is a gooood news! We come back with A-UN with Steve Kaspar’s soundscape on 22nd November 2025 in the rainy days festival at Philharmonie Luxembourg!!! Really looking forward to the meeting! tickets and information: https://www.philharmonie.lu/en/programme/2025-26/a-un-000000e9001ba1d3

2025

A-UN, Casino Luxembourg – Forum d’art contemporain, Luxembourg Celebrating Pulsation, 30ans TROIS C-L, banannefabrik Luxembourg A-UN, VEWA, Dudelange Luxembourg

A-UN (2025)

photo: Bohumil Kostohryz   It is a sound and movement performance with soundscapes of Luxembourgish multi-media artist, Steve Kaspar (1952-2020), by two artists who closely worked with him at different moments – Nataša Grujović (accordionist/composer) and Yuko Kominami (dancer/choreographer). The performance is a meeting at a crossing called Steve Kaspar. Two artists, who share the vision with him, have gathered…

ANTOLOGICAMENTE, in Festa dos Anos de Alvaro de Campos, 20th October 2024

DANÇAR POESIA | ANTOLOGICAMENTE DANCE POETRY | ANTOLOGICALLY conceito, direção e dança: Yuko Kominami | música: Tomas Tello dança | Ana da Costa, Aya Kominami Tello, Jennifer Muteteli, Josiane Maet DOM 20 OUT 2024 16h00 | Pousada do Convento da Graça https://festadosanosdealvarodecampos.wordpress.com/dancar-poesia-antologicamente/

2024

Liquified Dream of a Dragonfly, Kulturfest, Goethe Institut, Lisbon, Portugal Iwa-Kagami, Festival Laiks Dejot, Riga, Latvia Antologicamente, Festa dos anos de Alvaro de Campos, Tavira, Portugal

Professional Inspiring Course Vol 1. Ruptures in palimpsest – Performing site-specifity

                                                                                                                                                       photo: Annick Wolfers Professional Inspiring Course Vol 1 Ruptures in palimpsest – Performing site-specifity When: 3rd – 5th November 2023 (3days)           10:30-13:30 and           15:00-18:00 (6hours/day) Where: A Sala de Espera- Dance Research Studio and Outdoor sites in Tavira What it is about: This workshop will inspire you in ways to perform a site-specific performance. We will work…

2023

We thought we knew what we were doing… Direction: Frey Faust and Emanuela Iacopini, Théâtre National du   Luxembourg, Luxembourg   and Teatro das Figuras, Faro, Portugal Iwa-Kagami, Festival Cumplicidades, Lisbon, Portugal Liquified Dream of a Dragonfly, Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg; Festa dos anos de Alvaro de Campos, Tavira, Portugal

2022

In Ritual, collaboration with Joana Von Mayer Trindade, Casino Luxembourg BLAST Direction: Emanuela Iacopini, TUFA, Trier Germany Nuit de la Culture, Esch Belval, Luxembourg Poemus, Dancar Poesia, Biblioteca Municipal Tavira, Portugal  

2021

BLAST Direction: Emanuela Iacopini, Festival SET, Coimbra, Portugal In Ritual, collaboration with Joana Von Mayer Trindade, Festival Dance Dance Dance, Teatro das Figuras, Faro, Portugal Dancar Poesia, Festa dos anos de Alvaro de Campos, Tavira, Portugal There is a thin membrane between everything, le collectif ykasppkmkm, Nuit des Musées, Casino Luxembourg Metamorphosis, le collectif ykasppkmkm, MUDAM, Luxembourg Becoming Ma, collaboration…

Liquified Dream of a Dragonfly (2023)

photo: Bohumil Kostohryz Liquified Dream of a Dragonfly (Site-specific solo dance piece, with installation and live music: 30 min)   in the corner of a garden it appears it keeps changing  larva-chrysalis- nymph-dragonfly- a woman made of pollen   the crack where the shell starts melting, freeing oneself from inertia reaching out- is the love of a snake/human/butterfly-mother… Her eye…

We Thought We Knew What We Were Doing (2023)

We Thought We Knew What We Were Doing is a testament to the way unexpected forces in life may subvert our most carefully considered plans: the unpredictable, surprising, the ever changing that demands adaptation. In performance (only!) paint drips from the ceiling, gradually rendering the floor slick.. The colours of the paint are trailed across the stage and onto the…