Author: yukokominami

2006

When the Peony Breaks…, University of Surrey, U.K. Ritual #n, University of Surrey, U.K.

2005

Ones Voices, Kulturfabrik, Luxembourg Festival International de Teatru de la Sibiu, Romania MAC Grand-Hornu, Belgium

2004

Ones Voices collaboration with Steve Kaspar, Podewil, Berlin, Germany

1999

Lido Libidinal Libacious Director Lauren Goode, Claire Taylor, London, U.K.

…..pluck my plume. And there, into the opening I weave your plume into the silky slope of flight. A lovenest of connection and separation. A daydream for a crane’s placenta. Drawing inspiration from Japanese popular folklore. A crane takes shape as a woman and weaves a tapestry using her own plumes as an act of love. Dance: Yuko Kominami

reMEMBRANEce　(2009)

The choreographic piece explores individual and collective memories with a focus on skin. Skin can be defined as a fluid plane, that functions both as a boundary and a connection. It is also a field of communication, where spells, encounters and memories reside. The piece consists of solo dance (Yuko Kominami) and video projection (Catherine Richard). Two female artists’ autobiographical…

Mayu (2013)

Rebirth-death-birth A lullaby in the womb Swim! towards the voice like a salmon up the river Hello again Welcome! Mayu is a solo dance piece with a live music performance. The piece is about rebirth (rebecoming) – A life-death spiral or rather a rhizome. The title “mayu” means “river” in Quechua (the language from the Andes) and in Japanese the…

Kaku (2011)

Music and Installation: Gilles Sornette Dance: Yuko Kominami Light: Brice Durand Coproduction: CCAM-Scène Nationale de Vandoeuvre (54) Moselle Arts Vivants – opérateur culturel du Conseil Général de la Moselle (57) Hörspiel (57)Subvention: Conseil Régional de Lorraine Ville de Metz Conseil Général de Moselle SPEDIDAMSupport: Arsenal/Metz en Scènes Centre Pompidou-Metz Trois C-L…

Kage-fumi (2012)

…I was already no more me but you. And you were me. You are me and looking at you, who is me, from the next room. So open but unreachable but already here… Two dancer/choreographers, choreographing each other along the theme of the double. My double – the shadow I have never met but is already inside me and always…

recollections (2012)

Re-collections is a performance which aims to connect memories from the past and the future of a place by sharing memories of the present together. The stage is surrouded by trees and ponds, and covered with dried cow dung. In the middle of it, a bed-size white “monolith” stands like an alien substance. Various images are projected on this monolith,…

SAI (2013)

SAI combine danse, musique live et vidéos interactives afin d’explorer un élément essentiel de la vie : la répétition et les variations qu’elle induit. Basée sur différentes séquences, la chorégraphie s’inspire avant tout de mouvements du quotidien. De par leur répétition consciente, se crée un effet kaléidoscopique qui révèle la richesse de nos rituels journaliers. En posant son regard sur le…

Winter Worm- Summer Grass (2013)

The piece is a collection of choreographic poems to revist the experience of one year TROIS C-L Boost programme 2012/2013, which consisits of creative research residencies in various places and in various seasons. The title, “Winter worm- Summer grass”, comes from Japanese name for “Cordyceps Sinensis”(Fuyumushi-Natsukusa). It is a fungus which parasitizes a lavae of moth in the earth during winter and slowly…

Butoh – appearing and vanishing images, May 2016

http://www.danse.lu/formation/cours-stages-amateurs/adultes/butoh-appearing-and-vanishing-images/ This workshop focuses on movements evoked by appearing and vanishing images. It aims to explore certain methodologies of some butoh practices in working with images. How do we move and how are we moved by images, which appear and disappear by burning themselves to their vanishing point ? The workshop consists of basic physical exercises, movement exercises with images, also…

Eden Eden Eden residency at 2 angles

Starting a project “Eden Eden Eden” creation of music and dance piece based on the novel by Pierre Guyotat with Emmanuel Fleitz, Sayoko Onishi and Tomás Tello artist residency from 7th February -20th February 2016 at 2 angles, Normandie, France. http://www.2angles.org/

Back to Narratives, research project presentation, 3rd December 2015

Presenting the result of the research project Back to Narratives at 3 du Trois, banannefabrik, Luxembourg on 3rd December 2015. http://www.danse.lu/evenements/3-du-trois/decembre-2015/

Residency at MOPA, Bhubaneswar, India then a performance in Odisha Biennale

Whole October 2015, working on a research project “Back to Narratives” with an acclaimed Odissi dancer Masako Ono in Bhubaneswar, India. The project consists of an encounter between a traditional dance (Odissi dance) and a contemporay dance (Butoh) and aims to explore narratives and meanings in dance of different practices, (one which is young and came out of de-construction and…