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…
Works and History
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…
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
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…
In Ritual (2021)
The premier: 18th September 2021, Festival Dance Dance Dance at Teatro das Figuras, Faro, Portugal Choreography and dance: Yuko Kominami & Joana Von Mayer Trindade Installation : Ana Maria Pintora Music: Tomas Tello Light: Luisa l’Abbate Theme The choreographic project was to create a dance piece based on ritual. It is a development of a research project on…
Sublimation (2019)
Sublimation http://www.markiewicz-piron.com/work_sublimation.html Choreography and dance in Virtual Reality Project by Markiewicz and Piron.
2019
Iwa-Kagami, Vivarium Festival, Porto, Portugal Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg Live performance along with virtual reality project Sublimation, 76th Venice Film Festival, Venice, Italy arvores, pedras, montes, bailam parados dentre de mim, Festa dos Anos de Alvaro de Campos, Tavira, Portugal Iwa-Kagami, Almanegra Festival, Madrid, Spain
2018
Winter Worm-Summer Grass Festival de Artes Performativas de Tavira, Portugal Dreaming Scarlet Medusa Festival Dance Dance Dance, Teatro Municipal de Faro, Portugal Dançar Poesia, Festa dos Anos do Alvaro de Campos, Tavira, Portugal Iwa-Kagami, opderschmelz, Luxembourg Studio Corpodehoje, Tavira, Portugal
Iwa-Kagami (2018)
Premier 21st November 2018 Centre Culturel Régional Dudelange opderschmelz, Luxembourg Dance: Yuko Kominami Music: Tomás Tello Video: Diego Vizcarra The solo dance piece is about my father who died recently. It is based on my impression of the two weeks I spent time with him in his last days – after he was diagnosed with a cancer and…
Dreaming Scarlet Medusa (2017)
Premier 6th April 2017 opderschmelz, Dudelange, Luxembourg 27th May 2017 LUM, Lima, Peru Dance : Yuko Kominami Music: Tomás Tello Video: Diego Vizcarra Light: Vincent Urbani Costume: Carolina Rieckhof External Eye: Camille Mutel Charge of Production: Séverine Zimmer The piece is a result of a research into meanings and narratives of dance based on encounters between traditional…
Three Short Stories (2015) – dance and music piece for children and others
The piece “Three Short Stories” is about three different fantastic/supernatural stories using dance, music and light. Each story comes from different places (Japan, Poland, Perú). The piece is directed to children from 9 years onwards. The aim of the piece is to first of all provide magical experience and also introduce children(and adult) to different stories and different universes. “Three…