Works and History

Metamorphosis [ou l’enigme du mouvement ou la confusion des forms] (2014)

Metamorphosis [ou l’enigme du mouvement ou la confusion des forms] Yuko Kominami Elvire Bastendorff Metamorphosis est la rencontre de deux disciplines, la fusion de deux univers artistiques distincts dont la finalité est une pièce vidéo(graphique) produite par une mise en forme d’images fixes et mobiles. La vidéo mixe différents langages pour aboutir à une poétique de l’image chorégraphique. Associant deux…

2014

Mayu , Mandelbluten Festival, Mallorca, Spain Centro Cultural Peruano Norteamericano, Arequipa, Peru   Recollections, Museo de Arte Contemporàneo de Lima, Peru   Hibrido with Yumiko Yoshioka with Danza PUCP, Huaca Santa Catalina, Lima, Peru   Kaku, Fundamental Monodrama Festival, Banannefabrik, Luxembourg

2013

Yume-mushi 2, Miercher Kulturhaus, Miersch, Luxembourg   The place where dance becomes, Jojo Centre, Oulu, Finland   Kaku, Festival Les Réperages, Lille, France Centre Culturel André Malraux, Nancy, France   SAI, Opderschmelz, Dudelange, Luxembourg   Winter Worm-Summer Grass, Danzfestival Lëtebuerg, Luxembourg

2012

Kage-fumi, Banannefabrik, Luxembourg   Project O, Kucuk Hanimlar Kucuk Beyler Festivali, Ankara, Turkey   garden – a borrowed landscape, Cultural Centre George Apostu, Bacau, Romania   body-antenna, Point Ephèmère, Paris, France   Callejón, Festival Touch of Noir, opderschmelz, Dudelange, Luxembourg Callejón (extract), Festival tHeart Connection, Bhubaneswar, India   Recollections Collaboration with Kunihiko Matsuo, Festival tHeart Connection, India   Yume-mushi, Studio…

2011

Mayu Opderschmelz Dudelange, Luxembourg Nideranven Kulturhaus, Monodrama festival, Luxembourg Kaku Collaboration with Gilles Sornette Centre Pompidou Metz, France blanContact II Mierscher Kulturhaus, Luxembourg Bi-ka Ten Pen Chii Art Labor, Dock 11, Berlin, Germany

2010

Project O, Traffo and Opderschmelz, Luxembourg   reMEMBRANEce, Festival Le Transfrontalier, Nancy and Luxembourg Festival Paris June Event, Paris, France World Exposition, Shanghai, China   Bi-ka Ket-sui Wa-ku, Ten Pen Chii Art Labor, Dock 11, Berlin, Germany

2009

blanContact, as one of Choreographers, Mierscher Kulturhaus, Luxembourg   reMEMBRANEce, Opderschmelz, Luxembourg   Linnunrata,, Animal Love Project, ICPNA, Lima, Peru Corricancha Temple, Cusco, Peru

2007

Linnunrata, Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff, Wales Centre for Performance Research, Aberystwyth, Wales   Der tintenschwarze Mond: La Légende d’Ono no Komachi amoureuse qui ne rencontra jamais maître Kawabata : Performing a strange meeting Director Steve Karier, Kasemattentheater, Luxembourg   Underwater Flower, le calendrier des migrations, Luxembourg   Daruma by Thierry Devaux and Loris Binot, Muique Action,Centre Culturel Andre Malraux, Vandoeuvre-Les-Nancy,…

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.

Linnunrata (2007)

…..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…