This season at Home Series offers an exciting way to be an active spectator by presenting the practice-work of Kota Yamazaki. This AcTS is part performance, part demonstration, part lecture, and part hands on exploration into the principles surrounding the processes of LEIMAY guest teachers. You can choose to participate as an observer audience or physically by joining the exercises and explorations.

Kota Yamazaki is a Japanese dancer and choreographer graduated from Bunka Fashion College in Tokyo, Japan. In 1977 he was introduced to butoh, in 1981 began studying classical ballet and after formation of his first company, rosy co. in 1996, has created a number of works performed internationally at festivals and theaters such as Indonesian Dance Festival, Place Theater in London, Biennale Nationale de Danse Val-de Marine in France, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Arizona State University, Bates Dance Festival, Buena Center for the Arts, Chicago Columbia College Dance Center, University of Massachusetts/Amherst and Yorkshire Dance Festival amongst others. Since 2002, Yamazaki has worked with New York-based Kota Yamazaki | Fluid hug-hug, and his work has been presented nationally and internationally at PICA’s TBA Festival, Melbourne International Arts Festival, BAM Harvey Theater, Dance Theater Workshop, and NUS for the Arts in Singapore, among others. In 2007, Yamazaki received the New York Dance and Performance Award (“Bessie”) with Germaine Acogny for the choreography of FAGAALA performed by Senegal-based dance company, Jant-Bi. Since 2009, he has been director of Body Arts Laboratory and organizer of the Whenever Wherever Festival in Tokyo.

“Bodies engaged in unspoken dialogues creating a hazy landscape of flowing and fleeting energy.
Mr. Yamazaki creates a conversation with bodies, in which unspoken thoughts take on a language of their own”
- The New York Times
“What especially Yamazaki succeeded in this choreography seems to give a life to ‘something neither butoh nor western contemporary dance’ without forcing dancers to perform in stereotypical butoh style…. it revealed kaleidoscopic images in the space which keep transforming by the minute.”
- Shimokitazawa Tsushin (Japan)

participant ticket: Non-Member $15 / conectom Members: $14.6 / LEIMAY-CAVE Members: $13.5
observer ticket: Non-Member $15 / conectom Members: $14.6 / LEIMAY-CAVE Members: $13.5