ABOUT｜DANCE TRUCK TOKYO

A minimal stage using a cargo truck

Performance in a narrow space with limited frontage requires a high embodiment and compositional ability. You can feel the performer's skill to attract the audience with sophisticated minimal expression.
photo by bozzo

Illumination art in the twilight of each location

As an added attraction, each event starts at sunset, providing a magnificent and varied canvas for accomplished artists working with LED lights and projections to transform the familiar cityscape.
photo by amano studio

Curated by three dancers

Renowned choreographer/dancers Yoko Higashino, Yukio Suzuki, and Tsuyoshi Shirai will introduce cutting- edge artists from a range of disciplines, all working with a core focus on contemporary dance.

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Yoko Higashino
Artistic Director and Curator of DANCE TRUCK TOKYO

Dancer and choreographer for the ANTIBODIES Collective. Yoko has presented her work in the performing arts and music scene since the late 1990s. She directed the Dance Company BABY-Q from 2000 to 2014 and won various prizes such as the grand prize of the Toyota Choreography Awards (Choreographer of the Next Generation Award) in 2005. In 2015 she formed the “ANTIBODIES Collective” in Kyoto, and they gained attention in site-specific works with multi genre artists. She has taken a leadership role in the Japan Dance Truck Association since 2011.
http://antibo.org
photo by bozzo

Yukio Suzuki
Curator of DANCE TRUCK TOKYO

Choreographer and dancer. Suzuki’s dance mesmerizes audiences with a strong physicality that lithely and delicately inhabits the space. He has performed in over forty cities around the world and also engages with diverse projects such as co-productions with models and musicians and workshops for children and disabled dancers. Suzuki has won many prizes, including the Choreographer of the Next Generation Award from the Toyota Choreography Awards of 2008.
http://www.suzu3.com
photo by bozzo

Tsuyoshi Shirai
Curator of DANCE TRUCK TOKYO.

Choreographer and dancer. Shirai founded the company “Study of Life works BANETO” in 1998, and “AbsT” in 2006. He won a number of national and international prizes such as the Prix d'Auteur de Conceil General de al Seine-Saint-Denis in 2000. He is renowned for his unique physicality as he interacts with diverse objects. His style, which stimulates audiences’ intellectuality and sensitivity, opens up opportunities for collaborations and workshops with other genres such as music, visual arts and literature.
https://shiraiabst.wixsite.com/tsuyoshi-shirai-abst
photo by Hatori Naoshi

The Japan Dance Truck Association
The Japan Dance Truck Association was formed around contemporary dance artists in 2011 as a core project of Tokyo Tokyo Festival. Inspired by the original Dance Truck from Atlanta, USA, the project was developed in 2012 and has appeared in 5 cities / 12 locations in Yokohama, Tokyo, Sendai, Kyoto and Beppu. Through networking by truck with various cities, we are exploring the effective use of vacant spaces in the city and new mobility in dance.

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