dance artist, Butoh practitioner & qualified somatic movement educator who performs, teaches and collaborates to make performances
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Key performances
2024
When Seeds Speak, collaboration with Miranda Whall and Seedy Ensemble, Chapter Arts Centre
The Templum, Kate Howe (installation), Marie Gabrielle Rotie (dance), Nick Parkin (sound) at Orleans House
Ritual for Earthly Survival launch, The Treadgolds, Portsmouth, produced by one000plateaus
TRANSIT, art intervention at Towner Eastbourne
The Hunter, Athens, Greece
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2023
The Spirit in the Dust, collaboration with Afrit Nebula (music) and Mark French (film)
A Place Between, collaboration with Rusty Sheriff (soundscape), PortsFest, Portsmouth
Cherry Blossom Season performance, Ditchling Museum of Art+Craft
2022
A Place in Between, with Olie Brice (music), Journeys Festival of Dance, De La Warr Pavilion
On the Edge, Knotty Festival, Hastings Town Centre, Claudia Kappenberg & Hermione Allsopp
International Composers Festival, with Jose Elizondo (composer), De La Warr Pavilion
2021
Scorpion by Zadie Xa and Benito Mayor Vallejo, Dance to the Music of Our Time, Live exhibition, the National Gallery, London
Japan After the Hours, directed by Marie Gabriele Rotie, Kew Gardens
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2020
Who Am I, UK tour, collaboration with Tunde Jegede (composer) and Sunara Begun (visual artist)
Child of Magohalmi and the Echoes of Creation, Zadie Xa, De La Warr Pavilion
Grandmother Mago, Zadie Xa, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
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2019
Grandmother Mago, Zadie Xa, the 58th Venice Biennale
The Washer Woman, London College of Fashion, directed by Peta Lily, Lilian Balis Studio
Child of Magohalmi and the Echoes of Creation, Zadie Xa, Tramway (DIG), London Art Night
Under the Moon, International Butoh Festival, Paris
The House of Crusoe, ExploreTheArch, Hastings
Moon, October Gallery, London
Dance Movies, dance, music (Afrit Nebula) & projection (Mark French), Kino-teatr, Coastal Currents Festival
Falling Family, Yukiko Masui (choreographer), The Place, Birmingham Dance Exchange, Riley Theatre
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2018
Falling Famil R&D, Yukiko Masui, The Place Theatre
Hamlet, Theatre Nation, St. Mary in the Castle, Hastings, Rye Creative Centre
GEKKA, SEKI DANCE PROJECT, Hastings Museum, Coastal Currents Festival
Tim Hecker with the Konoyo Ensemble, directed by Darren Johnston, Barbican Hall, London
XENOFUTURISM, Antivoid/Caleb Madden, Mesonic Hall, Coastal Currents Festival
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2017
Onibaba, London College of Fashion, directed by Peta Lily, Lilian Balis Studio
KLIPPERTY KLOPP 2 (film), Andrew Kötting
Coastal Currents Festival opening dance & light collaboration with Caleb Madden
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2016
TORIFUNE training Project, funded by Arts Council England, Coastal Currents Festival
Front Row Fashion Show, SEKI DANCE PROJECT, De La Warr Pavilion
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2015
MANJUSAKA, SEKI DANCE PROJECT, Coastal Currents Festival/Stade Saturday funded by Arts Council England, Hastings Borough Council, Leeds City Council
UNFIX Festival, curated by Paul Michael Henry, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow
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2014
MANJUSAKA R&D, SEKI DANCE PROJECT, St. Mary in the Castle, funded by Arts Council England
Junichiro Ishii solo exhibition, Gallery Klatovy, Czech Republic
Kaizo (Film) directed by Alex Franck
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2013
HYAKKI YAKOU, SEKI DANCE PROJECT, Hastings Museum funded by Arts Council England, Japan Society, Coastal Currents Festival
Warped Space, dance and drawing collaboration with Greig Burgoyne, Frost Museum residency
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2012
Artbeat Egypt, international art festival funded by The Japan Foundation, Cairo
Telling Stories, Hastings Museum, curated by Cathryn Kemp
Anima, directed by Karavan Ensemble, Coastal Currents
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2011
INTERFACE, curated by Christine Gist, Oudennarde, Belgium
Beyond the Circle, SEKI DANCE PROJECT, Stade Project Space
Telling Stories, curated by Cathryn Kemp, Marine Studios, Margate
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2010
From A to B, curated by Christine Gist, Dover
2009
Fluid Frontier, Dance and Puppetry collaboration with Theatre Rotto, Hastings Museum
ADMETO, opera directed by Doris Dörrie and choreographed by Tadashi Endo, Göttingen National Theatre Germany and Edinburgh Festival
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2008
Ketsui, Ten-Pen-Chii, Dok11, Berlin, Germany
Istanbul Art Fair, curated by Denizhan Ozer, Turkey
Art of Kabuki, Hastings Museum
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2007
Borderline Arts Festival, curated by Denizhan Ozer, Canakkale, Turkey
KIMERA, Mamu Dance Theatre, Göttingen, Germany
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2004-2007
Zarathoustra variations, Europe/UK tour, Ariadone, Bordeaux, France
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2001-2005
TESTLABOR, German tour, Ten-Pen-Chii, Berlin, Germany
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2003-2005
Wicked World within, UK tour, IJAD, ICA, Artsdepot, London
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2004
Portrait, Dance on Screen Festival, The Place, London
Runner, SEKI DANCE PROJECT, Chisenhale Dance Space
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2001-2003
Migration 01, Germany & UK tour, Mamu Dance Theatre, Göttingen, Germany
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2003
Back Pack, Mamu Dance Theatre
R&D, Mamu Dance Theatre, Clore Studio, Royal Opera House, London
A Place to Be, dance & video collaboration, Chisenhale Dance Space, London
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2002
59minutes and 38 seconds, dance & video collaboration, Chisenhale Dance Space
Minus Alpha, Ten-Pen-Chii, Berlin, Germany
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2001
Requisitioned, IJAD, ICA, The Junction & Tramway
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2000
Furious God, choreographed by Tadashi Endo, Göttingen, Germany
Unearthed the Viking Shoppers, Igloo, Jacksons Lane Theatre, London
Messenger Part 1& 2, Gary Rowe company, The Place
The House with no Name, SEKI DANCE PROJECT, Shipwright's Palace, Deptford
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1999
In Light of Other, Gary Rowe Company, The Place & Dance House, Melbourne, Australia
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Funding/Awards/Commissions
2022 Journeys Festival Dance, 18 Hours
2021 Chisenhale Dance Space Summer Residency
2019 ExploreTheArch, The House of Crusoe
2016 Arts Council England & Earl Street Creative Space R&D commission, TORIFUNE training project
2015 Arts Council England, Hastings Borough Council, Leeds City Council, MAJUSAKA
2014 Arts Council England, MANJUSAKA R&D, Gallery Klatovy, Junichiro Ishii solo exhibition
2013 Arts Council England, Japan Society & Hastings Borough Council, HYAKKI YAKOU
2012 The Japan Foundation, Cairo, Artbeat Egypt, Cathryn Kemp, Telling Stories, Hastings,
Hastings Borough Council, Beyond the Circle
2011 Christine Gist, INTERFACE, Belgium, Cathryn Kemp, Telling Stories, Margate
2010 Rebecca Skeleton Fund, VMI Somatic practice, Christine Gist, From A to B, Dover
2009 Arts Council England, Fluid Frontier (dance & puppetry collaboration)
Dancers' Career Development, VMI Somatic practice
2008 Hastings Museum and Art Gallery, Art of Kabuki, Denizahn Ozer, International Art Fair, Istanbul, Turkey, Dancers' Career Development, VMI Somatic practice
2007 Denizahn Ozer, Borderline, Turkey
2004 Chisenhale Dance Space, London, Runner
2003 Chisenhale Dance Space, A Place to Be (dance & video collaboration)
2002 Chisenhale Dance Space, 59 minutes and 38 seconds (dance & video collaboration)
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Qualification
2008-2012
VMI (Voice Movement Integration) Somatic Practice Certification Programme with Patricia Bardi, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Qualified in Somatic movement educator and therapist in 2012
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2004-2005
The Community Dance Practitioner, London Open College Network