Featured Artists

Hiroaki Umeda

Choreography

Hiroaki Umeda is a choreographer and a multidisciplinary artist, recognized as one of the leading figures of the Japanese avant-garde art scene. Since the launch of his company S20 in 2000, his subtle yet violent dance pieces have toured around the world to audience and critical acclaim. His highly holistic artistic methodology features strong digital elements that take into account not just physical elements like dance, but also optical, sensorial and, above all, spatiotemporal components as part of the choreography. His decade-long “Superkinesis” project, begun in 2009, explores different kinetic languages born out of the mutual interaction between dancers and their surroundings. The “Somatic Field” project, begun in 2014, builds upon his original Kinetic Force Method, aiming to nurture a new generation of Japanese dancers and multimedia artists through exploration of physical movement.