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Mar. 9, 2021

“Yokohama Dance Collection 2021” Competition Winners Decided

Yokohama Dance Collection 2021, is a dance platform in Asia dedicated to promoting choreographers of the next generation and the spread of contemporary dance in general. For this year’s competition some 121 applications were received from 12 countries and regions, and following the first stage of judging based on video recordings of performances and written applications, 22 finalists from 4 countries were chosen for the performance judging that were held from February 4 to 7, 2021. As a countermeasure for the continuing COVID-19 pandemic, the overseas finalists participated through video recordings of their performances.

In Competition I, the winner of both the Jury Prize and Kinosaki International Arts Center (KIAC) Prize was “PHANTOM MOCKUMENT” by Moto Takahashi, the leader of MWMW (mowee-mowee) and also performs as a member of the group Tokyo Electrock Stairs lead by KENTARO!!. The winner of the French Embassy Prize for Young Choreographer is Shibata Miwa, who since graduating from the Nihon University College of Art is a member of the dance company KUKI. The winner of the studioARCHITANZ Artist Support Prize was the story dance duo “nouses.” And the winner of the Encouragement Prize is Ida Asami, who has been active with the dance company MARIA KONG of Israel. With these results, again this year the competition brought a diverse spectrum of performances by dancers coming from a range of careers and physicality befitting the ideals of this contemporary dance platform. Also, the Outstanding New Artist Prize of Competition II (New Choreographer Division) went to “I’m not a liar.” By Onaya Rion, a dancer who has performed in the works of Fabien Prioville and Kenji Noumi among others.

The winners are as below. For details see the Yokohama Dance Collection website:

Competition I

Jury Prize; Kinosaki International Arts Center (KIAC) Prize:
Takahashi Moto for “PHANTOM MOCKUMENT”
French Embassy Prize for Young Choreographer:
Shibata Miwa for “Oblivion”
studioARCHITANZ Artist Support Prize:
nouses for “nous”
Encouragement Prize:
Ida Asami for “species”

*Applicants: 83 from 12 countries / Finalists: 10 from four countries performing works of up to 20 min.
[Competition I Jury]
Okami Sae (Dance Critic, Associate Professor of Kyoritsu Women’s University)
Kitamura Akiko (Choreographer, Dancer, Associate Professor of Shinshu University)
Kondo Ryohei (Director of CONDORS, Choreographer, Dancer)
Tada Junnosuke (Artistic Director of TOKYO DEATHLOCK)
Hamano Fumio (Senior Editor, Shinshokan Dance Magazine)
Samson Sylvain (Cultural attaché of the French Embassy)
Xavier Person (Director of the French Institute of Japan-Yokohama)
Aymar Crosnier (Director of Studio Olivier Saillard, Artistic advisor)

Competition II – New Choreographer Division

Outstanding New Artist Prize
Onaya Rion for “I’m not a liar.”
studioARCHITANZ Artist Support Prize
Kobayashi Moe for “ON AIR”
Encouragement Prize
Takeuchi Haruka for “AM0:01”
Shimada Mikihiro for “tangle”
Best Dancer Prize
Murakami Ikuma for “Unbirth”

*Applicants: 38 / Finalists: 12 performing works of up to 10 min.
[Competition II Jury]
Ito Chieko (Choreographer, Director, Dancer)
Kato Yumina (Director, Steep Slope Studio)
Vivienne Sato (Artist)
Hamano Fumio (Senior Editor, Shinshokan Dance Magazine)

Yokohama Dance Collection
http://yokohama-dance-collection.jp/en/