Sakiko Oshima
Sakiko Oshima
Sakiko Oshima is a director and choreographer. In 1989 she formed the dance company H. Art Chaos with dancer Naoko Shirakawa. A unique aesthetic sensibility and philosophy has helped make it one of Japan’s top companies, highly acclaimed both at home and abroad. Oshima’s work has included grand-scale productions such as the Rite of Spring with a 100-person orchestra and a production of Carmina Brana with orchestra, chorus and opera singers. With numerous invitations from overseas arts festivals, Oshima has presented works in many cities in Japan and abroad. On her company’s second North American tour in 2000, following their first in 1997, the New York Times chose their performance for its “Dance of the Year” award, and in 2002 she was awarded the Asahi Performing Arts Award. These are just some of the international and domestic awards to her credit. In June of 2003 Oshima directed and choreographed a production (danced by Shirakawa) with the Singapore ballet company Singapore Dance Theatre (SDT). In 2004 the production toured Stravinsky’s birthplace, St. Petersburg, Moscow, Helsinki and Warsaw. In September of this year she premiered a new work Whose Voice Cries Out? with SDT. In February of 2007 she will direct the opera Daphne produced by Tokyo Nikikai.