Shintaro Oue

Shintaro Oue

Since his nationwide “Dan-su” tour with Mirai Moriyama and Shintaro Hirahara, growing attention in Japan’s dance world has come to focus on Shintaro Oue (born 1975), a choreographer and dancer who switched to contemporary dance from a background in ballet. After winning a prize in the Prix de Lausanne, a contest known as a proving ground for young ballet dancers, Oue continued his dance career with success at the Hamburg Ballet Company (Germany), the Netherlands Dance Theatre (NDT) and the Cullberg Ballet (Sweden), after which he was active as a freelance dance artist based in Sweden. In 2008, Oue created the unit C/Ompany in Japan together with Masahiro Yanagimoto and Shintaro Hirahara, from which he began full-fledged creative activities in Japan. Also, in recent years Oue has participated in the creations of such famed overseas directors and choreographers as Jiri Kylian, Mats Ek, Inbal Pinto and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui.