Manipulation and Delay
Japanese Marionette

In Asia, we have a lot of thoughts about the "Invisible Energy". There are certain energy and threads between people, even without touching. In this workshop, we will experience "Manipulation and Delay“ of the movement. This is based on the idea of Japanese Marionette (Bunraku) and we will develop this into manipulating each other without contact or delve into contact dance without touching each other.

Using this experience, we will compose personal choreography based on certain situations in our daily life, connected to our own experiences and to our way to look at our society.

There will be phrases of movements which allow to be aware of these techniques and to show individuality at the same time. Then we will add some sensuality and animality to personalise each movement.



Modern Technique
How to be strong on a stage

From my experience as a dancer and co-creator with well known dance companies such as Ballet Preljocaj, Philippe Découflé, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Alain Platel, I developed my own technical class to enforce how we can be strong on a stage.
First we will do some exercises based on Yoga to feel your feet on the floor and to ground ourselves. Then we will work on body lines inspired by Merce Cunningham technique to feel your centre.

Then we will continue with exercises to improve the awareness of sharing space with other people, as well as to understand of the specific counts and directions.
Mostly, we are not alone on stage and it is highly required to have good ears and eyes, to feel and listen to each other and to be altogether.



Kaori Ito
Born in 1979, Kaori Ito has studied Classical Ballet under Takagi Syuntoku since she was five years old in Tokyo. At the age of eighteen, she started her profession as a dancer and choreographer and was awarded by Ryouiti Enomoto "best young dancer and choreographer performing a solo" at the ST spot, Yokohama in 1998.
Upon studying at Purchase College, State University of New York, she learned Graham, Cunningham, Limon, and Horton techniques. In 2002, she received a Yokohama Cultural Foundation Award for choreographing and performing a solo in "Yokohama Dance Collection".
In 2004, she received a "National Conference Award" for the choreography and performance of a duet in "Rencontres choregraphiques internationales de Seine-Saint-Deni" (France) and a scholarship from the Japanese Government Overseas Programme for Artists and went to New York to study at the Alvin Ailey Dance Theater.
During her stay in New York, she has choreographed and danced at Joyce Soho Presents, and had a residency at Queens Museum of Art.
Between 2003 and 2005, she danced a main role for Philippe Découflé "IRIS". In 2005, she joined the Ballet Preljocaj (CCN de Aix-en-Provence) with Angelin Preljocaj for 4 seasons. In 2006, she worked with James Thiérrée (The grand son of Chalie Chaplin) for "Good Bye Umbrella" and with Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui as his assistant for the film "Le bruit des gens autour" with Lea Drucker and choreographed for Clemence Poesy (Harry Potter) for the future film "Sans Moi", directed by Olivier Panchot and showed her film work at Centre Pompidou, film festivals in the US and Spain.
In 2008, she started her own production "Noctiluque". In 2009, she was a sololist in "The house of sleeping beauty" by Guy Cassiers with Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui. In the same year, she presented "SOLOS" at National Theater of Marseille and in Japan, "Island of no memories" and receive the 1st prize for "(Re)connaissance" at the national competition for the choreographers. She is now engaged in Alain Platel's Ballets C. de la B. for "Out of Context". She was chosen as one of the artist from the programme EDN (European Dance Network) to create her own works.
In 2011, she is working with Denis Podalydes on "Cas de Jackyll" acting Mister Hyde and collaborates with Aurélien Bory to create her solo work.