| Body Arts Laboratory | Tokyo, Japan |
performance scene
This is the third Whenever Wherever Festival (WWFes) which is conducted by Body Arts Laboratory every year. About one hundred people will take part in WWFes2011, and it offers various unique programs, such as 55 educational workshops in 22days, and 30 performance programs proposed by artists.
The WWFes based on the body and artists from dance, art, literature, architecture, fashion and music. They meet and exchange their creativity to make new artistic stream.
Apart from the festival, the Body Arts Laboratory aims to create opportunity to make artists think about their purpose of their activities and techniques, and support their creation process.
Tomomi Adachi、Naoya Aoki、Sayo Akasaka、Kenjiru Bien、Yoshiko Chuma、Toh Enjo、Makoto Enda、Masako Fukaya、Teruko Fujisato、Miki Goan、Mimi Hachikai、Yoji Hanawa、Kohei Hayashi、Yoshikatsu Hayashi、Yoko Higashino、Shintaro Hirahara、Shinji Horie、Chino Igarashi、Sho Ikushima、Yasunori Ikunishi、Nobu Ikeda、Norihito Ishii、Setsuko Ishiguro、Yoko Ishiguro、Chihiro Ishiyama、Seara Ishiyama、Naoko Ishiwata、Kim Ito、Kenko Ito、Saho Ito、JOU、Mariko Kakizaki、Megumi Kamimura、Mitsutake Kasai、Shoko Kashima、Chico Katsube、Miyako Kato、Mako Kawano、Mariko Kawatani、Atsunori Kawamura、Miyuki Kawamura、Akio Kimura、Yoichi Kimuro、Teketeru Kudo、Naoko Kumagai、Noriko Kumagai、Midori Kurata、Momo Kurokawa、Mika Kurosawa、Yamato Kouchi、Miho Konai、Yuichi Konno、Tomoko Maeda、Kazuma Maetakenishi、Kahori Maki、Eri Majima、Yoshinobu Matsuzawa、MILLA、Shiho Minami、naomi mirian、Mieko Miyashita、Hirokazu Morikawa、Maki Morishita、Chie Mukai、Yoko Muto、Erina Nagai、Tadaaki Nagoya、Yusuke Nakanishi、Sawako Nakayasu、Yuki Negishi、Mina Nishimura、Suiso Ogawa、Kenjiro Okazaki、Aoi Omori、Kaoru Omori、Akane Omori、Katsuko Orita、Kotono Sakurai、junkosatoh、Miki Sato、Kohji Setoh、Ippei Shiba、Emi Shibata、Tsuyoshi Shirai、Ippei Shintaku、Shokigata、SKANK、Julie Anne Stanzak、Ikko Suzuki、Kiyotaka Suzuki Keisuke Suzuki、Maki Tabata、Mayu Takagi、Shinichi Takashima、Atsuko Takahashi、Kazco Takemoto、Izumi Tanaka、Wakana Tanoue、Naoki Terada、Katsuyoshi Tsujita、Teruyo Ueno、Naoka Uemura、Ryoko Uno、Miki Wakamatsu、Kumiko Watanabe、Yumi Watanabe、Erina Yamai、Setsuko Yamada、Yuki Yamada、Kota Yamazaki、Maiko Yamazaki、Makoto Yokomizo、Yun Myung Hee
While times change and a definition of performing-arts gets expanded, Body Arts Laboratory was founded in responding to the need for establishing a new type of an art organization with which to improve the future of performing-arts environment in Japan. The organization's mission is not only to support choreographic creation of choreographers or dancers but also to create exchange opportunities between body-based artists from different generations and disciplines. Through these opportunities, BAL encourages artists to explore own responses to critical subjects such as diversified viewpoints on body in performing-arts and a role of performing-artists in contemporary Japanese society.
