KAORUCO PROFILE ( English )

 

Choreographer　/　Performance Artist

Artistic and Creative director of “ ApicupiA”

 

C/O Office Lou

5-29-12,#301,Daizawa,Setagaya,-ku,Tokyo,JAPAN 155-0032,

Phone:+81-(0)3-3413-4139, email: anzai@lou.co.jp

Official web site:  http://www.kaoruco.net

 

<MAJOR WORKS>

“Apiture” Directed and performed useing her improvisation method.(2011〜2013)

“Api-lucky” Directed and performed, integrating both the challenged with professionals using her improvisation method.(2010〜2013)

“Karada Labo Dance School” Established this dance school welcoming the physically or mentally challenged as students.

Original performances produced, choreographed and starred in integrating both the challenged and professional.(1996〜2013)

“UN WOMEN (United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women) Sakura” Tohoku earthquake support event  (2012)

“University of Tokyo Dance Workshop” Created and taught as a guest lecturer. (2010, 2011 , 2012)

“Garden Company Chiffon Cake” choreographed television commercial in China that was

the first Japanese choreography widely used in Chinese marketing. (2011)

“The Japan Festival” choreographed and starred in Hungary. (2004)

“The Super Charity live for UNESCO” Supervised and starred. (2002)

“Shinla” Choreographed and starred “Shinla” tour included London, Tokyo and Osaka. “Shinla” received rave reviews from critics at Edinburgh festival in Scotland. (2002)

“NAGANO Paralympic Opening Ceremony” choreographed and appeared in. (1998)

“Barrier Free Disco party” Produced, choreographed and starred in club event, where 1000 people including the challenged participated. (1996)

“Tottemo Ghost” and “Change” choreographed musical productions. (1992〜1993) both of which received the Arts Festival Prize from The Ministry of Culturel Affairs. (1992〜1993)

Choreographed for singers such as WINK, BBQueens, and MIKE. They won Japan Record Awards three years in a row. (1987)

 

 

<AWARDS>

Avon Art Prize (Avon Women’s Award) by the Avon Company based in the U.S.A (This award is given to women who have contributed to society). (2000)

Invitation magazine “Best Television Commercial Choreography in Asia” (2007)

ACC(All Japan Radio & Television Commercial Confederation) Commercial Festival Award Gold Prize-TV commercial “JRA” for Japan Horse Race Association. (2000)

 

<OTHER CHOREOGRAPHY AND PERFORMANCES>

“East Asian Games Opening Ceremony” at Osaka Dome Produced and performed. (2001)

“Lavela-az” series, Produced, choreographed and starred. Singaporean artist Nagih Ali and

many other well-known artists collaborated in these events. (1994〜1996)

“U-17 Soccer World Championship Opening Ceremony” at Tokyo National Stadium choreographed. (1993)

 

<FILMS AND TV PROGRAMS>

“Kokuhaku” Winner of Japan Academy Awards Best Picture, directed by Tetsuya Nakajima- choreographed dance scenes (2010)

“20 Seiki Shonen” directed by Yukihiko Tsutumi (2009)

“Hakuchi” Winner of the Primo Future Film Festival Digital Award in Venice directed by Makoto Tezuka- Directed and choreographed dance scenes (1999)

“Asia Bagus” Choreographed opening of a TV audition program for Asian artists.Broadcast in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, China, and Japan. Appered on the program as a dance judge (1993)

 

<BOOKS>

“Hu-Ha!” NHK publisher (2001)

“Dance Communication” Iwanami publisher (2005)

“No to kokoro to karada ga kawaru shunkandou workshop ” Kouryo-sha publisher (2012)

 

 

<SINGING>

Recorded two albums,  “Sollan X” and “Sollan Ballad”, in Germany.(2004)

 

 

<BIOGRAPHY>

Kaoruco is a performance artist who performs using original ways of improvisation.

She has been organizing workshops, welcoming the mentally and physically challenged since 1996.

She has also choreographed a large number of high profile TV commercials, films and movies in Japan.

All of her works are based on her original improvisation method “Nature Vibration”.

 

Eager to communicate with the bed-ridden, it occurred to her that we might be able to communicate with vibration of voice through our bodies. She started to explore nature and tried to resonate with waterfalls, rivers etc, using her voice surrounded by nature, She feels unique vibrations and sounds from every single thing (flowers, birds, insects, rocks and water etc.). Each things has different vibration and amazingly harmonizes with each other.

She transformed the sense of vibrations to mimic words and movements. This led to her creating “Nature Vibration”. She organized what she practiced and used feedback from, nature in a method in which anyone can maximize their potential to realize their own individuality.

 

In “Shinla” her style was linked to the flow of nature. Her biggest inspiration as an artist has been a desire to create new forms of Japanese beauty. In 2004, She was invited by Tomas Nagy to record 2 albums, “Solan Ballade” , “Solan X” in Germany. These albums were based on a Japanese traditional folk song updated in a modern style. Thomas Nagy produced the Japan Festival in Hungary for her, in which she choreographed and started in “Kaguya Hime”.

 

In 2010, she started to create a new style of performance using her improvisation method “Nature Vibration”. Her first piece using “Nature Vibration” was “Api-lucky” which was a performance combining the general public and the challenged, together with professional artists. A characteristic of “Nature Vibration” is changing space with motion and voice which was displayed in “Apiture” performed by “ApicupiA” a group of professional artists formed by her. By going beyond the barrier of age, disability, title, race and others, she hopes “ApicupiA” will create a new dimension where the leaders of the future can evolve from. In 2012, she produced “Lou-Festival” where anyone could improvise using “Nature Vibration”. It was based on her workshops given at her studio where the cheap price of 500 yen encourages anyone to participate and come to see. She encourages and allows people to experience opening their body and mind, discovering a side of themselves previously unknown. This technic was adopted for use in teaching at the University of Tokyo in 2011.

 

A member of “ApicupiA” , YUKO NAKANO who is a doctoral course student of the University of Tokyo, published the educational effect of “Nature Vibration” in the Journal of Japanese Society of Dance Research, and also gave presentations at various international conferences such as the Japan Cognitive Science Society conference in 2011,2012, Brain Inspired Computing conference in 2012.

Together with her group, “ApicupiA”, she will continue exploring space and vibration in order to enhance communication with and between all people and our planet.