Kensaku Shinohara (choreographer/performer)
Born in Sapporo, Japan, Kensaku Shinohara is an immigrant, researcher, and interdisciplinary dance artist. His praxis draws on anthropology, sound exploration, and intimate collaboration, which informs his work as a choreographer, videographer, and performer.
The cultural friction he experienced after immigrating to New York City in 2009 prompted his current research around sexuality, masculinity, rage, boundaries and being an outsider in the places we call home. Through movement, soundscape creation, and play, he investigates the primal forces that move and motivate our lives, while simultaneously challenging social hierarchy, systems of power, and the individual values we each hold true. His work invites and provokes the disruption of the audience’s comfort.
Described as having a sense of “serious urgency” (Jen Norris, Dance Reviews) and being “intense, weirdly angry and dryly hilarious” (Sheldon Smith, ODC Dance Stories), Shinohara’s highly physical, experimental work has been presented at venues such as JACK, Queens Museum, Movement Research at Judson, St. Mark's Church (New York City), François Ghebaly, Japanese Cultural & Community Center (Los Angeles), ODC Theater (San Francisco), Strayhorn Theater (Pittsburgh), Centro de Arte Moderna (Lisbon), Seed Dance (Tainan) as well as venues in Tucson, Milwaukee, Toronto, Kuala Lumpur, and major cities in Japan.
Shinohara has been supported by New York Foundation on the Arts, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Japan Foundation New York, Salzburg Global Forum, 92Y Harkness Dance Center, Queens Arts Fund, among many others. He has taught dance technique at Gibney Dance Center (NY), California Institute of the Arts (CA), Artifact Dance Project (Tucson), Canadian Contemporary Dance Theater (Toronto), PKTB (Malaysia), Architanz (Tokyo) and more.
As a performer, Shinohara has also appeared Off-Broadway in Time's Journey Through a Room (PlayCo) and performed with artists such as Ishmael Houston-Jones, Dimitri Chamblas + Kim Gordon, Daria Faïn, Yoshiko Chuma. He has also appeared in commercial films/events for Calvin Klein and Grand Seiko. He holds a BA in anthropology from International Christian University in Tokyo, and an MFA in choreography from California Institute of the Arts.
篠原憲作
札幌市出身、振付家。アメリカを拠点にセクシャリティ、男性性、バウンダリー、排他性などをテーマに現代の社会問題に切り込む振付作品を制作する。
国際基督教大学（ICU）在籍中、モダンダンスと演劇に出会い作品を作り始め、2009年に渡米。「強烈な切迫感」（Jen Norris）「重く、奇妙なほどに怒りに満ちているが、素っ気ないほどに滑稽」（ODC Dance Story）と評される振付作品はニューヨーク、ロサンゼルス、サンフランシスコなどアメリカ各地、日本、またリスボン、トロント、クアラルンプール、台南など世界各地で発表されている。New York Foundation on the Arts、Foundation for Contemporary Arts、ハークネスダンスセンターフェロー（アメリカ）、国際交流基金（日本）、ザルツブルグ・グローバルフォーラム（オーストリア）など、助成・レジデンスサポートを受賞。
パフォーマーとして岡田利規（チェルフィッチュ）作「部屋に流れる時間の旅」オフブロードウェイ初演、Dimitri Chalmblas + Kim Gordon「take me home」、Daria Faïnの作品に参加、またCalvin KleinやGrand Seikoの広告出演も行っている。
国際基督教大学（ICU）教養学部社会学専攻卒業（文化人類学）
カリフォルニア芸術大学修士課程卒業（振付）学長奨励賞受賞
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