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2x2 WindowS

The project “2x2 Windows” is a collaboration between Vietnamese multimedia composer Tam Thi Pham, Japanese dancer Minori Sumiyoshiyama. It is an improvised networked music and dance performance project.

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During the Covid-19 pandemic our mobility is limited and it’s difficult to meet each other. We all suffer this lack of freedom, so people have experimented with many different modi of online-performances. Are these online-performances just makeshift-substitutes for the real-life events? Or, will the necessities of our "new normal" survive and give rise to more diverse and advanced online-performances?


For artists like us, who live in different areas, online collaboration frees us from geographical constraints. We have been testing different approaches since May this year, overcoming the time difference between Hamburg and Yokohama and technical issues with video and audio streamings. Our experiment in creating a new online platform is still in progress, but from the end of August 2020, we would like to open the creative process and share our experiences and our journey through this digital world with you - our audience.

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"Good improvisation is about listening reacting in the moment, creating and supporting the idea of others"

- Tom Yorton - 

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In- (2021)

Video composition

The piece is a commission for “Misch Masch festival” - a dance festival focused on the multicultural society of NPO DANCE BOX in Japan. “In-” explores various modi of perception and can be watched, but not listened to, listened but not watched, or both listened and watched - the imagination, however, is always present. This creates an area of equality between the members of the audience, as the piece speaks to all. The YouTube version, due to the constraints of the medium, offers 3 different instructions. In the installation setting we would prefer to keep it more open, and allow the audience to follow or ignore our instructions. These are:


  1. Close your eyes, imagine a dance inspired by the music.

  2. Close your ears, imagine the music inspired by the video

  3. Dance, inspired by what you see or hear. 

The piece has two version: 

version 01 was show in the NPO DANCE BOX

versio 02 was show in the "Indonesian Dance festival" (IDF) with the participate of a dancer Ela Mutiara

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【MMF】2月17日|視るダンス① ※副音声ありversion
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NPO法人 DANCE BOX

【MMF】2月17日|視るダンス① ※副音声ありversion

今後の活動の参考にさせて頂きたく、アンケートにご協力くださいますようお願いします。 https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd3M9zdvfwuCF8jX2oEOQS6A7R2P4FrJ58k8ezhmh1BBwQ1ow/viewform 視るダンス① ー大谷燠のお茶の間トーク付きー 10分間のダンス3本仕立て。舞台で上演されたダンス作品と、ダンス・アーティストが制作したダンス映像作品を配信します。これもダンス? あれもダンス!ダンスって何だ!? 10分の作品のなかに、身体や、風景・モノから立ち上がる「ダンスなる瞬間」が散りばめられています。今回、DANCE BOX初めての試みとして副音声をつけ、新たなダンスの楽しみ方の開発を試みます。 新企画「耳からダンス」、画面の向こうの皆さまもご一緒に踊りましょう! 音声(音楽や声)だけによる「振付」を配信します。自由気ままに解釈しながら、密かにLet’s Dance !! 4回目は、愛媛よりyummydanceの振付です。 概要 ■視るダンス①【副音声】 作品発表:松本鈴香(舞台作品)、武内浩一(舞台作品)、住吉山実里+タム・ファム(映像作品) お茶の間トーク:パクウォン(遊合芸能チングドゥル)、大谷燠 お茶の間MC:ミッシュマッシュムッシュ高橋、趙恵美 ■耳からダンス 振付:yummydance 配信日時:2021年2月17日(水)21:00~22:00 特設サイト 視るダンス① https://note.com/mischmaschfes/n/nca35257ea1a5 耳からダンス https://note.com/mischmaschfes/n/nd4c9bb027c4a 文化庁委託事業「令和2年度障害者による文化芸術活動推進事業(文化芸術による共生社会の推進を含む)」 主催 : 文化庁、NPO法人 DANCE BOX 助成:神戸市(視るダンスのみ) 企画制作:NPO法人 DANCE BOX
Indonesian Dance Festival - Layar Terkembang Tubuh Virtual series (Part-1)
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Indonesian Dance Festival - Layar Terkembang Tubuh Virtual series (Part-1)

December 18, 2021 - 19:00 WIB “I-Ruang” by Abib Igal (Sampit, Kalimantan Tengah, Indonesia) “Paradox : The Nebulous (part 1)” by Maharani Pane (Jakarta, Indonesia) “in-” by Minori Sumiyoshiyama (Yokohama, Kyoto, Japan) Synopsis “I-Ruang” oleh Abib Igal “Iruang” in ritual reality is a sacred place where ritual activities occur. The “iruang” is attached to the body of a Wadian --a healer in the Dayak Ma'anyan tribal community in Central Kalimantan-- which they carry with them when performing rituals at the house of the person they are healing. In this work, the concept of flexibility of the “iruang” is interpreted through the phenomenon of migration of analog bodies to virtual space. “Paradox : The Nebulous (part 1)” by Maharani Pane “Paradox: The Nebulous (part 1)” departs from the idea of dream ​​research and its relation to the conscious body and the unconscious body. In consciousness, the body is a container for receiving all various feelings created from every phenomenon, and the brain is manipulated to cover things that are deemed to be threatening. There are boundaries and outlines between the dream space and the reality space, as well as the virtual world, whatever happens in the virtual space is always related to the reality space. “in-” by Minori Sumiyoshiyama The title “in-” is inspired by the English prefix “in-” and the Japanese word "陰 (in) = darkness / shade / shadow". "陰 (in)" was feared and admired by the people, and was the source of imagination. Nowadays we can easily take photos and movies with our smartphones, therefore our souls, bodies, and identities have been fragmented, wandering around the Internet clouds. These phenomena unique to the digital society are shaking the human condition. Our work “in-” was created with a focus on such phenomena. About Layar Terkembang 2021 - Virtual Bodies series Layar Terkembang 2021 the Virtual Bodies series explores various ideas that mark the shaded area between offline or IRL (In Real Live) and online experiences in relation to the body, identity, medium, and mediation through a choreographic perspective. We invited 5 choreographers whose arts practices are deeply connected to social media and are actively representing themselves virtually. Thus, the media experience will be criticized and reinterpreted through the process of creating choreography. About Indonesian Dance Festival The Indonesian Dance Festival (IDF) is an international biennial contemporary dance festival that has been consistently held since 1992. The festival was founded by Jakarta’s dance artists and maestros to fill the void of a platform for contemporary dance, and the year 2022 will mark the IDF's 30th year of its journey. IDF has presented world-class performances from home and abroad, which includes more than 250 main & premiere performances, 35 commission & re-construction work specially produced for IDF. The festival is one of the few internationally recognized contemporary dance festivals in Asia. Since 2020, IDF has been under the auspices of the Loka Tari Nusantara Foundation, a foundation engaged in the development of the Indonesian performing arts ecosystem. This program is presented by Indonesian Dance Festival, co-organized by The Japan Foundation, Jakarta, and sponsored by the Indonesian Ministry of Education, Culture, Research and Technology.
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Networked music and dance performance

this a series networked music and dance performance based on improvisation. Each vollum had 2 events: live streaming and streaming (edited version) after the live stream one the week. We often found the idea from during our discussion about art and story about around us. 

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Vol 01 - Near and Far

The piece is Vol 01 in the networked improvisation between music and dance of 2x2WindowS. 
It is a streaming version one week after the the live streaming performance.

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Vol 02 - Far away, far away, over the heaving billows.

(reprise) 

“Far away, far away, over the heaving billows” is the networked improvisation between music and dance of 2x2WindowS. 
(“far hen! far hen over de svulmende vande!”- Hans Christian Andersen “Billedbog uden Billeder” -)
A dying nightingale sang like this for emigrant peasants in a heath.
Was it despair or hope?
Like emigrants crossing the ocean and seeking new lands, we embark on this online ocean.
Our new challenge begins now!

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