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■JCDN History
◆ Independent Projects
■ Coordinated Joint Projects
● Seminars and Symposiums
May 1998 - March 2001
The founding of JCDN was made possible by a three-year Creative Environment
Improvement grant from The Saison Foundation Grant Program. JCDN’s process
of development at that time consisted of various activities including researching
contemporary dance scenes around Japan, opening the JCDN website and coordinating
dance workshops and showcase events. The first JCDN conference was held
with 120 dance-related professionals from around Japan, and We're Gonna
Go Dancing!!, a dance tour project of performance spaces nationwide, was
started with a tour to Sapporo, Tokyo, Yokohama and Osaka.
Year 2001
| February |
■ Dance Workshop organized for the Performing Arts Fair for The Association of Public Theaters and Halls in Japan.
■ Sendai Dance Forum 2001 organized for Sendai Cultural Foundation. |
| March |
◆ Symposium and conference held at Morishita Studio in Tokyo to announce the official start of JCDN activities.
◆ First edition of the JCDN Membership Dance File published, featuring
information on dance artists, companies, workshop and performance spaces,
producers, critics and foundations from all over Japan. |
| April |
◆ Japan Contemporary Dance Network operations officially started. |
| July |
◆ JCDN officially recognized as a nonprofit organization by Kyoto Prefectural Government.
◆ JCDN Dance Reserve online event reservation service started. |
| August |
● The Possibility of Dance, a JCDN seminar, held at Performing Arts Messe 2001 in Osaka.
■ Dance Generate Fukuoka 2001, a long-term dance workshop and final showing
led by Kosi Hidama, organized for Fukuoka City Foundation for Arts and
Cultural Promotion and the City of Fukuoka. |
| October |
■ Dance Workshop organized for Sendai Cultural Foundation. |
| October - December |
◆ We're Gonna Go Dancing!! （vol. 2） toured to Sapporo, Toyama, Maebashi,
Tokyo, Yokohama, Nagoya, Osaka and Fukuoka. |
| December |
◆ We're Gonna Go Dancing!! Year-end Celebration held at Asahi Square A in Tokyo. |
Year 2002
| January - February |
■ “Dance no Mirai” （The Future of Dance） - a special performance event in Alti Buyoh Festival 2002 - co-planned by JCDN for Kyoto Prefectural Citizen's Hall （ALTI）.
◆ “Heya de Eiga wo Miruyoni, Dance wo Miyo” （Let's Watch Dance the
Way You Watch Movies in Your Room）, a JCDN-proposed project, selected
as a content-development project for supporting creators through the sponsorship
of the Digital Content Association of Japan. A dance DVD was produced and
preparations made for sale to the general public.
● Presenter at Adelaide Arts Market in Australia. |
| March |
■ Dance Workshop organized for Sendai Cultural Foundation.
◆ First U.S. - Japan Choreographers Exchange Residency Project held in
New York and Philadelphia, a collaborative project between JCDN, Dance
Theater Workshop （DTW） and Japan Society in New York City and the Painted
Bride Art Center in Philadelphia. |
| May |
◆ First U.S. - Japan Choreographers Exchange Residency Project held in
Kyoto. |
| June - July |
◆ Audition and Dance Discussion events for We're Gonna Go Dancing!! （vol. 3） held in Toyama, Matsuyama, Sapporo, Maebashi and Fukuoka. |
| August |
◆ The Asian Next Wave: Kyoto Residency Creative Project organized with dancers from Japan, Hong Kong and Indonesia as a part of JADE 2002.
◆ Second edition of the JCDN Membership Dance File published in both Japanese and English.
● To Enrich the Environment for Dance, a JCDN seminar, held at Performing Arts Messe 2002 in Osaka.
● Conference for the Planning and Realization of a Supportive Dance Environment, a JCDN symposium, held at Tokyo Performing Arts Market 2002. |
| October |
■ Study of Live Works BANETO Dance + Video Workshop organized for Sendai Cultural Foundation. |
| October - December |
◆ We're Gonna Go Dancing!! （vol. 3） toured to Sapporo, Sendai, Maebashi, Toyama, Tokyo, Yokohama, Nagoya, Osaka, Hiroshima, Matsuyama, Fukuoka and Okinawa. |
Year 2003
| January - February |
■ Dance Generate Fukuoka 2002: Ryohei Kondo and Condors Residency Workshop organized for Fukuoka City Foundation for Arts and Cultural Promotion and the City of Fukuoka. |
| February |
■ Kim Itoh + the Glorious Future - workshop and performance organized for Sendai Cultural Foundation.
● Understanding Dance and Its Enchantment by Your Own Body, a dance workshop and demonstration held at the Performing Arts Fair Art Management Seminar 2003, sponsored by The Association of Public Theaters and Halls in Japan.
■ To Know the Body, To Play with the Body, a dance workshop with Shigemi Kitamura, organized for NPO Fukui Art and Culture Forum. |
| June |
◆ The JCDN Dance Forum held at The Saison Foundation’s Morishita Studio. |
| June - July |
◆ Audition and Dance Discussion events for We're Gonna Go Dancing!! （vol. 4） held in Sapporo, Sendai, Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka, Okayama, Hiroshima, Matsuyama and Fukuoka. |
| July |
■ Body Expression Workshop organized for Toyama Kenmin Shogekijo （Toyama
Prefecture Civic Theater）. |
| July - October |
● Extremely Practical! Emerging Creators Art Management Seminar, planned
cooperatively and sponsored by Fukuoka City Foundation for Arts and Cultural
Promotion and the City of Fukuoka. |
| August |
● The Potential of Dance Workshops, a JCDN seminar, held at the Performing Arts Messe 2003 in Osaka.
● Art Management Seminar by The Association of Public Theaters and Halls in Japan at BLOCH Theater in Hokkaido, sponsored by the Agency for Cultural Affairs and The Association of Public Theaters and Halls in Japan, and supervised by the Hokkaido Association of Theaters and Halls and the Hokkaido Foundation for Cultural Activities. |
| August - September |
■ And the Dance is Born, a contemporary dance workshop, organized for
the City of Sendai. |
| September |
◆ Third edition of the JCDN Membership Dance File published as a Japanese/English
CD-ROM. |
| October - December |
◆ We're Gonna Go Dancing!! （vol. 4） toured to Sapporo, Sendai, Niigata, Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka, Okayama, Hiroshima, Matsuyama, Fukuoka and Okinawa. |
Year 2004
| January |
◆ JCDN International Creative Residency Project held in Kyoto and Tokyo. |
| January - March |
■ Dance Generate Fukuoka 2003: Contemporary Dance Workshops with Jareo Osamu + Terada Misako, Shigemi Kitamura, Setsuko Yamada and Keisuke Sakurai, organized for Fukuoka City Foundation for Arts and Cultural Promotion and the City of Fukuoka. |
| February |
■ ‘Dance no Mirai’ （The Future of Dance） Vol. 2 - Musical Edition, a special performance event in Alti Buyoh Festival 2004 - co-planned and co-produced by JCDN for Kyoto Prefectural Citizen's Hall （ALTI）.
■ To Know the Body, To Play with the Body, a dance workshop with Shigemi Kitamura, organized for NPO Fukui Art and Culture Forum.
● Dance workshop and demonstration held at the Performing Arts Fair Art Management Seminar 2004, sponsored by The Association of Public Theaters and Halls in Japan. |
| March |
■ Video production of Enter the Enchantment of Contemporary Dance! - Preparations
for the Performance and Workshop （produced and presented by The Association
of Public Theaters and Halls in Japan and the Agency for Cultural Affairs
Art Information Plaza Project, compiled by Makoto Urawa）. |
| April - May |
◆ Dance Play - Creation - Exploration - Showing, a workshop and showing series featuring Liz Lerman Dance Exchange and PearsonWidrig DanceTheater, co-sponsored with the Kyoto Art Center Residence Support Program. |
| June |
◆ Audition and Dance Discussion events for We're Gonna Go Dancing!! （vol. 5） held in Sapporo, Tokyo, Maebashi, Nagakute, Osaka, Okayama, Hiroshima, Matsuyama and Fukuoka. |
| July |
◆ Japanese version of fourth edition of JCDN Membership Dance File published. |
| October - December 2004 and March 2005 |
◆ We're Gonna Go Dancing!! （vol. 5） toured to Sapporo, Maebashi, Tokyo,
Niigata, Kanazawa, Nagakute, Ritto, Osaka, Okayama, Hiroshima, Matsuyama,
Fukuoka, Sasebo and Okinawa. |
| November |
◆ English version of fourth edition of JCDN Membership Dance File published. |
| December |
◆ “Heya de Eiga wo Miruyoni, Dance wo Miyo”(Let’s Watch dance the Way You Watch Movies in Your Room) released. |
Year 2005
| January-February |
■ "Dance Generate 2004 Fukuoka - contemporary dance workshop"
(instructor: Mika Kurosawa, Ko Murobushi, Kota Yamasaki, & Keisuke
Sakurai), organized for Fukuoka City Foundation for Arts and Cultural Promotion
and the City of Fukuoka. |
| January-March |
◆ Second U.S. -Japan Choreographers Exchange Residency Project held in
Boston, Philadelphia, New York, Kyoto and Matsuyama. This project was a
collaboration between JCDN and Dance Theater Workshop (DTW) and Japan Society
(both in New York City), the Philadelphia Dance Project (Philadelphia),
MASS MoCA (Boston) and the U.S.-Japan Dance Project in Matsuyama executive
committee (Matsuyama). |
| February |
◆ Second JCDN Dance Forum held at Kyoto Art Center.
◆ Norikazu Sato is commissioned as the coordinator for Stage Lab Kyoto Session (the independent project planning and implementation course for dance), sponsored by Japan Foundation for Regional Art-Activities. |
| March |
■ To Know the Body, To Play with the Body, a dance workshop with Jareo Osamu + Misako Terada, organized for NPO Fukui Art and Culture Forum.
◆ Special edition of We’re Gonna Go Dancing!! (vol.5) held in Tokyo.
■ "Contemporary Dance Workshop," organized for Shizuoka City Cultural Promotion Foundation. |
| May 2005-March 2007 |
■ Norikazu Sato is commissioned as one of the coordinators for Public Hall Contemporary Dance Vitalization Program sponsored by Japan Foundation for Regional Art-Activities. |
| June |
◆ Audition and Dance Discussion events for We’re Gonna Go Dancing!! (vol.6)
held in Sapporo, Sendai, Kanazawa, Ritto, Hiroshima, Yamaguchi and Fukuoka. |
| July |
■Artist Coordination for Contemporary Dance Section at "Korea Japan Friendship in Dance 2005 (Korea)."
◆ Dance × Music !, the new attempt for project for choreographers and musicians Project, held in Tokyo as part of Asahi Art Festival 2005. |
| August |
●Ritsuko Mizuno did a research as an API senior fellow of The Nippon Foundation on "Creating an Asian Dance Network," for one month in Indonesia and one month in Malaysia and Thailand. |
| August, October, March 2006 |
■ "Dance Wave Fukuoka `05," organized for Fukuoka City Foundation for Arts and Cultural Promotion. |
| September |
Symposium on "Dream About the Future of the Community" in " Tokyo Performing Arts Market 2005 " ?to create a vision for the future of community through dance, referring the history and current issues of British Community Dance ?collaborated with British Council. |
| October-December |
◆We’re Gonna Go Dancing!! (vol.6) toured to Sapporo, Hirosaki, Sendai, Maebashi, Niigata, Kanazawa, Fukui, Shizuoka, Nagakute, Ritto, Osaka, Hiroshima, Yamaguchi, Matsuyama, Fukuoka, Sasebo and Uruma(Okinawa).
◆ Established JCDN Dance Apartment (movie distribution service) |
| November |
● Norikazu Sato was sent by the Asian Cultural Council (ACC) to Solo,
Indonesia to lead a 5-day workshop to establish dance network, sponsored
by KELOLA. |
YEAR 2006
| January |
◆Fifth edition of JCDN Membership Dance File published as a Japanese /
English DVD. |
| February |
◆ Opening events of Australia - Japan dance Exchange (AJdX)2006 held in Yokohama, with the partnership of Yokohama Dance Collection R.
◆ Special edition of We’re Gonna Go Dancing!! (vol.6) held in Tokyo. |
| March |
■Performance "Compangnie Marie Chouinard" in Osaka and Fukuoka,
sponsored by JADE Executive Committee, Fukuoka City Foundation for Arts
and Cultural Promotion, Fukuoka city and Japan Center for Local Autonomy. |
| May |
◆ Dance×Music! the new attempt for project for choreographers and musicians Project, DVD released.
■ " We’re Gonna Go Dancing!!" and "Dance x Music!" were introduced at Saitama Video Dance 2006. |
| June, August, September |
◆ Audition and Dance Discussion events for We’re Gonna Go Dancing!! (vol.7)
held in Sapporo, Sendai, Niigata, Kanazawa, Chigasaki, Shizuoka, Nagakute,
Osaka (Kansai), Hiroshima, Matsuyama, Yamaguchi, Fukuoka and Okinawa. |
| July, October, March 2007 |
■"Dance Lovers Project 2006" organized for We’re Gonna Go Dancing!! Oita Executive Committee.
・Hiroyuki Miura Workshop "Do you want to try and move? Oita branch"
・Screened "We’re Gonna Go Dancing!! Vol.1."
・Workshop by Jareo Osamu + Terada Misako. |
| August |
■ "Morishita Maki Dance Workshop" organized for Arkas Sasebo.
■ Contemporary Dance Workshop Summer 2006 "Let's Get Adventurous with Our Body," organized for Fukui Art Culture Forum.
■ Workshop and Performance by Jareo Osamu +Terada Misako organized for Tokushima Arts Foundation for Culture. |
| August - November |
◆Australia - Japan dance Exchange（AJdX）2006 held in Kyoto, Osaka, Matsuyama,
Yamaguchi, Kanazawa, Aichi, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Townsville. |
| September |
■"Asia Contemporary Dance Now" as part of Dance Wave Fukuoka,
organized for Fukuoka City Foundation for Arts and Cultural Promotion and
Fukuoka City. Introduced artists from Indonesia (Solo, Bali), Malaysia
and Taiwan. Workshop and showing led by Nyoman Sura. |
| October - December |
◆ "We’re Gonna Go Dancing!! vol.7" toured to Sapporo, Aomori, Sendai, Maebashi, Niigata, Kanazawa, Fukui, Chigasaki, Shizuoka, Nagakute, Ritto, Osaka, Hiroshima, Yamaguchi, Matsuyama, Kochi, Fukuoka, Sasebo, Oita and Okinawa. |
| December |
● Received The Japan Foundation Prizes for Global Citizenship (2006) |
| December-March |
■ Kyoto Dance Production "-from here to the world-", organized
for Kyoto Art Center. |
Year 2007
| January |
◆ Dance × Music ! the new attempt for project for choreographers and
musicians Project vol.2〜" Residency and performance in Yamaguchi
and Kyoto (held at Akiyoshidai International Art Village and Kyoto Art
Center). |
| February |
■ Workshops and performances by Liz Lerman Dance Exchange, organized for Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media, Fukuoka City Foundation for Arts and Cultural Promotion and Kyoto Art Center. |
| March |
◆ Special edition of We’re Gonna Go Dancing!! (vol.7) held in Tokyo.
■ "Dance one forty plus 2007 Tokyo City Ballet meets contemporary dance," organized for Koto Community Foundation／Tiara Koto Performing Arts Center |
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