<aside> 🍃 Born in 1992 in Osaka, Nanako Matsumoto is a dance artist who works with performance and language- separately and in various combinations. She is interested in dance as a critique of the body. Her interdisciplinary practice also includes writings and public action. She has been focused on the creation of dance works as a performance unit “team chiipro”. One of the characteristics of their works is the use of text based on meticulous research. In writing texts and making performances, Nanako deals with the intersection of the historical, societal, anthropological, and geographical contexts as well as her physical sensations and memories with her own body. Recent years, she seeks for "yokai-body" a state of transformation and transition（化け） achieved by layering multiple images onto the body. She is a Saison Foundation ‘Saison Fellow I’ from 2023-2024.

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Stage Works

• “nanako by nanako” (2024)
• “6steps” (presented at YPAM 2023 Fringe, 2023)
• “Menstruation Sumo Dance” (presented at KYOTO EXPERIMENT 2022, 2022)
• “Kyoto Imaginary Waltz” (presented at KYOTO EXPERIMENT 2021AUTUMN, 2021 and YPAM Fringe 2022)
• “Kokyo Runningman” (presented at LABO 20#22, 2020)

Activities

• ”NewDance Technologies” （project with Keisuke Sakurai and Kengo nishimoto, initiated 2024）
• ”Boogie-Woogie・S” （initiated at YAU Artist invitation program 2023）
• Kota Yamazaki “triangle project” Tokyo, 2023. （performer, collaborator）
• BeiC “How to dance the earth” Tokyo, 2021-. (coordination of children’s workshops with international students）
• Saison Foundation Online Research Residency 2021-2022, 2021-2022.（residency）
• “Yokohama” provided for Haruka Wakuta‘s performance and is included in Haruka Wakuta ‘s poetry book, 2021.（written text）

Grants

• Saison Foundation FellowⅠ2023-2024.