<aside> 🍃 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 "妖怪body" a state of transformation and transition（化け） achieved by layering multiple images onto the body. Through the concept of "Yokai Body," she attempts to explore the obscene and transformative nature of the body and dance, while redefining the “woman's body”.

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Stage Works

• “Sticky hands, Stitched mountains” (presented at KYOTO EXPERIMENT 2024) ※ collaboration with Anchi Lin (Ciwas Tahos) and Nanako Matsumoto
• ”NewDance Technologies” （project with Keisuke Sakurai and Kengo nishimoto, initiated 2024）
• “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, HOTPOT 2024)
• “Kokyo Runningman” (presented at LABO 20#22, 2020)

Performance

• Kota Yamazaki “triangle project” Tokyo, 2023. （performer, collaborator）

Residency

• ADAM Artist Lab 2023, 2023 Aug.
• Saison Foundation Online Research Residency 2021-2022, 2021-2022.

Workshops