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Founded in 2012 as a performing arts collective of Ayaka Ono & Akira Nakazawa who makes dance, theatre and new mechanisms of performing arts. By integrating the established concepts of the performing arts with new mechanisms of their own research and development, they explore the state of the performing arts in the contemporary world and continue to experiment with creating diverse values. With communication arising from the unique environment and relationships at the root of their creation, they are actively engaged in both continuous collaboration with creation members and collaboration with different artists. Major productions (year of premiere in brackets) include Love Dialogue Now (2017), Green-Collar (2018), Native (2018), Theatre like Theatre but Theatre (2018), Original Landscape (2018), Sharing Behaviour (or Closed Circle) (2019), Words are not enough in Theatre (2019), Physical Catharsis (2019), Atoms are Everything and Everywhere (2019), Modest Difference (with Shuntaro Matsubara) (2019), Uea (with Ryo Ikeda) (2020), Ice and Winter (2020), Alice in Wonderlight (with Shuntaro Matsubara) (2020), Balance: Physical Catharsis (2021), Theatre of Saviour (2021), Theatrical Monument (2021), Futurism / Future is (with Shuntaro Matsubara) (2021), Hawawa (with Ryo Ikeda) (2022), Street Replay Music Balance: Physical Catharsis (2022), Views (with Shuntaro Matsubara) (2022), Themselves (2023), See You Again (2023), Sey (Misspelling of Say) (with Ryo Ikeda) (2023), Dance Dance Revolutions (with Shuntaro Matsubara) (2023), Shu Matsui and Ourselves (Original by Jérôme Bel’s Pichet Klunchun and Myself (2005)) (2023), Words and Shakespeare’s Birds (2024). Main career highlights include 8th Sengawa Theatre, Theatre Competition: Grand Prize (2017), Shimokita Wave 2018: Elected (2018), Takamatsu Artist-in-Residence 2018: Elected (2018), Toga Theatre Competition 2019: Second seats for Outstanding Director Award (2019), Doramakan Showcase 2019: Participated (2019), 29th Shiomokitazawa Theatre Festival, Performing Arts Created with Upcoming Young Artists, Code Code Code ’19: Director (2019), Toyohashi Arts Theatre PLAT, Dance Residence 2019: Elected (2019), Bird Theatre Festival 13, Support project for young performing arts creative groups: Elected (2020), Rohm Theatre Kyoto x Kyoto Art Centre, U35 Creative Support Programme, KIPPU: Elected (2020), 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art Kanazawa, Joint project for artistic exchange, AND21: Elected (2021), Toyohashi Arts Theatre PLAT, Theatre Created with High School Students 2021: Director (2021), Tokyo Arts and Space, OPEN SITE 6: Elected (2021), Osaka Creative Chishima Foundation, Creative Activity Grant for U30: Elected (2021), ANB Tokyo, ANB Studio Program: Member (2022), KYOTO EXPERIMENT 2022 Shows: Participated (2022), Yokohama Dance Collection 2022, Competition I: Kinosaki International Art Centre Prize and the French Embassy in Japan with Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels Prize for young choreographers (2022), Professional College of Arts and Tourism, Dance Workshop Practice Class B: Guest Lecturer (2023), Kinosaki International Art Centre 2023 Artist-in-Residence Programme: Elected (2023), Kichijoji Theatre, Dance Club 2023: Lecturer (2023), Kyoto Art Centre Co-programme 2023: Elected (2023), DANCE BOX Domestic Dance Study Abroad at Kobe 9th, Dance Makers Camp I: Invited Artist (2023), Kichijoji Dance LAB. vol.6: Director (2023), The Film School of Tokyo, Language Expression Course, Language School 3rd Term, Seminar Course, Creative Class: Full-time Lecturer (2023 – 2024), Dance Base Yokohama: Resident Artist (2023 – 2024), YAU STUDIO Y-base: Resident Artist (2024), PARA, Performance Design Theory: Full-time Lecturer (2024). Ayaka Ono 1/2 of Ayaka Ono Akira Nakazawa Spacenotblank. Choreographer and theatre maker based in Tokyo, Japan. Born 30 December 1991, participated in Kirari Fujimi Regional Company ACT-F led by Junnosuke Tada from 2016 to 2019. As a dancer and performer, performed in Mika Kurosawa “6:30 AM” (2015), Momoko Shiraga “Picture Book Without Pictures” (2013, 2015), Nobuyoshi Asai / Moonlight Mobile Theatre “Never Ending Story” (2016), Koji Ozono and Noriyasu Hashimoto / Kaeru P “Super SooHa” (2017), Arata Mino “After Film” (2018), Pichet Klunchun “Mi(X)G” (2018), Kota Yamazaki “Dance Sprint” (2020), “Dance Teleportation” (2020), Megumi Yamashita / Hitogoto. “They Cultivating Trues, as They Cultivate Flowers.” (2021), “While leaving, They’re growing.” (2022), Kitakyushu Performing Arts Center Creation Series “IE System (Written and directed by Shu Matsui)” (2023), and ClariS “ClariS 1st Budokan Concert – 2 masks and the lost sun” (2017), “ClariS 3rd Hall Concert in Maihama Amphitheatre ♪ Over the rainbow – Beyond the rainbow ♬” (2018). Member of Drama Education Lab DEL, Chofu Sengawa Theatre (2018 – 2020). Member of Shu Matsui’s Specimen Room (2021). Member of the workshop training group on the use of theatre at Komaba Agora Theatre (2021). Member of ANB Tokyo ANB Studio Program Member (2022). Higeki Kigeki Magazine 2023, September, contributed to the special issue ‘The 12 young leaders of theatre in the future’ (2023). Dance Base Yokohama Resident Artist (2023 – 2024). Akira Nakazawa 1/2 of Ayaka Ono Akira Nakazawa Spacenotblank. Choreographer and theatre maker based in Tokyo, Japan. Born 4 June 1992, As a videographer, directed archive footage of Ko Murobushi, and participated in Yo Nakamura “Riverside Hotel” (2014), “Faces” (2015). As a director, participated in Shirai Keita / Onsen Dragon “Mourning, Lights, Saitoh (Written by Yu Harada)” Reading Performance (2022). As a performer, participated in Fabien Prioville / Fabien Prioville Dance Company “The SOMA Project” (2015), Takahiro Fujita “A-S” (2016), Ryo Ikeda / Yumei “Festival” (2016), “Closing” (2017), Arata Mino “After Film” (2018), Masashi Nukata / Nuthmique “Wanna Be End” (2018), Hirotaka Fukui “Desktop Theatre” WIP (2019), Ryo Motohashi / Ungeziefer “Leucochloridium” (2019), “Uber Boyz” (2021), Yuichiro Konno / Busstrio “One Montage” (2022), and Yohei Hosokawa / Horobite “Aden / Ial” (2023). Member of Drama Education Lab DEL, Chofu Sengawa Theatre (2018 – 2020). Member of Shu Matsui’s Specimen Room (2022). Member of ANB Tokyo ANB Studio Program Member (2022). Theatre School Murinkan Online Completed (2023). Higeki Kigeki Magazine 2023, September, contributed to the special issue ‘The 12 young leaders of theatre in the future’ (2023). Dance Base Yokohama Resident Artist (2023 – 2024). Saison Fellow I, The Saison Foundation (2021 – 2024).