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Dai Matsuoka is a Butoh Dancer and director of LAND FES based in Tokyo. He has been a dancer of Butoh company Sankaijuku since 2005 and has danced in nine pieces including "Kinkan Shonen", "Tobari", "Unetsu", "ARC", and "Hibiki" in over 20 countries. http://www.sankaijuku.com/
Matsuoka has also been directing the performance event "LAND FES" in Tokyo since 2011, where the audience is navigated to encounter live sessions by musicians and dancers taking place at different places in the town. https://landfes.com/
Matsuoka is also in collaboration with puppet company Phantom Limb (NY) for its latest piece “FALLING OUT”. The piece has been performed at OZ Arts Nashville in Tennessee, Brooklyn Academy of Music in NY, and The John F. Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. http://phantomlimbcompany.com/productions#/fallingout/
As a member of NPO Dance Archive Network (TOKYO), he coedited the book "Something Called Butoh" in 2020, which is about a report on worldwide Butoh surveys conducted from 2017 to 2019. http://www.dance-archive.net/en/index.html
Matsuoka was in charge of movement direction of over 1600 senior citizens at the massive play "GOLD SYMPHONY my dream, your dream" presented by Saitama Arts Foundation at Saitama Super Arena in 2016.
16年より、舞踏の価値を広く残し伝えるために、舞踏の体現者である大野慶人氏の動きを最新のデジタルテクノロジーで保存するためのプロジェクト「YOSHITO OHNO ARCHIVES / DIGITAL 3D IN MOTION」を非営利活動法人ダンスアーカイヴ構想のメンバーとして発足。また、世界各国の舞踏の現況についてリサーチを行い、共編者として「舞踏という何か」を2020年に出版した。 http://www.dance-archive.net/
書籍「舞踏という何か」
NPO法人ダンスアーカイヴ構想が、2017年から3年間にわたって、アーツカウンシル東京の助成を得て国内外の舞踏家に実施したアンケート調査の成果報告書。舞踏2017~18 年の調査結果を図表を交えて解説、2019 年のアンケート回答を画像とあわせて完全掲載し、それぞれの舞踏観、舞踏をめぐる国内外の状況を概観する。
Bilingual ed. This book is published as a report on worldwide Butoh surveys conducted by the Dance Archive Network from 2017 to 2019 which was supported by Arts Council Tokyo.