DEBUTANTE, KOSHITSU

July 26 at 4 pm, Vpk theatre.

Finnish premier

Debutante

Grace, gorgeousness, transform, impatience, threat, narcissism, escape, luxury, passion, tsuku-paya, giggle, laugh, candid, morishita maki, soaking wet.

Please enjoy yourself with Maki Morishita.

Koshitsu

There is an area where I can't help dancing in spite of myself. It is when I am in a private room by myself, an elevator in which I am alone, or a shower. My body begins to move freely when I am in a small enclosed place where there is no one else. In such a small space, I can release myself from restrictions, and such abits that might embarrass people around me get into action. The repetition of those habitual actions generates a driving force and charges a battery to get me out of the place. For me, that space is all oasis in daily life. The English word for "koshitsu” is "private room." In Japanese, “koshitsu" also connects rhyme-wise "adherence”.

It would be also interesting to use a toilet room or an elevator as the stage. The audience can see the stage only when the elevator opens, or through a surveillance camera. Or a glass-built elevator could be used.

Maki Morishita

Born in 1975. As a high school student, she joined a creative dance club, and had lessons of modern dance. Later, she studied under Kim Itch contemporary dance with its origin in butoh, and from 1997 to 1999, worked as a dancer for Kim's company "Kim Itch + the Glorious Future." Meanwhile, in 1994, she started her independent creative work to identify her own expressions of dance, working together with colleagues. In 1998, co-founded a company "Study of Live works BANETO" with choreographer and dancer Tsuyoshi Shirai. She has performed in 25 cities in nine countries around the world.

Since then, she has participated in the company's production work and performance as a soloist. In 2003, she began to create and choreograph her solo pieces, and her first solo-piece "debutant" was performed in ten major cities in Japan and in Seoul, Korea. And she won "Yokohama City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation Award" at Solo x Duo Competition of Yokohama Dance Collection in February 2004 with the same piece.

She is currently working on her second solo-piece "koshitsu" which follows a style of a work-in-progress. She was performed in a rest room in the school house of the dance studio, the mini-theater, and the university, an elevator, and underground space, etc. She afterwards created "Tokyo koshitsu" and won excellent prize by "Tokyo competition #2”. Moreover, "Morishita Maki Dance Show!!" had performed for eight days in the AFOPA Theater in Tokyo in December, 2005. She has been casted for the part of snowqueen in a theater piece "The Snowqueen",written by Hans Christian Andersen, directed by an Italian director, Teresa Ludovico, produced by Setagaya Public Theater.

While her cheerful and unique personality shows through her dance, the movements making the most of her long arms and legs, and her handsome appearance, present a powerful and slightly crazy dance, which is favorably received in Japan and abroad as well.