Hiroaki Umeda

ADAPTING FOR DISTORTION/WHILE GOING TO A CONDITION

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2, 3 December, h. 20.30

PALLADIUM Adapting for distortion is a world prèmiere

Dance, visual arts and digital technology - countless definitions could be applied to the world of Hiroaki Umeda: a talented young artist from Japan. Hiroaki Umeda was born in 1977 and currently lives and works in Tokyo. He studied photography at Nihon University, Japan and decided to start dancing at the age of 20 having trained in classical ballet and hip-hop.  Umeda is a pluridisciplinary artist : choreographer, dancer, sound, image and lighting designer and his work is very much in touch with his contemporary Japanese roots. He is however more of a composite figure, half-way between a sensitive designer and the deus ex machina of performances where all the parts form a compact, coherent whole. The “Umeda atmosphere” is minimalist and radical, subtle and violent, purified of any narrative meaning or pretext, and profoundly abstract. while going to a condition (2002) is one of his most successful performances and one which best represents Umeda’s oxymorons: compositions of noise and silence, slow and fast movement, light divided into straight lines within which the movement is both curved and uneven. With Adapting for distortion, on the other hand, we stand before a new work which will make its world premiere at Romaeuropa before arriving at the Festival d’Automne (France). 

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Hiroaki Umeda was born in 1977 and currently lives and works in Tokyo. He studied photography at the Nihon University and decided to start dancing at the age of 20 having trained in classical ballet and hip-hop. In 2000 he founded his own company ” S20 ” and his works have all been presented at cuttingedge dance festivals. He is a pluridisciplinary artist: choreographer, dancer, sound, image and lighting designer. His work is both minimal and radical, subtle and violent, and very much in touch with his contemporary Japanese roots.

presented in European festival
TEMPS D’IMAGES 2008