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All images on this page are from The Saison Foundation’s Saison Fellows Program awardees in 2023.

Masako Yasumoto

Masako Yasumoto, Full Automatic Worldly Desires zuizuiz, Kanagawa, August 2023
Photo: Kikuko Usuyama

Kaori Seki

To see the world others can’t, Saitama, March 2024
Photo: Kitagawa Shimai

Takuro Suzuki

CHAiroiPLIN, Dancing Shakespeare Ballo: Romeo and Juliet, Tokyo, August 2023
Photo: HARU

Megumi Kamimura

The Exchange Residence Project Vol. 1: The Components of Ambience, Tokyo, October 2023
Photo: Hideto Maezawa

Pijin Neji

neji&co., Cue, Tokyo, February 2024
Photo: Kai Maetani

Suguru Yamamoto

Theater Collective HANCHU-YUEI, BANANA FLOWER CAN BE EATEN, Kanagawa, July 2023
Photo: Yukitaka Amemiya

Yudai Kamisato

Yudai Kamisato / Okazaki Art Theatre, Strange People about East Asia s Goodbye (preview performance, now called Dear Potential Foreigner), São Paulo, July 2023
Photo: Danielle Satiko

Kitamari

Beehive, Kyoto, February 2024
Photo: Toshie Kusamoto. © NPO Japan Contemporary Dance Network, Enjoy Dance Festival 2023

Yohei Hosokawa

horobite, Dreaming of Sen, Tokyo, February 2024
Photo: Ayato Watanabe

Pink No. 3

Momochi no sekai, Emperor X, Osaka, December 2023
Photo: Keita Kitagawa

Rom Hashimoto

SLOW LABEL, SLOW HERZ, Kanagawa, September 2023
Photo: Yulia Skogoreva

Jang-Chi

Nippon Ideology, Kanagawa, December 2023
Photo: Hideto Maezawa

Masamitsu Araki

Masamitsu Araki, Paradise Lost, Hyogo, September 2023
Photo: bozzo

Ayaka Nakama

The Odoriba Legend, Kyoto Experiment, October 2023
Photo: Garage

Koichiro Tamura

DANCE PJ REVO, Experimental Hip-Hop Yokohama 2024, Kanagawa, January 2024
Photo: Ryosuke Miyazawa

Reisa Shimojima

KEDAGORO × Goblin Party, Frankly, Gwangju, December 2023
Courtesy of Asia Culture Center

Yuta Hagiwara

Kamome Machine, The Nanjing Incident (tentative title) (work-in-progress performance), Okinawa, May 2023

Kentaro Otsuka

Theatre Company Awai, Sonnet Jazz Ver., Kanagawa, December 2023

Shinichi Anasako

egonaku, Right in the Midst of Inversion, Fukuoka, February 2024
Photo: Shunichi Iwahara

Akira Nakazawa

Kichijoji Dance Lab Vol. 6, Ayaka Ono Akira Nakazawa Spacenotblank, Words and Shakespeare’s birds, Tokyo, January 2024
Photo: takaramahaya

Ayano Yokoyama

Zuku-Zuku-Zuku, Nagano, December 2023
Photo: Naoto Yamaguchi

Nanako Matsumoto

team chiipro, Nanako by Nanako, Tokyo, March 2024
Photo: Hideto Maezawa

Ayane Nakagawa

Nihondatedatte, Yokohama Dance Collection 2023 Dance Cross, December 2023
Photo: Kota Sugawara

Midori Kurata

akakilike, Family Portrait, Brussels, May 2023
Photo: Kai Maetani

Keiko Yamaguchi

PETA-BRDG International Collaboration, Portal Cafe Sari Sali, Hyogo, November 2023
Photo: Koichiro Kojima

Shuntaro Matsubara

Ayaka Ono Akira Nakazawa Spacenotblank / Shuntaro Matsubara, Dance Dance Revolutions (rehearsal), Kyoto, September 2023
Photo: Yuki Moriya

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Masako Yasumoto

Kaori Seki

Takuro Suzuki

Megumi Kamimura

Pijin Neji

Suguru Yamamoto

Yudai Kamisato

Kitamari

Yohei Hosokawa

Pink No. 3

Rom Hashimoto

Jang-Chi

Masamitsu Araki

Ayaka Nakama

Koichiro Tamura

Reisa Shimojima

Yuta Hagiwara

Kentaro Otsuka

Shinichi Anasako

Akira Nakazawa

Ayano Yokoyama

Nanako Matsumoto

Ayane Nakagawa

Midori Kurata

Keiko Yamaguchi

Shuntaro Matsubara

THE SAISON FOUNDATION

THE SAISON FOUNDATION