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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