PAST WORKS

  • Dai Matsuoka Performance Series "Dessin La #5"
    Lives and Performances in the Toritsudaigaku City!

    "Dessin La" is a series of monthly dance performances by Dai Matsuoka.
    Through this project, Matsuoka accumulates experience to render his own dance piece.
    This is the 5th event, in which he hangs out the selected venues around the Toritsudaigaku Station with other performers to make lives in public.
    It goes like this; While walking through the city performing, each performer should visit the respective points on the scheduled timing.
    With the timetable and map passed from the presentor, the audience will be able to choose any performance as they like.
    In this particular community, Matsuoka aims to see what would compose "theater" in everyday life.

    DATE: 2011.12.17(SAT)
    From 19:00 We stand by at the Toritsu Food Center for your visit.
    19:30 LIVE START

    FEE: 1500YEN
    DIRECTION: Dai Matsuoka
    PERFORMERS: Dai Matsuoka, Mirei Yamagata, Junichi Shiratori, So Sato, Dai Otake, Yoshifusa Haraguchi
    VENUES: Several places around the Toritsudaigaku Station(Tokyu Toyoko Line)
    CONTACT: info@land-jp.com
    PRODUCTION: LAND http://land-jp.com
    SUPPORT: QuantumGallery&Studio http://q-gs.com
    MOVIES AND PHOTOS: Yuichiro Tamura

  • Dai Matsuoka Dance Performance Series
    "Dessin La #4"

    Dai Matsuoka's series project "Dessin La" now provides the site specific dance and music performances that are open for public.
    Each performer walks through the city and makes live performances on the scheduled timing at the specific points.
    This time, the performers were thrilled and excited by the unexpected reactions from the types of audience who either happened to witness the live or chose to be there, knowing about it beforehand.
    "Serendipity" is becoming a very important word not only for those who're involved in this project, but also for those who just watch them.
    It takes place every month around the city called "Toritsudaigaku," which is only about 15 minute-long by train from Shibuya.

    DIRECTION: Dai Matsuoka
    PERORMERS: Dai Matsuoka, Mirei Yamagata, Junichi Shiratori, So Sato
    DATE: 2011.11.12(SAT)
    19:30 START
    VENUES: QuantumGallery&Studio, TORITSU Food Center, NOOK, Shouben-kozo-mae, UQAN
    PRICE: Free
    PRODUCTION: LAND
    PHOTOS&MOVIES: Yuichiro Tamura, Yuko Mizuta

  • SEA DRUM

    Dai Matsuoka performed his solo dance performance in Yuigahama beach Kamakura, Japan.

    DATE: 2011.11.5 (SAT) 16:30 START
    VENUE: Yuigahama beach in Kamakura
    ACCESS: 16-minute straight walk on the Wakamiya-Oji street from the Kamakura station
    (JR Line&Enoden Line).
    3-minute walk from the Yuigahama Station(Enoden Line)
    PRODUCTION: LAND
    FLYER PHOTO: fawnanddust
    LIVE PHOTO: Yuichiro Tamura, Noa Takahashi
    MOVIE: Yuko Mizuta

  • Dai Matsuoka Dance Performance Series
    "Dessin La #3"

    "Dessin La" is a series of monthly dance performance by Dai Matsuoka.
    Through this project, Matsuoka accumulates experience to render his own dance piece.
    This time, he danced both in and out of the space, trying to merge the dance space and the everyday life.
    Matsuoka tried to bring what's interesting about dance to the ordinary life of the local community.

    DIRECTION/PERFORMANCE: Dai Matsuoka
    COSTUME: Seiko Tomita
    DATE: 2011.10.22 (SAT) 19:30 START
    VENUE: QuantumGallery&Studio
    PRODUCTION: LAND

    Movie and photo by Yuichiro Tamura

  • Dai Matsuoka Dance Performance Series
    "Dessin La #2"

    "Dessin La" is a series of monthly dance performance by Dai Matsuoka.

    DIRECTION/PERFORMANCE: Dai Matsuoka
    COSTUME: Seiko Tomita
    MUSIC: Iwao Ochi
    DATE: 2011.09.10 (SAT) 19:30 START
    VENUE: QuantumGallery&Studio
    PRODUCTION: LAND

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    Photo by fawnanddust

  • Collaboration Performance with Polish Dance Company Zawirowania

    Dai Matsuoka performed with the dancers for the Polish Dance company Zawirowania.
    After 3 days of mutual workshop among the collaborating dancers, the presentation was made at the Mejiro Japanese Garden!

    DATE: 2011.09.03 (SAT) 19:00 START
    VENUE: Mejiro Japanese Garden

    Zawirowania website

  • Dai Matsuoka Dance Performance Series
    "Dessin La #1"

    "Dessin La" is a series of monthly dance performance by Dai Matsuoka.
    Approaching from the everyday experience, Matsuoka tries to explore his own style of dance and space design as if a painter continued working on dessins before he rendered the painting.

    DIRECTION/PERFORMANCE: Dai Matsuoka
    DATE: 2011.08.13 (SAT) 19:30 START
    VENUE: QuantumGallery&Studio
    PRODUCTION: LAND

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  • Kokutoh-in Butoh Performance "Kei-Hitsu"

    Butoh group Kokutoh-in, founded by Semimaru, participated in the dance festival at Kagurazaka die pratze and Nippori d-soko.
    Semimaru, who has been a dancer for Sankaijuku for over 30 years, directed the performance.
    Dai Matsuoka performed with Semimaru and 3 other dancers.

    PERFORMERS: Semimaru, Fumiko Ishigaki, Shunsuke Momoki, Tadashi Shimada, Dai Matsuoka
    DATE: 2011.08.05(FRI) START 19:30
    VENUE: d-soko

    Festival website

    Kokutoh-in website

  • surface unseen

    surface unseen is a collaboration piece by Dai Matsuoka who is a dancer for the Butoh company Sankaijuku and also pursues to form his own style of dance, and Nicole LeGette who is vigorously absorbing many kinds of performing arts all over the world from which she has nourished her unique performing sense and style, achieving a lot of attention in the Chicago art scene. The two bodies with different cultural contexts encounter each other through breathing, where the invisible "MA" is explored and its surface, that is to say, "surface unseen" is focused on.

    DATE: 2010.12.22(WED) 19:30 START
    23(THU) 14:00 START and 19:30 START
    DIRECTION/CHOREOGRAPHY/PERFORMANCE: Dai Matsuoka, Nicole LeGette
    LIGHTING: Satoru Suzuki(MOON LIGHT)
    SOUND: Sho Matsuoka
    PRODUCTION: Takaki Masuzawa(Horta)+Land
    VENUE: Gallery Zero Hachi(Ginza)
    8th floor Seio Bldg, 2-2-18 Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo

    Nicole LeGette(blusshing poppy productions) Biography

    Nicole LeGette, a maverick of Chicago's dance and performance art scene, is the only regional artist dedicated to performing, producing, and teaching butoh; a rigorous, expressive form of dance-theater that originated in 1959 Japan. blushing poppy productions encompasses these endeavors. Since 2000, Nicole has trained with master butoh artists such as Yoshito Ono, Koichi Tamano, Natsu Nakajima, and Diego Pinon in Japan, Mexico, Canada, and across the US; and has produced several of these artists in Chicago-based events. Nicole was selected as Chicago Dancemakers Forum lab artist (2007-2008) and has received numerous grants from the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs (2002-2009) and Chicago Seminar on Dance and Performance (2007). Primarily a solo performer, Ms. LeGette's dance has been presented throughout the US. In addition to performing, Nicole organizes workshops and curates events that bring regional, national, and international butoh artists to Chicago. The University of Chicago, The School Of The Art Institute Of Chicago, Columbia College Chicago, and Illinois State University (among others) have featured Ms. LeGette's artistry and teaching.
    Nicole LeGette website www.blushingpoppy.org

    All photos below by Hideo Yamada

  • Kokutoh-in Butoh Performance "UTSUSHIMI"

    DATE: 2010.8.6(FRI) 19:30
    8.7(SAT) 14:00&19:30
    8.8(SUN) 14:00
    DIRECTION: Semimaru
    CHOREOGRAPHY&PERFORMANCE: Dai Matsuoka, Nobuyoshi Asai, Norihito Ishii, Shunsuke Momoki
    MUSIC: lone empty bed
    LIGHTING: Moonlight
    URL: http://www.kokutoh-in.jp
    ADMISSION: Advance 3000yen Door 3500yen
    VENUE: Theater Iwato, in Kagurazaka Tokyo
    Postal Code 162-0832 Iwato-cho 7, Shinjuku-ku Tokyo
    TEL/FAX. 03-5225-3635

  • Improvisation Live Toru Iwashita&Dai Matsuoka&Chicotz

    DATE: 2010.8.1(SUN) OPEN 18:00 START 18:30
    PERFORMANCE: Toru Iwashita, Dai Matsuoka, Chicotz
    ADMISSION: Advence 2000yen Door 2500yen
    VENUE: Izuruba
    Hon-cho38-8, Den-enchofu Ota-ku Tokyo
    TEL. 03-3721-8760

  • Yuichi Tsukada Exhibition "Hangetsu"

    Here is the exhibition of Yuichi Tsukada, a garden designer and flower artist who also runs Onshitsu, a rooftop garden in Daikanyama, Tokyo. The exhibition takes the unique form as a collaborative performance work with Dai Matsuoka and Koichi Hiroki. It's a rare chance to see Tsukada's flower art works merging with live dance, music and lighting sets.

    DATE: 6.19(STA)&20(SUN)
    OPEN 19:15 START 19:30
    *The performance is divided into 2 parts and there is a break in between.
    VENUE: Onshitsu Hillside Terrace anex.B rooftop Sarugaku-cho 30-2 Shibuya, Tokyo

    Flower Art: Onshitsu Yuichi Tsukada
    Dance: Dai Matsuoka
    Music: Koichi Hiroki
    Lighting: Satoru Suzuki(MOON LIGHT)
    Plan: Onshitsu, Takaki Masuzawa(Horta), Dai Matsuoka
    Produce: Onshitsu

    All photos below by Hideo Yamada

  • PLATFORM#1

    Freepaper "farewell" now publishes new online freepaper titled "Melankov" and holds the commemorating party event at Nishiazabu Bullet's.
    The vigorous and unique musicians gather to celebrate its publishment.
    DATE: 6.13(SUN) 16:30-22:30
    PERFORMERS:Chicotz&Dai Matsuoka and more.
    VENUE: Nishiazabu Bullet's

  • Horta presents "KINETO"

    Dai Matsuoka's live performance at the renovated gallery "Horta" in Ookayama, Tokyo. Graphic artist Atsushi Harada(OHP operation), visual artist Atsuhiko Sudo and DJ Ryohei collaborate with him for this must- see showcase!

    DATE: 3.27(Sat)-28(Sun) 15:00&19:30
    VENUE: Horta
    PERFORMANCE: Dai Matsuoka
    OHP manipulating: Atsushi Harada
    MUSIC: DJ RYOHEI
    VIDEO: Atsuhiko Sudo
    SCENOGRAPHY: Kenya Nakazawa
    URL: http://horta.jp/
    ADMISSION: 1,000YEN

    All photos below by Maasa Kawamura

  • Analemma

    The live performance by voice performer Maria and Dai Matsuoka will take place at Izuruba Studio. Her voice is dressed with various emotions and the body who listens to it produces the air that is to be vibrated newly. The title "Analemma" means "a curve representing the angular offset of a celestial body (usually the Sun) from its mean position on the celestial sphere as viewed from another celestial body relative to the viewing body's celestial equator. "(ref.Wikipedia)

    DATE:2009.12.12(SAT)
    VENUE:Izuruba
    IGHTING:Moonlight

  • Chicotz and Dai Matsuoka

    Chicotz is the experimental band cosisting of the vocal and the drummer, whose music has always been true to their bodies. Now they will play the live session with Dai Matsuoka at Theater Iwato in Kagurazaka. For live painting, Reiichiro Maeda will join the performance in which the unprecedented kind of music will be "heard and watched." The 4 artists come across on the stage, and you will see the new presentation of time through the reactions among the bodies as creative media.

    PERFORMERS:Chicotz and Dai Matsuoka
    LIVE PAINTING: Reiichiro Maeda
    LIGHTING: Satoru Suzuki (Moonlight)
    PRODUCTION: Ryutaro Uchiyama
    DATE: 2009.09.13 PM18:30 OPEN PM19:00 START
    VENUE: Theater Iwato

    All photos below by Kosuke Mori

  • Himesharajuku Butoh Performance

    Dai Matsuoka is taking part in the Himesharajuku butoh performance both as a performer and as an assistant director. It will be an open-air show, taking place at the Senryu-ji temple near the Komae station. The performance is based on one of the old Japanese stories about a young girl who was vainly in love with a monk and committed suicide by drowning herself in the pond to haunt her village. Sachiko Noguchi, the leader of the group, creates the piece with very unique performing members including Junko Irie, Masatsugu Igarashi and Naoaki Kamo. Live music is Shakuhachi playing by Yosuke Irie and for other scenes the tunes are edited and manipulated by Yoshiaki Kikuya, a member of [b].

    DATE: 2009.7.18 (SAT) & 19 (SUN) START 19:00
    VENUE: Senryu-ji Temple, Komae Station (Odakyu-Line)
    TICKET: 2500YEN (advance) 3000YEN (door)
    PERFORMERS: Sachiko Noguchi, Dai Matsuoka, Naoaki Kamo, Junko Irie, Masatsugu Igarashi, and Noriko Ito
    LIVE MUSIC: Yosuke Irie (Shakuhachi)
    MUSIC EDITING: Yoshiaki Kikuya and Tetsutaro Yano
    PRODUCTION: Himesharajuku (Sachiko Noguchi and Eiko Takeshima)
    TEL: 03-5497-5444

  • Bullet's 10th Anniversary Party

    Dai Matsuoka will participate in the Bullet's 10th Anniversary events. Following "NEAR MATTER," [b], who was formerly known as [b] Laptop orchestra, will tag along with him for the event on 4/28. The programer moxuse joining to fortify the crew, this time they try on the theme of "voice." Dai Matsuoka will "jam" the music-dance session with Chicotz on 5/10. The band is composed of the two figures of Kenji Osumi (vocal) and Dai Otake (drums).

  • "NEAR MATTER"

    NEAR MATTER is a project work directed by Dai Matsuoka, who is also a dancer for the worldly known Butoh group Sankaijuku. In this art performance he invites Airi Suzuki, who has been trainded various dance methods in New York and has just come back from her own independent activity in Berlin, and [b] Laptop orchestra whose unique style of media expression is based on "circuit bending" of electronic gadgets,computers and media instruments, with accidental sound effects emerging through manual interference with the circuit boards.

    DATE: 2009.02.06 19:30 02.07 14:00/19:30
    VENUE: ST SPOT(Yokohama)
    TICKET: 2500YEN
    DIRECTION: Dai Matsuoka
    PERFORMERS: Dai Matsuoka, Airi Suzuki
    STAGE ART&MUSIC: [b]Laptop orchestra
    LIGHTING: Satoru Suzuki(MOON LIGHT)

    All photos below by Kosuke Mori

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