October 4th-5th, 2024 Le Cube Garge, Garges-lès-Gonesse
October 8th, 2024 Théâtre Hexagone, Meylan
90 minutes (double bill with split flow)
A Behavior Designer
Choreographer, dancer, and visual artist from Tokyo. After studying photography, he broadened his interest in physical expression and independently pursued cross-disciplinary dance art, incorporating visual art and digital expression without the shackles of any specific method. He began presenting works in 2000, and the piece “while going to a condition” received international acclaim. Since then, he has performed as well as created installations focusing on human physical senses in more than 150 cities throughout 40 countries, including France. Also involved in sound, video, and lighting design, Umeda’s work is highly acclaimed in the context of visual art for his methods of combining original movement and digital technology.
His latest solo assimilating expands the concept of dance and treating the human body and its environment as “one nature” in his choreography, with back and forth between the projected images and the artist’s body. Umeda is responsible for the design of movement, sound, and visuals as well as programming.