Akiko Dance Project
Name: Akiko Ono
Company: Akiko Dance Project
Dance Level: Established
Bio
Akiko is an international Japanese choreographer who has performed and made work in Tokyo, NYC and London. She trained at Laban Center Professional Dance Diploma Course in London and is the artistic director of Akiko Dance Project.
Her interest in human movements and physical dance expression drove her to pursue laban movement theory and studied at the Laban Insitute in NYC. Akiko received a scholarship from the Limon dance foundation and received a Limon Technique teaching certificate. She also worked with Mark Morris (as an understudy) and Risa Steinberg.
She worked with NY choreographers such as Kirsty Simson Keith Thompson (Trisha Brown Dance company) and developed her dance movement of "Ki" from Aikido and Taichi.
In 2005, she studied dance choreography and films in the NY State University of Brockport with MA (Master of Art) in Dance.
In 2009, her dance film "Cell Phone Dance" was nominated at the Dance film Festival in Buenos Aires and was archive in New York Performing Arts Library.
In 2013 & 2014, she worked with British dancers for "Okuni" (Kabuki dancer) which was performed at Cockpit Theatre, The Place and Other Theater in Briton, funded by Great Britain SASAGAWA Foundation.
In 2019, she performed at the "Exhibition of four sculptures" sponsored by Nakagawa Special Steel INC.
While she performs and choreographs dance pieces, she also provides dance workshops for children in Primary School and adults.
Dance Style: Contemporary, Kabuki, Martial Arts
Work Context: community,dance theatre,digital internet,film,live art and performance art,musical theatre,outdoor events,works with masks
Personal Contact
Email: akikodanceproject@gmail.com
Website: http://akikodanceproject.com/
Credits
2022
Solos in spaces
Solos in spaces at Cart Edinburgh received a Highly Recommended review, "the grace, poise and the fluidity of the movement abounded" and was supported by Nakagawa special Steel INC.
The residency at The Sculpture Park for her Dance & Sculpture project was supported by Great Britain Sasagawa Foundation.
2019
Dance performance at Exhibition of sculptures
Dancer: Akiko Ono
Sculptors: Shouya Tatehata, HIroshi, Kinoshita, Nobutugu, Sakai, Yosito Yosimoto.
Sponsored by Nakagawa Special Steel INC.
2014
Okuni (Kabuki dancer) The Place, Cockpit Theatre, Other Theatre, Briton
-Story-
In sixteen century Japan, Okuni 's dance troop was the most celebrated group of its time. But their success did not last and Okuni's aging cost her many admirers. To overcome this she resorted to anti-wrinkle exercise and breast uplift massage...
A radical reinterpretation of Kabuki theatre, with added comedic slant and ironic quotation of martial arts appear in this Kabuki theatre played by amazing dancers, Chi- Lim Nim, Tomomi Kosano and an actor Ignacio Jarquin. Directed and choreographed by Akiko Ono.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9Tqc8G-rUY&t=100s
-Review-
"...brave and creative idea that involved the fusion of contemporary dance with traditional Japanese theatre. " A Young Theatre
2014
To be crystal
Feeling the video images, music and the space, meditating, crystalizing and scattering happen.
Choreography: Akiko Ono
Costume: Satoshi Date
Dance: Laban Centre alumnus,
2014
Mme Butterfly One man's opera
Music: Michael Finnissy
Words: Andrew G Marshall
Director/Dramaturgy: Miranda Henderson
Choreographer: Akiko Ono
Performer/Producer: Ignacio Jarquin
Miniature Theatre: Philip Sugg, Amanda Davidson
Acting Coach: Alister O’Loughlin
Detail:https://www.tete-a-tete.org.uk/event/mme-butterfly-the-one-man-opera/
https://vimeo.com/71735889
2009
Cell Phone dance
They had an appointment on a phone, and would meet at ?"
待ち合わせしようとする二人、ちぐはぐ、シクハク携帯電話をもって・・・。
Director:Akiko Ono
Dancer:: Akiko Ono, Maho Ogawa
Camera: Atushi Tubota
Sound: Akiko Ono