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What's "Masaoka-shiki"?
It is a dance group founded by Yuiko Masaoka and Takahito Sasaki in the last month of 2013.
The name "Masaoka-shiki" comes from Masaoka Shiki, a famous Japanese  poet, and it literally means masaoka style in Japanese. Masaoka-shiki will make it appear the reason how the dance can be dance.

Yuiko Masaoka(Director)
was born in Osaka. She started musical at the age of 7, and classical ballet training at 8. She studied modern dance at the Codarts, Rotterdamse Dansacademie from 2005 till 2009. After the graduation, she moved to Tokyo where she is based on working now.
She started her creation in 2007, and kept on presenting her work at the theaters in Tokyo, such as RAFT, Nippori d-souko and Session House among others. Her recent works are "Reveal Me"(2012) and "the Declaration of Dance"(2013). As a choreographer she focus on the movements that make the body appear by approaching analytically and intuitively.
Sujin Sasaki(Dramaturg)was born in West-Shinjuku, Tokyo. He graduated from Waseda University.
He formed the rock band scscs in 2007. He was also a member of Co. Yamada Un from 2010 until 2012. There he worked as a dancer, a composer or a sound technician for all the productions.
Recently he researches the unique performative style that includes the sound/body/space.


Archive
Masaoka-shiki presents 
"The Day dance will be born"
2015.10.1fri-3sun
@Chateau 2F
concept & choreography: Yuiko Masaoka

dramaturg: Sujin Sasaki
performer: Yu kitagawa, Yuiko Masaoka
lighting design: Taichi Kutsumi
sound design: Sujin Sasaki


"All's Well That Dances Well"
2014.7.26sat-27sun
@STspot
concept & choreography: Yuiko Masaoka
dramaturg: Sujin Sasaki
dance: Tomohiro Iizuka, Tamae Satou, Erisa Hirakawa
lighting design: Izumi Kato
sound design: Sujin Sasaki
stage manager: Susumu Kumaki
costume: Mika Tominaga
production manager: Fusen Akimoto