AYANO YOKOYAMA / 横山彰乃

Dancer / Choreographer

Born in Nagano. Based in Tokyo, Japan.
Ayano explores an original movement that focuses on sensation and embodies an Eastern sense of physicality. Through choreography unbound by gender constraints and intricately connected to sound, she excavates sensations. Additionally, she creates moments through dance that can only exist in the spontaneous overflow, without intention. Breaking the boundaries between the visible and the invisible, she approaches the present moment with movement. She utilizes personal imagination and sensation to highlight this current moment.
She initiated the dance project as "lal banshees" in 2016. In recent years, she has been actively composing dance works in collaboration with musicians.
In recent years, she has presented "Suiyoubaion" and "Snow on the seafloor" which creatively reuses discarded PET bottles as stage props, and has been restaged in various locations. This diptych earned an invitation to Aerowaves, Spring Forward 2022 Elefsina. Other pieces are the installation and performance, "STRANGER THAN PHENOMENON," held in vacant storefronts (organized by Shinshu Arts Council, Nagano Prefecture) and "YU-KEI" which features a full-length live performance.
THE SAISON FOUNDATION Saison Fellow I

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TOYOTA CHOREOGRAPHY AWARD2016 Finalist
YOKOHAMA DANCE COLLECTION2020 Grand Prix Jury Prize、Porosus camping2020 Prize
KYOTO CHOREOGRAPHY AWARD2020 Incentive prize
16th JaDaFo Dance Award

▲CV 2024

STATEMENT

東洋的な身体感覚に着目した独自のムーヴメントを探求する。
自身のルーツとなる北アルプス山麓での風土や体験、土俗的感覚をベースに「踊りが生まれる瞬間」をテーマに活動。国内外の文化や信仰、フィールドワークから、感覚を掘り起こし、可視と不可視の境界を越えるダンスならではの空間を踊り立ち上らせる。
目に見えない / 見落として通り過ぎてしまうような現実を切り取り、音と身体の動きの様々な関係を展開する。

PROFILE

長野県大町市出身
2010　日本女子体育大学舞踊学専攻　卒業
2009-2019　東京ELECTROCK STAIRSダンサーとして活動
2016-　lal banshees主宰としてダンスプロジェクトを開始
2021-22、23-24、25　セゾン文化財団セゾンフェローI
2025-　女子美術大学スペース表現領域非常勤講師

AWARD

2022　第16回日本ダンスフォーラム賞
2021　KYOTO CHOREOGRAPHY AWARD2020　奨励賞（準グランプリ）
2020　YOKOHAMA DANCE COLLECTION2020　審査員賞（グランプリ）
2020　YOKOHAMA DANCE COLLECTION2020　ポロサス寄付基金camping2020賞
2016　TOYOTA CHOREOGRAPHY AWARD2016ファイナリスト

Photo by Julie Glassberg, Ayako Takamatsu

▲CV 2024

lal banshees

A dance company led by Ayano Yokoyama. She has been creating dance pieces focusing only on the female body. Paying attention to the sensation of each individual body, she brings for what cannot be encompassed and what overflows unintentionally with dancing.

2016年より横山彰乃が振付・演出を担うダンスプロジェクトとして開始。個々の身体感覚や、包みきれないもの、意図せず溢れ出てしまうものに着目し、性別に囚われない中性的で緻密なダンス作品を創作。

illust by EMI OZAKI