| YOKO SEYAMA
Scenographer /media artist, Holland based, Born in Tokyo in 1980.
From early on in her architectural training in Japan, she began
specializing in the creation of spatial installations for the
performance art contexts. Her 12 years experience of formal classical ballet fostered her love for the theater and a deep interest in
contemporary dance and improvisation.
Since moving to theNetherlands in 2005, she has been concentrating on Scenography for Time based art.
Her work for "garden of dream / folie à deux by Daniel Schorno" for the Forum neues Musiktheater in Stuttgart was part of a collaboration between Studio STEIM/Amsterdam and the Rietveld Academy, and was shown in the ISCM Weltmusiktage 2006.
First her scenographic work in Japan was for a former NDT dancer Megumi Nakamura committed by NOISM which is a first public contemporary dance company In Japan.
Recent scenographic work for dance production "Diable au corps by Jérôme Meyer & Isabelle Chaffaud" will be premiered on 10th January 2008.
Her research in her master is “processing space / work of touch for time based space”,
Film material, photo material, 3d model study, are processed by mixture of Computer technology and hands-on work.
<Education>
Shinjuku Art School (1998-2000 Tokyo)
Architectural Design BA at Musashino Art University (2000-2004 Tokyo)
Theatre and Film Design BA at Gerrit Rietveld Academy (2005-2006 Amsterdam)
Art science MA at Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten Den Haag (2007-present Den Haag)
<Productions>
Participant "Workshop and showing by a former NDT dancer Megumi Nakamura (2002 Saitama Art foundation, Japan)
installation "Art site IWAMURO" (Mar 2003 Nigata, Japan)
installation and performance "Art site OJIYA" (Aug 2003 Nigata, Japan)
Creation of Performance "Graduation exhibition" (Jan 2004 Musashino Art University, Tokyo)
Theatre space design "New Media Pocket Opera "
(July 2006 Forum Neues Musiktheater, Stuttgart, Germany)
Costume and set design for dance by a former NDT dancer Megumi Nakamura "Walz"
(Aug 2007 NOISM, Nigata, Japan )
Space design for dance production "Diable au corps" by Jérôme Meyer & Isabelle Chaffaud
(premiere 10 Jan 2008, Korzo theatre, Den Haag)
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