Yukio Suzuki | April Artist in Residence

Yukio Suzuki (Japan) is a dancer and choreographer. He has studied butoh since 1997 and in 2000 he founded his dance company "YUKIO SUZUKI projects" in order to more widely present activities as a choreographer, performer and director. He’s been to more than 40 cities in the world, and his strong physicality and dance performance that is flexible, sensitive, and sticking out of spaces, attracts local audience. He is also active in choreography for ballet dancers and children, collaboration with musicians, and workshops. His works have won several important awards in Japan, in 2008 his work “Confronting Silence” won the Grand prix at the Toyota Choreography Award. In 2012 he took part in Danse Elargie 2012 at the Theatre de la Ville in Paris, where he placed among the top ten. http://www.suzu3.com

The residency will focus on the collaboration between Suzuki and Slovakian-born composer, sound and multimedia artist, performer, researcher and educator Juraj Kojš. They will create, produce and present a multi-layered piece of art performed in the Everglades National Park.