dance
YOKO MURONOI

Born in Yokohama. Inspired by Buto dancing, Muronoi started her dance training during her first year at university in order to pursue the art of physical expression. After attending a two week lecture by Buto dancer, Akira Kasai, she joined the Buto dance company "Seiryu-kai" from 1982 to 1984.
In 1985 she started her solo activity and since then has consistently pursued the path of improvisational dancing. She has been active on stage in Japan and in various countries. Her solo pieces include "Dark Hand, Bright Hand," "Don't look at flowers," and "MON-YO :patterns." She has also worked in alliance with other dancers, musicians, fine artists, video artists and costume designers. She is searching for the occurrence of dance and appear in the various scenes, the stage of dance companies, classical Japanese dance and dramatic performances, or art exhibitions, performance festivals, live concerts and films.
Since 1991 she has also joined the Institute of Physical Education in Tokyo to train the art of Seitai and to investigate bodily movement from the point of internal body work.
The project of dance + sound "Moire Penetrant" was realized in collaboration with a musician, Ikuro Takahashi from 1999, and developed into the performance unit "ANOYO NO DEKIGOTO" from 2000.

Yoko is always standing on a new shore, which has a memory of the beginning with a mist from the future. Her body and spirit go back through silence to the distant past and go forward through violence to the distant future――as if she could step on the earth and stars at the same time. (Kenji Fukuma, poet)

important works
solo pieces
L'eau-forte /Tokyo 85,96
Dark Hand, Bright Hand /Tokyo 85, 96, 97
Don't look at flowers /Tokyo 91, Paris 97
MON-YO : patterns /Tokyo, Fukuoka 94, Sao Paulo, Rome 97

collaborating works
A Flint /with Toshi Tanaka (dance) Tokyo 93
SHIRABYOSHI /with Toshi Tanaka (dance), Chie Mukai (sound) and Kei Kato (art) Kanagawa 94
RENTO /with Masayoshi Urabe (sax) Tokyo 95
Mimesis of Spider /organized by Haruo Higuma (video) Tokyo 97
LIVE /with Shuichi Chino (piano) and Masaharu Shoji (sax) Tokyo 98, 99
Moire Penetrant /with Ikuro Takahashi (sound) Cardiff, Quincerot, Tokyo, New York 99
Plaza /with Shuichi Chino (music) and Kei Kato (fine art) Tokyo 00
ANOYO NO DEKIGOTO /with Ikuro Takahashi (sound) Sapporo, Tokyo 01,02,03, Rome, London 03, Paris, Mets, Hasselt, Leeds, Rome 04, Sapporo, Kyoto, Kobe, Osaka 04

group works / appearing
Blanc et Noir / Correspondence /"DOHO Project" Tokyo 95
YAMAMBA : The Mountain Spirit /"DOHO Project" Tokyo, Seoul 95, Kyoto 96, Paris 97
HAFU : Gables /produced by Yoko Muronoi Tokyo 95
MISOGI : Ritual Purification /"Habille d'eau" produced by Masaki Iwana Kolognue, Paris 97
KAZAORI : O Vento Que Tece /"FUBUMYOIN" produced by Toshi Tanaka Ribeirao Pires, Sao Paulo 97
USUBAKAGEROU : ant lions /"MMAC" Tokyo 98, Fukushima 99
The Legend of Water /"FL-Profect" produced by Haruo Higuma Tokyo 98, New York 00
Performance Art Theater : The Deth of June /produced by Huang Rui Hong Kong, Macau, Tokyo 99
Idea /produced by Shingo Tokihiro Tokyo 99
Aura /produced by Saga Kobayashi Tokyo 99

workshops
Center within Movements /Paris, Brazil, Rome 97
MAI-KEIKO /Tokyo, Kamakura, Fukuoka, Yamaguchi 98−
ANOYO NO DEKIGOTO /Tokyo 01−03
Non-ordinary movements /Rome 03
Dancing Body /Tokyo 03−


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