阿目虎南 Conan Amok
1987 Born in Saitama, started training Karate from 5years old
2010 Graduated Musashino Art University, sculpture major
2008-2019 Joined Dairakudakan as a dancer, choreographer with Akaji Maro.
2010-2023 Obtained "Heaven Artist" busking license approved by Tokyo and performed all over the country
2019 "BUTOH DANCE" (director: James Latimer), in which he modeled and starred, was featured in the San Francisco Documentary Film Festival, the Atami International Film Festival, the Los Angeles Lift-off film festival in Hollywood, USA, the St.Louis international film festival, and the British Academy. Award: Selected in the dance category of the Aesthetica short film festival, an official film festival.
2020 Selected as a support artist of Dance Base Yokohama in response to the Covid-19
2021 Established artist collective “Sanzen CAMP” and incorporated
2022 Be appointed as artistic director of A5yl/Sanzen Kobo
Won the second Grand Prix Award in Gombrowicz International Theater Festival
2023 Be selected as a public resident artist of Dance Base Yokohama
Be selected as a resident artist of Saitama International Art Festival
Conan Amok is a Japanese director, choreographer, and dancer with roots in butoh. He creates works with themes of "distance" and "transformation" using the body and the time and space of the place as materials and media. Creates works that refer to design and physicality. He objectifies the body and proposes a unique dance method called “Multi layered body'' based on phenomenological and sculptural perspectives. In addition to advanced dance techniques with sharp and calm movements, his work is characterized by a unique graffiti-like choreography between the daily life and extraordinary, connecting the whole through disconnection. Developing cross-disciplinary and transnational activities without being bound by preconceived notions. Everyday life, social environment, and period factors are closely linked to the motivation for the production, and the gestures that are inevitably created are incorporated into the production.
Conan's performance is extremely wild. Nervous and animal-like gestures and growls made possible by his high physical ability, as well as repeated movements that seem to be moving toward exhaustion while hesitating, arouse a multifaceted energy. In contrast to these, weights, which are swung around and sometimes moved up and down with delicate hands, present gravity, and the consciousness common to all of these elements is transitive.
[ Selected as supported artist]
·Dance Base Yokohama New model support in response to the influence of the Covid
(SEGA SAMMY Cultural Arts Foundation) 2020
·The Artist in Next genelation
(The Agency for Cultural Affairs, Japan and the Contemporary Dance Association) 2021
·Dance Dance Dance@YOKOHAMA(Yokohama Arts Festival) 2021
·ARTS for the future! (Agency for Cultural Affairs, Japan) 2021
·ARTS for the future! 2 (Agency for Cultural Affairs, Japan) 2022
·Start-up grant vol.1(Arts Council Tokyo) 2022
·Start-up grant vol.4(Arts Council Tokyo) 2023
[ Selected as a residence artist ]
Dance Base Yokohama (SEGA SAMMY Cultural Arts Foundation) 2023, Yokohama, Japan
space845 (Saitama International Art Festival 2023) 2023, Saitama, Japan
[ Winning Prize ]
Gombrowicz International Theater Festival 2022 (semi-grand prize) 2022, Warsaw, Poland
PHOTO: ASA KINO
