SCIENCE FICTION (2005)

Premiere at Kazuo Ohno Festival, Bank Art, Yokohama
Dancer: Kota Yamazaki, Tomomi Tanabe
Scientist: Kazuo Okada
Music: Tsugaru Syamisen and others

[A scientist does an electrical experiment.
A man does dance behind it.
A woman wanders looking for ghost.
And I saw an illusion of vast rice field on the subway.
All illusions are crossing in the place.]

”Moment to moment, his excessively subdivided movement was extremely vivid. In another sense, his body radically adhered to every instant in time. Then, through his lucid existance in space and time, composed by the volume around him, the present he became tangible. That is to say, we see the dimness through the soft beams of sunlight of his new York residence. Without consciousness, he has come to this level. This is what I call "sincere."
—On Stage /Japan

RISE : ROSE (2005)

Premiere at PICA, TBA Festival
Dancer: Michou Szabo, Paul Matteson, Mina Nishimura, Kota Yamazaki
Stage Set: Stephen Crawford
Lighting Design: Amanda Ringger
Music: Masahiro Sugaya, Ryoji Ikeda

”One might imagine afterlife by seeing this unique and sensitive world.”
—Kota Yamazaki

"Kota Yamazaki's dance ensemble Fluid hug hug,whose starkly beautiful Rise:Rose conjured some of the most magical visions I've ever seen onstage."
—The Wall Street Journal

"Yamazaki's ability to represent and extinguisha new world is a cutting-edge performance"
—Dance Magazine

A DAY OF AFRICA (2003)

Premiere at Setagaya Theater Tram, Tokyo
Dancer: Kota Yamazaki (with Tsumugi Nishimura "a girl" and Vivian "a dog")
Music: Robert Ashley, Cold Play

"When I am in Senegal, I dream of New York or Tokyo where I was from through the landscape of Africa.I would say that this piece has a conexistent atmosphere: the dreaming of New York through the African landscape and the dreaming of Africa through the city's life. Since A day of Africa will sometimes be presented with FAGAALA (collaboration with Jant-bi), I want to make them very opposit, A day of Africa has a very peaceful atmoasphere, while FAGAALA is a piece on genocide."
—Kota Yamazaki

"He is a dancer who always can crystalize his maximum beyond  any limit or common knowledge ,but not dance only within his safety zone like many other dancers do. Just surprise....!"
—On Stage/Japan

"Yamazaki does not stay purely in the deeply philosophical, physically stylized realm of Butoh. He dives beyond it, incorporating text, compositional tools of contemporary dance experimentalism, and sophiscated movement vocabulary to develop his materials. In A day of Africa we encounter his beautiful and disorienting layers of interior and exterior shuttling through and between Asian, American and African worlds."    
—Chicago Dance Center

HELSINGØR (2003)

Premiere at Kagurazaka de Pratz

Dancer: Kota Yamazaki
Music: Michael Nyman

MERONNA (2002)

Premire at AZABU dei pratze, Tokyo
Dancer: Kota Yamzaki, Mina Nishimura
Music: Geir Jenssen and others

"This experience for the audience was one of mesmeric fascinations. As the dancers seemed to swim in the air,their bodies like ectoplasmic sculptures moving in fluid yet passionate concentration.  This was poetry that seeped through the eyes, ear and muscles of the audience, bringing a new kind of aesthetic transformation."
—Arizona State Journal

"Heartfull dance... We see the reason clearly why Yamazaki needs Nishimura's dance as a different existence."
—DANCEART

FISH FOR ELLEN (2002)

Premiere at Ryutopia, Niigata
Dancers: Kota Yamazaki, Mina Nishimura

[A girl and a man sitting on the couch.
   Blue shining water is flowing through the living room.
   A man is at a loss with sighs and the humming of a girl never stops.]

" Contrast between a man with strength and sharpness, and a girlish woman with pureness and strangeness reveals a novel-like atomosphere. "
—Dance Magazine

NIGHT ON THE GRASS (2001)

Premiere at Massachusetts Monholy University
Dancers: Yui Kawaguchi, Yasutake Shimagi, Yuko Okubo, Hiromi Obuchi, Ryo Omi, Sadayuki Hayashi, Masayoshi Horikawa, JOEY, Mina Nishimura and Kota Yamazaki

"In 2001, I had a feeling of making a new piece of people who cherish sadness inside. Later of this year, 9/11 happened. And I closed my company rosy co."
—Kota Yamazaki

"This choreography is so flexible so that drawing each dancer's different personalities and causing increase of tension on the stage gradually, continuously which makes this piece so memorable."
—Dance Magazine

"Night on the grass made a bright impression. Through unbalanced and unexpected movements, anxiety or fear which are sealed in daily life are seen clearly in Night on the Grass. This fact makes a bright impression."
—Dance Magazine

CAUSED BY ECONOMY (2005)

Premiere at The National Theater of Korea
Choreographer: Kota Yamazaki
Dancers: Kyong-sil Choi, Soon-ho Park, Yoon-jung Lee, Jong-chul Shin, Dong-won, LeeJin-young Kil

Music: Jung-wook Ki?
Lighting Designer: Masaki Aikawa
Costume: Si-nae Kim

FAGALAA (2004)

Official premiere at UCR, California (Premiere in Toubab Dialaw, Senegal)
Choreographers: Germaine Acogny, Kota Yamazaki
Dancers:  Babacar Ba Cire Beye, Abdoulaye Kane, Papa Ibrahima Ndiya (Kaolack), Ousmane Bane Ndiya, Tchebe Saky, Abib Sow
Composer: Fabrice Boullion/LaForest
Co-Composer: Jean-Yves Gratius
Costume Designer: Oumou Sy
Set Designer: Maciej Fiszer

[Acogny would like everybody -the society and politicians- to become conscious of the urgent need to find solutions for peace in order to extinguish the flames of hatred and to avoid that this type of tragedy will ever happen again. Yamazaki believes FAGAALA could be a requiem which will last forever with beauty, full of strength and originality In FAGAALA, he tried to discribe unconcious emotions which are hiding within every people and could make such a tragedy happens.]

"Germaine Acogny, artistic director of Senegal-based Compagnie Jant-bi, and Japanese Butohchoreographer Kota Yamazaki made what seems impossible.They shone a light on one of themost horrific crimes of the last twentieth century and created beauty. Fagaala tells us, the destruvtive forces inside us can and will periodically erupt. Painters likeBosch, Goya, Picasso have grappled with that darkest side of human nature. Fagaala  does it through dance."
—Dance Magazine

CHOLON (2001)

Premiere at Bunkamura Theater Cocoon, Tokyo 5/18
Dancers: Kinuko Shimada, Motoko Hirayama, Soumi Sasaki, Yukako Kanou, Hiromi Obuchi, Yuko Okubo, Sadira Smith, Hiroyuki Iguchi, Hiroyuki Mizuuchi, Toru Omi, Yasutake Shimaji, Shige Ishibashi, Kota Yamazaki
Stage Set: Toyo Ito   
Set assistant: Makoto Yokomizo
Music: Masahiro Sugaya

"Just refreshing air was left.... though audience was heated up....."
—On Stage/Japan

"Cholon simply impressed us. Japanese contemporary dance finally reached this much far."
—WALK 41/Japan

HYPER BALLAD (2001)

Premiere at New National Theater, Tokyo  3/10

Dancers: Kuniko Kisanuki, Yuko Okubo, Hiromi Obuchi, Namie Kita, Kinuko Shimada, Sadira Smith, Hiroyuki Iguchi, Ryo Omi, Takayuki Shiraishi, Masatoshi Setoda, Tomohisa Hikida, Kaiji Moriyama and Kota Yamazaki
Stage set: Toyo Ito
Music: Ryoji Ikeda, Pharoah Sanders

FOIGRAS (2000)

Premiere at Lyon Dance Biennial (works in progress), France
and Lafore Museum ROPPONGI, Tokyo (evening-length work)

Dancers: Yoko Ando, Mia Atsugi, Yui Kawaguchi, Yukako Kanou, Hiromi Obuchi, Masayoshi Horikawa, Masaki Hoshika, Tomohisa Hikida, Hiroyuki Iguchi, Megumi Yoshizawa and Kota Yamazaki
Live Music: 32 Janvier
Set Designer: Chiezou Taro

"Yamazaki's ability as a choreographer leads an appearence of a new holy world in the space."
—Dance Magazine: Ballet 2001

PASARBARU (2000)

Premiere at IMA Hall,Tokyo

Dancers: Masayoshi Horikawa, Yui Kawaguchi and Kota Yamazaki
Music: Simon Turner, Taeko Oonuki, Masaaki Kikuchi

CHINOISE FLOWER (1999)

Premiere at Bumkamura Theater Cocoon, Tokyo  7/23
Dancers: Yoko Ando, Kinuko Shimada, Ayuko Hirata, Ryohei Kondo, Kaiji Moriyama, Masanori Hoshika, Masayoshi Horikawa, Hiroyuki Mizuuchi, Yukako Kano, Yayoi Hatanaka, Kota Yamazaki
Flower Set: Ryusaku Matsuda
Music: Masahiro Sugaya, Ryoji Ikeda

"One of the loveliest and most original new dances of this or any other season."
—San Francisco Chronicle

"Is this a dream or a dance that should stand alone?"
—Dance Magazine

PICNIC (1997)

Premiere at Spiral Hall, Tokyo

Dancers: Kyoko Morimoto, Tangin Fong Matos, Ryohei Kondo, Tsuyoshi Ozawa, Yuko Okubo, Kaiji Moriyama, Masanori Hoshika, Hiroyuki Mizuuchi, Masayoshi Horikawa, Tomohisa Hikida, Ryo Omi and Kota Yamazaki
Stage Set: Et In Terra Pax
Music: Masahiro Sugaya

WHAT'S WRONG (1996)

Premiere at Bunkamura Theater Cocoon, Tokyo

Dancers: Kyoko Morimoto, Megumi Yoshizawa, Mami Shimazaki, Ryohei Kondo, Kenzo Kusuda, Tangin Fong Hing and Kota Yamazaki
Music: Ryoji Ikeda

SHAKURI (1995)

Premiere at Ikebukuro Arts Theater, Tokyo

Dancer: Kota Yamazaki
Music: Ryoji Ikeda

SHASEN—THE OBLIQUE LINE AND CREAK (1995)

Premiere at Spiral Hall, Tokyo

Dancers: Yoko Ando and Kota Yamazaki
Music: Masahiro Sugaya

TRAFFIC (1994)

Premiere at Sinjyuku Space Zero

Dancers:
Ryohei Kondo, Sadayuki Hayashi, Yoshimi Ide, Yoko Ando, Kota Yamazaki
Music: Masahiro Sugaya

INFLECTION (1994)

Premiere at Sougetu Hall (Tokyo Platform of Bagnolet Competition)

Dancers: Ryohei Kondo, Aki Nagatani, Megumi Yoshizawa and Kota Yamazaki
Music: Masahiro Sugaya

REFLECTION (1993)

Premiere at Asahi Square

Dancers: Ken Nakakura, Aki Nagatani and Kota Yamazaki
Music: Masahiro Sugaya