14th [Wed.] 16:15-18:15 / Tokyo International Forum, Hall B7-1 Director : SHIGA Reiko [Producer, Itami City Ai･Hall] Since 2002, Itami City Ai･Hall has been conducting "Take a chance project", a scheme to co-produce new works with performing artists based in the Kansai region. The hall collaborates with three different artists annually, while each artist will continue to co-produce a new work every year over three years, resulting with three new productions to be performed in and out of the country after a premiere in Itami. Works by the three artists who have already performed their productions will be introduced. JAREO Osamu + TERADA Misako Founded in 1991, Jareo produces and directs for the unit while choreographing and performing together with Terada. Choosing the duo, the minimum relationship structure between self and other, they are searching for an as yet unknown way of relating to people through the piece, not only using Western methods, but also focusing on a sensitive Japanese body quality. The unit received the 'next generation choreographer prize' at the 'Toyota Choreography Award 2002'. photo by Inoue Yoshikazu BABY-Q BABY-Q is a dance performance group founded in 2000, with Higashino Yoko leading and collaborating a group of members who are independently successful as dancers, actors, musicians, visual artists, robot designers, and fine artists, to create a stage space where various methods of expression can coexist. The awards received include the 'next generation choreographer prize' at the Toyota Choreography Award 2004, and the 'Yokohama Prize for Brilliant Future' at the 'Yokohama Solo x Duo +'. YAMASHITA Zan Born in Osaka in 1970, YAMASHITA began dancing at the age of 19. He has been creating works based on a fixed theme each year since 1995. Over the past several years, he has been exploring the relationship between language and body through choreography. He currently lives in Kyoto. The awards received include 'Kyoto Arts Center Theatre Award 2004' for 'Seki wo Shitemo Hitori - Even if I cough, I am alone' production. • Director : SHIGA Reiko SHIGA serves as a producer at Itami City Ai･Hall in Hyogo Prefecture, the Summer Festival at Biwako Hall, Center for the Performing Arts, Shiga, and Kyoto Performing Art Center, Kyoto University of Art and Design. She also works as a specially appointed professor (part-time) at Osaka University Center for the Study of Communication-Design, a part-time lecturer at the Department of Visual and Performing Arts, Kyoto University of Art and Design, and a member of the board of directors at JCDN (Japan Contemporary Dance Network) which is an incorporated nonprofit organization, as well as at Dance Box, and Okayama Art Farm.