退避（ワーク・イン・プログレス 公開ワークショップ）The Retreat (work-in-progress open workshop)

Thanapol Virulhakul began to involve himself in conceptual dance performance as a dancer, choreographer and director to investigate his interest in and question on human perception of themselves and the world after studying film and photography at Thammasat University. He has been a co-artistic director of Democrazy Theatre Studio in Bangkok since 2013. Among his recent works are Hipster the King (2014) that received three awards from the Thailand centre of the International Association of Theatre Critics and toured in Germany and Japan, Girl X (2015), a collaboration with Suguru Yamamoto (Japan), and Happy Hunting Ground (2016), a co-production with Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe (Germany).

Vidura Amranand is a contemporary dance artist and teacher based in Bangkok, Thailand. She has performed extensively with B-floor Theatre and has worked with director Thanapol Virulhakul since 2010. Her most recent directorial works are One Night Stand and The Floating Project. Vidura studied dance at Sarah Lawrence College in New York, USA and was a recipient of the danceWEB scholarship at ImpulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival in 2011. In 2018, Vidura participated in the Southeast Asian Choreolab in Kuala Lumpur. She continues to teach and develop her movement practice in trance, visualization, and awareness.

Krid graduated in Theater Design: Western Dance from Srinakharinwirot University and worked with the Alliance Française Bangkok and the French actor Valentine Nagata Ramos (Uzumaki Company) in a show called SADAKO. He was a winner of the World of Dance Thailand competition, a TV program on ONE31 Channel, and became a representative of dancers in Thailand to compete in the United States in the World of Dance program on NBC Channel. He is currently a dancer of a company DD Flection and has co-produced performances such as III: A Documentary Dance Performance and II Mind Space with Rinyapas Sirisamanphong.

Rinyapas, with a special interest in the art of movement, graduated in Theater Design: Western Dance from Srinakharinwirot University and worked with the Alliance Française Bangkok and the French actor Valentine Nagata Ramos (Uzumaki Company) in a show called SADAKO. She was a winner of the World of Dance Thailand competition, a TV program on ONE31 Channel, and became a representative of dancers in Thailand to compete in the United States in the World of Dance program on NBC Channel. He is currently a dancer of the company DD Flection and has co-produced performances such as III: A Documentary Dance Performance and II Mind Space with Krid Prarom.

Choreographer/performer. Born in Tokyo. After studying contemporary dance and psychology at Portland State University and working in NYC, she moved to Brussels, where she met Norwegian choreographer Heine Avdal. They have been collaborating since 2000 and founded “fieldworks.” Their work is concerned with “performativity” and allows for an open interpretation of movement as a heterogeneous combination of a variety of media drawing on a broad range of disciplines and expertise. They create projects not only in theatre spaces but also in offices, hotels and supermarkets where their subtly estranging interaction with the space suggests rethinking the notion of the everyday itself.

Since 2001, Hokuto has been dancing internationally with renowned dance companies such as GöteborgsOperans Dancekompani and The Royal Swedish Ballet. Negotiating with his own background as a dancer born in a ballet family in Japan, his choreographic works operate along the discourses of power, body and subjectivity, inquiring into fundamental problematics of his own. He has presented his first full length solo work Trace(s) at the Institute of Contemporary Art Tokyo in March 2017, and successively created two solos in the following year. He holds MFA in Choreography from the University of Arts Stockholm (DOCH), and will pursue his research as a PhD candidate in Kyoto from spring 2019.

Sachi Masuda, originally from Hyogo prefecture, began her early training at Sadamatsu-Hamada Ballet, and began her career in contemporary dance in 2012. She has had the opportunity to perform in works such as Mahler Symphony No.7 in E minor “Song of the Night” and Mahler Symphony No.6 in A minor “Tragic” by Kitamari/KIKIKIKIKIKI, and RE/PLAY Dance Edit (Manila, Philippines) by Junnosuke Tada to name a few. She has also gone on tour in the U.S. and Canada with a theatrical piece by visual artist Miwa Yanagi, in which she performed as a dancer/actor. In 2015, she formed the dance unit “...1 [amariichi (a remainder of one)]” with fellow dancer Ayako Saitoh.

Dr. Nanako Nakajima is a dramaturge and scholar of dance, and teacher of traditional Japanese dance. Her projects include luciana achugar’s “Exhausting Love at Danspace Project” (2006-07 ‘The Bessies’), Osamu Jareo’s “Theater Thikwa plus Junkan Project,” “Dance Archive Boxes @TPAM2016,” “Dancing Multiple Futures” at Tokyo Photographic Museum and “Yvonne Rainer Performative Exhibition” at Kyoto Art Theater Shunju-za 2017. Nanako received the 2017 Special Commendation of Elliott Hayes Award for Outstanding Achievement in Dramaturgy from the Literary Manager and Dramaturgs of the Americas. Publications: Dance Dramaturgy (2015); The Aging Body in Dance (2017); Anohni—My Truth (2017).