Performance by the finalists selected based on videos and documentation among 83 entries from 12 countries and regions.

Performance by 12 finalists selected based on videos and documentation among entries from 38 new choreographers age 25 or under.

Hashimoto Roma won the Best New Artist Award at the Yokohama Dance Collection 2020 Competition II. Audiences are mesmerized by the groups style of storytelling, disassembling and reconstructing a unique aesthetic sense and context throughout the entire work. The new performance "FAUST" is based on the story "Faust," whose protagonist makes a deal with the devil in exchange for his own soul, and "Dance Macabre," in which people become frantic, dancing madly in fear of death. Hundreds of years after the original first saw the light of day, this ambitious new rendition offers a glance into the desperate boil of dancing in our current world circumstances.

While Shimomura keeps a critic’s distance from "contemporary dance" and skillfully uses composition in his pieces, he never forgets his humor. Now, as the coronavirus rages around the world, stresses build, polarizing opinions have surfaced, and division, discrimination, and hate run rampant both on the Internet and in the real world, he has chosen to unveil his new work, with ‘voice’ as its main theme.
Now that everyone can publish their opinions and values on social media at the push of a button, our voices have gained incredible power. With voice as a front man, voice as a weapon, and voice as a shield, we charge on, compelled by voice.
Following "Defection for Beginners: The Country of DREAMS," which won him the Jury Prize at the Yokohama Dance Collection 2019, his second edition of in the "Defection for Beginners" series is based on discrimination, division, and the obviousness of the contemporary dance world.

Dance Cross is the joint project between the French Embassy and Anstitut Francais Japon. Okamoto Yu won the French Embassy Prize for Young Choreographer at the last Dance Cross, but her residence in France was postponed due to the spread of the infectious coronavirus. This year she will present a concept she has been working on that she hopes to develop more in the future. In support of this project, a video piece by an associate artist of the French National Dance Center will be shown. On top of that, Umeda Hiroaki, who gained the attention of the world dance community by winning the chance to premier in Europe at the Rencontres Choregraphiques Internationales De Seine-Saint-Denis (formerly named the Bagnolet International Choreography Festival) in 2002 at the Yokohama Platform, will be performing his masterpiece in Yokohama for the first time in nearly 20 years.

Alain Platel is the Belgian genius who has led the performing arts world with his creative work that transcends the barriers of nationality and genre. Platel's work illuminates the "other side" of the boundaries that divide us, focusing on things beyond systems and customs, depicting deep human dramas. We have selected four of his recent characteristic works, including the long-awaited re-performance of "Out of Context – for Pina," to show at the Yokohama Dance Collection 2021. Three of them will be released for the first time in Japan. "This dance is for the world, and the world is for everyone." — How will we ever overcome the divisions that continue to grow around the world? Platel's works are sure to give us a glimpse of the keys for imagining and creating the "future" of our shared reality, even if the movement on stage is beyond control.

im Jedok continues to present works that transcend genres and reinterpret Korean traditional styles with dynamic curvaceousness and speed. His activities have spread not only throughout Asia, but Europe and Latin America as well. "Darkness Poomba" is a work that has been performed more than 50 times in 30 cities around the world since its premiere in 2008, using the traditional Korean "Beggar Song (Pumbaa)" as its main material. The dancers continue to sing and dance to overcome the darkness. a concept that stems from the unique Korean sentiment of “Han," which expresses grief and resentment. The spread of the coronavirus prevents Kim from coming to Japan, so this year Yokohama Dance Collection will be screening his performance instead.