Nobuyoshi
Asai

Nobuyoshi ASAI Nobuyoshi Asai started dancing in Japan at the age of ten, and began his professional career after First Prize at World Hip-Hop Championship in 2002. In order to go deeper into movement demanding a complex and profound interior approach, he joined the japanese butoh company Dairakudakan on 2005, before becoming permanent dancer at the butoh company Sankai Juku with whom he gave performances all over the world. In parallel, on 2011, the Pola Art Foundation provided him grants to pursue his choreographic and artistic researches in Berlin, so as to weave links between japanese cultural background and occidental contemporary creative movements. The following year, he obtained the Japanese Governement Study program for Artists and spent a year in Tel Aviv, joined at the Batsheva Company and also collaborating with the alternative artistic environment of Clipa Theater and Maria Kong.He directs his own dance company PIERRE MIROIR based in Paris.In the past Asai has worked with Damien Jalet &Kohei Nawa[VESSEL] ,Darren Johnston[Zero Point],Compagnie NACERA BELAZA[La Travers] .Phantom Limb Company [Falling out] ,Sue Healey[On view] etc.Currently, Asai is working as a freelance Butoh dancer and choreographer on the international stage, and he is also artistic director of Moon Light theater and Dance house KOGANE4422.Awards-Good Design Award,Japan 2017-NDA Award for choreographic conception at AsianSolo&Duo Challenge for MASDANZA2017- First Prize for choreographic conception at NEXTREAM21,Japan,April 2015- First Prize for choreographic conception at Festival Afrik Urbanarts, Abidjan, may 2013- Special Prize for visual arts and performing arts at Arte Laguna - 7th International Art Prize, Venice, march 2013- Japanese Government Overseas Study Program for Artists, 2011- Grants for Overseas Study Pola Art Foundation, Japan, 2010- The 6th Asahi Performing Arts Prize, Japan, 2006- The Prize of Kirin Dance Support, Japan, 2006- First Prize at World Hip-Hop Championship, USA, 2002