michiyasu
furutani

Born in Osaka, Japan, Michiyasu Furutani is a choreographer, performer, and dancer whose work and expression grow from Butoh technique and practice. In the process of continual research, he has developed his vocabulary of movement to encompass improvisation and a variety of modern and classical dance techniques forming necessity, possibility, and contingency. Furutani frequently collaborates with diverse art disciplines to broaden the communicational passage and constantly investigates unforeseen modes of expression and movement in the interdisciplinary context. His interest is how bodies and objects adapt to a space and conjure a destabilized place through the exploration of the field of gravity, which affects not only the moving body but also the static body as a bonding force examining otherness, empathy, and solidarity.  He studied for theater act at Nihon University College of Art in Tokyo and finished the Master program „Solo/Dance/Authorship“ at HZT Berlin.