Hiroaki Umeda

The great figurehead of performing and visual arts in Japan, Hiroaki Umeda, presents two choreographic sets that are also visual works.

At the crossroads of contemporary dance and urban dance, the trio Vibrance sheds light on the impressive physicality of three Japanese dancers of popping and hip hop. Umeda applies to their techniques and movements his own choreographic and visual principles. Diffracted, disjointed, contrasted, stopping suddenly, the movements form a complex and hypnotic mechanism.

In his solo Median, he draws inspiration from the discoveries behind the microscopic observation of living matter: choreographies of cells, molecular forms, organic synthesizes. Just like any other moving substance, the human body is an integral part of this vast puzzle that is nature.