Research activity information

• Mar. 2025 European Commission, Horizon Europe program, ERA Fellowship, Environmental Turn of Dance: Convergence of Therapeutic Practice, Art Creation with Al and Community Practice(ETD)

  Shuntaro Yoshida

  The ERA Fellowship is a prestigious award that supports researchers in conducting research and innovation projects. It is part of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) under the Horizon Europe program. The fellowship targets host organizations located in Widening Countries, aiming to enhance research capacities and foster excellence. Researchers of any nationality can apply to engage in projects by moving to or within the EU to a Widening Country.

  International academic award

  IRI


• Oct. 2022 Berlin Centre for Advanced Studies in Arts and Sciences (BAS), BAS Association, Einen anderen Garten - die Recherche

  Shuntaro Yoshida, Alex Viteri

  Others

  IRI


• Jun. 2019 Dance Studies Association, Graduate Student Travel Award

  Shuntaro Yoshida


• Mar. 2016 Japan Student Services Organization (JASSO), Repayment Exemption of Student Loan for Students with Excellent Grades (Exemption of half of loan)

  Shuntaro Yoshida


• Sep. 2014 Fondation de Cité International Universitaire de Paris, Bourse de Cité International Universitaire de Paris

  Shuntaro YOSHIDA

• Living archival practice and the choreographical navigations: Encounters and approaches with other-than-human persons

  Shuntaro Yoshida, Alex Viteri Arturo, Catalina Fernandez, Maharu Maeno, Jun Yamaguchi

  This article delves into the collaborative work of the interspecies dance collective, Mapped to the Closest Address (MaCA), focusing on our living archival practice and exploration of choreography with other-than-human persons. Through encounters with various species and environments, MaCA seeks to shift anthropocentric perspectives, interrogate their orientation towards modernity and coloniality, and question their understanding/administration/entanglement/devotion of, with, and to nature. The collective’s journey, from a digital residency during the COVID-19 pandemic to site research, installations, and performance at the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale 2022, is documented and analyzed. The collective’s collaborative process involves relinquishing control to allow for the emergence of disobedient movements and the exploration of choreography from the perspective of other-than-human persons. This includes encounters with kudzu vines and mountains, weaving their movements and patterns into performances and installations. The article discusses the immersive performance “Turn Off the House Lights,” in which MaCA integrates stories from local communities with gestures inspired by the landscape. Through our living archival practice, MaCA aims to transmit a collective memory of interactions among organisms and environments and highlight the interconnectedness of humans and the other creatures of the Earth. The article reflects on the significance of choreography beyond human-centric notions, emphasizing the emergent forms of ecological performance and the dissolution of boundaries between human and non-human realms. Drawing on interdisciplinary perspectives including dance, visual art, and theatre, MaCA’s work exemplifies a cross-disciplinary approach to expressing the choreography of other-than-human persons. This approach not only presents audiences with immersive experiences but also responds to the future ecosystem through artistic exploration. Ultimately, MaCA’s living archival practices contribute to awareness of the collective lives of other-than-human persons and offer insights into navigating our enmeshment with the natural world.

  Lead, F1000 Research Ltd, Aug. 2024, Open Research Europe, 4(171) (171), English, International magazine

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal


• FujiFilms: Every Picture Matters. Notes on our collective’s encounters among rice fields and tree frogs

  Maharu Maeno, Catalina Fernandez, Alex Viteri Arturo, Shuntaro Yoshida, Jun Yamaguchi

  From 2019 to 2022, Mapped to the Closest Address (MaCA) was a transnational interspecies dance collective composed of Maharu Maeno, Catalina Fernandez, Alex Viteri Arturo, and Shuntaro Yoshida (Japan/Colombia & Ecuador). Jun Yamaguchi joined the collective for the 2022 Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial, an event that is part of Japan’s ecological planning to revitalise Niigata Prefecture’s satoyama regions. In this creative essay, we invite readers to explore the sonic world of our siteresponsive performance, Turn Off the House Lights, which was presented within our installation, We Like to See Clumsy Seeming Mountains, at the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial. Analogue photographs from the series Fuji Films: Every Picture Matters offer a glimpse into our archival practices, along with digital images of the performance and installation. Through collective choreographic practices, we entered into contact with other-than-human persons, using various devices to record our encounters and craft multimedia installations to share our archive. Our project aimed to highlight the entangled relationship between humans and non-humans and to shift anthropocentric perspectives. For over four years, we’ve met and gathered stories from fellow community gardeners, arborists, farmers, winery workers, friends, and family. This piece honours them.

  University of Canberra, Bruce, Jul. 2024, Axon: Creative Explorations, 14(1) (1), 1 - 17, English, No password

  [Refereed][Invited]

  Scientific journal

  添付ファイルのURL


• The Possibility of Sustainable Creation and Obstacles in Dance Works Using Artificial Intelligence

  Shuntaro Yoshida

  ISBN: 978-84-09-62938-1 ISSN: 2340-1117

  Lead, IATED, Jul. 2024, EDULEARN24 Proceedings, 1, 4120 - 4124, International magazine

  International conference proceedings


• Hunger and Resilience: Collective Agricultural and Artistic Practices in an Area Impacted by Environmental Disaster

  Shuntaro Yoshida

  This paper delves into the generative artistic practice of the “Half Farming, Half Art” project in Toride, Japan. The project focuses on a response to the societal, economic, and environmental challenges faced by young artists, particularly those exacerbated by the Fukushima disaster of 2011. This paper examines the project’s evolution by addressing various forms of hunger, including physical, psychological, and Earth hunger resulting from soil contamination. The project’s innovative methods and community engagement initiatives made it a platform for resistance and resilience, fostering care for the environment while sustaining the collective lives of the participating artists.In its investigation of the convergence of gardening, farming, and artistic creation as responses to environmental disasters, this essay also casts light on Butō dancer Min Tanaka’s exploration of the relationship between agriculture and art. Drawing parallels with Min Tanaka’s agricultural practice and the practice of Body Weather, the “Half Farming, Half Art” project demonstrates the transformative potential of collective action in confronting adversity and reimagining relationships between humans and the natural world. This study illuminates how the various experiences of hunger became part of the legacy and the changing dynamic of the “Half Farming, Half Art” project.

  Lead, Performance Studies International, Jun. 2024, Global Performance Studies, 6(1-2) (1-2), No password, International magazine

  [Refereed]

  Scientific journal

  添付ファイルのURL


• How can we sense of other species’ choreography?: dissonant/invisible movement/contamination of body

  Yoshida Shuntaro

  In this article, I show how the recent increase in awareness of environmental issues has expanded the framework for considering areas of dance participation from human to non-human. I call this ecological dance. In expanding the sphere of participation, non-human as well as human participation is important for ecological dance in the context of climate change issues. This practical question is: Can humans’ sense non-human movement? Although this research is via the academic discussion of the Anthropocene, it is grounded in a non-human perspective that removes the anthropocentric view through physical experience. The non-human perspective highlights the nuances of the discomfort of other species and confronts the challenges of invisible integration of the real human world. This research will present case studies of other species’ choreography; First Touch (2022), Turn off the house lights (2022), and Soil memory (2022), and the impossibilities of human integration: dissonance of sloth movement, invisible movement in entangled landscapes and contamination of body in the soil memory. These each works has interaction between human and non-human. The choreography represents the ecological dance between human and non-human. However, these other species choreographies present that the effects of other species’ choreography on humans are not yet fully understood. Agency of other species is considered a scientific problem, but this research has not faced such a problem. The collaboration with other species has historically been viewed ritually and positively, but this article shows that suspicion about human integration is important. Three case studies confront Western contemporary dance companies with the challenge of choreographing other species as an experience that mirror the invisible integration of nature that is going on in the real world.

  Lead, Janáček Academy of Performing Arts in 2023 (ISSN 2787-9305), May 2023, Theatre Conference JAMU, BOOK OF PROCEEDINGS 2022 Touching Limits / Crossing Borders of Theatre (multimedia proceedings), as a special issue of Atelier 205, 0'00" - 19'36", English, International magazine

  International conference proceedings


• Japanese Corporate Sponsorship Activities regarding Contemporary Dance -Centering on the “Era of the Choreographer” and the Social Role of Choreographers-

  Shuntaro Yoshida

  The thesis of "コンテンポラリーダンスにおける日本のメセナ活動—「振付家の時代」と振付家の社会的な役割を中心に—"(Yoshida 2021) translated by English.

  Lead, Association for Corporate Support of the Arts, Mar. 2023, Association for Corporate Support of the Arts, Associate Report 2020, (7) (7), 1 - 29, English, No password

  添付ファイルのURL


• How Artificial Intelligence Can Shape Choreography: The Significance of Techno-Performance

  Shuntaro Yoshida, Natsumi Fukasawa

  Recent choreographic works using artificial intelligence (AI) have focused on the motions designed by AI based on vast amounts of data about human bodily movements. However, complications arise when the emphasis shifts to the technological determinism that manifests in creative processes mutually produced by AI and choreographers or dancers because the value system of AI engineers diverges from that of the choreographers or dancers who use AI. Emphasising the creative process may clash with the aspirations AI engineers have for the new technology. With these concerns in mind, this essay aims to clarify the creative process shared by the AI engineers and the choreographers, dancers and techno-performances who use the technology. This study illuminates the development of “Beethoven Complex” (2020), an AI Beethoven program featuring a choreographic performance that utilises an AI-driven automatic music composition system.

  Lead, Performance Paradigm (ISSN: 1832-5580), Dec. 2022, Perform or Else? Revisiting Jon McKenzie's Work in the Post-pandemic World, No 17 (2022), 67 - 86, English, No password, International magazine

  [Refereed]

  添付ファイルのURL


• Post-Choreography as Choreographic Practice: Clumsy Movement and Jérôme Bel’s Choreography

  Shuntaro Yoshida

  I focused on participatory choreographic practice in contemporary dance and presented the connection between ‘post-choreography’ and ‘clumsy movement’. I shed light on the choreographic practice of the French choreographer Jérôme Bel, who is active in the fields of performing arts and contemporary art. The focus was on ‘Atelier danse et voix’ (Dance and Voice Workshop; 2014) and workshops held for local diverse participants in Brussels, Venice, and Munich, and ‘Gala’ (2015). The lecture aims to elucidate Bel’s creative method by exploring the relationship between the choreographer and the participants in a situation where the typical framework of actors has been expanded, and addresses the choreographic practices that represent post-choreography in the 2010s. It also investigates the means by which the participants’ clumsy movements ultimately dissolve the choreographer’s initiative. The focus of the case study is not so much the choreographic methodology itself, but the relationship between the method and the participants and the ways in which the choreographer cedes creative decisionmaking power to the participants. I applied the methods of investigating the interplay between autonomy and heteronomy previously explored in the context of the theatre and performance. In order to investigate Bel’s creative method, this paper made use of participant observation field notes taken during rehearsals. Additional data sources included Bel’s research materials, performance programmes, and interviews with the participants.

  Lead, Janáček Academy of Performing Arts in 2022 (ISSN 2787-9305), Jul. 2022, Theatre Conference JAMU, BOOK OF PROCEEDINGS 2021 The Ever-expanding Horizons of Theatre (multimedia proceedings), Special issue of Atelier 205, 0'00" - 22'45", English, International magazine

  [Invited]

  International conference proceedings


• コンテンポラリーダンスにおける日本のメセナ活動—「振付家の時代」と振付家の社会的な役割を中心に—

  Shuntaro Yoshida

  Lead, Association for Corporate Support of the Arts, Jun. 2021, Association for Corporate Support of the Arts, Associate Report 2020, (7) (7), 1 - 24, Japanese


• Post-choreography in the Changes of Choreographic Practices: “Clumsy-seeming Movement” and Jérôme Bel

  Shuntaro Yoshida

  Lead, 東京藝術大学リポジトリ, Sep. 2020, Tokyo University of the Arts, Doctoral Degree Thesis

  [Refereed]

  Doctoral thesis


• A Study of the Transformation Space of Flash Mob Dance: The Configuration of Spectators and Three Values of Flash Mob Dance

  Shuntaro Yoshida

  Lead, Mar. 2017, The annual review of musicology and music studies, (7) (7), Japanese

  [Refereed]


• “The writings of Yano Hideyuki : A representation of exotic and mixed cultures in the case of‘At the hawk’s well’”

  Yoshida, Shuntaro

  Lead, Nov. 2016, IV Baku International Theater Conference, 2016(5), 131 - 133, English

  [Refereed]

  International conference proceedings


• Chance in “Vidéodanse”: Cases of Choreography, Environment and Spectators

  Shuntaro YOSHIDA

  Lead, Mar. 2016, 東京芸術大学大学院, Japanese

  [Refereed]

  Master thesis


• “Flash Mob Dance, Transformation of Space: Configuration and Perception of Spectators

  Shuntaro Yoshida

  Sep. 2015, University of Paris 8, French

  [Refereed]

  Master thesis


• Flash Mob Dance: Issues and Paradoxes of Participative Artistic Form

  Shuntaro Yoshida

  Sep. 2014, University of Paris 8, French

  [Refereed]

• A Preliminary Study on the Ecological Turn in Dance: Task, Score, and Disobedience Movement

  Shuntaro Yoshida

  Lead, 29 Jun. 2025, Newsletter REPRE, 54, Japanese, Domestic magazine

  [Invited]

  Report scientific journal


• ”Fusion of AI and Dance: Creativity in Choreography”

  Shuntaro Yishida

  企画・編集：呉宮百合香 コーディネート協力：藤田 一樹 6つの切り口から「振付の今」を考える、若手ダンス研究者によるショートエッセイ集。

  ヨコハマダンスコレクション2023 Webマガジン, 16 Dec. 2023, Webマガジン「ダンコレマガジン」（ヨコハマダンスコレクション2023）, 7 - 7

  [Invited]


• "The Field of Choreography and the Expansion of Its Concepts, Toward Ecological Choreography"

  Shuntaro Yoshida

  企画・編集：呉宮百合香 コーディネート協力：藤田 一樹 6つの切り口から「振付の今」を考える、若手ダンス研究者によるショートエッセイ集。

  Lead, ヨコハマダンスコレクション2023, 16 Dec. 2023, Webマガジン「ダンコレマガジン」（ヨコハマダンスコレクション2023）, 6 - 6

  [Invited]


• Choreography for the Body and Nature, Resonant Dance: Perspectives on Environmental Performance

  Shuntaro Yoshida

  企画・編集：呉宮百合香 横浜ダンスコレクション2023のテーマ「現象を見る—自然と身体—」に応答する、環境問題に焦点を当てた舞台芸術の新しいアプローチに関する記事。環境ダンスは自然との関わりを通じて身体を鍛え、環境への意識を高める取り組みであり、近年では振付家たちが生物・無生物との関係や存在論を探求し、植物をパフォーマンスの主体として取り入れる試みが行われている。振付概念は人間中心から生物・無生物の関係性へと広がり、環境との共存を探求する新たなアプローチが舞台芸術において展開されていることを紹介している。

  Lead, ヨコハマダンスコレクション2023, 16 Dec. 2023, Webマガジン「ダンコレマガジン」（ヨコハマダンスコレクション2023）, 1 - 7

  [Invited]

  Introduction commerce magazine


• A Study of the Creative Process in Contemporary Dance : Focusing on the Choreographic Method of Jérôme Bel

  Shuntaro Yoshida

  以下から無料でダウンロードできます。 https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/da1e5a9f-8aaf-4591-b4fc-6b55994ecde4/%E3%80%8E%E6%97%A5%E4%BB%8F%E6%BC%94%E5%8A%87%E5%8D%94%E4%BC%9A%E4%BC%9A%E5%A0%B1%E3%80%8F%EF%BC%88%E5%BE%A9%E5%88%8A11%E5%8F%B7%EF%BC%89.pdf?t=1683187263?id=4012889

  Lead, La Société franco-japonaise de Théâtre, 04 May 2023, Bulletin de la Société franco-japonaise de Théâtre, (復刊11) (復刊11), 41 - 45, Japanese, Domestic magazine

  [Invited]

  Meeting report


• The Segal Center/ NYC 2018

  Shuntaro Yoshida

  Lead, Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, 05 Dec. 2022, A Permanent Parliament: Notes on Social Choreography, edited by Cory Tamler, 38 - 39, English

  [Invited]

  Others


• TARB書評: Gerko Egert, Moving Relation: Touch in Contemporary Dance

  Shuntaro Yoshida

  Lead, Yamanami Books, 03 Sep. 2022, Tokyo Academic Review of Books, 49, 1 - 1, English, TARB書評_GerkoEgert.pdf, No password

  [Invited]

  Book review

  添付ファイルのURL


• Other Species’ Choreography and Its Theoretical Background

  Shuntaro Yoshida

  Lead, 31 May 2022, Lichen Score, 6 - 10


• Report of PSi25 Calgary Elasticity

  Shuntaro Yoshida

  Japanese Society for Dance Research, 05 Nov. 2020, News Letter vol. 18 Japanese Society for Dance Research, (18) (18), 15 - 16


• "Correspondence on post-choreography”

  Shuntaro Yoshida, Hokuto Kodama

  ダンス研究者・振付家の児玉北斗が企画するプロジェクトへの共同エッセイを寄稿。

  20 Sep. 2020, 12 Writings on Dance

  [Invited]


• Report for ISPA-Leeuwarden-Friesland European Capital of Culture 2018

  Shuntaro Yoshida

  30 Apr. 2019, The 26th EU-Japan Fest Official Report, 100 - 101, English

  [Invited]


• Post-choreography in contemporary dance history and the aspect of choreographic practice

  Shuntaro Yoshida

  19 Jul. 2018, Japanese Dance Research Newsletter, (14) (14), 17 - 18, Japanese

  [Invited]

• Tokyo Academic Review of Books Archival Records Volume I

  Tokyo Academic Review of Books Editorial Board, Yoshiyuki Yokoro, Masatomi Iizawa, Shuntaro Yoshida

  Joint editor, pp. 1-741, Yamanmi Books, Jun. 2025, Japanese, 学術書専門の書評ジャーナル Tokyo Academic Review of Books (TARB) の製本版アーカイブ第1巻, ISBN: 9784909624086

  Scholarly book

  DOI


• Matters of Urgency. Herausforderungen der Gegenwart in Theater und Wissenschaft (Doris Kolesch, Jan Lazardzig, Jenny Schrödl, Lisa-Frederike Seidler, Thore Walch, Matthias Warstat (Hg./Eds.))

  Shuntaro Yoshida

  Contributor, The Nuclear Threat and Ecological Dance: How Can Humans Sense Other Species’ Choreography?（pp.359−369）, Berlin Universities Publishing, Feb. 2025, pp.359-369, English, ISBN: 9783987810381

  [Refereed]

  Scholarly book

  DOI


• Post-choreography : Jérôme Bel's choreography and movement in malfunction

  Yoshida, Shuntaro

  Single work, Routledge, Sep. 2024, English, his book sheds light on the practice of French choreographer Jérôme Bel, who is active in the fields of performing arts and contemporary art. Shuntaro Yoshida examines a case study of collective creation involving the choreographer and a group of amateur workshop participants. The focus is on Atelier Danse et Voix (Dance and Voice Workshop) (2014) and workshops held with local diverse participants in Brussels, Venice, and Munich after the cancellation of the Dance and Voice Workshop. This study elucidates Bel’s creative method by exploring the relationship between choreographer and participants in a situation where the typical framework of actors has been expanded. The focus of the case study is not so much the choreographic methodology itself, but the relationship between the method and the participants and the ways in which the choreographer cedes creative decision-making power to participants. In order to investigate Bel’s creative method, this study makes use of participant observation field notes taken during a rehearsal. Additional data sources include Bel’s emailed materials, performance programs, and interviews with participants.This book will be of great interest to students and scholars in theater, performance, and dance studies., ISBN: 9781032303208

  [Refereed]

  Scholarly book


• Lichen Score

  Mapped to the Closest Address (Alex Viteri, Catalina Fernadez, Maharu Maeno, Shuntaro Yoshida), Yuni Hong Charpe

  Editor, Mapped to the Closest Address + Yuni Hong Charpe, May 2022

• Navigating Choreography Between the Human and the Non-human: Collective Practice and Disobedient Movements

  Shuntaro Yoshida, Alex Viteri

  »Non-machines: Playground of Perspectives«, Jul. 2023, English, Institutio Media at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar and Action Toolkit of Care of the European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST), Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany, In this talk, we’ll discuss the choreographic practices of Mapped to the Closest Address (MaCA). This time, we will focus on the dramaturgical strategies of “Turn Off the House Lights (ToHL),” MaCA’s atmospheric lecture performance (2022). In ToHL, we aimed to translate landscapes from two-dimensional detached views into sensual aesthetic experiences, highlighting the interplay between human and non-human choreographies. Reflecting on the discoveries made during our collaborative journey with artists, scientists, and local communities, this performance lecture explores how the live narration of TOtHL makes the stories of our artistic research visible, engaging our guests in sensuous experiences of real, imagined, and imaginations-of-real landscapes. Through the lens of “bewilderment” (Halberstam, 2020), we investigate the disobedient movements of earth in modernized society.

  [Invited]

  Oral presentation


• How can we sense of other species’ choreography?:Dissonant / invisible movement / contamination of body.

  Shuntaro Yoshida

  Theatre Conference JAMU 2022, Nov. 2022, English

  Oral presentation


• Ecological Dance as Activist: Archive of “Dancing” Disaster and Other Species’ Dance

  Shuntaro Yoshida

  Dancing Resilience: Dance Studies and Activism in a Global Age, Oct. 2022, English, Dance Studies Association, Simon Fraser University, Canada, International conference

  Oral presentation


• The Nuclear Threat and Ecological Dance: How Can Humans Sense Other Species’ Choreography?

  Shuntaro Yoshida

  KONGRESS DER GESELLSCHAFT FÜR THEATERWISSENSCHAFT 15, Sep. 2022, English, Germany, Germany, For over a decade, philosophers, environmental and social activists, artists, and scientists have urged us about Earth’s rapid deterioration. Non-human and human participation are essential for increasing the sphere of involvement in ecological dance within the context of climate change. In this presentation, I demonstrate how the recent increase in awareness of environmental issues has expanded the framework for considering areas of dance participation between humans and non-humans. In addition, recent social unrest has awakened my trauma of Fukushima. I would like to address the subject of nuclear power and the use of nuclear energy to question the control over natural threats that are impossible for humans to control. This paper presents case studies of other species’ choreography in fear of the threat of nuclear; Eiko Otake’s Body in Fukushima and Half-Farm, Half-Art (Han-nō Han-gei) Project in Toride. These projects’ presence with the radiated landscape reframes human responsibility in the degradation of the environment. I analyze the work of Eiko Otake, whose lengthened mourning practice addresses the trauma of landscapes, and the Japanese Half-Farm, Half-Art approach, which has difficulties in guaranteeing their livelihoods after Fukushima’s triple disaster in 2011. Nuclear disasters result in ecological and biological concerns that enliven discussions about nuclear disasters, and they result in durational mourning and hunger due to the ongoing effects of the crisis. This threat shed light on thinking of different sustainability for the natural environment.

  Oral presentation


• Hunger in Disaster and Biological Hazard

  Shuntaro Yoshida

  Performance Studies international (PSi#27: Hunger), Jul. 2022, English

  Oral presentation


• The Creation Process of Choreographic Works Using Artificial Intelligence and the Significance of Techno-Performance in the Covid-19 Pandemic in Japan: A Case Study of "Beethoven Complex"

  Shuntaro Yoshida, Natsumi Fukazawa

  Japanese Society for Dance Research, The 25th Research Meeting, Jun. 2022, Japanese


• Post-Choreography as Choreographic Practice: Clumsy Movement and Jérôme Bel’s Choreography

  Shuntaro Yoshida

  Theatre Conference JAMU, The Ever-expanding Horizons of Theatre, Nov. 2021, English

  Oral presentation


• Post-choreography in the Covid-19 pandemic : Research on the choreographer’s relational approach

  Shuntaro Yoshida

  The Dance Studies Association, Galvanizing Dance Studies: Building Anti-Racist Praxis, Transformative Connections, and Movement(s) of Radical Care, Oct. 2021, English

  Oral presentation


• Collective Creation / Distributing Choreography / Emergence

  Shuntaro Yoshida

  Online-Curious Minds: ArtScience Monthly #15, Jun. 2021, English, State Studio-Berlin, The event is joined by Karen Margolis from New York and Dr. Shuntaro Yoshida from Japan. Karen Margolis is a visual artist whose work references maps in exploring the universality of patterns through micro and macro. Shuntaro Yoshida is a choreographer, dancer and researcher of contemporary dance who focuses on post-choreography, creating collaborations across distance and species. This event has been curated by Curious Minds community member Emily Garfield. Emily has been attending the ArtScience Monthly from New York since summer 2020. The speakers are pulled from her networks of driven creatives interested in art and science. Her own work is in creating imaginary maps in pen and watercolor, inspired by biological forms.

  [Invited]

  Public discourse


• Expansion of Actors and Nature in Urban Areas : A Case Study of Choreography About Ecology

  Shuntaro Yoshida

  The International Conference on Dance Research 2021 Dance Xchange Philippines, Feb. 2021, English

  Oral presentation


• “Post-choreography in the Changes of Choreographic Practices: “Clumsy-seeming Movement” and Jérôme Bel”

  Shuntaro Yoshida

  Tokyo University of the Arts Graduate Conference, Feb. 2021, Japanese

  Oral presentation


• Collective creation in the digital residency: togetherness in the Covid-19 pandemic

  Shuntaro Yoshida

  Performance Art and the 21st Century Post-postmodern Audience, End of Semester Symposium, Far Eastern University, Nov. 2020

  [Invited]

  Invited oral presentation


• Expansion of contemporary dance practice and theory

  Shuntaro Yoshida, Yurika Kuremiya, Hokuto Kodama, Yujiro Fujimoto, Mariko Miyagawa(Dance Research Collective

  Japanese Society for Dance Research＃71, Dec. 2019, Japanese, Domestic conference

  Poster presentation


• World constellations through poetic performing encounters

  Shuntaro Yoshida Alex Viteri

  Performance Studies international, Elasticity, PSi#25, Jul. 2019, English, International conference

  Public symposium


• Collective choreography: togetherness as dancing in common (Jerome Belʼs “Atelier danse et voix”, “Gala” and Flash Mob Dance)

  Shuntaro Yoshida

  Performance Studies international, Elasticity, PSi#25, Jul. 2019, English, International conference

  Oral presentation


• Post-choreography as the notion of collective choreography: Research on the occurrence and the acceptance of choreographic practice in urban areas

  Shuntaro Yoshida

  Société québécoise d'études théâtrales, New Materialism, SQET, May 2019, English, International conference

  Invited oral presentation


• Flash Mob Dance: the anonymity of contemporary dance

  Shuntaro Yoshida

  International Federation Theater Research, Theater and Migration, IFTR, Jul. 2018, English, International conference

  Oral presentation


• Yano Hideyuki (1943-88) and dance archives: Graphical elements appearing in dance note and their roles

  Shuntaro Yoshida

  Japanese Society for Dance Research＃69, Dec. 2017, Japanese, Domestic conference

  Oral presentation


• Writing of Yano Hideyuki: Representation of Exotic and Mixing in the Case of ‘At the Hawk’s Well’

  Shuntaro Yoshida

  Writing of Yano Hideyuki: Representation of Exotic and Mixing in the Case of ‘At the Hawk’s Well’, Nov. 2016, English, International conference

  [Invited]

  Invited oral presentation

• ベルギー研究会


• La Société Franco-Japonaise du Théâtre


• Gesellschaft für Theaterwissenschaft


• Dance Studies Association


• Performance Studies international


• International Federation for Theater Research


• Japan Association for Cultural Policy Research


• JAPANESE SOCIETY FOR DANCE RESEARCH


• THE ASSOCIATION FOR STUDIES OF CULTURE AND REPRESENTATION

• 《Four-course-meal~Hot pot~》

  Chōri(요리, 調理) Collective, Hoa Yun, Chung, 정화연, Shuntaro Yoshida, 吉田駿太朗, Maharu Maeno, 前野真榛

  Feb. 2024, English Theatre Berlin | International Performing Arts Center


• 《Chōri picnic ~Summer Roll~》

  Chōri(요리, 調理) Collective (Hoa Yun Chung / 정화연 , JongSung Myung / 명종성, Shuntaro Yoshida / 吉田駿太朗, Maharu Maeno / 前野真榛)

  Aug. 2023, Tanz im August 2023 “Interconnecting Dance & Ecology”, Stadtpark Lichtenberg


• 《REMEMBERING RICE FIELDS AND WILD FROGS》

  Shuntaro Yoshida Alex Viteri Catalina Fernandez

  Dec. 2022, Cordillera – Raum für Körper und Utopien, UNFOLD TO THE SPARKLING FOREST


• We like to watch clumsy-seeming mountains

  Mapped to the Closes Address (Alex Viteri, Catalina Fernandez, Maharu Maeno, Shuntaro Yoshida+Jun Yamaguchi

  Aug. 2022 - Nov. 2022, Echigo-Tsumari Art Field

  We like to watch clumsy-seeming Mountains Open Aug12 - Sep 4 (except Tue& Wed), Sep 5 - Nov 13 (Weekends & Holidays) Japan,Colombia/Germany Mapped to the Closest Address About the artwork “Surrounded by mountains of vibrating speakers, the local people and malfunctioning mountains play gate ball together. Judges look at mountains and send regular signs as the game progresses. Such signs are also seen by the mountain players and spectators and thus people in the venue also experience the mountains. The Mountain range of speakers sometimes echoes with wooden spirits, resonating with the cheers of the spectators. The heat from the gate ball field will rise like steam from the public bath and take us to the South American continent.” 【Supported by The Saison Foundation】


• 《Turn off the House Lights Map to the Nearest Place》

  Mapped to the Closes Address (Alex Viteri, Catalina Fernandez, Maharu Maeno, Shuntaro Yoshida+Jun Yamaguchi)

  Aug. 2022 - Sep. 2022, Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale

  August 18-20, September 10-11 This audio dance piece explores the human idealized landscape and the ecology that surrounds it, using Mount Cotopaxi in the Andes Mountains of South America and Mount Fuji in Japan as themes. Through the interplay of images, memories, and visual landscapes, we discover the dance of the palm tree and the movement of the cherry tree.


• 《Chōri Dance》

  Hoa Yun Chung, Maharu Maeno, Shuntaro Yoshida

  Jun. 2022


• 《Soil Memory》

  Maharu Maeno, Shuntaro Yoshida

  Apr. 2022, Berliner Ringtheater

  Asian Performing Arts Lab (APAL) 4th Edition


• “Turn off the house lights,” a midnight sound performance

  Mapped to the, Closest Address

  Mar. 2022, Cordillera Berlin

  Supported by The Saison Foundation Reperformance：May 21


• 《First Touch》

  Mapped to the, Closest Address, Yuni Hong Charpe

  Feb. 2022


• 《Dancing Landscape》

  Shuntaro Yoshida, Shinichiro Koromo, Alexandra Banhazl

  Jun. 2021


• Open Forest Launch Video Diaries (Mapped to the Closest Address)

  Alex Viteri, Shuntaro Yoshida, Maharu Maeno, Catalina Fernandez

  Dec. 2020, The Saison Foundation


• 《Open Forest Launch》（Mapped to the Closest Address）

  Shuntaro Yoshida, Alex Viteri, Catalina Fernandez, Maharu Maeno

  Oct. 2020 - Nov. 2020, Tokyo [Morishita Studio] Berlin [El Arenero Yumita], Co-authored internationally

  Supported by The Saison Foundation


• 《Migration of Red Pepper 》（Soup Kitchen, Itinerant Performance Art Festival, De-construkt)

  Shuntaro Yoshida

  May 2019 - Aug. 2019, De-construkt, Grace Exhibition Space, Open Source Gallary


• 《World constellations through poetic performing encounters》（Mapped to the Closest Address主催）

  Shuntaro Yoshida Alex Viteri

  Jul. 2019, CUNY, University of Calgary


• 《Of Chroma》

  Shuntaro Yoshida Jeannine Han, Dan Railey

  Jun. 2019, Queens Museum


• 《bruit》

  Shuntaro Yoshida

  Mar. 2015, Cite University of Paris, Japan house


• 《No one knows the title》

  Shuntaro Yoshida

  Oct. 2014, Cite University of Paris, Japan house

• Clumsy-seeming movement and the Environmental Turn of Choreography in Contemporary Dance : An Analysis of Choreographic Practice and the Theoretical Background

  吉田 駿太朗

  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows, Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows, Waseda University, 28 Apr. 2021 - 31 Mar. 2024

  令和3年度は、パフォーマンス・アーティストのエコロジーの言説に着目し、振付の主体を人間から非人間へと拡張する振付についてそのプロセスを整理した。まず、ベルリン芸術大学大学院のコロキアムでは、自然環境とパフォーマンスに関する「人新世」の問題を議論しつつ、環境ダンスの研究における脱植民地化という視点の必要性を導き出した。次に、フンボルト大学の「Object Space Agency」の実地調査では、科学と芸術の複合領域で活躍する実践者と交流し、発酵過程の可視化、生物の３Dモデルや心音を用いた視覚芸術作品について知見を得た。以上の成果はワークショップ、コロキアム、国際学会（2件）にて発表した。 また、コンテンポラリーダンスの成立過程を整理しながら「振付家」と「振付作品」の概念を確認すると共に、必要不可欠な問題である企業メセナについて検討し、論考にまとめた（『メセナアソシエイトレポート 2020』）。特に日本において、長期間にわたりコンテンポラリーダンスを支援してきた事例についてヒアリング等を実施してその詳細を見つめることを通して、振付家の社会的役割について問題提起を行った。さらに、早稲田大学演劇博物館の展示『ロスト・イン・パンデミックー失われた演劇と新たな表現の地平』を調査した。デジタルを活用した振付方法はコロナ禍に促進されたが、これが従来の技術と芸術のコラボレーションにおける統合への疑義をもたらし、身体の誤作動へとつながるとの気付きを得た。またデジタル技術と芸術実践の二項の関係に着眼し、技術と人間のコラボレーションについて検討・考察した論文をオーストラリアのパフォーマンス研究誌（Performance Paradigm 22）に投稿した（査読中）。さらにこれらの研究内容を自身に取り込みながら、振付家として作品を創作、国内外で発表し（3件）、実践面においても成果を示した。


• Feral Encounters

  Shuntaro Yoshida, Alex Viteri

  Universität der Künste Berlin, Kommission für künstlerische und wissenschaftliche Vorhaben (KKWV), Project grant, Berlin Centre for Advanced Studies in Arts and Sciences (BAS), Sep. 2023 - Dec. 2023, Principal investigator


• Post-choreography: Jérôme Bel’s Choreography and Movement in Malfunction

  Shuntaro Yoshida

  Waseda University, Grant Program for English Scholarly Book Publication in the Fields of Humanities and Social Sciences, Sep. 2022 - Mar. 2023, Principal investigator


• Chance and anti-chance in the contemporary dance history

  Shuntaro Yoshida

  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Visiting Research Fellowship for Overseas Challenge Program for Young Researchers, Sep. 2018 - Sep. 2019, Principal investigator

  Competitive research funding


• The American Studies Foundation Travel Grant

  Shuntaro Yoshida

  May 2019 - May 2019, Principal investigator


• Chance and anti-chance in the contemporary dance history

  吉田 駿太朗

  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows, Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Apr. 2017 - Mar. 2019

  ニューヨーク公共図書館に所蔵されるポスト・モダンダンスの振付家の舞踊譜及び作品映像の資料を調査し、これらの振付家の作品群から見られる偶然性の振付方法について研究を行った。特に、アンナ・ハルプリンやイヴォンヌ・レイナー、スティーヴ・パクストン にみられる一般市民やアマチュアのダンサーが参加するような作品において、振付家はダンス・スコアを用い、「自発的な交渉」や「集団のダイナミックな表現」として、即興の要素を捉えている。その結果、「即興」及び「創作プロセス」はアマチュアの介入によって「遊戯性」を助長させていることを分析した。また、ポスト・モダンダンスの同時期にあたる舞踏における創作過程については、舞踏家の尾竹永子への聞き取り調査を行った。これまで書き込まれる舞踏の身体に先立った記述や図といった羅列は、身体運動を呼び起こす素材となり、イメージの飛躍を発生させていることが妥当な見解であった。しかしながら、舞踏譜において、創作プロセスは言葉のもたらす側面だけでなく、物質に対する視空間性を起点とした偶発的な側面に依拠していることが明白となった。 偶然性による振付概念の変化については、ポスト・モダンダンスの振付家によって受容される図形楽譜に着目することで、演奏家への依存性が、「イミテーション」という概念によって支えられているとことを明らかにした。したがって、振付における舞踊記譜法、すなわち直接的にそのコードを転写し、身体行為を行う振付の自律性から解釈者への依存という振付の他律性へと劇的に変化し、振付家の意図しない偶発的かつ不確定に変動する振付へと移行していることが捉えられた。これらの考察は、偶然性及び反偶然性が何であったのかという当該研究分野の課題に一つの回答を示すことができたという点で、本研究の意義があると言えるだろう。


• Chance in Contemporary Dance History : Choreographic Methods and the Relationship of Post-modern dance in America and Butoh in Japan

  K. Matsushita Foundation, Research Grant, Oct. 2017 - Sep. 2018, Principal investigator

• Mapping Chōri / 調理 / 요리 – Swimming Pickles

  Asian Performing Artists Lab

  Hospitality Project, 22 Nov. 2022 - 22 Nov. 2022, Berlin Centre for Advanced Studies in Arts and Sciences@UdK: Einsteinufer 43, 10587 Berlin (Rm 203), "We focus on Chōri senses such as smell-touch-taste, using the metaphor of Ocean - a process of osmosis to navigate ourselves from one small cave to salty water to perform? dance? sweat? be soaked? with other species." The collective, made up of artists from Japan and South Korea, welcomes you to an immersive workshop in food, gardening and microbial lives. Come experience different traditional fermentation food, which includes Nuka (an ingredient in Japanese fermentation) and Korean pickles, to connect with our senses and non-human relations, by imagining pickles as ocean and tracing the border between fixed territories through history and culture.


• Outreach Project "Dance with Chickens"

  Mapped to the Closest Address

  Contemporary Dance Association in Japan Outreach Project, 20 Feb. 2021 - 20 Feb. 2021, Himukai Shrine,Kujyouyama Share House, 京都九条山にある日向大神宮の境内及び駐車場で鶏2羽と共に参加型のダンスを実施。


• Staff

  The Martin E. Segal Theater Center

  Organizing member, Oct. 2018 - Apr. 2019


• Staff

  Organizing member, Creative Time Summitat Miami, 02 Nov. 2018 - 03 Nov. 2018


• document

  アーツ前橋

  Organizing member, ときかたち長期プロジェクト第二弾, 18 Mar. 2018

• 「踊る早稲田」

  Other than myself, 『早稲田学報』4月号 No.1270, 17 Mar. 2025, 「踊る先生」pp. 52-53 （取材・文 高橋彩子 写真：布川航太）, 踊る校友 阿部知彦／池田一葉／石渡ありさ／磯上実里／桑原巧光／武田宗典／中村 蓉／西川扇藏／萩原淳子 踊る学生 早大ラテンアメリカ協会／早稲田大学下駄っぱーず／大学チアダンスチームMYNX／早稲田大学ハワイ民族舞踊研究会／早稲田大学ベリーダンスサークルSARAHbelly 踊る先生 北村明子／中込孝規／三浦哲都／吉田駿太朗

  PR


• Review of Book Shuntaro Yoshida, Post-choreography Jérôme Bel’s Choreography and Movement in Malfunction

  Other than myself, The Association for Studies of Culture and Representation, Newsletter 《REPRE》52, Feb. 2025, （評者：越智 雄磨）

  PR


• Longing for Mountains: Interspecies Performance Experiments

  Other than myself, Cory Tamler, tanzschreiber, Sep. 2022, Barbara Berti’s “Zone of Acceptance” premiered at Uferstudios from 25 – 28 August 2022. Dance collective Mapped to the Closest Address first showed “Turn off the house lights” at Cordillera Raum für Körper und Utopien on 4 March and 21 May, and a new version from 18 August – 11 September in Japan as part of the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale in conjunction with their installation, “We like to watch clumsy-seeming mountains.” Both projects have evolved, and continue to evolve, out of collaboration and experimentation undertaken by humans with nonhumans: dogs, cats, plants, and landscapes.

  Internet

• International Symposium "Feral Encounters" (gardens & plots: Sites of Interconnected Research）

  International Symposium "Feral Encounters" (gardens & plots: Sites of Interconnected Research）

  Shuntato Yoshida, Alex Viteri

  09 Sep. 2023 - 10 Sep. 2023, gardens___plots_1.png, No password, Lake Studios Berlin, Feral Encounters is a cross-disciplinary community-building 2-day event exploring dance and performance art practices devoted to a scientific sensual approach to the environment. Lake Studios Berlin will host the encounter, providing a framework for collective speculation. We wish to share knowledge, experiences, and life-affirming practices with fellow artists, choreographers, dancers, activists, journalists, critics, and scientists in the field. Guest artists will share provocations, inviting us to delve into specific aspects of the overarching theme., International academic contribution

  Competition etc

  添付ファイルのURL

• 国際⽂化学研究推進インスティテュート（Promis）主催2025年度セミナー 第1回新任教員セミナー

  Jul. 2025, 司会：田中 祐理子（国際⽂化学研究科教授） 講師：周俊（国際⽂化学研究科講師） 「情報を持つ者はこの世を制すのか：『中国共産党の神経系』から考える」 中條健志（国際⽂化学研究科講師） 「移⺠は何に「統合」するのか：連邦制国家ベルギーを事例に」 吉⽥駿太朗（国際⽂化学研究科講師） 「⾝体の誤動とは何か：『ポスト・コレオグラフィー』からみる脱中⼼的な振付の諸相」


• Online symposium to celebrate the completed release of the concurrent volumes on Hunger.

  Dec. 2024, The journals can be found at the following links: https://gps.psi-web.org/ https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rprs20/28/7?nav=tocList Please note that the Performance Research requires institutional access for most of the essays. If you cannot access this content, please write to us directly and we’ll organize something for you.


• Panel discussion: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship proposal writing masterclass

  Jun. 2024, Date: 26th and 27th June 2024 Place: Planetarium Hall, Esplora, Kalkara The training is funded and organised by the Malta Council for Science and Technology hosting all Horizon Europe and MSCA NCPs in Malta. Panel discussion with PF applicants: Dr. Farkhondeh Kiani Harchegani, Dr. Ariel Thomas, Dr Zunaida Zakaria, Dr Shuntaro Yoshida (Chaired by Angie Mifsud, Unniversity of Malta)


• “Workshop: Practicalities of Living as a Humanities Scholar Abroad---Applying for Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships as an Example”

  Oct. 2023, 本ワークショップでは、欧米では研究者として一人立ちするための登竜門の１つとなっている、マリー・キュリーフェローシップ(Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships)への応募について議論します。実際の応募書類や添削例、欧州の大学におけるサポート体制など、極めて具体的な内容について発表した。（やまなみ書房・TARB主催）


• コメンテーター：戦後日本における身体の表象「解放」の出発点と現在

  Mar. 2023, 登壇者：大谷晋平、松元実環、岡元ひかる、黄柏瀧 コメンテーター：友田義行、吉田駿太朗 神戸大学国際文化学研究科地域連携センター主催セミナー 神戸大学国際文化学研究推進インスティテュート（Promis）共催 場所：神戸映画資料館 本研究会では終戦直後から現在における⽇本の⾝体⽂化・表象に関して、それぞれ⾝体の「解放」をキーワードに研究発表する。具体的には、映画研究の⽴場から占領期のスポーツと⺠主主義教育の結びつきについて、純潔教育の⽂脈から当時の1950年代の映画考察、1960年代以降の暗⿊舞踏の振付⼿法に着⽬した⾝体の「解放」の考察、そして、ダンスホールやクラブ等の⾝体を通した社交の場における規制と「解放」の流れを発表者４名がそれぞれ報告する。そして、それらの発表を通じて明⽂化されている/いない規範がいかに⽣み出され、⽇本で⾝体の「⾃由さ」がどのように規定されてきたのかを捉えつつ、社会―⾝体―表象の結びつきを多⾓的に考える。


• Charla immersiva Bajo El Bosque con Mapped to the Closest Address. The Saison Foundation, @Koto Ku 2022. 広い島 NO TIENE NADA QUE ENVIDIARLE A PARIS」 Special Guest Cory Tamler, @Marckendorf

  Sep. 2022 - Sep. 2022, 2022_Mapped_talk.pdf, https://researchmap.jp/shuntaroyoshida/others/39953121/attachment_file.pdf, No password, Mapped to the Closest Address (アレックス・ヴィテリ、カタリーナ・フェルナンデス、吉田駿太朗、前野真榛、ヴィオレッタ）（アーティスト・トーク） ベルリンを拠点に実験的なダンスやパフォーマンスに関する記事を数多く執筆しているコリー・タムラーをゲストに迎え、Mapped to the Closest Addressの非人間へのアプローチや方法論を紹介。


• "Multispecies Dance Workshop"

  Aug. 2022, How can we dance with non-human earth creatures? Based on Mapped’s exploration of connections with many different species, a contemporary dance workshop will be held at the ElArenero Yumita Garden in Tokamachi City’s Risetsu Chikasetsu General Center. Even those with no dance experience are welcome to participate.


• HELLO —PERFORMATIVE REVIEW —POETRY CLUB WITH ELVIN BRANDHI & JOEL GRIP, AT CAFÉ PLUME,

  Nov. 2021, Contribution for Topsi Telegram #11（Collaborative writing: Sam Langer, Shuntaro Yoshida)


• “Workshop About In-between practice”

  Mar. 2021 - Mar. 2021, By Yuni Hong Charp and Shuntaro Yoshida, RAM Association (Yokohama) and Mapped studio (Kyoto) (March 27, 2021).


• Online Symposium “12 Writings on Dance”

  Feb. 2021 - Feb. 2021, TPAM Performing Arts Meeting in Yokohama Speaker: Shuntaro, Y. Hokuto, K. Hiroaki, U.Hikaru O. Miwa, O. Yuma, O. Osamu, S. Saki, S. Nanako, N. Keiichi, H. Yuki, F


• AI Beethoven《Beethoven Complex》

  Dec. 2020 - Dec. 2020, 東京芸術大学COI拠点主催のオンライン演奏会《AIベートーヴェン》。作曲家小川類教授と人口知能研究者大谷紀子教授の共作の曲《Beethoven Complex / ベートーヴェン・コンプレックス》をダンサー・研究者の深澤南土実と吉田駿太朗が振付


• Summer School 2020 | Future Advisory Board of Performance Studies international

  Aug. 2020 - Sep. 2020, The Future Advisory Board (FAB) is a collective body of international emerging and early-career performance studies scholars, artists, and artist-scholars. We bring together perspectives, strategies, tactics, provocations, ideas, visions, hopes, and dreams from our various practices of theory and performance. Officially launched in July 2016 at PSi#22 Melbourne as a new PSi initiative, the FAB aims to connect graduate students and early-career scholars and artists worldwide, and to increase the visibility of diversity within Performance Studies.


• 《Freedom isn’t free》

  Jun. 2019 - Jun. 2019, 出演，芸術活動


• “Migration of Red Pepper 2018” at Open Source Gallery

  Dec. 2018, Soup Kitchen program, New York (December 2018)


• “Gala,” choreographer Jerome Bel, at Aichi Saitama Arts Theater

  Jan. 2018 - Jan. 2018, Dancer


• Nontokoyo (A World for Eternal Emergencies)

  Nov. 2017 - Nov. 2017, 出演，芸術活動


• “Gala,” choreographer Jerome Bel, in Festival d'Automne à Paris

  Dec. 2014 - Jan. 2015, Dancer Hosted by Aubervilliers de la Commune Theater, Nanterre-Amandiers Theater, Louvrais Theater and Museum of Modern Art, Paris and Cergy (January 2014-December 2015)


• Annual Dance Concert at Modern Dance Club of Waseda University

  Apr. 2008 - Mar. 2012, 出演,芸術活動


• Noism, Japanese Professional Contemporary Dance

  Sep. 2010 - Sep. 2011, Trainee program, 2009- 2010.


• 23th Yokohama Competition, Red Shoes Award for Modern Dance Club of Waseda University

  Nov. 2008 - Nov. 2008, 芸術活動