Kagura - Plateforme 2010 Japan

PLATEFORME is a trans-cultural laboratory intended to enhance knowledge, to further the exchange of ideas, and to cultivate artistic concerns.
Established in 2008, PLATEFORME provides research facilities and training programs aimed at encouraging investigations for nourishing the field of dance in general, and choreographic composition in particular.
Workshops, residencies and research programs allow dancers and choreographers the possibility to lay down theoretical grounds and elaborate practical experimentations specific to the choreographic aspects of ritualization observed in the archaic ritual dances of Asia, and their transfer to contemporary choreography.
From these experiences, establish individual or group projects to develop choreographic tools and methods for making new forms of contemporary dance and/or new forms of ritualized dance.
PLATEFORME is located in the area of Kamate, in the city of Masuda on the coast of the Japan Sea in Western Shimane Prefecture which has a long history of ancient dances.
A Franco-Japanese project initiated by the French association Ma To Ma, with support from the National Choreographic Centre of Tours-CCNT/France and the Fondation BNP Paribas/France.