Chisato Minamimura
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| Born | Tokyo, Japan |
| Nationality | British |
| Citizenship | United Kingdom |
| Alma mater | Yokohama National University |
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Chisato Minamimura is a British dancer and choreographer. She is Deaf and a British Sign Language user.
Formation
Minamimura was born in Tokyo, Japan, and became deaf as a baby, after a treatment for a fever. As a child, she attended mainstream schools. Her family encouraged her to learn piano. Minamimura studied a BA in Japanese Painting and a MA from Yokohama National University. She then became interested in dance and moved to London to train at Trinity Laban Contemporary Dance Centre.[1]
Since moving to Britain, she started using British Sign Language, as she cannot lipread English.[1]
She returned to Japan, where she worked as a dancer and tutor for four years, before returning to Britain upon being offered a job with CandoCo Dance Company in 2003. She stayed with the company until 2006. She has also worked with the theatre company Graeae.[2]
After a few years of working as a dancer, she decided to move to choreography. Her style takes inspiration from the movements of sign language and blends elements of mime, visual vernacular, projections, music, conceptual dance, as well as what she describes as "visual sound". She often performs aerial dance on sway poles, trapeze or other vertical supports and surfaces.[3][4][5]
Activity
Over her career, Minamimura has performed and taught dance across 20 different countries. She performed aerial dance at the London 2012 Paralympic Opening Ceremony and Rio 2016 Paralympic Cultural Olympiad.[6] [7]
Minamimura's one-hour performance, "Scored in Silence" (2020), was created to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. For it, Minamimura interviewed the last deaf hibakusha (people who survived the bombing).[8][9]
She also works as a BSL museum tour guide.
In the media
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Staff, Guardian (9 October 2008). "Tips from the top". the Guardian. The Guardian.
- ↑ "Enabling Disabled and Deaf Artists Cultural Programme | British Council". British Council.
- ↑ Tate, Leslie (27 April 2020). "CHISATO MINAMIMURA – A DEAF DANCER'S FIFTH SENSE". Leslie Tate.
- ↑ "Chisato Minamimura | The Place". www.theplace.org.uk.
- ↑ "Place Prize Semi-Finals, Robin Howard Theatre, London". The Independent. 23 October 2011.
- ↑ "Rio 2016". Cultural Olympics.
- ↑ "Chisato Minamimura – 'Dance became a 3D art form to me'". The Stage. The Stage.
- ↑ "Chisato Minamimura marks 75th anniversary of Hiroshima with special screening of Scored in Silence". Disability Arts Online.
- ↑ "Chisato Minamimura - Edinburgh Showcase". edinburghshowcase.britishcouncil.org.
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