Emi Miyoshi

PRESS

 

- RELAY-tion

 

 

In "RELAY-Tionship", the performers sound out elongated and physical experiences with regard to establishing contact. The technical switching points on the wrists enable the sound carpet to be influenced and the gestured hands to pass it on to the audience. It seems as if we meet under water: The performance location is a former swimming pool win location, where lines and body movements are usually broken by the light penetrating the water, where contact points can only be guessed at and not always can be felt right away. During the video performance "RELAY-tion" I hold my breath because it is a breathtaking video performance. "RELAY-tion" gave me the feeling of sitting on the edge of the pool instead of the edge of the sofa. Despite the digital distance, it was a close-up dance. To what extent is it possible to feel each other with all of the senses? With the digitally transmitted video performance "RELAY-tion", there was the possibility that a relationship could be created and perceived despite the spatial distance. To be touched by movements and to produce movements that touch seems possible despite the social distance.

 

- Society for Dance Research Dr. Jutta Krauss

 

- MORNING FLOWER

 

The bodies follow the flow of words, accentuating the way time becomes rhythm. It has an idiosyncratic beauty.

Solos lead to ensemble performances, just as each individual communicates with other people.

- Badische Zeitung, Annette Hoffmann

 

In "Morning Flower" with the Freiburg choreographer Emi Miyoshi in the E-Werk, a wide variety of characters dance the morning blues from head and body. This results in a multimedia experience of rituals for all senses and moods.

 

-Fudder.de Charlotte Wagner

 

 

Dance and Theater Prize of the City of Stuttgart and the State of Baden-Württemberg 2019

- IN MY ROOM

“The ingredients are simple, the result amazing. In my room by the Freiburg Shibui collective lives from the dialogue between two bodies with all kinds of materials. In addition to the dancer Emi Miyoshi and the visual artist Jürgen Oschwald, things appear that we would look for less in the theater than in the hardware store. With ropes, adhesive tape, poles, boards and boxes, Jürgen Oschwald creates a constantly changing landscape in front of the audience, in which Emi Miyoshi moves. Things serve her as a partner for a duet or represent an obstacle to movement. Thanks to the intricacies of the object, the creator of the landscape is soon drawn into the action and forced into physical action. The jury was particularly impressed by the dedication of the two bodies to the material and the almost inexhaustible search for new challenges. After the Morinonaka production, which was awarded at 6 Tage Frei 2017, another milestone for the collective in the exploration of the interplay between dance and installation. ”- Jury

 

 

- DEPTH OF FIELD

 

The great solo performance "Depth of Field" by the Freiburg dancer Emi Miyoshi premiered in the E-Werk's chamber theater. (...) The strongest scene of the 50-minute evening begins with a violent tremor. It goes through the dancer as a complete loss of control. The white blouse she wears turns into a final place of retreat: at the end it wraps around Miyoshi's narrow body like a tent. This solo is exciting from the first to the last minute, without any idle time. The audience in the sold-out chamber theater was completely enthusiastic. Rightly. Emi Miyoshi is dancing with the times.

- Badische Zeitung, Bettina Schulte

 

"DEPTH OF FIED" is something like DNA from which the later work should emerge, and here in the Kammertheater it proves to be a medium of reflection. (...) "DEPTH OF FIELD" is a consistent evening, coherent in its movement language , extremely focused and demanding.

-Culture joker, Annette Hoffmann

 

 

Dance and Theater Prize of the City of Stuttgart and the State of Baden-Württemberg 2017

-MORINONKA

In her installation, Emi Miyoshi deals with the “unbearable silence” she feels in the landscapes of Eastern Japan after the destruction caused by the 2011 tsunami. She uses this silence as a prototype and motif for landscapes destroyed by war and catastrophes all over the world. The jury is impressed by this work, which moves elegantly between dance, music and visual arts and, as if by the way, touches the great catastrophes of the world. In order to find her form of expression, Emi Miyoshi works closely with visual artists and musicians. The installation character of her work is impressive and opens up exciting worlds for dance. In “Morinonaka”, Miyoshi succeeds in an impressive way in negotiating the subject of destruction and thereby developing a brittle, simple beauty. - jury

 

- A HOUSE

 

Even more than in the previous productions of the Freiburg choreographer, "A House" brings dance together with the visual arts and music.

The installations and objects condense processes that ultimately lead to housing. "A House" aims at equality of art forms in as open a form as possible. Experiment succeeded, routine dead.

 

- Badische Zeitung, Annette Hoffmann

 

- IN MY ROOM

 

The stage, as the opening of the window and door probably means, is not a closed aesthetic space in this performance. There is a lot of draft here. Here they work until the T-shirt is damp with sweat. It is constantly being built up and taken down again. Nothing stays as it is, everything is in a constant creative process. Watching the two (dancer Emi Miyoshi and artist Jürgen Oschwald) create temporary moments of connection between material and body is extremely entertaining and stimulating. You never know what will happen in the next moment. (...) Jürgen Oschwald and Emi Miyoshi deserve the utmost respect for the fact that two get involved here who work in different fields. Such creative experiments also fit perfectly into this house, which wants to be a place for all the arts. Comprehensive.

 

- Badische Zeitung, Bettina Schulte

 

- Shibui -

Dance and installation performance with Jürgen Oschwald

 

PERFORMING GROUNDS

a wonderful pas de deux about the beauty of precarious balancing acts between body and things and the formal powers of failure

 

Art forum Merdingen

Performance full of elegance and power

 

 

- HELIX-

Human flotsam

The concept of the helix - a cylindrical spiral - pervades the roughly fifty-minute performance with impressive consistency.

This is danced so powerfully and precisely that the tension is maintained, especially since there are always great group choreographies between meditative solos: Sometimes they whiz around each other with height-adjustable office chairs in rapid curves, then again a cassette recorder with propellers and spotlights swings from the ceiling like a sword of Damocles and almost burns the heads off the dancers. At the end of this journey, Reniers is standing around the stage again, breathing hard: thrown out of the center, caught in the loop of time.

by Marion Klötzer

Bädische Zeitung April 9, 2016

 

 

This is what Dolby Surround sounds like. The noise flows around us, it rises and swells again. A small sound tsunami suggests itself from the eight loudspeakers behind the rows of chairs, which in the large E-Werk hall enclose the dance floor like the sides of a square. In the first few minutes of Emi Miyoshi's latest dance piece “Helix”, Thomas Wenk and Ephraim Wegner already illustrate the structure that gives the title. The helix will be varied in every imaginable way over the next 50 minutes: by turning and lifting figures of all kinds, the storage system cassette, for and with which Thomas Wenk composed and through the music itself. The helix is ​​a principle of nature, vines are spirals and as a double helix, the picture even explains the human genome. There should be enough material for a dance evening.

Despite its almost universal structure, “Helix” is a dark, but also a humorous evening. The choreographer's playful humor shows up again and again in the course of the evening.

By Annette Hoffmann

Kulturjoker May 2016

 

 

- Anonymous Trip -

Everything is real here. Choreographer Emi Miyoshi was inspired by the complex combination of filigree, handcrafted kinetic images and unusual, varied sounds to create a choreography for a male-female Japanese dancer duo. "Anonymous Trip" celebrated its premier, which was widely applauded at E-Werk.

The illusion of windows with a luminous garden behind them is of great poetic beauty. It is these kinds of images that create the magic of this 50-minute evening. What you see, what you hear, is freed of all meaningfulness and it is not even necessary to burden the evening with profound questions like that of the - European coded - identity. One would like to say with the former Freiburg choreographer Amanda Miller: Come and see - and just let yourself be carried away on this "Anonymous Trip".

 

From Bettina Schulte

Badische Zeitung 23 May. 2015

 

"Anonymous Trip" is a vivid, poetic evening that seeks a balance between image, music and dance, because both the one and the other are an expression of an inner state.

 

By Annette Hoffmann

Kulturjoker June 2015

 

- MORINONAKA -

The meeting of the dancers Emi Miyoshi, Unita Gay Galiluyo, Yannick Badier and the installation artist Jürgen oschwald also has a friction between different dynamics on the performance "Morinonaka". There are the supple, extremely fast accelerating bodies of the dancers and there is the visual artist who, with hand movements and gestures, rearranges the balance of power and creates new situations.

But at the latest when Jürgen Oschwald Badier stuffs bags full of plastic strips under his jacket, which he slowly slides into the breeze surrounded by fans, the two arts condense into images that stay in the head for a long time.

 

By Annette Hoffmann

Kulturjoker 12.2014

- EDITORIAL -

The piece by Emi Miyoshi, which explores the body and at the same time turns against cosmetic surgery.

“REDAKE” is the name of the choreography for six dancers who work with clear color contrasts and set ironic highlights.

The idea of ​​including the hydraulics of office chairs in the staging is wonderfully playful. In addition to video and dance, language is part of the composition, which also describes the relationship between men and women.

Thus, a connection is made between women who are made into beautiful mannequins and the many communicative traps in relationships.

Almost overly complex, but still fascinating work that is also entertaining.

By Sandra Nuy

Kölnische Rundschau, April 30, 2008

 

- Test tube (tanz nrw 07) -

Emi Miyoshi introduced himself with a charming solo “testtube”. She let ping pong balls bounce around and then acted as if she had swallowed a ball herself and it was now rolling around inside her. Very amusing and especially successful as a visualization of Akiko Okabe's piano music.

From Nicole Strecker

Kölner Stadtanzeiger May 14, 2007

 

 

 

- Sinking float (dance festival damf 05) -

Emi Miyoshi succeeds most impressively in her solo “Sinking float”

When she lets her feet flow in waves on the floor in the beam of light from a spotlight, when, lying on her back, she lets her legs correspond with the plant-like movements of her fingers, then her dance is a whole ballet in nuce, a complex choreography for one person.

By Basil Nikitakis

Kölner Stadtanzeiger 05 Sep 2005

 

In her solo, Emi Miyoshi actually succeeds in presenting her movement language in a very individual way. She remains very delicate in the sequences of her movements, also makes a twitch of the finger and circling of the feet visible, and yet pushes her body to its limits, as if it were yoga for advanced people its flexibility-the maximum in a miniature.

From Nicole Strecker

Kölner Rundschau 05 Sep 2005