This performance is organised by The Japan Foundation, Kuala Lumpur and co-organised by The Actors Studio Bangsar.

Finks, one of the most important works of Leni-Basso Dance Company, which established since 1994; has toured extensively since 2001 to USA, Denmark, Chile, Belgium, The Netherlands, Poland and China.

A stylish multimedia spectacle for the senses. Images, light, sound and space intertwine and evolve with fiery and wild movements to create a dance of speed and subtle balance. The actions of the dancers are intense, forcible, quick and violent that remind us of martial arts with full of a strained feeling.

This work was created by Ms. Akiko Kitamura who is the artistic director and choreographer of the company.

Come find out the redefinition of dance.

For further enquiries, please kindly contact The Japan Foundation, Kuala Lumpur at 03-2161 2104 or 03-2094 0400/1400 for reservation.

 Akiko Kitamura

Artistic Director & Choreographer

She was born in Tokyo in 1970. She learned ballet, jazz dance and street dance during her youth. She studied dance theory at Waseda University and began a professional career as a choreographer in show business while still in her teens. She has choreographed many pieces for commercial films, fashion shows and plays. In 1994, she formed her own company Leni-Basso. It presented Japan in the Bagnolet Competition (Rencontres Choregraphiques Internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis) and leaped to fame by evaluation there. She stayed a year in Germany as a resident artist sent by the Agency of Cultural Affairs of Japan in the following year.

In 2001, she was invited to Bates Dance Festival to create solo work, “Face-Mix”, and a short piece of collaboration with Bates Dancers for the festival. Two years later, she created a short piece for “Orchesis”, the dance company of Penn State University (US). Then, she was invited by the oldest dance festival of US, ADF (American Dance Festival). She created a new short piece with ADF dancers for a main program of the festival, “International Choreographers Commission Program”.

As a lecturer at national university, Shinshu University, she has been teaching arts since 2000.

• Whenever I was watching you, You stared at yourself
• The Crying Cherry Tree
• Blind Trip (co-produced by Saitama Arts Theatre)

• Sweeter than Sweet
• Quarterback Trace

• Re-Trace
• Slowly, Slow for Drive

   

• Bittersidewinder (co-produced by The Globe Tokyo Spring Festival)
• Cypher the Bootleg (co-produced by Theatre Olympics)
• Cypher the Longest Tale ver. (co-produced by Aoyama Ballet Festival)
• Quite Secant Square (co-produced by Little Asia Dance Exchange Network)
• Dread Sucker
• Cypher the Original

• • • Hyperbola
    • Dread Sucker ? hyperbolic zone

• • • Finks (co-produced by Art Sphere)
    • Dovetail
    • Mute_Mix