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With the backing of the BNP Paribas Foundation

Having been sidetracked from his initial training as a photographer, Hiroaki Umeda has become one of Japan’s most promising young dancer-choreographers in just a few years. He is an exquisite performer, a veritable one-man orchestra in his own right, with a talent also for music, video and light. His minimalist, radical compositions reveal a strange world, drawing from Western references – classical dance and hip hop – and Japanese references - the post-Hiroshima butoh dance. In Accumulated layout and While going to a condition, fusion reigns: the graphic precision of the gesture, fluid or contorted, infrabasses, shadows, stroboscopes, electronic music and video design as well as breaths and the heartbeat of his own body. Umeda dances the chaos of a disembodied civilisation at a time of great technological mutations.