inkBoat

Founded by Shinichi Iova-Koga in 1998, inkBoat is a performance collective working in fractured, filmic, delicate and decayed environments, inkBoat’s performances evoke both the traditional and the experimental, drawing heavily from movements (political, artistic, personal) of challenge. Each performance is a dialogue between the apparent and hidden worlds.

Built by and with the collaborative efforts of choreographers, dancers, musicians, visual artists, directors and actors, all collaborators are independent visionaries that assemble according to project parameters. Living in San Francisco, Berlin, New York, Tokyo and Seattle, these artists contribute to projects as called upon. 

Shinichi Iova-Koga and inkBoat are current artists in residence at ODC Theater in San Francisco.

Venues (for both film and live performances) have included:

USA:
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (SF)
JCC (SF)
ODC (SF)
Theatre Artaud / Z space (SF)
nohSPACE (SF)
Dance Mission (SF)
Venue 9 (SF)
BRAVA (SF)
Red Cat (LA)
The Lincoln Center, Dance on Camera (NY)
Japan Society (NY)
Theater for the New City (NY)
The Southern Theater (MN)
Temple University (PA)
On The Boards (Seattle)

CANADA:
Vancouver Dance Festival

EUROPE:
Kunsthaus Graz (Austria)
Dock 11 (Berlin)
Pfefferberg (Berlin)
Orph Theatre (Berlin)
Fabrik Potsdam (Potsdam, Germany)
Schloss Bröllin (Bröllin, Germany)
i-camp (Munich)
Attitudes Festival (Nancy, France)
Divadlo Disc (Praha)
Strasnicke Divadlo (Praha)
Plan B (Tokyo)
Strange Fruits (Tokyo)
The Pit (Tokyo)
Die Pratze (Tokyo)
as well as various site specific performances at ocean sides, in old buildings and shrines.

Shinichi and inkBoat funders include:

The Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation (2011)
The Kenneth Rainin Foundation (2011)
The Rockefeller Foundation MAP fund (2002, 2006, 2010)
The Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation and The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation (2009)
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
National Endowment for the Arts (2009, 2010)
San Francisco Arts Commission (2009, 2010)
New England Foundation for the Arts NDP (2009, 2012)
National Performance Network Creation Fund (2010)
National Performance Network Forth Fund (2010)
Creative Capital (2005)
Irvine Foundation/Dance USA (2002, 2006)
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (2002, 2008)
Japan Foundation (2007)
Zellerbach Family Fund (1997-2009)
Meet the Composer (2001)
Barkley Fund (1997)
American Composers Forum (1999)
CASH grant (2002, 2003, 2005, 2006)
California Arts Council (1999-2001)
Dancers’ Group (1997-2006)

Guest Directors:
Ko Murobushi, Ernie Lafky, Marc Ates, Ellen Sebastian Chang

Collaborations with other Groups
ROVA Saxophone Quartet, AXIS Dance Company, ODC Dance Company

Additional Collaborators:
Eric Koziol, Tanya Calamoneri, Kinji Hayashi, Alenka Bravo, Erin Blendu,
Paige Sorvillo, Moe! Staiano,
Leigh Evans, Eugenio Brodbeck,
Nate Fredenberg, Jon Birdsong,
Ming Tsao, Matthew Waldron, Mary Lois Hare.

Guest Performers:
Ko Murobushi, Jewlia Eisenberg, Yuri Nagaoka, Ksenia Vidyaykina, Dawn McCarthy,Nina Rolle, Jennifer Fong, Seth Eisen, John Doyle, Molly Barrons, Isak Immaneul, Iue Chua

inkOlogy: Curriculum Vitae

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