Biography
Shinichi Iova-Koga (aka: momo io)
Shinichi Iova-Koga's work is grotesque, beautiful, and funny. As a dancer he is never less than mesmerizing — ephemeral like smoke, limpid like a vernal pool. He has developed a personal form of mixed-media dance theater that integrates contradictory impulses — the ancient and the technological, the chaotic and the formal, nature and nurture. He might be called a dancer at the edge.
~RITA FELCIANO
Originally
a photographer, filmmaker and theater actor/director, Shinichi (born 1968)
entered the life of Butoh dance in 1991 (initially through Akeno Ashikawa
and then consistently through Hiroko Tamano). In 1998, he founded the
performance company inkBoat.
Shinichi's productions, both solo and ensemble, have been experienced
throughout the North American Continent, Europe and Japan. Productions
collide between dance, theater and cinema to illuminate the personal existence
entering or exiting the stage (living room, street, screen or…).
Shinichi has collaborated intensively with cokaseki (Germany: 2004-present),
Yumiko Yoshioka and TEN PEN CHii (Germany: 1996-2001), Do Theatre (Russia:
1997-present), Minako Seki (Germany: 2001-present), Shadowlight Theatre
(SF: 1993-1997), Degenerate Art Ensemble (Seattle: 2001), and often creates
improvisation evenings with longtime production collaborators Yuko Kaseki,
Sten Rudstrøm and Cassie Terman.
Shinichi and inkBoat have received funding from Rockefeller Foundation,
Irvine Dancemaker Grant, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Creative Work
Fund, Zellerbach Family Fund, Barkley Fund, American Composers Forum,
Meet the Composer, CASH grant and the California Arts Council. Shinichi
was an Wattis Artist in Residence at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in
2002. inkBoat and cokaseki won “Outstanding Performance” from
the Isadora Duncan Awards for the production of “Ame to Ame”
in 2004 as well as the award for “Visual Design” for “Heaven’s
Radio” in 2003.
inkOlogy:
Curriculum Vitae for inkBoat works
Outside inkBoat (below):
Innocent Weapons
(as co-creator/dancer)
Trio performance of Koga, Ishide Takuya and Nagaoka Yuri.
The Pit | Tokyo | August 2005
adapt (site specific Berlin based performance company
co-founded by Koga, Kaseki, Seki, Rudstrøm, Karavan and Willars).
The Hidden Garden (as co-choreographer/dancer)| Sapporo Art Park | Sapporo,
Japan | July 2003
Glass Anatomies (as co-choreographer/dancer) | Staatsbank | Berlin | January
2002
Do Theatre (St. Petersburg, Russia)
(as dancer)
Nonsense | SF Arts International Festival, Theatre Artaud | San Francisco
| May 2005
Nonsense | StadtTheatre Aachen | Aachen, Germany | Feb 2004 - June 2005
Bird’s Eye View | Monacco Dance Forum | Monacco | December 2004
Nonsense | Graz | Graz, Austria | June 2004
Bird’s Eye View | Herna | Herna, Germany | May 2004
Bird’s Eye View | Urgano | Urgano, Italy | February 2004
Bird’s Eye View | StadtTheatre Aachen | Aachen, Germany | December
2003 – March 2004
Civilization/Anti-Civilization | Schloss Bröllin, Germany | August
1998
Yumiko Yoshioka and TEN PEN CHii (Germany)
(as dancer)
Test Labor | Theatre am Halleshes Ufer | Berlin| June 2001
DA-PPi | Tacheles | Berlin | October 1998
Test Labor | Kana Theatre | Stettin, Poland | August 1998
Test Labor | Schloss Bröllin, Germany | August 1998
Jikken No. 11 | Klempenow | Germany | June 1998
DA-PPi | Orpheum Theatre | Graz, Austria | May 1998
Der Letzte Klang der Erde | Site specific | Graz, Austria | August 1997
Degenerate Art Ensemble
(as guest choreographer and dancer)
Rinko | On The Boards | Seattle | November 2000
Rinko | Moore Theatre | Seattle | September 2000
Rinko | Sand Point | Seattle | August 2000
