WHAT: One of Kazuma's signature styles is finger dancing. From finger tuts, liquid fingers to the comical finger man character YUBI, Kazuma will not only expand the delicate flavors your fingers can offer, he will show how they can assist and affect the rest of the body through dance.
Recordings of the class will be available for dancers that are unable to make it to the live session.
WHEN:
Tuesday November 1
10am-11am NY Time, 3-4pm Berlin Time
11pm-12am Tokyo Time
Tuesdays November 8, 15, 22, 29
10am-11am NY Time, 4-5pm Berlin Time
Wednesdays November 9, 16, 23, 30
12am-1am Tokyo Time
COST: Sliding scale pay what you can
$95, $105, $115
Covers the cost of video editing the performance video and personal feedback of a progress video submitted half-way through the course.
If you want to attend and not perform, please contact us for a different rate.
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Registration ends 15 minutes before the first class. A Zoom link will be sent out 10 minutes beforehand.
WHO: Half-Japanese half-Zimbabwean/South African, fully human. Trained in martial arts, street dance and contemporary dance theater, he seeks to communicate beyond culture and form(ality). Kazuma works in a versatile wide spectrum; performing in close collaboration with political and environmental activists, touring with internationally renowned choreographers, creating in cutting edge film/commercial work, interactive performance in events, teaching, and dancing alone in nature...
In dance, Kazuma has worked with Richard Siegal (Forsythe Company) in a site specific project in Egypt after the revolution ; Tsuyoshi Shirai + Takayuki Fujimoto in 'NODE~Old man in the desert~' touring Aichi Triennalle, Hong Kong, Yokohama ; Perrine Valli (FR/CH) in 'Deproduction' touring France, Switzerland, Germany and Singapore among others.
In acting, Kazuma played the main part in ‘Exodus’, a post apocalyptic film shot in Morocco by Yassine El Idrissi; played Romeo in a martial arts version of Romeo and Juliet in Holland, and has been an actor / martial artist in Spinnin Ronin in both NY and Japan.
In poetry, Kazuma collaborated with electronic music duo Deekro in Garbicz Festival 2019 to perform his poetry 'Lost tribe/ Last Tribe'. While living in NY he has performed his bodypoetry in Nuyorican Poest Cafe and Bowery Poetry Club.
In teaching martial arts and many dance styles, Kazuma started developing his own movement philosophy called Bodypoet method to connect divers movement disciplines to the imagery of nature embodying the repeating patterns of this universe often referencing Japanese calligraphy. He has been invited to Shamanic Festivals in Siberia to teach his method of dancing with natural waters in lakes. www.bodypoet.info