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Mirai Moriyama

Mirai Moriyama

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Born in Hyogo in 1984 and lives and works in Tokyo and Hyogo.

Mirai Moriyama is a multidisciplinary artist who works in Japan and overseas.
From a very young age, Moriyama trained in a variety of dance genres before making his stage debut in 1999. He was nominated Cultural Ambassador by the Agency for Cultural Affairs in 2013, worked with Inbal Pinto & Avshalom Pollak Dance Company for a year in Tel-Aviv, Israel and collaborated with diverse performing arts groups in European countries.
Since then his activities have been focusing on “physical expression that is generated through relationships with people, things, and places”.

As an actor he has won several Japanese film awards and as a dancer he won the 10th Japan Dance Forum prize.

Moriyama performed a solo dance at the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympic Games. In 2022 he initiated a group to launch Artist in Residence KOBE(AiRK)in Kobe, Japan.
He is also a Post-Butoh dancer.

Mirai Moriyama

Mirai Moriyama, Sanbu Taro Festival, 2024
Forest Festival of the Arts Okayama
Photo by Yoshikazu Inoue

Forest Festival of the Arts Okayama:
Clear-skies Country 2027
2027.9.18 – 11.23