Commission

Workshop for Global Art Joint Project, Central Saint Martins (2021)

Central Saint Martens approached Masumi to deliver a Global Art Join Project workshop, an international exchange program among CSM, Tokyo University of the Arts (MA Global Art Practice) and Les Écoles Beaux-Arts Paris (MA Contemporary Dance). The theme was SOIL and exploring a hybrid methodology.

Masumi delivered a movements workshop exploring the relationship between body and environment, self and others within the natural surroundings. Her main focus was recognising the importance of touch and trusting yourself to let others come into your space.

 “KOMA” Asia Triennial Manchester (2018)

Masumi was commissioned by Asia Triennial Manchester to make a piece for opening night at HOME Manchester. She has created original work KOMA which reflect the theme for the festival, ‘who do you think you are?’. She explored the subject through a participatory performance, where the audience is triggered to reflect on notions of physicality and identity. KOMA presents subversive elements that allow Masumi to alter the audience’s role in this experience.

Movement Diary Performance (2017)

In 2017 Masumi and Guy Wigmore took a completely different approach to the Movement Diary Project, which began in Nakanojo in 2015—looking back over my improvised movements and moments, taking elements and turning them into a choreographed performance.

うつろいまどう / Utsuroi Madou – In Praise of Shadows (2016)

“うつろいまどう” (Utsuroi Madou – In Praise of Shadows) is a performance commissioned by Nakanojo Biennale for their exhibition 山に笑ふ。(Yama ni Warau) at an old sake brewery, now an art space, in Nakanojo. It’s a 40 minute site-specific theatre performance directed and choreographed by Masumi Saito.