nakice(N///K)
Formed mainly by Miwa Okuno and Yohei Fujishiro(composer) in 2014, N///K has been actively performing original pieces since its organization. “「Artificial」（Institute France Tokyo 2014年）,「REAL CONTROLLER」（Yokohama BankART 2016）, a physical installation「The abandoned body」（2017）,「Namelessness」（d-soko 2017）, 「Wind and Pore Organ and Sound」（Za Koenji 2019）” , are their previous domestic performances.
In 2022, they moved their base to Kyoto and changed a company name to nakice.
In April 2022, they held installation "ABITA" at JINNAN HOUSE (Shibuya,/Tokyo), where they continuously performed with objects, body, and sound for 8 hours a day for a total of 3 days, and began to find performance, phenomena, traces, afterimages, processes, and cycles all as their works of art.
The output will be in the form of two-dimensional and three-dimensional works, installations, and video works that use the traces of objects from the performance, treating the body, artifacts, and natural objects as equivalent media, and aiming for a development that crosses the boundaries between performance art and contemporary art.
Miwa Okuno
Dancer/Choreographer/Video Artist/ Visual Artist
Miwa Okuno began modern ballet at the age of three, and joined the modern dance club at the Daito Bunka Univ. in 2002. After graduation, Okuno joined Akiko Kitamura’s dance company <Leni-Basso>, later to go solo in 2009. Her main concept lies in the theme of “flesh and bone” and “disassembly of the body for the attempt to become free” and had composed dance pieces domestically and internationally. Has won “French Embassy Prize for Young Choreographer” and the “MASDANZA Prize”at the “Yokohama Dance Collection EX 2013” , as well as the Judge’s Award at the International Contemporary Dance Competition MASDANZA18 (Spain) in the same year with a piece called "Highlight of Decline" which including a video image created by her self. Also had earned master’s degree of Intermedia Art at the Tokyo University of the Arts in 2017 in order to dig in to art work using a body. Among many of her important dance works are “Highlight Of Decline”(2013), “B/O/N/E”(2015). Okuno had also joined the stage play directed by Marie Brassard as a dancer in 2018 and 2021. In recent, she try to create installation work and art film which kind of genre no matter.
<Main Activities>
2/2007 "Ghostly Round" Europe tour in Holland and
Belgium(dance company Leni-Basso by Akiko Kitamura)
2/2008 "Black Rose" at Yokohama Dance CollectionR (choreographed by Ruri Mito)
10/2008 "CLACK IN THE HEAD"at Leni-Basso short piece anthology
(choreographed by Akiyoshi Horikawa)
3/2009 "Elephant Rose -no land-" (Leni-Basso)
5/2009 The opera"White Night of Love"(directed by Akira Shirai)
8/2009 "koku" solo performance at dance space WING(choreographed by Miwa Okuno)
1/2010 "【00】-shirei-" (choreographed by Miwa Okuno)
5/2010 "Hiromi Uehara×Leni-Basso" The commercial of YAMAHA
1/2011 "SUMI to YUKI" (choreographed by Norihito Ishii and Miwa okuno)
3/2011 Performance at Hiroaki Umeda's insterllation (Dance/Choreograph: Miwa Okuno
Music: Junya Oikawa)
3/2012 "Highlight of Decline"at SESSION HOUSE 21 Festival
(choreographed by Miwa Okuno, Music by Yohey Fujishiro)
6/2012 "BLACK MOUTH" (Animation:ITO K Dance:Miwa Okuno Music:Hiroaki Yokoyama
Costum:Chiaki Kakine)
12/2012 "Highlight of Decline" at SESSION HOUSE
1/2013 NEW FRAGRANCE＆PLEATS PLEASE ISSEY MIYAKE 20TH Anniversary
4/2013 "Personal Sister"at ACKid2013 (Visual by Haruo Higuma, Dance byMiwa OKuno)
8/2013 Solo performance "Dead Fish Eyes" at in)(between gallery in Paris (choreographed by
Miwa Okuno, Music by Yohey Fujishiro,A part of visual by Kotaro Yokomizo)
9/2013 Work in progress "Dead Fish Eyes" at CCNR(France)
10/2013 MASDANZA Extensions "Highlight of Decline" in Canary Island(Spain)
12/2013 "PHANTOMS in MANUFACTURE" at La Menagerie de verre(Paris)
5/2014 Night of Philosophy-Philosophy and Image- vol.2 "Artificial" at Institute France Tokyo
7/2014 Dance Cross "PHANTOMS in MANUFACTURE" at Red Brick Yokohama
9/2014 LAND FES vol.5 at SENGAWA
10/2014 Festival PRISMA (Panama)
12/2014 M1 CONTACT Contemporary Dance Festival (Singapore)
d'MOTION International Dance Festival (Malaysia)
1/2015 Morgan Fisher x Miwa Okuno "MELTDOWN" at Kid Ailack Art Hall
10/2015 "B/O/N/E" Seoul International Festival (Korea)
1/2016 Miwa Okuno Dance Installation B/O/N/E～between bone and flesh～(Tukishima Japan)
6/2016 BankART AIR OPEN STUDIO 2016 N///K residence piece「REAL CONTROLLER」
10/2016 "B/O/N/E" Nagoya Performing Arts Selection(Aichi Art Theatre)
12/2016 M1 CONTACT Contemporary Dance Festival (Singapore)
"Obscurity of Self"
Choreograph: Zhuo Zihao&Miwa Okuno
Dance: Zhuo Zihao/Miwa Okuno/Go Sho-yi/Linnette Png
2/2017 Yokohama Dance Collection EX Asia selection
Fukuoka Fringe Dance Festival
"Obscurity of Self"
Zhuo Zihao&Miwa Okuno
3/2017 body Installation ”The abandoned body”
Performer:Kiyotaka Suzuki Hideaki Takeuchi Kota Nagoya
9/2017 N///K “Namelessness”
Dance/Choreograph/Costume:Miwa Okuno
Dancer: Kiyotaka Suzuki, Kota Nagaya, Hideaki Takeuchi,
Nozomi Matsuno, Miwa Okuno
Music:Yohei Fujishiro(d-soko/Tokyo)
10/2018 N///K ”Namelessness” (Seoul, Korea)
11/2018 PARCO production stage play “The Fury of my Thoughts”
Written by Nelly Arcan directed by Marie Brassard
2/2019 "Wind and Pore Organ and Sound" (Za-Koenji, Tokyo)
Choreography・Costume・design・Stage art｜Miwa Okuno
Performance｜Emi Oyama Haruka Suzuki Kota Nagaya Nozomi Matsuo Ikumi Kurosu
Music｜Yohei Fujishiro
4/2020 Short Film ”The Pearl Diver's Tale”
Director Yokna Hasegawa Action Mai Kubota & Miwa Okuno
7/2020 “ABITA”@cafe MURIWUI
music Yohei Fujishiro act Miwa Okuno
6/2021 Stage play by infraruge “Violence”
directed by Marie Brassard
Act Marie Brassard Kyoko Takenaka Miwa Okuno
*Kyoko & Miwa joined in film parts because of COVIT19
