Hanako Hayakawa – Body Time Space 2025
Performance / Tanz
As part of her Body Time Space residency, dancer and choreographer Hanako Hayakawa worked with her team in our studios for a total of four weeks in 2025:
“My interest in this research process has been in ‘uncontrollable bodies’: bodies that arise in the relationship between the body as it is seen, its subjectivity and agency, and the frameworks that seek to define it. Drawing from the scores in “Yūgi to Shōka” (“Plays and Songs”), magazines of early twentieth century Japan, and as a group of dancers who move across diverse collaborations, contexts and geographies, we engage our own bodies with the prejudices projected onto them. We thereby explore how these gazes can be used to open possibilities for playful, self-directed ways of moving that subtly disrupts structures of domination.” – Hanako Hayakawa
Hanako Hayakawa is a Japanese dancer and dance maker. She completed the P.A.R.T.S. training cycle in Brussels and previously studied at the Tama Art University under Saburo Teshigawara. She works with international artists such as Tino Sehgal, Miet Warlop and Leiko Ikemura. Her choreographic work is an extension of her dance practice and is based on a combination of her experiences as a dancer, performer and facilitator. In 2022, she participated in the “made in Berlin” research residency at Lake Studio Berlin and received a grant from #takeHeart for her research “Killing scores” and “Ghostly body – Research on Para Para Dance 2023”. Her first solo dance piece, “Lurker”, premiered at DeSingel in Antwerp in October 2024 and had its German premiere as part of Tanztage 2025 at Sophiensaele.
Performance Yuri Shimaoka, John Shades, Leah Marojević und Chihiro Araki
Artistic direction and performance Hanako Hayakawa
Photos Phil Dera
Video Milan Daemgen